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The Kessler Sisters, Scopitone and Desmond

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
February 24, 2009

When I was looking for something on You Tube the other night, what to my wondering eyes should appear but the Kessler Sisters. I hadn't seen them in forty years, and they still looked terrific. Paul Desmond introduced me to them in 1965 at the Hilton Hotel in Portland, Oregon. Desmond had just played a concert with the Dave Brubeck Quartet at Willamette University down the road in Salem. I couldn't go because I was working. When I got off ...

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Newman, Crawford and Cooper Remembered

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
February 23, 2009

In today's Los Angeles Times, David Ritz writes from a personal standpoint about the nearly simultaneous loss of three important musicians. Ritz is the author or co-author of several books about blues and soul artists including Ray Charles. The headline on his op-ed piece is “Ray Charles' Heavenly Trio." Here's the first paragraph:

In summer 1957, I was a teenager who had just moved to Texas from the East Coast. One Sunday afternoon, I happened to walk into a large ...

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Notes from the Net: A Miles Davis Tribute in Scotland, David Sanborn on DVD, and More

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
February 23, 2009

Here's this week's compilation of news and links related to jazz in St. Louis, including musicians from the Gateway City, recent visitors, and coming attractions, plus assorted other items of interest:* For this week's supply of mandatory Miles Davis-related linkage, we note that Scottish trumpeter Colin Steele will salute Davis with a Kind of Blue tribute concert on March 2 at the Lot Jazz Centre in Edinburgh. Also, for some Miles-related anecdotes, check out part three of AllAboutJazz.com's ...

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Derek Trucks Remix Contest

Source: JamBase
February 22, 2009

YOUR CHANCE TO JAM WITH THE BAND

Derek Trucks by Tracy McKay Ever wanted to jam with Derek Trucks? Well, pickers, singers and players, of any skill level, now have a chance. The Derek Trucks Band have teamed up with IndabaMusic to create the “'Get What You Deserve' Remix Contest," which invites fans to collaborate with Derek and the band on the tune “Get What You Deserve," from the band's latest release, Already Free.

To participate, just head to the ...

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Clark's Last Leap: Sonny Clark, 1961-62

Source: Night Lights Classic Jazz
February 22, 2009

Sonny Clark was a hardbop piano master who appeared on a slew of classic late-1950s and early-1960s jazz recordings. Though Clark has garnered a cult following over the years, especially on the heels of saxophonist John Zorn's late-1980s tribute to him, his name is not often found in histories of jazz piano. Music critic Robert Palmer wrote of “the particular special aura that hovers around Mr. Clark's music, an aura that musicians recognize but that critics have found difficult to ...

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Home Life with Mikes: A Jazz History

Source: Michael Ricci
February 21, 2009

THE cardboard boxes are everywhere, stacked almost to the ceiling, in the Manhattan loft where W. Eugene Smith, the renowned American photojournalist, once shared living space with Hall Overton, an obscure composer and pianist.

Inside the boxes are wigs, maybe thousands, the inventory of a Chinese business that now holds the lease. Nothing about this nondescript building in the flower district betrays its decade-long history as a bustling clubhouse for the jazz scene, beginning in the mid- 1950s.

So it ...

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Jazz Label in Full Swing in Portugal's Fado-Land

Source: All About Jazz
February 20, 2009

Portugal's capital is normally associated with the melancholic fado music, but a new Portuguese jazz label is making a name for itself around the world with an adventurous approach to producing modern jazz.

Lisbon's Clean Feed Records has been winning awards and gathering praise from critics in the jazz world for its vibrant exploration of modern jazz.

Founded in 2001, it has released 140 titles from jazz musicians across the planet, one- third of them from the United States, which ...

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DHR Music Names Bill Neale Director of Client and Artist Relations

Source: All About Jazz
February 20, 2009

DHR Music, a premier dealer for Benedetto, Breedlove and Hamer Guitars and Henriksen JazzAmps, welcomes guitarist Bill Neale as Director of Client and Artist Relations. “Bill is an accomplished musician and businessman who brings many years of expertise as an award-winning guitarist as well as more than 20 years of sales management.He will be a great asset to the company," said Dale Rabiner, DHR's President. Bill Neale took to the guitar very early on and by the age of 18 ...

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