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Joe Albano and the Meanderthals Live at the Stone NYC!

Source: Michael Ricci
August 17, 2009

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Charlie O's Jazz This Week

Source: All About Jazz
August 16, 2009

Charile O's Sunday line-up begins with Ron Anthony and Barry Zweig are here on the 16th with Kendall Kay and Luther Hughes.

Our Monday performances in August this week include the great Luther Hughes Cannonball Coltrane Project (Luther, Ed Czach, Bruce Babad, Glenn Cashman, Paul Kreibich) on the 17th. Reservations are suggested for these performances.

Tuesday performance of the John Altman Quartet (John, Mike Lang, Frank DeVito, Harvey Newmark) on the 18th. Reservations highly suggested for this night.

The Wednesday ...

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Out of Exile, Back in Soulsville

Source: Michael Ricci
August 16, 2009

Al Bell, who led Stax Records in Memphis during the labels 1960s and 70s heyday, has returned to the city as chairman of the Memphis Music Foundation to resuscitate its entertainment stature.

AS the peacock-blue Cadillac with the gold trim and fur lining spun on a giant turntable in the Stax Museum of American Soul Music here, Al Bell, the final owner of the late, great record label, chuckled. Decades before 50 Cent with his customized Rolls-Royce and Akon with ...

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Retro-Soul and Jazz

Source: Michael Ricci
August 16, 2009

John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble

The drummer and composer John Hollenbeck inhabits a world of gleaming modernity, and Eternal Interlude (Sunnyside), the second album featuring his Large Ensemble, reflects both the clarity and brightness of his vision. Timbre is his forte as much as rhythm: his strategies for the band often involve an autumnal rustle of woodwinds and a billowing swirl of brass. On the superb 19-minute title track he creates a gossamer shimmer of flutes, clarinets, piano and marimba; on ...

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Jim Dickinson, Memphis Producer, Musician and Father of 2 North Mississippi Allstars, Dies

Source: Michael Ricci
August 16, 2009

Jim Dickinson, a musician and producer who helped shape the Memphis sound in a career that spanned more than four decades, died Saturday. He was 67.

His wife, Mary Lindsay Dickinson, said he died in a Memphis, Tenn., hospital after three months of heart and intestinal bleeding problems. The couple lived in Hernando, Miss., but Dickinson recently had bypass surgery and was undergoing rehabilitation at Methodist University Hospital, his wife said.

Jim Dickinson, perhaps best known as the father of ...

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Making Movies the Old Way: On Film

Source: Michael Ricci
August 16, 2009

Digital video? No, thanks. 'Beeswax's' Andrew Bujalski and other indie directors shoot old school. 'I love how it feels on-screen,' he says.

At a time when many top-shelf Hollywood directors -- names such as Michael Mann, Steven Soderbergh, David Fincher and Francis Ford Coppola -- are proselytizing the advantages of shooting on high-definition digital video, a small, dedicated band of independent filmmakers is championing the seemingly outdated idea of actually shooting on film.

“Beeswax," which opens in L.A. on Friday ...

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40 Years Later, Havens Performs Iconic Woodstock Song

Source: All About Jazz
August 16, 2009

Richie Havens performed “Freedom", 40 years later, on the original Woodstock site.

Nearly 40 years to the day that he christened the crowning achievement of the 1960s counterculture, Richie Havens returned to an open field in Sullivan County to sing about a primal human condition, the pursuit of which binds us all.

“Freedom," Havens bellowed from the top of the hill upon which hundreds of thousands descended in August 1969 for the Woodstock Music & Art Fair.

“Freedom," he repeated. ...

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In Your Ear: The Thirsty Ear Tavern Presents an Evening of Americana and Blues

Source: Just Roots PR
August 16, 2009

Americana and Blues will come together at the Thirsty Ear Tavern at 9:30pm on Saturday, August 28. The show will open with a set by Matt Monta and the Hot Coal Band playing their own whiskey-soaked, gut-bucket original Americana music. They will be followed in the second set as the dynamic four-piece electric blues act Long Tall Deb and the Drifter Kings who are gearing up to compete in the International Blues Challenge in Memphis next January present their special ...

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