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Michiel Borstlap Website

Source: All About Jazz
October 20, 2005

You are welcome to visit www.michielborstlap.com Here you find information about pianist Michiel Borstlap Award winner Michiel Borstlap is one of today’s most celebrated musicians, regularly performing on renowned stages across the globe. Over the past decade, the pianist and composer has gained international acclaim for his original music and his highly communicative interpretations of a broad musical scope between pop, jazz, dance and classical music.. Borstlap won the prestigious Thelonious Monk Award 1996, which brought him his ...

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Evan Tate's Saxophone Tips - Podcast

Source: All About Jazz
October 4, 2005

The New Yorker Saxophonist Evan Tate presents his Saxophone Workshop over the World-Wide-Web as a Podcast. For more than a decade Saxophonist/Composer Evan Tate has been an in-demand session musician featured with such formations as the “Munich Saxophone Family", “The New Doug Hammond Trio", “Legacy" and the “Manhattan Symphony Orchestra". Evan has also lead his own projects “Spherical" and “Hittin' Hard". Evan Tate has also made appearances in Austrian and German radio concerts. Evan Tate currently resides in Munich, Germany. ...

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Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, and John Coltrane come to cell phones c/o AG Interactive and Concord Music Group

Source: All About Jazz
September 14, 2005

AG Interactive Strikes Content Partnership with Concord Music Group for Online and Wireless Platforms Legendary Jazz, R&B, Blues, Latin, and Traditional Pop Recordings from One of the World’s Largest Independent Music Companies to be Available Through AGI’s Global Online, Instant Messaging, and Mobile Distribution Channels. LOS ANGELES, CA - AG Interactive, the new media subsidiary of American Greetings Corporation (NYSE:AM), today announced a partnership with Concord Music Group, one of the world’s largest independent music companies, to develop and exclusively ...

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Music Gigs for New Orleans musicians

Source: All About Jazz
September 8, 2005

I have just opened a free website to help connect venues across the country with New Orleans musicians, www.NOLAgigs.org. Anyone can offer a gig, adding it to the database. Anyone can search the database of gigs being offered and find contact information to make the necessary arrangements. You can search by state, city, ZIP, venue, dates, whether no/low cost housing or meals are also offered, combinations of these, or other options. The venue of the gig does not have to ...

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Maverick Guitarist Les Paul Launches New Website

Source: All About Jazz
September 8, 2005

Maverick Guitarist Les Paul proudly announces the launch of his new website www.LesPaulOnline.com This Grammy Award winning artist and inventor of the solid body guitar and multi-track recording is having a heck of a year! In just the past 3 months, Les has been inducted into the inventor's Hall of Fame, received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Songwriter's Hall of Fame, been the focus of a live tribute concert at Carnegie Hall's JVC Festival and completed recording of his ...

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Sonny Rollins Celebrates 75th Birthday, Launches New Website

Source: All About Jazz
September 7, 2005

Today, Saxophone Colossus Sonny Rollins celebrates his 75th birthday with the launch of his website, and a new Milestone release, Without a Song – The 9/11 Concert. Sonny's website includes: Sonny Rollins Signature Collection Specially designed hats, caps, T-shirts, and posters that are also sold at Rollins concerts. Media Gallery Audio (excerpts from the new CD) Video (excerpts from Robert Mugge’s film “Saxophone Colossus") Flash (a presentation featuring rare photos ...

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Jammates Launches Jazz Jukebox Featuring GA Jazz Artists

Source: All About Jazz
September 7, 2005

Atlanta / LaGrange Georgia 9-7-2005… Jammates LLC turns up its online jazz jukebox. This complimentary feature area on the jammates.com website profiles participating Georgia jazz artists wanting to extend their music and brand to an expanded audience. The jukebox offers a full-length track by and artist profile for each participating jazz musician or group. From anywhere in the world, jazz fans now have the opportunity to quickly listen to and learn about music offerings from Georgia's fine crop of jazz ...

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Bill Shoemaker's Point of Departure Launches September 1st

Source: All About Jazz
August 31, 2005

August 31, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Bill Shoemaker's Point of Departure Launches September 1st www.pointofdeparture.org Bill Shoemaker has been a forceful advocate for jazz and other forms of uncompromising music for almost 30 years, contributing to most of the major jazz periodicals in North America and Europe, and writing liner notes for many important recordings. Shoemaker now goes solo with Point of Departure: an online music journal, which launches September 1st at: http//www.pointofdeparture.org Each issue of the ...

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