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Download Two Free MP3's from the Steve Elmer's "Fire Down Below" and "From I Used to be Anonymous"

Source: All About Jazz
May 21, 2008

Download two free MP3s from Steve Elmer's Fire Down Below and From I Used To Be Anonymous. Aaronology Steve Elmer From Fire Down Below 05:55 Keep Your Eye On The Ball Steve Elmer From I Used To Be Anonymous 04:52 Steve Elmer: In His Words I started playing drums when I was 13-years old. I auditioned for my Brooklyn junior high school band by clapping back rhythms to ...

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Rare Billy Taylor Recording with Charles Mingus Debuts

Source: All About Jazz
May 21, 2008

The year was 1951; the place, George Wein's Storyville, a popular Boston Jazz club; the music, the Billy Taylor Trio, featuring Charles Mingus. A radio transcription of a Storyville set with Billy's Trio is now being featured on his website, http://www.billytaylorjazz.net Writer Nat Hentoff, then a Staff Announcer a WMEX, regularly hosted remote broadcasts from two Boston clubs, the Savoy, and Storyville run by impresario George Wein in the early 50s, before he founded the Newport Jazz Festival. Hentoff remembers ...

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Download Two Free MP3's from Zdenko Ivanusic's "Lost in HTML"

Source: All About Jazz
May 21, 2008

Download two free MP3s from Zdenko Ivanusic's Lost in HTML . Bigwig Zdenko Ivanusic From Lost in HTML 03:50 Done Zdenko Ivanusic From Lost in HTML 05:58 Zdenko Ivanusic: In His Words I was born in Zagreb in 1967. Graduated in saxophone performance at the Zagreb Academy of Music. I have been a dynamic member of the Croatian music scene since 1990 and lead his own groups and ...

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Download Two Free MP3's from John Cooper Jazz Orchestra's "The Baecker Jazz Worship Service"

Source: All About Jazz
May 21, 2008

Download two free MP3s from John Cooper Jazz Orchestra's The Baecker Jazz Worship Service. Communion: And Now You're Gone (radio edit) John Cooper Jazz Orchestra From The Baecker Jazz Worship Service 6:46 Offertory John Cooper Jazz Orchestra From Baecker Jazz Worship Service 06:46 About John Cooper John Cooper is a jazz artist and composer who makes his home in Macomb, IL and is Director of Jazz ...

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Delmark Records Summer 2008 Releases

Source: All About Jazz
May 21, 2008

Delmark New Releases (Street Date June 17, 2008) Corey Wilkes Drop It (Delmark DE 582) Jazz trumpeter Corey Wilkes burst on the Chicago jazz scene in 2002. Corey took on the ghost of Lester Bowie and filled the vacant seat in the Art Ensemble of Chicago. Big shoes to fill for a new musician but Corey isn't an ordinary musician. He began at the age of 10, made the Illinois All State Honors Jazz Combo in ...

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Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet - Tabligh (Cuneiform, 2008)

Source: All About Jazz
May 20, 2008

Trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith has always been one of my favorite musicians, and that is confirmed again by the new release of his Golden Quartet, which consists of an entirely new line-up. Anthony Davis, Malachi Favors and Jack DeJohnette having been replaced by Vijay Iyer on piano and Fender Rhodes, John Lindberg on bass and Ronald Shannon Jackson on drums. The new musicians are of course not comparable to the former band, and that is easy to notice. It's the ...

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Tanja Maritsa's Debut Release: "Child in My Heart"

Source: All About Jazz
May 20, 2008

Songs That Soothe Souls, Mellow Minds LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM (May 18, 2008) - Singer/songwriter Tanja Maritsa has a truly unique and rare gift. Through her music, she provides a healing touch that pervades listeners with a delicate blend of Jazz, Pop, and Folk. Child in My Heart is her debut release and a masterful mixture of romantic and surreal songs that soothe souls and mellow minds. Child in My Heart contains fourteen “musical miracles," each with an almost heavenly ability ...

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Ruby's Jazz Garage Swings in Big

Source: All About Jazz
May 19, 2008

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