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Event

Opening Reception for Philly Jazz: A View through the Lens @ Kimmel Center Tuesday, April 3rd

Source: Jim Miller
March 21, 2012

Free at the Kimmel Opening Reception for Philly Jazz: A View through the Lens Celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month! Commonwealth Plaza Tuesday, April 3, 6:00 pm Celebrate the opening of Philadelphia's first-ever all-jazz photography exhibit, mounted by the Kimmel Center and Jazz Bridge, an organization dedicated to helping local jazz musicians in crisis. Philly Jazz: A View through the Lens will be shown throughout the month of April in a beautiful glass room ...

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Performance / Tour

ICTUS Records Nights @ The Stone (NYC) April 1-14

Source: centazzo
March 21, 2012

The Italian Invasion & Other Stories Created in 1976, ICTUS Records has been one of the first and most celebrated labels completely dedicated to Improvised Music, New Jazz and Contemporary Classic Music. Founded by Andrea Centazzo and Carla Lugli, it became known as “The creative label for creative music." Closed down in 1984, ICTUS was reborn in 2005 in Long Beach, CA and immediately got again the attention from audiences and critics for its catalog featuring new productions and re-releases ...

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Book / Magazine

Percussionist Don Alias Recalls Miles Davis at All About Jazz!

Source: All About Jazz
March 21, 2012

For Mel Futorian's second installment of Cymbalism—a column devoted to excerpts from a planned autobiography of Don Alias—she reveals the percussionist's reflections on working with trumpeter Miles Davis. Alias has plenty to say on the recording of Davis' seminal Bitches Brew (Columbia, 1970), including how the late legend lifted the percussionist from Nina Simone's band, and how Alias unexpectedly found himself behind the drum kit for “Miles Runs The Voodoo Down." Check out Don Alias and Miles Davis, today at ...

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Interview

1979 Stan Getz Interview Unearthed at All About Jazz!

Source: All About Jazz
March 20, 2012

Bob Kenselaar's Jazz in the Aquarian Age column continues at AAJ with an unearthed 1979 interview with tenor saxophonist Stan Getz. “The music that Stan Getz made over the years was consistently moving and powerful," says Kenselaar, in his introduction to this interview, originally published in The Aquarian Weekly. “But he was probably putting me on a little when he said he was going to 'blow the walls down' in New York, for a series of shows. When someone gives ...

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TV / Film

Marian McPartland Film Screenings

Source: Films by Huey
March 20, 2012

In Good Time, The Piano Jazz of Marian McPartland, A Film By Huey, 86 minutes, 2011 Upcoming in person screenings this weekend are in NJ and MA. Next in person screenings: March 24, Saturday Garden State Film Festival 6PM Chico's House of Jazz Asbury Park, NJ Shown in screening block J41 March 26, Monday 7PM Amherst Cinema Amherst, MA Upcoming screenings at The ...

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Performance / Tour

Celebrated Jazz Composer & Vocalist Carmen Lundy To Appear At Vitello's Jazz and Supper Club

Source: 1888 Media
March 20, 2012

Carmen Lundy Celebrates the CD Release of Changes Two Shows, Friday-7:30 & 9:30 PM / Saturday -8:00 & 10:00 PM Anthony Wonsey—Piano Darryl Hall—Bass Jamison Ross—Drums and special guest Nolan Shaheed on trumpet “In a world of pretenders, Carmen Lundy is a genuine Jazz Singer" —The Evening Standard Carmen Lundy began her professional career as a jazz vocalist and composer when there were very few young, gifted and aspiring jazz vocalists on the horizon. ...

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Radio

Eddie Condon This Week on Riverwalk Jazz

Source: Don Mopsick
March 22, 2012

This week on Riverwalk Jazz: photographer, author and record producer Hank O'Neal, who collaborated on Eddie Condon's Scrapbook of Jazz talks about the Condon legacy. Eddie's daughter Maggie Condon shares her wealth of memories. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on Sirius/XM satellite radio and can be streamed on-demand from the Riverwalk Jazz website. A fast-talking, wisecracking Midwesterner, Eddie Condon epitomized Chicago Jazz and his Greenwich Village nightclub was the heart of the New York ...

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Interview

Maxine Gordon Reminisces About Dexter Gordon and More at All About Jazz!

Source: All About Jazz
March 19, 2012

More than just the wife, manager and posthumous advocate for the late tenor giant Dexter Gordon, Maxine Gordon is a scholar, researcher, and archivist who has done pioneering research on jazz in Harlem in the 1930s and the history of jazz in the Bronx, NY. A lifelong jazz fan who is currently working on a new book that will profile three important women in jazz—trombonist Melba Liston, organist Shirley Scott, and singer Maxine Sullivan, Maxine Gordon is a force in ...

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