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Rocky Mountain Jazz Fever

Source: All About Jazz
September 7, 2009

Denver Colorado Jazz Venues. While Denver may not be the birthplace of jazz, Denver does have a particularly active jazz scene.

As central as Denver is, most popular touring jazz acts try their best to reach Miles Davis status in the Mile High City.

Denver even has two radio stations devoted to jazz, jazz89 KUVO Public Radio and Smooth Jazz 104.3. But live jazz is where the magic happens and Denver has many jazz clubs to choose from, many located ...

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Neil Young Announces “Dreamin’ Man” Live LP Due in November

Source: All About Jazz
September 7, 2009

Three months after the quiet release of Archives Volume One Neil Young has announced his next archival release: Dreamin’ Man, a complete live performance of Harvest Moon drawn from various solo acoustic gigs in 1992.

The disc is labeled Neil Young Archive Performance Series #12 and is due in stores November 2nd. Before the release of the first box set Young released three late 1960s/early 1970s concert discs that later appeared in the package. It’s unclear why he’s jumping forward ...

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Photographer Annie Leibovitz's Lifework is on the Line

Source: Michael Ricci
September 7, 2009

As the famed celebrity photographer faces the loss of her photos, observers see a portrait of unfocused finances.

Annie Leibovitz could lose her 200-acre Astor Barns country estate up the Hudson River from New York City and her town house in New York. Leibovitz had two goals for a proposed series of her famous celebrity photographs, enlarged to 5 feet tall, at a price of $25,000 each. For starters, “She said she would like to make more money," recalled Fifth ...

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Rumor Roundup: Apple's Sept. 9 Music-Related News Conference

Source: Michael Ricci
September 7, 2009

When the largest U.S. music retailer has an imminent news conference, people will speculate.

Here's what we know for sure: Apple's announcements Sept. 9 are music- related. The invitation the company sent to journalists (pictured at the top) shows a familiar silhouette of a woman dancing, iPod in hand, as we've seen in countless TV commercials. Here's what others think they know: plenty. Chatter accompanies every Apple conference. The company is highly visible and wildly popular in the computer, gadget ...

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Victor Bailey Band in Jim Thorpe (PA) on September 26

Source: Michael Ricci
September 7, 2009

For Jazz Bassist Victor Bailey, It Just Comes Naturally Though Philadelphia native Victor Bailey is one of the greatest jazz bassists ever, its not easy to sum up his music. Firmly established in the long lineage of extraordinary Philly bassists such as Tyrone Browne, Alphonso Johnson, Stanley Clarke, and Jaco Pastorius, one might call Bailey's music jazz fusion or post-funk-jazz, but while his sound may be hard to categorize, its easy to say that he was born to play. Bailey's ...

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Bells, Bells, Bells

Source: All About Jazz
September 7, 2009

Bell ringers converged at Trinity Church in Lower Manhattan for the annual meeting of the North American Guild of Change Ringers.

The church is promoting a mini-festival of classes, ringing performances and private lessons. The meeting is a sign of Trinity's rapid arrival as a beacon of bell towers.

Three years ago it installed a set of 12 bells, making it the only church in the nation with that many. Gregory F. Russell is Trinity's new ringing master and steeple ...

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Record Labels Say Student is Still Encouraging Illegal Downloads

Source: Michael Ricci
September 7, 2009

Joel Tenenbaum was found liable for copyright violations in a trial in Boston. The cautionary tale of Joel Tenenbaum continues.

Weeks after he was ordered to pay $675,000 to record labels for illegally downloading and sharing music, those labels are saying that Mr. Tenenbaum, 25, a graduate student at Boston University, is continuing to encourage music piracy by linking to a file-sharing service on a Web site created for his defense, The Boston Globe reported.

A Twitter feed for joelfightsback.com, ...

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B.J. Jansen Features Jade Synstelien and the Fat Cat Big Band on the Jazz Life

Source: JM Creative
September 7, 2009

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