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10 Moments of Jazz Genius (Pt. 1)
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
There are jazz albums I can't live without. There are jazz tracks I adore. And then there are mere moments in jazz recordings that blow me away. Some of these thrilling phrases and passages were planned out ahead of time by recording artists or arrangers. Others were improvised and turned out brilliantly. In either case, these subtle touches are the reasons why particular songs stand out for me and hit their target.
In Part 1 of my two-parter on “Moments ...
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International Search for Jazz Vocalists!
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All About Jazz
Compass Management, along with one of the worlds largest record companies, are creating an original and exciting new jazz act to launch in the Autumn of 2009. The act will be stylish, dynamic and aspirational and will bring something new and very unique to the worlds music stage. The act will be fronted by two singers one male and one female and backed by a cool live band. They will throw new light and a modern twist on some classic ...
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Happening Right Now...
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RVAjazz
Savage Jazz hits the stage at The Camel. Sam Savage (trombone) is playing with Matt Hall (bass), Devonne Harris (drums), Marcus Tenney (trumpet), with a guest guitarist playing the first set and Alan Parker filling in for the second.At 10, Bryan Hooten's Ombak makes their bi-weekly appearance at Cous Cous. Filling in tonight for regular guitarist Trey Pollard is trumpeter Taylor Barnett. Luckily, Hooten's writing for the guitar is linear enough to make this work. In May, he ...
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Thanks for the Memory
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
The research into Ralph Rainger that has kept me more or less hors de combat from Rifftides lately included the not entirely disagreeable task of watching The Big Broadcast of 1938. Film musicals still recycled vaudeville in those days, so what we get is a series of blackouts draped over a flimsy structure called a plot. It's an excuse to see, among other things, a few vintage W.C. Fields bits and hear Martha Raye, a drastically underrated singer. Part of ...
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Blue Note Records Announces More Catalogue Deletions
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Night Lights Classic Jazz
Why the Kennedy Center Hates Jazz
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
It seems the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has made another honest mistake. I say “honest," because I assume the folks down in Washington, D.C., who head up the Kennedy Center are well educated and cultured. How else can one explain the decision by an organization of this national standing to repeatedly ignore jazz and jazz musicians when handing out its most prestigious annual award?
Upon opening the newspaper over the weekend, I was dismayed to read that once ...
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Biography: Iranian-American Jazz Singer Rana Farhan
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All About Jazz
Jazz siren Rana Farhan proclaims on her web site: “Jazz is peace." She's not just borrowing 60s flower child rhetoric. She knows firsthand. Born in Iran, Rana grew up listening to any albums she could get her hands on, fostering a love for American blues artists like Brownie McGhee, Leadbelly, and Johnny Winter; while rockin' to Jimmy Hendrix and Janis Joplin. Soon she was begging her older brother to teach her guitar and singing through a microphone she had plugged ...
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