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Pro Bono Double Quartet at the Yippie Cafe (NYC) on January 9th

Source: All About Jazz
January 5, 2009

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Multidisciplinary Artist Alfred (23) Harth Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
January 5, 2009

Multi-instrumentalist, improviser, composer and visual artist Alfred Harth was born near Frankfurt in 1949. He first recorded at age twenty with the ensemble Just Music, with whom he recorded two LPs, one of which was issued on ECM.

Throughout the 1970s he worked with musicians like pianist Nicole Van Den Plas, drummer Sven-Ake Johansson, bassist Peter Kowald, trumpeter Michael Sell and others in West European free music. In the late '70s, he became interested in punk music and in addition ...

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Rhythmflow Announces 4th Annual Montreal Jazz Festival Vacation

Source: All About Jazz
January 5, 2009

RHYTHMflow Vacations & Group Travel, in conjunction with RHYTHMflow Radio is happy to announce Jazzy Montreal IV", their fourth annual group adventure to the Montreal Jazz Festival, Wednesday July 1st Monday, July 6th, 2009. It's the perfect way to kick-off the summer season. Celebrate the Independence of Canada (Canada Day) and The USA (4th Of July), along with the 30th anniversary of the Montreal Jazz Festival, while enjoying the European nuances of le belle cite. RHYTHMflow Vacations Craig Chapman, will ...

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Nerissa Campbell new album Musings of a Telescopic Tree

Source: All About Jazz
January 5, 2009

With elements of pop, jazz, rhumba and blues dipped in a smoky beer batter of late night living and roiling in the smoke of forgotten bars, the Brooklyn-based indie-jazz chanteuse moodily enchants with her second album. Musings of a Telescopic Tree is an album of moodiness and of melancholy - stories of desire and the sorrows of losing loved things, the weight of depression and the lightness of being. The indie-jazz singer-songwriter ponders a new approach to her ...

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Barbara King Debut Perfect Timing

Source: All About Jazz
January 5, 2009

Brooklyn, New York native Barbara King hopes that the title of her debut CD carries some truth. Perfect Timing is a strong recording and critics everywhere are becoming aware of her presence prompting Lloyd Sachs of the Chicago-Sun Times to say, “Barbara King's dusky, Sarah Vaughan-like qualities mark her as a talent to watch." On Barbara's CCCMG Records debut release she presents jazz listeners a bevy of outstanding interpretations of standards and four original tracks that affirms her belief and ...

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Jimmy Buffett is Cashing in on Margaritaville

Source: All About Jazz
January 5, 2009

Singers fortune expands thanks to numerous products, marketing deals. Jimmy Buffett, who turned 62 on Christmas Day, has long been an icon of certain baby boomers, who tapped into his tropical party vibe as they toiled in cubicles and offices. But in the past decade this chronicler of Margaritaville has really cashed in on his image.

LAS VEGAS - It's like the world's biggest beach party, hosted by the world's richest beach bum. The 15,000 fans packing the sold-out MGM ...

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Ohio Players Founder Robert Ward Dies

Source: All About Jazz
January 5, 2009

Robert Ward, a Georgia blues musician who played with some of Motown's biggest artists, died Dec. 25. He was 70.

His wife, Roberta, told the Telegraph of Macon that her husband died at his home in Dry Branch in central Georgia. She said her husband had suffered a stroke in 2001 and never fully recovered. Ward, a Georgia native, moved to Ohio and founded the Ohio Untouchables, which later became the Ohio Players. However, Ward left the group well before ...

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Travolta Heartbroken over Son's Death

Source: All About Jazz
January 5, 2009

John Travolta said Sunday he and his wife Kelly Preston are “heartbroken" over the death of their chronically ill 16-year-old son, in their first public statement since Jett's death..

We are heartbroken that our time with him was so brief. We will cherish the time we had with him for the rest of our lives. Jett was the most wonderful son that two parents could ever ask for and lit up the lives of everyone he encountered.

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