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AllAboutJazz.com's Best of 2008 Lists: Wrap Up

Source: All About Jazz
January 19, 2009

We compiled the links to all best of 2008 lists published at All About Jazz. Enjoy!

19-Jan-09 Publisher's Top Picks for 2008 by Michael Ricci 16-Jan-09 2008 Contributor Picks by AAJ Staff 15-Jan-09 Staff Picks 2008 by AAJ Staff 15-Jan-09 AAJ's Top 20 Interviews of 2008 by AAJ Staff 15-Jan-09 Top Ten “Most Read" Articles & CD Reviews: 2008 by AAJ Staff 11-Jan-09 Mark F. Turner's Best of 2008

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Quincy Jones First Person on Historic Time

Source: Michael Ricci
January 19, 2009

By Quincy Jones

Like many Americans and citizens of the world, on the morning of Nov. 5 I awoke with a renewed sense of purpose. Having witnessed the night before an event that I never ever imagined contemplating -- the election of an African American to the office of president of the United States of America -- I felt truly vindicated in the belief that if you live long enough, anything is possible. The night before, as I sat with ...

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Inauguration Opening Concert Celebrates Art of the Possible

Source: All About Jazz
January 19, 2009

America's first African-American president is serenaded by first-class performers at a nationally televised concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial two days before his inauguration. More than a few people on the National Mall on Sunday must have been thinking of Marian Anderson and how amazed and proud she'd be.

In 1939, Anderson, the famed American contralto, was banned from performing in the Daughters of the American Revolution's Constitution Hall because of the color of her skin. So instead ...

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In the Obama Era, Will the Media Change Too?

Source: All About Jazz
January 19, 2009

On Jan. 20, change will come to Washington. To part of it, anyway. Barack Obama will take office, but another Washington fixture, the press that covered George W. Bush, will still be there: a whole roster of newly minted network White House correspondents, yes, but the same apparatus behind them.

Come Jan. 21 and beyond after nearly three months of offering the President-elect free advice and producing stories about his struggles to choose a puppy and keep his BlackBerry the ...

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New U2 Single Hits Radio, iTunes

Source: All About Jazz
January 19, 2009

U2's new single, “Get on Your Boots," has hit radio all over the world this morning (Jan. 19) and is also available for sale from Apple's iTunes Music Store. In addition, U2's official Web site is streaming the song.

“Get on Your Boots" is driven by a garage-y guitar and bass riff that immediately blasts from the speakers. The guitar drops out for the first part of the verse, as Bono sings about “submarines, gasoline" and not wanting “to talk ...

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'The American Future' on BBC America

Source: Michael Ricci
January 19, 2009

The documentary asks: How did we get here? It is set against the presidential election.

British historian Simon Schama never expected Barack Obama to so thoroughly wipe out the Democratic competition during primary season. But as he watched history unfold while filming his latest documentary The American Future: A History, Schama prepared for the unexpected. “This was not going to be an election of business as usual," he said. “Very likely this was going to be an election where Americans ...

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The Stage is Reset in New Orleans

Source: Michael Ricci
January 19, 2009

Placido Domingo helps the Mahalia Jackson Theater come back in style. New Orleans, hammered by Hurricane Katrina 3 1/2 years ago and still lurching toward a full recovery, received a helping hand -- and voice -- Saturday.

Superstar tenor Plcido Domingo culminated a 10-day grand reopening of the city-owned Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts, which has undergone $22 million in renovations after being severely damaged by the hurricane flood waters. The arts center had been closed since it ...

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Grambling Band Thrilled to Strut Its Stuff

Source: All About Jazz
January 19, 2009

Hunt, 19, a sophomore at Grambling State University in northern Louisiana, and 200 of his classmates, members of the Grambling State University Tiger Marching Band, boarded four buses shortly after 10 a.m. The caravan is destined for a 1.8-mile stretch of Washington, D.C., where the band will perform in the parade Tuesday honoring the country's newly sworn-in president, Barack Obama.

Competition to get into the parade was fierce. The Presidential Inaugural Committee had 1,382 applications three or four times the ...

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