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Jazzloft.com: Music for People Who Listen

Source: All About Jazz
June 19, 2006

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Herb Robertson Label: Ruby Flower Records

Source: All About Jazz
June 17, 2006

RUBY FLOWER RECORDS

During the summer of 2005, trumpeter Clarence “Herb" Robertson found a way to control his artistic creations through his own releases with the music he loves to play and to perform. Similarly, scientist Ana Isabel Ordonez wanted to turn her passion for art and jazz founding a recording label in which the avant-garde music would be the priority.

Both Herb Robertson and Ana Isabel Ordonez became business partners and opened their own record company, Ruby Flower Records. ...

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35th Annual Jazz Record Collectors' Bash Friday & Saturday, July 14 & 15 Holiday Inn South Plainfield, NJ

Source: All About Jazz
June 15, 2006

June 15, 2006 To: Listings/Critics/Features 35th Annual Jazz Record Collectors' Bash Friday & Saturday - July 14 & 15

at Holiday Inn 4701 Stelton Road South Plainfield, NJ 07080 Phone/Fax: 908-753-5500 Email: [email protected]

Easy access off Route I-287, exit 5. Go south on Stelton Rd and turn left on Hadley Rd, then left to back entrance of Holiday Inn. If heading north on Stelton Rd from south of Hadley Rd, ...

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Ravi Coltrane Signs With Ted Kurland Associates

Source: All About Jazz
June 6, 2006

Boston, MA, June 6, 2006-- Saxophonist, bandleader and composer, Ravi Coltrane has signed to the Ted Kurland Associates agency for booking in all territories except Europe. Prior to this exclusive signing, TKA has booked Ravi as a member of the Alice Coltrane Quartet with Jack DeJohnette and Charlie Haden. A true renaissance man, Ravi is at the forefront of the restless few who are carving up new paths within jazz. “This is what jazz sounds like now," exclaimed Ben Ratliff, ...

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Dimming the Lights: The Beginning of a New Tradition

Source: All About Jazz
June 2, 2006

John Hicks was an integral part of the jazz community. On Sunday, June 4th his memorial will take place at St. Peter's Church on 53rd and Lexington Avenue in NYC. Another wonderful New York pianist, Hilton Ruiz is in a coma after a fall in New Orleans. Lois Gilbert, Managing Director of Jazzcorner.com thought what if the jazz community worldwide could honor John Hicks' memory by dimming the lights in the jazz clubs with a moment of silence for John ...

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Keyboardist James Auburn Keeps it Moving

Source: All About Jazz
May 30, 2006

Keyboardist James Auburn keeps busy these days. James' band Velvet Stylus recently learned of their nomination for Best Live Group in the Mass Industry Committee's First Annual Hip-Hop Awards, scheduled to take place on June 17. Velvet Stylus was recently featured on the Project: Think Different EmPOWERment: the power to break you freecompilation CD. Project: Think Different is an advocate for social change and all songs on the album reflect new ways to encourage social messages and anti-stereotypical content. Velvet ...

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Guitarist Vinny Valentino New Member of Steve Smith's Vital Information

Source: All About Jazz
May 26, 2006

Guitarist Vinny Valentino is announced as new member of Steve Smith's Vital Information.

Jazz Supergroup Vital Information has announced details about replacing long-time guitarist Frank Gambale with guitarist and composer Vinny Valentino. Vital Information will be introducing Valentino to audiences in the USA starting on July 5th and 6th at Yoshi's Jazz Club in Oakland, CA.

Vinny Valentino has shared the stage or recording studio with such jazz greats as Tom Scott, Gary Bartz, Jeff Andrews, John Benitez, John Pattitucci, ...

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MAMA Records Finds New Home at Summit Records

Source: All About Jazz
May 26, 2006

A number of years ago, jazz lover and 'audio-speaker mogul' Gene Czerwinski asked himself a few simple questions: What would happen if a jazz record company didn't have to compete commercially? What if instead it could concentrate its efforts and creativity on the music alone? And what if the artists were given the freedom to play their music the way it was meant to be played? The result was the MAMA Foundation, and subsequently, MAMA Records.

The MAMA Foundation, a ...

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