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Radio

Jazz on the Barbary Coast on Riverwalk Jazz This Week

Source: Don Mopsick
September 19, 2010

A century ago, San Francisco's Barbary Coast was a waterfront hub of loose living, dance- crazy club-goers and wild new music. The Barbary Coast had been notorious for fifty years before the 1906 earthquake, and within hours of the last trembler its saloons and whorehouses were open for business again. In a town settled by gold-seekers and rogues—where men far outnumbered women—it was 'sin city' with a rugged western energy. The Barbary Coast was a sideshow, skid row, and music ...

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Radio

Re-release with new production of classic Miles Davis interview

Source: J. Scott Fugate
September 19, 2010

Soulandjazz.com Presents: Talking Jazz with Ben Sidran / Episode 1: Miles Davis Remixed & Reproduced by J. Scott Fugate, “The Jazz Evangelist" Here's the story: back in the mid-80's on National Public Radio (NPR) in America, a show ran called Sidran On Record. Presented by Ben Sidran, a musician, author, lecturer and journalist, the show featured interviews with the great and the good from the world of Jazz: Miles, Dizzy, Herbie and Grover were amongst 60 interviews that ran over ...

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Event

The Jazz.FM91 Songwriters Series

Source: Jessie Frohman
September 16, 2010

Toronto, Ontario —JAZZ.FM91 is pleased to announce The JAZZ.FM91 Songwriters Series, which will feature the extraordinary talents of jazz musicians, and songwriters in three compelling concerts at Hugh's Room. Tickets are $45 in advance and $50 at the door, series passes are available for $115 for all three concerts and can be reserved through Hugh's Room by calling 416-531-6604 or online at hughsroom.com. The JAZZ.FM91 Songwriters Series kicks off on Monday, October 11th with legendary jazz guitarist Gene Bertoncini and ...

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Recording

'Christine Ebersole Sings Noel Coward' out 9/21 on Ghostlight Records

Source: Seth Cohen PR
September 15, 2010

Ghostlight to Release 'Christine Ebersole Sings Noel Coward' Barnes & Noble In-Store and Lincoln Center Appearance are Confirmed Pre-Sales Now Online, Release Date is 9/21 Ghostlight Records is proud to confirm the September 21st release of 'Christine Ebersole Sings Noel Coward.' Two-time Tony Award winner Ebersole, whose soprano voice was heard singing Noel Coward songs between scenes of the most recent Broadway revival of Blithe Spirit, has teamed up with Musical Director Larry Yurman on an album of Coward tunes. ...

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Recording

Dmitry Baevsky "Down With It" (Sharp Nine Records)

Source: Marina Chassé
September 21, 2010

Sharp Nine is pleased to add the formidable young altoist Dmitry Baevsky to its roster of hard- hitting, straight-ahead artists. The St. Petersburg native has been honing his craft in New York for more than a decade and the results are here for all to enjoy. With a crack young rhythm section of Jeb Patton, David Wong and Jason Brown—and joined by trumpet phenom Jeremy Pelt on four tunes—Baevsky presents a killer program that features Monk's “We See," Bud Powell's ...

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Recording

Miles Davis' 'Bitches Brew' Turns 40 and Gets the Box Set Treatment

Source: All About Jazz @ Spinner
September 17, 2010

I've gone on record more than once saying I lean more toward John Coltrane than Miles Davis. Yet such is the magnitude of Davis' legacy that it is impossible for either jazz fan or jazz critic to avoid spending considerable time listening to the trumpeter. No jazz musician I can think of was recorded more often. No leader I can think of had more of his sidemen go on to become stars in their own right. No jazz artist moved ...

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Book / Magazine

He, Too, Was America: Duke Ellington's Sepia Panorama

Source: David Brent Johnson
September 17, 2010

When it comes to biography, the life of pianist, composer and bandleader Duke Ellington has presented a challenge worthy of its maestro's motto: “beyond category." Ellington was born in 1899 and died in 1974; in between, he merely led a world-class jazz orchestra for 50 years, wrote or co-wrote pieces that number in the thousands, and became one of the most significant artists the United States has ever produced—forget any mitigating prefixes such as “jazz" or “African-American." Yet those qualities ...

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Performance / Tour

The Road to Euphoria 2010: The Song Project Tour

Source: Mark Rapp
September 16, 2010

GREENVILLE—Jazz trumpeter, composer, producer and band leader Mark Rapp along with renowned guitarist/vocalist and composer Derek Lee Bronston celebrate the release of their brand new cd The Song Project—Art of the Song, vol . 1 September, 2010 with a tour of the East Coast. The first leg of the “The Song Project" tour will take them around South and North Carolina (Greenville, SC; Charleston, SC; Columbia,SC; Boone, NC; Rock Hill, SC) and culminate in a performance at the Euphoria Jazz ...

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