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Orchestra Atlanta Announces Name Change to Jazz Orchestra Atlanta

Source: Michael Ricci
November 25, 2009

Orchestra Atlanta, a 23-year-old, not-for-profit arts organization based in Atlanta, GA, today announces its official name change to “Jazz Orchestra Atlanta, “ reinforcing the organization's shift in commitment to the advancement of the best in jazz education and performance. The group continues to produce professional jazz performances by a resident repertory big band featuring high-caliber jazz musicians from Atlanta and the Southeast. Jazz Orchestra Atlanta also continues running its popular Summer Jazz Camps for metro Atlanta middle and high school ...

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Correspondence: Carla Bley and the Beeb

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
November 24, 2009

Not that Rifftides intends to become a clearing house for performance announcements, but readers do sometimes send valuable listening information. Jack Kenny writes from London:

You might want to alert your readers to this. The London Jazz Festival has just finished. I went to to the Carla concert last week and it is broadcast tomorrow. It will be online all next week on the BBC iPlayer.

Sadly for your American readers Carla seems to perform more in Europe than ...

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Notes from the Net: The Miles Davis Mega-Box; Music Genres Defined; Plus News, Reviews, Interviews and More

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
November 24, 2009

Here's the latest compilation of assorted news briefs and links related to jazz, improvisation, and creative music in St. Louis, including news of musicians originally from the Gateway City, recent visitors, and coming attractions, plus assorted other items of interest:* There are big doings on the Miles Davis front this week, with the imminent release of the boxed mega-set The Complete Miles Davis Columbia Collection, which brings together in one deluxe package the trumpeter's total output for the ...

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Notes Going into the Weekend

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
November 22, 2009

Jazz History Preservation

Not all of the reconstruction work to be done in New Orleans is a result of Katrina's damage. One of the city's jazz landmarks has been falling apart for decades. Now, it appears that Crescent City officialdom may be about to ride to the rescue of the Halfway House. It could be a long, slow process. To read Danny Monteverde's story in The Times-Picayune and see photos of the building in its heyday and in deterioriation, go ...

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Jazz Arts Group - Jazz Audiences Initiative Project Overview

Source: Michael Ricci
November 20, 2009

What is the Jazz Audiences Initiative? The Jazz Audiences Initiative will tackle fundamental questions about how and why people engage with jazz. Jazz artists and presenters nationwide will learn new ideas for building audiences, and infusing the art form with new energy. Over the next 21 months, the project team will research and test new strategies for overcoming barriers to jazz participation and for building jazz audiences through more targeted marketing and programming efforts. Why is this Work Necessary? Relatively ...

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Indelible Lines

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
November 20, 2009

Before the Rifftides staff gets back to business as usual, whatever that is, we're finding it difficult to let go of thoughts about Johnny Mercer. Lines from his songs won't go away -- ever.

There's a dance pavilion in the rain, All shuttered down...

I remember, too, a distant bell and stars that fell like rain, out of the blue.

Faint as a will-o-the-wisp, crazy ...

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A Record Store Joke

Source: HypeBot
November 20, 2009

What do you call a CD that retails for more than $9.99?

Answer: A return.

“...Our customers have spoken loud and clear. They love their CDs and they love purchasing them from indie record stores. The only problem we're currently facing, and will continue to face in the future, is the current price point...we've inherited the $9.99 price point from the non-traditional retailers, from the loss-leader shenanigans of the big boxes to the digital smoke and mirrors offered up online." ...

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Interesting Developments at J@LC

Source: Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
November 20, 2009

Remember the halcyon days when to be considered a university, you had to have six or seven accredited colleges as well as graduate and professional divisions? In our society's more recent cavalier and clever language-mashing, it seems anything goes.It started with Hamburger University, then Dunkin' Donuts University and probably thousands' more corporate training initiatives that persist today with the university adjunct. And, of course, Jazz at Lincoln Center's “Swing University."Grammar cop semantics barb aside as I ...

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