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Jazz St. Louis to Present the Music of Herbie Hancock at CD Listening Club, Whitaker Community Concert
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Jazz St. Louis will feature the music of Herbie Hancock in two upcoming programs that were announced this week.The next meeting of JSL's CD Listening Club will be held at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, October 13 at Borders Books and Music, 1519 S. Brentwood, and will focus on Hancock's album Maiden Voyage, a critical and commercial breakthrough for the pianist and composer as he was establishing his solo career in the 1960s.JSL executive director Gene Dobbs ...
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Jazz St. Louis CD Listening Club Meeting Set for Tuesday, September 8
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Jazz St. Louis has scheduled the next meeting of its CD Listening Club for 7:00 p.m. Tuesday, September 8 at Borders, 1919 S. Brentwood Blvd in Brentwood.The featured CD for September will be Sonny Rollins' Saxophone Colossus, which will be played in its entirety and discussed by JSL executive director Gene Dobbs Bradford and celebrity guest Glenn Zimmerman, meteorologist for St. Louis Fox affiliate KTVI (Channel 2). Rollins is scheduled to perform in St. Louis on Saturday, September ...
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Jazz St. Louis CD Listening Club Meeting Set for Tuesday, September 9
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Jazz St. Louis has scheduled the next meeting of its CD Listening Club for 7:00 p.m. Tuesday, September 9 at Borders, 1919 S. Brentwood Blvd in Brentwood.The featured CD for September will be Sonny Rollins' Saxophone Colossus, which will be played in its entirety and discussed by JSL executive director Gene Dobbs Bradford and celebrity guest Glenn Zimmerman, meteorologist for St. Louis Fox affiliate KTVI (Channel 2). Rollins is scheduled to perform in St. Louis on Saturday, September ...
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Fight Cancer, Win Jazz Prizes! Goal Reached!
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Michael Ricci
Jason Crane, All About Jazz contributor and host of The Jazz Session podcast, is riding his bicycle in the Lance Armstrong Foundation's LIVESTRONG Challenge Ride in Philadelphia on August 23. You can win jazz prizes and help him raise money to fight cancer at the same time. “I'm riding because cancer has had a huge impact on my family and friends," Crane said. “It's hurt my mother; my grandmother; my great-grandmother; my aunt; my cousin; my great-uncle; my friend Travis, ...
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Sunset Rooftop Cocktails & Jazz at the Empire Hotel
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Michael Ricci
Enjoy free jazz and cocktails at the Empire Hotel Rooftop Bar & Lounge Empire Hotel Rooftop 44 W 63rd St New York, NY 10023 Call 212-956-3313 for more info A special invitation from J. R. Smalling and New York Jazz & Travel MeetUp It's been quite a while since we've had a get-together, so why not hook up for cocktails and FREE jazz on the roof of the Empire Hotel (63rd St. & Broadway)? Located on the ...
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Jazz St. Louis CD Listening Club on Vacation Until September
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Jazz St. Louis has announced that their CD Listening Club will be “on vacation" for the months of July and August, but will return for a second year at 7 p.m., Tuesday, September 8 at Borders Books and Music, 1519 S. Brentwood Blvd. in Brentwood. Subsequent meetings of the CD Listening Club will be held on the second Tuesday of each month, with guests and featured CDs for the 2009-10 season yet to be announced. For more information, ...
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Jazz Goa: Recognizing and Promoting Local Talent
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All About Jazz
Goans have given our country and the world for that matter, some great musicians. If the Indian film music industry is making international inroads these days, it is thanks to the foundations that were laid down by Goan musicians. Infact, Goa can now be called India's music capital. Unfortunately the state of musicians in our music capital has deteriorated and keeps deteriorating by the day, thanks to short sighted event organizers and so called promoters who have been happily promoting ...
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Jazz St. Louis CD Listening Club to Meet Tuesday, June 9
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
The next meeting of the Jazz St. Louis CD Listening Club will take place at 7:00 p.m., Tuesday, June 9 at Borders Books, 1519 S. Brentwood Blvd.JSL executive director Gene Dobbs Bradford will lead the discussion of this month's featured CD, Atomic Basie, a 1957 release featuring arrangements by Neal Hefti that has proved to be one of the Count Basie Orchestra's most popular and enduring recordings of that period.Admission to the CD Listening Club is ...
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