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Photonality Jazz Series Publishes a New Book to the Series "Breakin' Glass" with Oliver Lake

Source: All About Jazz
June 5, 2008

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Simone Continues Her Success with "Simone on Simone"

Source: All About Jazz
June 5, 2008

On the heels of the release of her new debut solo album, “Simone on Simone, “ Simone gets set for a new tour. The album was released on May 13th and during the week of release the album debuted #14 on the Traditional Jazz Chart and was Top 5 Jazz Albums at iTunes. It also debuted at #22 on the Jazz Week radio chart. People Magazine has given “Simone on Simone" a rave review, stating, “Does Simone really have the ...

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Photonality Jazz Series Publishes New Book "Against the Grain" with Joe Lovano and Us 5

Source: All About Jazz
June 4, 2008

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New James Bond Novel

Source: Michael Ricci
May 27, 2008

'Devil May Care: The New James Bond Novel' by Sebastian Faulks JAMES BOND was the 20th century's most famous spy and -- almost as certainly -- one of its best-known literary characters.

Daniel Craig stars as James Bond in “Quantum of Solace," the latest film about the dashing British superspy, soon to be released. A new novel surfaces. A number of Ian Fleming impersonators, including Faulks, have taken a turn with 007 but with less style. Had he lived, 007's ...

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The Tide's in for Brian Rolland-Jazz Pop Release Makes Waves

Source: All About Jazz
May 23, 2008

Boston, MA-May 23, 2008- In 2007 Brian Rolland released The Tide's In, a highly acclaimed jazz-pop release featuring Rolland's beautiful acoustic guitar lines...expertly played and defined by some of the finest craftsmanship found in the independent music community. The Tide's In debuted at #3 on the New Age/World/Ambient Charts for April 2008, and has been creeping up on the College Radio Top 10 World and Jazz charts over recent months.

The Cambridge Massachusetts native is ...

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Photonality Jazz Series Publishes New Book "Inner Circle" with Matt Jorgensen + 451

Source: All About Jazz
May 20, 2008

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Benjamin Herman, a Photo Essay to be Released at North Sea Jazz Festival

Source: All About Jazz
May 18, 2008

At the opening of the North Sea Jazz Festival art show in Rotterdam, The Netherlands on July 9, Happy the Man, the new photo essay about the life of alto saxophonist Benjamin Herman (New Cool Collective) will be released. The book contains photos by master photographer and Silver Camera Award-winner Peter van Breukelen, with poetic texts by poet J.A. Deelder.

Van Breukelen followed Herman for more than a year at home, in the studio, backstage, and performing and chatting with ...

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Trailblazers Selling a Romantic Kind of Love

Source: Michael Ricci
May 13, 2008

Has any pop song evoked a generation's romantic self-infatuation more hauntingly than Joni Mitchell's “Woodstock"?

Sheila Weller, in her book Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon -- and the Journey of a Generation (Atria Books), which weaves the biographies of these singer-songwriters into a post-feminist history, writes: “It was the first line of the chorus -- 'We are stardust, we are golden' “ -- that “conveyed the impression of hundreds of thousands of people speaking as one." ...

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