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Source: All About Jazz
January 9, 2009

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JazzArtCollection Announce Fine Art Edition of Historic Jazz Poster Series

Source: All About Jazz
January 9, 2009

New Orleans, LA--The publishers of JazzArtCollection proudly introduce the Limited Edition issue of a series of five Waldemar Swierzy fine arts prints originally designed as posters for the Jacksonville and All That Jazz Festival. The series began in 1983 and brought the then little-known, but now famous artist to Jacksonville, Florida., at the height of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union; a time when travel between the US and nations behind the so-called Iron Curtain ...

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APAP Conference 2009: Schedule at a Glance

Source: All About Jazz
January 9, 2009

Friday, January 9

8:00AM – 10:00AM SPECIAL INTEREST SESSIONS 9:00AM – 5:00PM EXHIBIT HALL LOAD-IN 9:00AM – 12:00PM PRE-CONFERENCE FORUMS 1:00PM – 2:30PM CONFERENCE BEGINS APAP PLENARY Conscious Connections Keynote and Response Jeremy Nowak, Robyn Archer, Kenny Leon, Rafael Lozano-hemmer, and Alicia Anstead Hilton, Trianon Ballroom 3:00 PM – 5:00PM SPECIAL INTEREST SESSIONS 3:00 PM – 4:00PM APAP SPECIAL EVENT International Member Orientation

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Anthony Braxton & Italian Instabile Orchestra CD Now Available!

Source: All About Jazz
January 9, 2009

Anthony Braxton & Italian Instabile Orchestra Creative Orchestra (Bolzano) 2007 Rai Trade Records

Available now at The Jazz Loft for $15.95.

Superbly recorded live at Alto Adige Jazz Festival in Bolzano, Italy in June of 2007.

Considering that we just listed some dozen discs (including several box sets) from Mr. Braxton that were released in the past year, I shouldn't have been surprised to find yet another treasure in the mail this week from the fine ...

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Swedish Hip-Hop Artist Likens Fatal Encounter to 'Crash' Movie

Source: Michael Ricci
January 9, 2009

A lawyer for a Swedish hip-hop artist accused of murdering a pedestrian in a sensational act of road rage invoked the movie Crash today in asking for a reduction in the performers $1-million bail.

In court papers, David Jassys attorney wrote that the fatal encounter in a Hollywood crosswalk was a prime example of the Academy Award-winning films thesis ... that random interactions of diverse people in a City as frenetic as Los Angeles can lead to disastrous consequences.

Police ...

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Yo-Yo Ma Brings Remix Culture to Music's Ivory Tower

Source: All About Jazz
January 9, 2009

Viewer's Cut: Interactive Film Gives Editing Tools to You Pop artists have welcomed others to remix their songs online. Now classical music aficionados can get in on the act.

Renowned cellist and 15-time Grammy winner Yo-Yo Ma is hosting an online competition, inviting listeners to add their own accompaniment to his performance of the traditional hymn “Dona Nobis Pacem," from his latest album, Songs of Joy & Peace. “Just releasing a CD is constraining to an artist," Ma ...

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Van Morrison on Bringing 'Astral Weeks' Shows to NYC

Source: Michael Ricci
January 9, 2009

Van Morrison said that his Hollywood Bowl shows in November would be the only time he would perform his classic 1968 album Astral Weeks live.

But that was before the two performances, which he says in an exclusive Times interview, “was more than I could have hoped for." The whole thing just worked, he told The Times by e-mail. One rehearsal -- that was not even that good -- and we hit the stage and the Magi or whoever just ...

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New York Jazz Clubs Listing

Source: Michael Ricci
January 9, 2009

Jazz Listings in and around New York City Weekend January 8th 2009

ADOBE PROBE (Saturday) The alto saxophonist Tim Berne presides over this typically oblique ensemble but entrusts a lot of decisions to his collaborators: the multireedist Chris Speed, the trumpeter Shane Endsley, the guitarist Mary Halvorson, the pianist Matt Mitchell, the bassist John Hebert and the drummer Gerald Cleaver. At 8 p.m., the Stone, Avenue C and Second Street, East Village, thestonenyc.com; cover, $10.

AMBROSE AKINMUSIRE BAND ...

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