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Edie Adams and Stan Getz

Source: Night Lights Classic Jazz
October 22, 2008

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Mingus Awareness Project: A Benefit for ALS Research

Source: RVAjazz
October 21, 2008

By Dean ChristesenOne year ago on a sunny Sunday afternoon, the Mingus Awareness Project found its home away from home in Richmond, Virginia. Created and first held in Chicago by Jon Godston in May 2007, M.A.P. was formed to educate people on two topics: jazz bassist Charles Mingus and Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (or ALS), the disease that killed him and continues to kill thousands every year. The project's goal is to raise money to benefit an ALS research ...

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The Baroness of Jazz

Source: Michael Ricci
October 21, 2008

If the mysterious Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter is at all remembered today, it is for her proximity to the deaths of two legendary jazz musicians. In 1955 Charlie Parker died on a sofa in her Fifth Avenue home; 27 years later Thelonious Monk died after secluding himself for years in her New Jersey house. Both deaths made the baroness an immediate target of tabloid headlines and a long-term subject for scurrilous gossip. Almost no one, though, beyond the insular jazz ...

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Birdland Jazz Club Announces November 2008 Schedule

Source: O&M Co.
October 20, 2008

Birdland (315 West 44th Street between 8th & 9th Aves.) is pleased to announce an exciting line-up of extraordinary entertainment for the month of November. A detailed schedule follows:

Enrico Pieranunzi Latin Quintet Born in Rome in 1949, Enrico Pieranunzi has long been one of the best-known and appreciated personalities on the European jazz scene. As pianist, composer, and arranger, he has recorded more than sixty CDs under his own name, ranging from solo piano to trio, and ...

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David Sanborn Helps Raise Money for VH1's Save the Music Foundation

Source: Universal Music Enterprises
October 20, 2008

Maverick saxophonist David Sanborn, who has performed alongside such heavyweights as James Brown, Eric Clapton, Stevie Wonder, Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie, and innumerable others is stepping up in support of young musicians across the country and participating in two exclusive auctions to benefit the VH1 Save The Music Foundation, which donates instruments for public school music programs.

Beginning on October 14th and closing on October 24th on eBay.com, bidders can choose between two auction packages. The first consists of two ...

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Texas Gypsies Serve up Vintage Jazz, Hepcat Crooning

Source: All About Jazz
October 20, 2008

Sometimes it’s just fate working its magic, or in this case, its gypsy magic. That was the case with the Texas Gypsies, a band that snacks on eclecticism for breakfast, serving up a granola mix of throwback, cool, hepcat ‘30s/’40s jazz smooshed together harmoniously and fortuitously with its sister sound, Western swing. The Dallas-Fort Worth area group, which will open the fall season of the Performing Arts Series Thursday night at the Kemp Center for the Arts, didn’t come together, ...

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When Betty Met the Duke: Betty Roche

Source: Night Lights Classic Jazz
October 20, 2008

“Betty Roche was an unforgettable singer," Duke Ellington wrote of his former vocalist in 1973. “She never sounded like anybody but Betty Roche." Roche, the so-called “blues specialist" whom some consider to be one of the best vocalists Ellington ever had, replaced the popular Ivie Anderson in Ellington's band in late 1942, just as the American Federation of Musicians ban on commercial recordings was about to take effect; it was the first of several bad breaks that gave her an ...

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Other Places: More About Nica

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
October 20, 2008

In The New York Times, Barry Singer has an update to the story of the remarkable Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter, friend and supporter of major musicians including Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk. The Baroness is seen here with Monk in a well-known photograph. She died twenty years ago. Singer writes:

A Rothschild heiress, she offered her home to countless jazzmen as a place to work and even live, while quietly paying their bills when they couldn't find work. ...

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