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Under Your Skin Interviews: Muriel Anderson, Maria Joao, Kiran Ahluwalia & Mieko Miyazaki
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All About Jazz
Muriel Anderson interview. Maria Joao interview Kiran Ahluwalia interview Mieko Miyazaki interview These interviews are part of the book project “Under your skin" which includes Interviews with Ron ...
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Spotlight on Jamie Cullum
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week, let's take a look at three clips featuring pianist and singer Jamie Cullum, who will be in St. Louis next Sunday, March 14 to perform at the Roberts Orpheum Theatre. Though he writes a lot of his own material, Cullum's performances and recordings also incorporate cover versions of standards and contemporary songs, and that's the theme uniting today's videos. Up above, you'll see him doing a ...
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Time to Stomp
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The Augmented Ear by John Patten
The New Jersey Jazz Society does a lot for jazz fans -- and for the future of jazz. One project the NJJS undertakes is the support of young jazz musicians, with scholarships awarded to students at New Jersey's fine schools of jazz: Rutgers University, William Paterson University, Rowan University and New Jersey City University.Scholarships for Rutgers students are funded by the Pee Wee Russell Memorial Scholarship Fund, in memory of the clarinetist. The fund is maintained by the ...
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Ben Harper and Relentless7 Live CD/DVD Due 03/09
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JamBase
BEN HARPER AND RELENTLESS7 RELEASE CD/DVD LIVE FROM THE MONTREAL INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL ON MARCH 9 BEN HARPER/EDDIE VEDDER SPLIT SINGLE BENEFITTING HAITI RELIEF NOW AVAILABLE
Ben Harper and Relentless7 On the heels of an incredible first year as a band and the release of their powerful album, White Lies For Dark Times, Ben Harper and Relentless7 is hitting fans with a one-two punch by delivering a commanding documentation of one of their most incredible performances ...
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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Three from Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Our video spotlight shines this week on trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, who will be in St. Louis on Saturday, March 13 to perform at the Sheldon Concert Hall. The JaLCO functions as the house band for the jazz program at NYC's Lincoln Center, and as such, they're called upon to perform a wide variety of music, from classic big band arrangements drawn from the catalogs of ...
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Gogol Bordello Non-Stop on DVD March 16th
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Michael Ricci
GOGOL BORDELLO NON-STOP AVAILABLE NATIONWIDE ON DVD MARCH 16TH: Definitive feature documentary on Gypsy punk rock band and international sensation uncovers the insane party culture of the band and its leader and indie-movie-star Eugene Htz
“In Gogol Bordello Non-Stop [Eugene Htz] emerges as a passionate, articulate philosopher of punk's democratic participatory aesthetic who espouses the rejection of social hierarchies in concerts that are raucous, bacchanalian performance-art carnivals." -- Stephen Holden, The New York Times
A vibrant chronicle of one of ...
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MVD and Original Spin Media to Release the First Set of SOLOS: The Jazz Sessions DVD Series on March 23, 2010.
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Michael Ricci
Original Spin Media and MVD Visual are proud to announce the DVD release of SOLOS: The Jazz Sessions series on March 23, 2010. The first three releases will feature Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Lee Konitz, and Andrew Hill. SOLOS: The Jazz Sessions is a 39 episode HDTV music performance/profile series profiling legendary artists such as Lee Konitz, Greg Osby, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, John Abercrombie, James Blood Ulmer, Andrew Hill, Charlie Hunter, Phil Dwyer, Mark Turner, Mike Murley, Bill Frisell and many more. Each ...
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Speaking of New Orleans: Astral Project
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
If it has been a while since you've heard these exemplars of modern New Orleans music, now in their 32nd year, here's your chance. It's Astral Project on the road last fall at the Artists Quarter in St. Paul, Minnesota. The band is Tony Dagradi, tenor (and at the end soprano) saxophone; Steve Masakowski, guitar; James Singleton, bass; Johnny Vidacovich, drums. The name of the post-Katrina piece is “Dike Finger." Think about it.
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