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Trumpeter Cuong Vu Profiled at AAJ
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All About Jazz
Truculent blasts of white noise kissed with delay. Ghostly whispers evolving to plaintive cries. Soaring melodies comprised of bold, rounded notes. Trumpeter Cuong Vu's vast sonic palette was formed with intense dedication and by choosing nonconformist paths.
After moving to New York in 1994, his sound quickly found a home with veterans like drummer Gerry Hemingway and pianist Myra Melford; contemporaries like saxophonist Chris Speed and keyboardist Jamie Saft and legends like Laurie Anderson and guitarist Pat Metheny. He's also ...
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Place Live Jazz Content on Your Website or Blog
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All About Jazz
AAJ live content boxes can help you build traffic and keep your visitors coming back for more.
Place any or all of these free content widgets on your website: Articles Birthdays CD Reviews MP3 Download of the Day News Upcoming Releases Musician Calendar Musician? Venue? Festival? Get AAJ Live Calendar! --->
What is AAJ Live Content? AAJ Live Content are dynamically updated information boxes that are pushed from AllAboutJazz.com to a user's ...
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AllAboutJazz.com Musician News: Time-Saving Calendar Service, Your AAJ URL, Adding Youtube Tags to Your Profile, and More!
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All About Jazz
Dear Fellow Musicians:
All About Jazz continues to develop free tools and services for jazz musicians. You may find other great services out there (like MySpace), but none are committed to jazz and jazz musicians like AAJ. Please support out efforts by spreading the word about our offerings.
Our new (free) calendar service is a time-saving tool that will help you deliver your concert schedule around the web. Our new advertising service allows you to promote your live dates to ...
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Swedish Trumpeter Peter Asplund Profiled at AAJ
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All About Jazz
Peter Asplund, one of Sweden's most talented jazz trumpeters, gets his inspiration from giants like Louis Armstrong, Clifford Brown and Miles Davis but funnels it through his own, very Nordic filter. “I don't pretend to sound like an American trumpeter," he says. “I'm Swedish and that has to come across. As I see it, you have to be uncompromisingly yourself, pursue your own musical vision." He pauses and smiles ruefully. “Then of course you have to get people to like ...
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West Coast Trumpeter/Vocalist Jack Sheldon Profiled at AAJ
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All About Jazz
Jack Sheldon, a beacon for some sixty years on the West Coast jazz scene, is having a very good year. At 77, the celebrated trumpet player, vocalist, bandleader and TV personality, is the subject of a new documentary film, while his jazz career continues to accelerate.
He was there when the so-called West Coast Jazz--a cooled-down version of hard bop--was born. He calls himself a “survivor" from the period. “Only a few of us are left. Bud Shank is another," ...
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All About Jazz and The Jazz Loft Form Retail Partnership
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All About Jazz
All About Jazz has partnered with The Jazz Loft to help AAJ readers conveniently find and purchase new jazz music and music accessories: CDs, vinyl, DVDs, headphones, CD sleeves, and more. The new site (aaj.jazzloft.com), provides a “corner jazz record store" feel, complete with a hand-picked selection of music, instant chat customer service, and expert staff recommendations. Alan Lawrence, founder of The Jazz Loft, is a self-proclaimed record store junkie: “I wanted to create a website where music lovers could ...
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