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Premiere All About Jazz Podcast features Sonny Rollins - Dial S For Sonny
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All About Jazz
Allaboutjazz.com, the web's largest Jazz site, joins the Podcast revolution with the debut of the “All About Jazz Podcast," featuring saxophone colossus Sonny Rollins. Produced and hosted by Bret Primack, the AAJ Podcast showcases artists and their new CDs, with both interviews and audloclips included. Upcoming AAJ Podcasts include programs with Denny Zeitlin, Hendrik Meurkens and French singer/songwriter Oscar Lalo. “We're excited to join such artists as D.D. Jackson and Robin Eubanks as of part of the growing community of ...
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U.S. Soldier Composes Aural Landscapes of Iraq
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All About Jazz
“Muse From the Front" columnist William A. Thompson IV featured on NPR All Things Considered Sgt. William Thompson IV, a reservist who was deployed in Iraq, is a third-generation jazz musician from New Orleans. But during his time in combat, he turned to a different musical form: Using his laptop, he records the sounds of war and incorporates them into compositions that he posts online. Thompson, who was called up for duty just before he was to graduate from the ...
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