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George Kahn Publishes Newest Update in the Jazz Ghetto

Source: Imaginary Friends
May 5, 2007

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U.S. Success with High-Definition Studio Quality Downloads

Source: All About Jazz
May 1, 2007

Linn Records has launched a website, to allow customers to download studio master quality music - a world first aimed at music lovers who desire the best possible sound with the added benefit of fast and convenient access to music. The Scottish company is attracting record sales from US customers.

“It is wonderful to see Americans being the world leaders in embracing this new technology. Our new website brings high-definition music into their homes instantly. We are giving music lovers ...

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The Jazz Session: Pete Zimmer

Source: All About Jazz
April 30, 2007

On the new episode of The Jazz Session, Jason Crane interviews drummer Pete Zimmer. Zimmer moved to New York several years ago after graduating from the New England Conservatory. He's released three records on his own label, Tippin' Records, the most recent of which is his new CD, Judgment (Tippin' Records, 2006). The album features tenor saxophonists George Garzone and Joel Frahm.

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Cinco Cidades: William Parker, Guillermo Brown and Victor Gama

Source: All About Jazz
April 27, 2007

This May sees musicians William Parker, Guillermo Brown and Victor Gama collaborating with The Folk Songs Project on an innovative digital work “Cinco Cidades", documenting the cultures and sounds of five cities across Portugal.

The work began with field trips to five cities in March 2007, working with local communities to record local musicians, residents and ambient sounds that represent their city.

The results of this work have been used to create interactive soundmaps for each city - where visitors ...

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The Jazz Session: Victor Goines

Source: All About Jazz
April 23, 2007

On the new episode of The Jazz Session, Jason Crane interviews saxophone and clarinet player Victor Goines. Goines has made quite a name for himself with such seminal groups as the Wynton Marsalis Septet and the Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra. In addition to touring the world with the those bands, he's also an accomplished leader in his own right, and the director of the jazz program at Juilliard in New York. Goines has a new CD called New Adventures ...

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The Jazz Session: David Torn

Source: All About Jazz
April 16, 2007

On the new episode of The Jazz Session, Jason Crane interviews David Torn, a man of many talents. He's a film composer whose music you've heard in Friday Night Lights, Believe In Me, and The Order. He's also contributed tones and textures to films like this year's Best Picture winner, The Departed, and the 2000 hit Traffic. Before his film days, he was known for daring musical collaborations on albums such as Cloud About Mercury (ECM, 1987). And he's worked ...

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Inscribed, Limited-Edition Sonny Rollins Photos for Sale Exclusively at sonnyrollins.com

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
April 11, 2007

Tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins has offered visitors to his web site an array of incentives just for showing up - from video interviews to rare downloadable tracks to a series of monthly video podcasts highlighting different aspects of Rollins's life and music. Now visitors have the opportunity to purchase fine art: a personally inscribed, limited-edition photograph of the saxophonist by the acclaimed Japanese photographer Jin Akutagawa.

The black-and-white image of Rollins playing his saxophone on the beach was taken on ...

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The Jazz Session: Wayne Escoffery

Source: All About Jazz
April 10, 2007

On the new episode of The Jazz Session, Jason Crane interviews saxophonist Wayne Escoffery about his life and his new album, Veneration (Savant, 2007). Escoffery was born in London and moved to New Haven, Connecticut as a child. He sang in a boys choir and then got introduced to the saxophone. Choosing the latter, Escoffery moved into the orbit of legendary saxophonist Jackie McLean, eventually attending McLean's Artist Collective and his jazz program at the Hartt School of Music. In ...

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