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Miles Davis - The Cool Jazz Sound (1959) DVD

Source: All About Jazz
October 27, 2008

Bobby Troup hosted this excellent television show that featured the best in contemporary jazz; this episode collects a stunning array of jazz heavyweights together on one stage.

The performance was given in 1959, three years after Miles' legendary album The Birth of Cool, around the same time that he released the seminal Kind of Blue. John Coltrane, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb, and the Gil Evans Orchestra, among others, all joined Davis at the show. This is an ...

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Acclaimed Vocalist Steve Tyrell to Spend Holidays at NYC's Cafe Carlyle

Source: O&M Co.
October 27, 2008

S T E V E T Y R E L L B A C K T O B A C H A R A C H ACCLAIMED VOCALIST TO SPEND THE HOLIDAYS AT CAFE CARLYLE NOVEMBER 4 to DECEMBER 31, 2008 New York, NY--Acclaimed vocalist STEVE TYRELL returns to the Cafe Carlyle (located in The Carlyle Hotel 35 East 76th Street at Madison Avenue) on Tuesday, November 4, 2008 for an extended nine-week engagement through Wednesday, December 31, ...

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iPhone Apps Could Be the New Myspace Page

Source: All About Jazz
October 27, 2008

Artists and labels have a new way to strengthen ties to fans and make them buy more music: mobile phone apps, which could be the new MySpace page.

An iPhone app might seem like an awkward way to distribute music when the device also supports podcasts and the iTunes music store, but the apps' versatility gives bands a great way to draw their fans closer.

Recording artist Pink is the latest to make waves in this area with a free ...

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A Cure for the Long-Gone Lonesome Blues

Source: All About Jazz
October 27, 2008

Jett Williams never met her father, Hank. Then she came across his lost recordings, and she heard him laugh at last.According to Hank Williams, Mother's Best Flour makes “the best biscuit you ever hung a tooth in," and “On Top of Old Smokey" sounds best when sung the Appalachian way, “like Grandma taught it."

Now unless you happened to tune into Nashville's WSM radio during one of Williams's daily shows in 1951, you likely missed these pearls of wisdom from ...

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David Cook Wants LP to "Kick You in the Teeth" !

Source: All About Jazz
October 27, 2008

David Cook Crafts Heaviest “American Idol" Album Yet

During the show, I enjoyed messing with people's expectations. I'm not trying to surprise people now: I'm putting out a rock record. I just want the songs to kick you in the teeth or make you want to cry or do something drastic, like jump off a building. I want somebody to be exhausted when they're done listening. David Cook-American Idol Winner

Making an album like that is a tall ...

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Shout! Factory to Release 5-CD Set of Hunter S. Thompson's Previously Unreleased Recordings

Source: All About Jazz
October 27, 2008

The Gonzo Tapes: The Life And Work Of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson Featuring original cover artwork by Ralph Steadman, an introduction by Academy Award-winning director Alex Gibney, an essay by Loren Jenkins, and notes and production by Don Fleming In Stores October 28 Los Angeles, CA – On October 28 Shout! Factory will make available the previously unreleased Gonzo Tapes in a newly produced collection titled The Gonzo Tapes: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, in concurrence ...

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Porn's Pied Piper Deep Throat Director Dies

Source: All About Jazz
October 27, 2008

This is kinda strange country, isn't it? Judges can see Deep Throat but they can't listen to those [Nixon] tapes. Johnny Carson- at the time when the movie was challenging Watergate as the topic du jour.

I went to see Deep Throat cause I'm fond of animal pictures. I thought it was about giraffes. Bob Hope- When Hope makes a joke about your porno movie, you've arrived.

The movie had no-name stars in fact, fake-name stars: ...

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New on JazzPianoOnline.com: Circles

Source: All About Jazz
October 27, 2008

Circles

This charming little jazz prelude starts off with clean, clear, harmless souding, perfectly voice-led rootless diatonic 7th chords derived from the cycle of 4ths. A sunny start to this decades old piece first published in Sheet Music Magazine by JazzPianoOnline contributor Stuart Isacoff and dedicated to his teacher Roland Hanna. Soon enough, though, the piece takes a minor turn and encounters some serious jazz chords- b9, #11 and b13 altered dominant chords among them. Learn about the different voicing ...

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