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Interview

Eddie Benitez: Visions of Angels

Source: Michael Ricci
September 23, 2009

By MaryEllen O'Brien An interview with renowned World Music/New Age Jazz guitarist Eddie Benitez is never a one track conversation. Like the many intriguing tracks on his new CD, Visions of Angelss, a conversation will take off in many directions, always with passionate views and, well, the company of angels if we are to take Eddie at his word. I was invited to interview Eddie at HGI Studios in Phoenix during the making of Visions of Angels, released on September ...

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Festival

Melrose Jazzfest 2009

Source: Michael Ricci
September 23, 2009

The third annual Melrose JazzFest will take place on Sunday, October 18, at Memorial Hall, 590 Main St., Melrose, beginning at 2:00 PM, with a concert for kids and families featuring Sol Y Canto, internationally known Latin group. Performing for Sol Y Canto will be Rosi and Brian Amadour and their twin 13-year-old daughters. The 3:30 PM performance will be the Melrose Jazz Collective with Dominique Eade, fetauring Bruce Gertz, Joe Mulholland, Ricardo Monzon, Bill Reynolds, and Jeff Galindo. The ...

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Radio

The John Coltrane Songbook

Source: Michael Ricci
September 23, 2009

Tenor saxophonist John Coltrane looms large in modern jazz history–a man and musician who overcame early personal problems to be a key part of Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis’ legendary 1950s groups, and who then went on to take his place beside these jazz giants as a leader, a player, and a composer. Coltrane changed the way people thought about how to play, how to write, and how to live—quite an achievement for an artist in any field. Jazz scholar ...

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Interview

Trumpeter Theo Croker Interviewed at AAJ

Source: Michael Ricci
September 23, 2009

If you've never seen Theo Croker before, he's a pretty easy one to spot. He's the one with the trumpet by his side at all times. The neat dreadlocks and mischievous glint in his eye are also dead giveaways. Having grown up in the U.S. in a musically oriented family, Croker was introduced to the world of jazz and the blues at a young age. He picked up the trumpet at 11 and has been a virtuoso ever since, recording ...

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Festival

D.C.'s Annual Jazz Festival Dons New Name and Brand

Source: Michael Ricci
September 22, 2009

Festivals DC, Ltd., which created and has presented an annual jazz festival in Washington, D.C. for the past five years, today announced the renaming and rebranding of the event as the DC Jazz Festival. Since 2004, the event had been known as the Duke Ellington Jazz Festival. It is the fastest-growing jazz festival in the country, and the largest music festival in D.C., with more than 100 performances and programs in over 40 venues around the city. Festivals DC conceived ...

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Recording

New Harry Connick Jr. Album

Source: Michael Ricci
September 22, 2009

Over the past two decades, Harry Connick, Jr. has taken a very hands-on approach to his recording career. The multi-talented Connick has called the shots at the numerous phases of his album projects--writing original material or picking songs, choosing the ensemble settings and writing arrangements, singing and playing piano, and with the aid of co-producer and longtime confidant, Tracey Freeman, overseeing mixing and mastering. Whether performing the American Songbook or in the jazz, blues or funk idiom, the process has ...

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Performance / Tour

Soweto Gospel Choir Come to Swansea Grand Theatre

Source: Michael Ricci
September 22, 2009

Two-time Grammy Award winners--Soweto Gospel Choir come to Swansea Grand Theatre as part of their autumn UK tour. Following enormous success on their last visit to the city, they have a brand new concert show Soweto Gospel Choir In Concert, which they will perform at the Grand on 10 October as part of the Swansea Festival of Music and the Arts. The show will feature new songs from their latest album Grace, which was released in June this year, together ...

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