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Marsalis Mass Honors Harlem Church

Source: Michael Ricci
April 21, 2008

A young institution pays tribute to a venerable one with Wynton Marsalis's “Abyssinian 200: A Celebration." It was written for the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, founded in 1988, in honor of the 200th anniversary of the Abyssinian Baptist Church, a bulwark of African-American New York City. The orchestra introduced the work last week at its own Rose Theater. It's a jazz Mass with prayers, gospel anthems and a sermon at its center by the church's pastor, the Rev. Calvin ...

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Soulful Days: The Cal Massey Songbook

Source: All About Jazz
April 21, 2008

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The Jazz Session #36: Chico Hamilton

Source: All About Jazz
April 21, 2008

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Memories of Carmen McRae

Source: All About Jazz
April 19, 2008

Carol Sloane's individualism as a singer grows, in part, out of her adoration of Carmen McRae. In the confusion of the past week, I overlooked Sloane's tribute to McRae on what would have been Carmen's eighty-eighth birthday. Here is some of what she wrote:

When she laughed, the room vibrated; when she spewed venom, people, animals and birds hastily fled the scene.

Carol's assessment nails the yin and yang of the phenomenon that was Carmen McRae. To read ...

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Whatever Happened to Cultural Diplomacy?

Source: All About Jazz
April 19, 2008

In his eighty-eighth year, Dave Brubeck is going to have to add another shelf to his trophy room--or another trophy room. His most recent honor came yesterday from the US State Department. Here's a paragraph from the Reuters report in The New York Times.

“As a little girl I grew up on the sounds of Dave Brubeck because my dad was your biggest fan," U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said at the ceremony where Brubeck received the ...

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Frishberg: A Net Gain

Source: All About Jazz
April 19, 2008

Have I mentioned that Dave Frishberg has a web site? He has. I am putting a link to it high on the Other Places list in the center column. The site has a discography, lots of photographs and a catalog of the songs he's written, from “Wallflower Lonely, Cornflower Blue" (1963) to “Who Do You Think You Are, Jack Dempsey?" (2004). It also has a Written Word section that includes a page called Colleagues And Characters, who include the unlikely--George ...

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Cohn with Stewart: Lovely, Lovely

Source: All About Jazz
April 19, 2008

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Compatible Quotes: Billie Holiday

Source: All About Jazz
April 19, 2008

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