Jazz News

Larry Sonn Celebrates 91st Birthday

Source: Michael Ricci
January 17, 2010

Trumpet player, arranger, composer, and internationally known band leader, Larry Sonn celebrated his 91st birthday with family and friends under the giant palm trees at Sanborn's restaurant in Cuernavaca, Mexico. Larry looked great and spoke of his musical career from his studies at New York's Julliard up through the Big Band Era. For years his band traveled from the United States to Mexico where he is held with affection by the older generations that danced to his music.

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Jazz Rally in Dusseldorf

Source: Michael Ricci
January 18, 2010

Dusseldorf club-hopping with a jazzy twist

A unique concept among jazz festivals, Duesseldorf's Jazz Rally an established international jazz event highlight.

DUSSELDORF, GERMANY - There is no shortage of jazz festivals, but the annual “Jazz Rally" in Dusseldorf (2010 dates: May 21 23), now in its 18th year, is unique in its format and style, and its success speaks for itself. Visitors can “hop" from concert to concert, a total of 70 concerts in 30 venues, on one ticket.

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Tim Kuhl @ The Windup Space in Baltimore on January 19th

Source: Two for the Show Media
January 18, 2010

Hello AAJ Readers! I will be traveling to Baltimore, Tuesday, January 19th, and playing in a special weekly event called Out of Your Head. The event is hosted by two local talented Baltimore musicians, Adam Hopkins and Matt Frazao. I will be playing in two very exciting trios ... with endless possibilities. DETAILS: I. Brent Madsen - Trumpet John Dierker - Reeds ...

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Drummer Mickey Roker Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
January 18, 2010

Drummer Mickey Roker is a mainstay and icon of the jazz world, having a played with Dizzy Gillespie, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Lee Morgan, and many of the other signature groups of modern jazz.

Yet he has always maintained his Philadelphia roots, and is and has been a regular at Ortlieb's Jazzhaus in that city for many years. Still active as a drummer and a mentor, he has witnessed and been part of the jazz world in action for over ...

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Picture of Elvis and Nixon is Worth a Thousand Words

Source: Michael Ricci
January 16, 2010

Behind the famous photo is a little-known story of an unlikely meeting in which the king of rock 'n' roll had his wish granted by the president.

The National Archives is like a safe-deposit box for America's really important papers -- the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, the $7.2-million canceled check for the purchase of Alaska, the picture of Richard Nixon and Elvis Presley shaking hands in the Oval Office. Copies of that photo -- the president in ...

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Duane Eddy Tops Deke Dickerson's Guitar Geek Festival

Source: Michael Ricci
January 16, 2010

The influential rock guitarist leads a lineup in Anaheim that also includes 'Honeyboy' Edwards.

One of the musical highlights in recent years of the National Assn. of Music Merchantsannual trade show, now under way in Anaheim, has been Deke DickersonsGuitar Geek Festival, which the roots rock guitarist and band leader only half jokingly bills as “the best guitar festival in the world." This year's marathon event gets going at 4 p.m. Saturday at the Anaheim Plaza Hotel and if history ...

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Skype, Wireless Companies Fight to Shape Net-Neutrality Regs

Source: All About Jazz
January 16, 2010

The tech industry inundated federal regulators Thursday with pleas for and against new rules limiting what ISPs can do with internet traffic.

The pleadings were a final attempt to shape upcoming net-neutrality regulations, whose broad outlines were announced by the FCC in October. Advocates say that without the rules ISPs will start monkeying with net traffic, stifling innovation. Wireless carriers and regulation foes say the market will prevent such abuses and new rules will dry up capital investment. The FCC ...

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Bobby Charles Louisiana Singer and Songwriter Passes

Source: Michael Ricci
January 16, 2010

Bobby Charles, 71, the singer-songwriter who penned such hits as Fats Domino's Walking to New Orleans,See You Later Alligator by Bill Haley and His Comets and But I Do by Frogman Henry, died Thursday at his home in Abbeville, La.

Charles had diabetes and was in remission from kidney cancer, said his publicist, Karen Johnson, but she did not know the cause of death. He had been living in his native Abbeville since his home in Holly Beach in south ...

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