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The Modern Jazz Quartet/Laurindo Almeida's Collaboration Reissued On Label M

Source: All About Jazz

In 1963, Brazilian guitarist Laurindo Almeida joined the Modern Jazz Quartet for a performance at the Monterey Jazz Festival, sparking a brief, but bountiful relationship. The results would include a European concert tour the following year (1964) and the brilliant Atlantic Records date Collaboration, now being reissued for the first time on CD by Label M.

During this period in The Modern Jazz Quartets history, the group consisting of John Lewis on piano, Milt Jackson on vibes, Percy Heath on ...

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VIOLINIST JEAN-LUC PONTY SCHEDULED TO RELEASE LIFE ENIGMA ON JULY 31st; FIRST NEW SOLO STUDIO ALBUM IN SEVEN YEARS!

Source: All About Jazz

Virtuoso violinist Jean-Luc Ponty is slated to release his first new solo studio album in seven years, Life Enigma, on July 31, 2001. The pioneering jazz and rock musician is issuing Life Enigma on his own label through his JLP Productions Inc. company. He composed, engineered and produced Life Enigma.

Ponty says Life Enigma is a return to the musical style he perfected during his decade-long stint with Atlantic Records, including his two most commercially popular albums, 1977's Enigmatic Ocean ...

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Tommy Flanagan and Allan Harris in concert at Sotheby's in NYC

Source: All About Jazz

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The 25th Annual Boston Jazz Society Barbecue and Festival

Source: All About Jazz

Appearing will be The New York Powerhouse Ensemble with Mickey Bass, John Hicks, Craig Handy and Eric Allen. Also appearing will be Vocalese, Giacomo Gates and his trio.

The Boston Jazz Society, Inc. will be honoring three outstanding contributors to jazz with Boston Jazz Society awards: drummer Harold Layne, saxophone and reeds player, Billy Thompson and Eric Jackson of WGBH radio. Boston Jazz Society scholarship recipient Walter Smith will play with the Boston Jazz Society Student Ensemble with Michael Herklots ...

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KENNY BURRELL - LEGENDARY JAZZ GUITARIST ANNOUNCES TOUR DATES

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David Young Dies at 71; Painter and Friend to Jazz Artists

Source: All About Jazz

By DOUGLAS MARTIN

David X. Young, a painter whose rodent-infested, illegally rented loft became a citadel of jazz improvisation and experimentation in the 1950's and 60's, died on May 22 in Manhattan. He was 71.

The cause was a heart attack, said his daughter, Eliza Alys Young.

The loft, in an industrial building at 821 Avenue of the Americas, near 28th Street, became a gathering place for the greats of jazz, including Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk and Dizzy ...

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dimitrios vassilakis 'daedalus project-labyrinth' live at birdland

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Touring Big Band in San Diego

Source: All About Jazz

6/1/01 Press release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Jazz Project Big Band is “on the road!" The new aggregation of local musicians who started rehearsing two years ago in a back room saved for food collection for the homeless at All Hallows Catholic Church in La Jolla are making a debut “tour" of San Diego area restaurants. They will be appearing at Victor's Restaurant in Mission Bay area Monday, June 11th and at Humphrey's Backstage Lounge on Shelter Island, Monday, June ...

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