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Bird Architects Launch New Website

Source: All About Jazz
February 23, 2007

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Philadelphia Jazz Documentary Online

Source: All About Jazz
February 22, 2007

PHILADELPHIA, PA - February 22, 2007 - Slife Productions has partnered with jazz legend Byard Lancaster to produce a feature length documentary on Philadelphia jazz. In a unique approach, video clips will be posted online every two weeks, allowing viewers the opportunity to question, comment, and interact with the filmmakers as they produce the film, helping to shape the final cut. This documentary project will feature biographical interviews with legendary Philadelphia jazz musicians, behind the scenes footage from rehearsals and ...

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Bob Dorough & Skip Heller Pay Tribute to Phila Pianist Eric Spiegel in Podcast

Source: All About Jazz
February 12, 2007

TO ERIC SPIEGEL WITH LOVE FROM SKIP HELLER & BOB DOROUGH should be a disc, but some things are done for love, not money. The venerated singing pianist (83 years young) and the critically-lauded maverick jazz guitarist play a handful of tunes performed often by Spiegel and Heller, when the latter was making his bones under the former's watchful eye.

Spiegel, who was one of Philadelphia's great jazz talents, died last summer after years of failing health. Both as jazz ...

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Jazzfusion.TV Launches!

Source: All About Jazz
February 11, 2007

Featuring Free Downloads: Audio & Videos of: Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea & Return To Forever, Weather Report, Miles Davis, Larry Coryell & Eleventh House, Billy Cobham, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Airto, Jaco Pastorius, Pat Metheny, Brecker Brothers, Billy Cobham, Stanley Clarke, etc.

The collection currently includes:

175+ hours of Bootleg Audio Recordings of live shows from the 1970's & 80's - never released commercially. Also hundreds of photos.

180+ Classic Jazz Fusion Videos from the 1970's & 80's

Photos & Audio from ...

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Bird Lives Returns as a Video Blog with Michael Brecker Tribute

Source: All About Jazz
February 7, 2007

Bret Primack started the first Jazz blog in 1998, Bird Lives, where as the Pariah, he fought a never ending battle for truth, justice and the American way.

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Musictank News - Peering into the Crystal Ball...

Source: All About Jazz
January 17, 2007

PEERING INTO THE CRYSTAL BALL... Another year, another sleepy January. With all eyes on Midem, the music business is slowly limping back to work after the extended Christmas party season. And MusicTank is no exception. Our next event, 'Monetising P2P: Where Do We Go From Here?' roundtable, takes place at Midem and straight after will be our first think tank of the year, 'The Great Digital Debate: How Do You Divvy Up A Download?'. So, while we are in a ...

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'Betto Debuts at IAJE Convention Trombonist Nelson Harrison Unveils His Icon At

Source: imajinnWEST
January 11, 2007

San Francisco Bay design firm, imajinnWEST and Pittsburgh native, Dr. Nelson Harrison have given 'birth' and the coming out party is the International Association of Jazz Educators' Convention in NY this week. 'Betto is the alter ego designed by Principle Djinn Carl Lewis and spawned by the veteran trombonist of the Count Basie Orchestra's pocket trombone. The trombetto is a one-of-a-kind brass instrument conceived in 1980 by Dr. Harrison. Fitted with a trombone mouthpiece, which gives it the timbre of ...

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Shamus Dark Launches New Website

Source: All About Jazz
January 9, 2007

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