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B.B. King @ Club Nokia

Source: All About Jazz
December 27, 2008

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AllAboutJazz-New York January 2009 Issue Now Available!

Source: All About Jazz
December 27, 2008

With our January issue featuring our Best Of 2008, we give our readers plenty of reason to brave the chill winds of winter.

Please browse our two-page spread (pgs. 26-27) for categories such as Record Labels, Debut Albums, Boxed Sets as well as Albums and Performances of the Year. Even as jazz becomes more and more of a niche market, there are plenty of fine releases from the past 12 months, making the job of picking the best from an ...

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Dale Wasserman Dies at 94; Playwright Best Known for 'Man of la Mancha'

Source: Michael Ricci
December 27, 2008

Dale Wasserman, a playwright best known for writing the book for the Tony Award- winning Broadway musical Man of La Mancha and the stage version of Ken Kesey's novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, has died. He was 94.

Wasserman died Sunday of congestive heart failure at his home in Paradise Valley, Ariz., said Richard Warren, a friend.

Beginning with writing live television dramas in the 1950s, Wasserman went on to write screenplays for several films, including The Vikings ...

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Valentin Berlinsky Mainstay Cellist of the Borodin Quartet Dies

Source: Michael Ricci
December 27, 2008

Valentin Berlinsky, for six decades the cellist of the Borodin Quartet, one of the most renowned string quartets in the world and by all accounts the longest continuously playing one, died on Dec. 15 in Moscow. He was 83 and had lived in Moscow most of his life. The death was announced on the quartet’s Web site, borodinquartet.com, which gave no cause. Named for the Russian Romantic composer Alexander Borodin, the ensemble was in fact most closely associated with the ...

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Richard Van Allan, Opera Bass-Baritone, Dies at 73

Source: Michael Ricci
December 27, 2008

Richard Van Allan, a British bass-baritone who was a commanding presence on the world’s opera stages, died on Dec. 4 in London. He was 73. The National Opera Studio, which Mr. Van Allan directed from 1986 to 2001, announced his death. He learned he had lung cancer two years ago. Mr. Van Allan’s roles included Pooh-Bah in Jonathan Miller’s production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Mikado” at the English National Opera. He sang the lead in Don Giovanni with the ...

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Sten Hostfalt / Blaise Siwula Live @ Stain NYC January 3

Source: All About Jazz
December 27, 2008

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2009 Party On!

Source: Michael Ricci
December 26, 2008

Will we party like it's 2009? Promoters are banking on revelers celebrating a new president and the promise a new year brings.

Amid all the economic turmoil of 2008, there is at least one place where hope springs eternal: in the minds of New Year's Eve party promoters.

In their planned scenarios, top-name musical talents will play into the early morning. Champagne will flow. And packed crowds will say goodbye to yesterday's troubles by tossing around hundreds of dollars like ...

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Ringing in the New on the Cheap

Source: Michael Ricci
December 26, 2008

At Pete’s Candy Store in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, you can hear live music on New Year’s Eve without paying a cover charge. There’s a special kind of pride in keeping the costs at dive-bar level on New Year’s Eve, when prices quadruple at seemingly every place that has a beer tap.

Yes, you can pay $699 for a V.I.P. table at Lady GaGa’s show at Webster Hall, and it very well might be worth every penny. But for $689 less you ...

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