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Jazz Legends Return to Forever Auctioning Autographed Collectibles to Benefit VH1 Save the Music Foundation

Source: All About Jazz
October 1, 2008

Fresh from their impressive US and European summer reunion tour, the influential jazz fusion/rock foursome Return to Forever has teamed up with Paid, Inc. to auction autographed collectors items online to benefit the VH1 Save The Music Foundation. The auction is live now on www.Return2Forever.com and will conclude on October 6 2008. Return to Forever, a legendary jazz group founded by Chick Corea and beloved worldwide for over 25 years, is hosting the auction to support youth music education. Return ...

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Return to Forever and Paid, Inc. Auctioning Autographed Collectibles

Source: All About Jazz
September 30, 2008

Fresh from their impressive U.S. and European summer reunion tour, the influential jazz fusion/rock foursome Return To Forever has teamed up with the experts at Paid, Inc. to auction autographed collectors items online to benefit the VH1 Save The Music Foundation. The auction is live now on Return2Forever.comand will conclude on October 6, 2008. Return to Forever, a legendary jazz group founded by Chick Corea and beloved worldwide for over 25 years, is hosting the auction to support youth music ...

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Blind Boys and Prez Hall Jazz Band | 09.16 | CO

Source: JamBase
September 30, 2008

Words by: Joe Schicke

Blind Boys of Alabama & Preservation Hall Jazz Band 09.16.08 :: Lincoln Center :: Fort Collins, CO

Preservation Hall Jazz Band Some say you can never have too much of a good thing, and if that's true, then the Down by the Riverside Tour featuring the Blind Boys of Alabama and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band of New Orleans is the proof. As I sat in the beautiful ...

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Jack Bradley's Satchmo

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
September 30, 2008

It was nearly dawn after a round -- several rounds -- of music and conviviality during the 1969 New Orleans Jazz Festival. A few of us were sitting on the balcony of Bobby Hackett's hotel room on Bourbon Street swapping stories and thinking it might be about time to call it a night. Hackett's guests, in alphabetical order, were Count Basie, Jack Bradley, Willis Conover, Eddie “Lockjaw" Davis, Paul Desmond and I. Dropping those names is a bit disturbing because ...

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The Triple Door, Seattle's Swanky Supper Club, Celebrates Its 5th Anniversary

Source: All About Jazz
September 29, 2008

The Bay Area has Yoshi's. In Portland, it's Jimmy Mak's. Seattle's upscale, sit-down, dine-in concert venue is the Triple Door, and it's not bragging to say it's the best of the bunch, and this week marks its fifth anniversary. Historically speaking, swanky supper clubs are a remnant of America's Jazz Age in the 1920s. Today's versions exist somewhere between beer-in-hand nightclub and suit-and-tie concert hall: Luxury and sound quality are paramount, but you can enjoy a cocktail and an hors ...

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Eri Yamamoto Finds the Keys to the City

Source: Improvised Communications
September 29, 2008

Manhattan's landscape can change in a flash, yet even near the busiest thoroughfares, a half-forgotten pocket exists where time stands still and only the escalating beer prices alert a patron to the approximate decade. Straddle a barstool inside the musty, West Village cocoon that is Arthur's Tavern and marvel. Balloons dangle from the ceiling, slowly deflating, their candy-shop hues faded with the years. The tobacco-brown wall paneling is dotted with ratty decorations that celebrate every occasion: Cupid silhouettes for Valentine's ...

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Collector Shares Mementos and Memories of Jazz Legend

Source: Michael Ricci
September 29, 2008

Jack Bradley was only 15 when he first heard Louis Armstrong on a 78-r.p.m. record in his family’s living room, an ordinary introduction to a man who would end up having a profound influence on Mr. Bradley’s life. “I never heard anything like that before,” said Mr. Bradley, who is now 74 and lives in this seaside town on Cape Cod. Mr. Bradley met Armstrong in the early 1950s, after a mesmerizing performance at the American Legion Hall in nearby ...

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Remembering Miles Davis

Source: JamBase
September 29, 2008

HE LEFT US 17 YEARS AGO TODAY

While Miles Davis may be buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, his spirit and inspiration live on lustily and powerfully in the massive catalog he left behind. Few artists will ever leave as large or enduring a footprint on their craft as Davis. When he passed away on September 28, 1991 it was a blow to music. Even if past the ferocious, even ridiculous creative heights he'd shown from the 1940s through ...

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