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Event

Special Holiday Discount Tickets Offered for Newport Folk and Jazz Festivals

Source: Carolyn McClair Public Relations
December 8, 2010

Special Holiday Discount Tickets Offered for 2011 Newport Folk and Jazz Festivals $50.00 Tickets Available at Convention & Visitors Bureau December 9-January 3 NEWPORT, RI—If you're still looking for that perfect holiday gift or a special treat for the New Year, George Wein, Producer of the Newport Folk and Jazz Festivals, is offering $50.00 tickets for the 2011 Newport Folk Festival® and Newport Jazz Festival®. The $50.00 General Admission tickets (regularly priced at $69.00) can be ...

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For Sale

Get 10% off the Genius of Miles Davis

Source: Michael Ricci
December 8, 2010

It's the Holiday Season, time for gift giving, and we at Sony Music want to offer all All About Jazz readers the opportunity to purchase The Genius Of Miles Davis at 10% Off the regular price! Packaged in a custom-built, limited-edition Martin trumpet case, a replica of the one Miles used during his career, and individually numbered to 1955, The Genius Of Miles Davis presents the artist's complete body of work recorded for Columbia Records, and is the most comprehensive ...

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Recording

Miles Davis' Bitches Brew Live to be Released February 2011

Source: Michael Ricci
December 8, 2010

Four decades later, it remains the great game changer, the genre- bending, barrier-smashing double LP that would become Miles Davis' first RIAA gold album, and influence two—three! (so far)—generations of jazz and rock musicians to come. Released in April of 1970, Bitches Brew refracted the chaos and beauty of a society stretched (and stressed) to its breaking point, the penultimate creation of Miles' career. BITCHES BREW LIVE adds yet another dimension to the album's prismatic reputation. Its nine rare live ...

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Performance / Tour

Havana Club presents Danay Suarez 'Havana Cultura Sessions'

Source: David Farrer
December 8, 2010

Released November 29th 2010 Brownswood Recordings “She's amazing. A phenomenon. The most impressive singer I've heard and worked with over the last five years." —Gilles Peterson Havana Cultura—the global arts initiative by Havana Club that champions the work of some of Havana's most exciting yet unseen creative talent—is presenting the latest chapter in Havana Cultura music releases. Under the creative directorship of Gilles Peterson, the first in a series of Havana Cultura Sessions highlights the vocal talents of ...

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Recording

Melvin Gibbs' free music download series enters third week

Source: Melvin Gibbs
December 8, 2010

Phree-dem Downloads, Melvin Gibbs' free music series continues into its third week with the composition “Ra's Mirror." This track features multi-instrumentalist Casey Benjamin (Kanye West, Mos Def, Stefon Harris) on three different instruments: flute, keyboards and EWI (electronic wind instrument). Bassist/producer Gibbs showcases Mr Benjamin on a track created for his “Melvin Runs The Hoodoo Down" project. This project, which takes the music of the Miles Davis' album Bitches Brew as it's starting point, is based on a production technique ...

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Performance / Tour

Bob Sheppard's "Close Your Eyes" Premier Live Performance December 18 At Vitellos

Source: April Williams
December 8, 2010

Veteran Saxophone giant Bob Sheppard will be performing his new music from his latest release of Close Your Eyes live at Vitellos on Saturday December 18, 2010. The band will be Alan Pasqua, Piano Larry Koonse, Guitar Gabe Noel, Bass Steve Hass, Drums. Bob Sheppard has long been one of the top reed players based in Southern California. Constantly in demand for record sessions, club dates, concerts, soundtracks, and an enormous amount of projects, he has the ability to sound ...

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Recording

Hot Club of Cowtown's New CD Salutes Bob Wills

Source: Michael Ricci
December 8, 2010

Recorded live and overdub-free, new release captures genre's fiery energy and jazzy improvisations. Band to appear at SXSW and on NPR's Mountain Stage. AUSTIN, Texas—Bob Wills has always been a core inspiration for the Hot Club of Cowtown's sound, but it has taken the Texas-based trio a dozen years to fully honor the King of Western swing. A fortuitous tour in England last spring led the band to London's Specific Sound studio, where they spent two days recording a 14-song ...

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