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Jazztimes Editor Gets Sirius About the Future of Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
May 9, 2008

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Saxophonist James Carter to Debut on Emarcy Records with "Present Tense"

Source: All About Jazz
May 9, 2008

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Whatever Happened to Michal Baranski?

Source: All About Jazz
May 9, 2008

Nine years ago, the clarinetist, improvisational whistler and musical educator Brad Terry hosted in the United States three young musicians he had worked with in Poland. I mean young.

Mateusz Kolakowski, the pianist, was thirteen. In this picture from that period, we see him with Terry. Bassist Michal Baranski and drummer Tomek Torres were fifteen. Terry toured the country with them in his old Dodge van, overnighting in RV parks and driveways and playing whenever they could, sometimes in paying ...

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The Eight Track Show

Source: All About Jazz
May 9, 2008

Next Thursday, Cous Cous's exotically-lit and cozy-sized dining room and bar will be the stage for 5 groups that were selected as favorites in the rvanews Eight Track competition. Appearing will be Hot Lava, Fight the Big Bull, Supa Fly Floosies, Brian Jones, and Coald Toast. Check out Matt White's announcement of the event.Speaking of Cous Cous (and Fight the Big Bull, and Matt White), the bimonthly Fight the Big Bull spot this summer is being given to ...

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Kate Walsh on Tour! | News

Source: All About Jazz
May 9, 2008

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Soprillo B Flat Piccolo Saxophone

Source: All About Jazz
May 8, 2008

Warning: Due to its extreme range and the required very firm embouchure only professional players can play the Soprillo. It may take several months of practise to reach the highest notes.

The sopranissimo saxophone, nicknamed the soprillo, is the world's smallest saxophone. It is followed (in terms of size and pitch) by the sopranino, soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, bass, contrabass, and the subcontrabass.

It is a piccolo-sized transposing saxophone pitched in the key of Bb. It ranges from low-Bb to ...

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Doc Severinsen: Got His Destino

Source: All About Jazz
May 8, 2008

Doc Severinsen releases new “American-made" Destino.

Completing the play-testing of the first eight B-flat trumpets, Doc Severinsen announced the release of his “American-made" Destino B-flat and C trumpets. Doc Severinsen proclaimed, “I wanted to be sure that we would be able to maintain the quality we have established over the last year and I am happy to say we have." Doc's dream has always been to have a trumpet made by trumpet players for trumpet players, and to offer that ...

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Zappa What's New in Baltimore

Source: All About Jazz
May 8, 2008

Baltimore to boast bronze statue of Frank Zappa/ Lithuanian fan club gives the statue to the musician's birth city.

“What's new in Baltimore?" Frank Zappa used to sing at the end of a long, characteristically off-the-wall rock jam he called “Clowns on Velvet."

What's new in Baltimore, the city in which the late rock star was born in 1940, is a public sculpture of Zappa himself, and the tale behind the 15-foot statue that a public arts panel accepted Wednesday ...

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