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Resolution: Jazz from Rehab

Source: Michael Ricci
December 30, 2009

Jazz and recovery meet on two unique early-1960s albums made by guitarist Joe Pass and pianist Elmo Hope. Pass' 1961 Pacific Jazz LP “Sounds of Synanon" was his debut as a leader; although he'd begun to play professionally as a teenager in the late 1940s, stays in prison and rehabilitation centers for drug addiction had hampered his career throughout the 1950s. Hope's “Sounds From Riker's Island" featured an ensemble made up primarily of musicians who had struggled in one way ...

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The Jazz Session Hits 400,000 Downloads!

Source: Michael Ricci
December 29, 2009

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The Jazz Session #127: James Shipp

Source: Michael Ricci
December 26, 2009

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AccuJazz.com Offers Jobim and 21st Century Jazz Channels

Source: Michael Ricci
December 26, 2009

AccuJazz.com concludes its month-long roll out of new channels this week with two very different but equally intriguing channels: “Decade: 2000s" and “Composers: Jobim." Both are free to use and available 24/7. As the first decade of the 21st Century comes to a close, aficionados of every art form are no doubt seizing the opportunity to reflect on what has happened over the past ten years. Despite the constant eulogies for jazz coming from a number of directions, the music ...

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Buyers Raising Funds for KFUO Purchase, Responding to Petitions

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
December 24, 2009

In a story published in today's St. Louis Post-Dispatch, classical music critic Sarah Bryan Miller writes that fundraising help for the purchase of radio station KFUO (99.1 FM) by Gateway Creative Broadcasting is coming from a couple of somewhat surprising sources: the families of former St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Andy Benes and current Cardinals star, first baseman Albert Pujols:“After a significant fundraising campaign, the company has more than $350,000 in hand, over $1 million in donor pledges and, as ...

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