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Source: Jason Byrne, Red Cat Publicity
November 28, 2007

World Culture Music Founder Kendrick Scott To be Featured on The Monterey Jazz Festival 50th Anniversary Tour MJF/50 All-Star Band Features Terence Blanchard, James Moody, Nnenna Freelon, Benny Green, Derrick Hodge & Kendrick Scott 54-Date Tour Kicks Off January 8th In Washington State, Continues Through 52 Cities In 22 States From January - March, 2008 “Kendrick Scott is a jazz drummer conversant in an ultramodern sense of propulsion." - The New York ...

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Universal Music Group CEO Says Record Industry is in Deep Trouble

Source: All About Jazz
November 28, 2007

It's Monday afternoon, and Doug Morris, chair and CEO of Universal Music Group, is eating lunch in his private dining room at the company's Manhattan headquarters. Morris hasn't been here much in recent months, though it's hard to imagine he misses the place. For one thing, workers have been renovating the building: To reach his corner suite, you need to take an elevator to the floor above, walk down a hallway covered with plastic sheeting, and then descend a flight ...

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Yoshi's Boosts Bay Area Jazz Scene with New Club in S.F.

Source: All About Jazz
November 25, 2007

417-SEAT VENUE OPENS IN FILLMORE The Bay Area jazz landscape will change Wednesday. That's when Yoshi's in San Francisco has its grand opening, hosting two shows per night, seven days a week - the same number of concerts as its already successful Jack London Square location in Oakland. The new venue - anchor of the $72 million Fillmore Heritage Center, a 13-story development that also includes a restaurant, gallery-museum and housing - will be expected, from the get-go, to offer ...

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Sergio Cassiano Has Taken On a Project of Hope and Artistry

Source: All About Jazz
November 22, 2007

An integral member of the Olinda and Recife cultural community for several years, Sergio has taken part in an extraordinarily wide range of projects. He has no decided to share his time between his music performances and as Percussionist Coordinator for a project call “Escola Alberta" (Open School).

The “Open School" project is a comprehensive program which seeks to expose troubled youths to the arts, sports and other workshops thus decreasing the sense of hopelessness and despair in their lives. ...

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US Jazz Great Sonny Rollins Continues to Wow Audiences in Europe

Source: All About Jazz
November 22, 2007

BRUSSELS, Belgium - He did jail time on Rikers Island, played the requisite dances with record labels and pioneered the bass-drum saxophone accompaniment known as strolling. The images of him blowing his tenor saxophone on the lower level of New York's Williamsburg bridge are an indispensable part of jazz culture. Sonny Rollins has been rocking the tenor sax since 1946 and he has no intention of giving it up now. “I'm raring to go because I'm a very serious musician," ...

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A Displaced Jazz Musician Rebuilds in New York

Source: Michael Ricci
November 22, 2007

The musical Prince of New Orleans has been touring New York in vagabond shoes. “I've been walking around at night looking at all the clubs and the restaurants, just trying to figure out a new beginning for myself," said Davell Crawford, 32, sitting on a piano bench recently at Roth's Westside Steakhouse on the Upper West Side, where he practices. “I'm just thankful to be given another chance in a great city like this, a chance to fit in somewhere ...

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Tony Adamo Reviewed by Amazon.CO.UK

Source: All About Jazz
November 21, 2007

Jazz vocalist Tony Adamo has taken a sideways step with his latest CD, moving into a world of late night New Orleans style funk, rhythm and Blues, despite its origins in the plastic world of Hollywood, California. The first thing that leaps out you is the voice. Imagine, if you can, Lou Rawls fronting Tower of Power, and you'll have an idea of where the music offered up here is coming from. And it's a mighty fine place to be, ...

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Tierney Sutton Puts Her Stamp on Jazz Standards

Source: All About Jazz
November 18, 2007

The jazz world has artists who love to swim through standards, making listeners as comfortable as they were the last time they heard the song. Not Tierney Sutton. “We almost feel like it's our responsibility to do something with it that's really out there," the singer said in a phone interview from her L.A. home. “But if they don't know it, you don't want to mess with it so much." The Grammy-nominated vocalist, who performs with her band Monday in ...

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