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Charles Mingus Summit at Manhattan School of Music including 1st Annual Charles Mingus High School Competition

Source: All About Jazz
January 29, 2009

3-DAY TRIBUTE, February 20 - 22, 2009 SUE MINGUS and JUSTIN DICIOCCIO, Producers Friday, February 20 at 7:30 pm in Greenfield Hall GUNTHER SCHULLER, Keynote Speaker Panel Discussion with Justin DiCioccio, Moderator; Vincent Herring, Conrad Herwig, Andy McKee, Sue Mingus and Gunther Schuller Saturday, February 21 at 7:30 pm in John C. Borden Auditorium MSM MINGUS JAZZ COMBO, Steve Slagle, Guest Soloist Remy Le Boeuf, alto saxophone; Samuel Ryder, tenor saxophone; Jonathan Barnes, trumpet; Craig Davis, piano; Robert ...

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Helen Sung & Ron Carter Together on February 6th at the Rubin Museum NYC

Source: Two for the Show Media
January 29, 2009

Helen Sung & Ron Carter will be performing in concert together at The Rubin Museum in NYC on Febraury 6th, 2009 at 7:00PM as part of the 2009 Winter/Spring Harlem in the Himalayas Series. Helen Sung – piano Ron Carter – bass “Helen Sung is a musician of serious promise." --John Fidler, AllAboutJazz.com

“Ron Carter is an acknowledged master” --Wall Street Journal Helen Sung/Ron Carter Duo Rubin Museum of Art -150 West 17th Street ...

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Freddie the Freeloader as Performed by Vocalist T.C. III is Now Featured for Free Download on AllAboutJazz.com

Source: JM Creative
January 29, 2009

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At Whisky a Go-Go, Applause for Co-Founder Elmer Valentine

Source: Michael Ricci
January 29, 2009

They came to West Hollywood on Monday night not to bury one of the celebrated figures in L.A. music's storied past, but to praise him.

A few hundred family members, friends, former employees and just plain fans of Whisky A Go-Go co-founder Elmer Valentine, who died at age 85 in December, packed the venerated club he opened 45 years ago for a night of toasts and music. The music was led by Johnny Rivers, whose extended engagement as the Whisky's ...

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Raging Free Jazz Drummer Weasel Walter Upcoming Live Tour Dates in U.S. and Europe

Source: ugEXPLODE
January 29, 2009

Hyperactive free jazz drummer Weasel Walter will be spreading his intense style of spontaneous musical interaction in many venues across the U.S. and Europe this spring in the company of many notable improvisers like Evan Parker, Peter Evans, Mary Halvorson and Marco Eneidi. His upcoming release out March 15, 2009 is a trio record with West Coast guitar legend Henry Kaiser and bassist Damon Smith featuring some of the most extreme Kaiser playing in decades--half Sharrock/Takayanagi electronic bombast, the other ...

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Charmaine Ford Trio @ Baycourt Theatre in Tauranga On April 11

Source: All About Jazz
January 29, 2009

Charmaine Ford, the “rising star of NZ jazz piano” (The Dominion Post), returns to her hometown of Tauranga to treat us to her “spellbinding virtuosity” (Bay of Plenty Times). Now based in Sydney building her international jazz career, Charmaine won the 2007 Jazz Tui Award for Best Jazz Album for her sophomore release Busy Silence and has just released her third album.

In this concert, she will also introduce us to the sensational Australian vocalist Kristin Berardi, winner of the ...

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The Five Corners Quintet - Dynamic Finnish Dancefloor Jazz Sophomore Release "Hot Corner"

Source: All About Jazz
January 28, 2009

"About as hip as you can get without throwing your back out" --ALL ABOUT JAZZ

In 2005, The Five Corners Quintet from Helsinki took the international dancefloor jazz scene by a storm. Chasin' the Jazz Gone By, their debut for Ricky-Tick Records, a label that was initially conceived of as a vehicle for releasing the very first TFCQ vinyl single, proved out to be both an artistic and a commercial success story. For once and for all, the album proved ...

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Michael Jackson Sued by 'Thriller' Director John Landis

Source: Michael Ricci
January 28, 2009

A day after the announcement that the Nederlander Organization has acquired rights to produce a musical version of Michael Jackson's Thriller comes legal uncertainty for fans looking forward to a Broadway-style version of the epochal 1983 Dawn of the Dead meets Soul Train music video.

Turns out that the 14-minute mini-film's director and co-writer John Landis -- the movie comedy maestro behind Animal House, The Blues Brothers and An American Werewolf in London -- filed court papers last Wednesday suing ...

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