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Music Industry

Aaron Parks: To the Big Screen, and Back to the Jazz Scene

Source: All About Jazz
October 17, 2008

"Aaron Parks: Seattle's Boy Genius" is not the story anymore. The local jazz piano prodigy, who went to the University of Washington straight out of junior high, is now 25, living in New York City for the past eight years. He's moved into movies, assisting his mentor Terence Blanchard on soundtracks for Spike Lee's Katrina documentary “When the Levees Broke" (among other Lee titles) as well as the filmic adaptation of “Their Eyes Were Watching God"; and Parks has a ...

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Website

140 New Additions to AAJ Upcoming Jazz CD/DVD Release Center

Source: All About Jazz
October 17, 2008

Event

Leni Stern to Play with Morley, Salif Keita, Adam Rudolph's Organic Orchestra

Source: Seth Cohen PR
October 17, 2008

Leni Stern Joins Morley, Adam Rudolph's Organic Orchestra and Salif Keita for Upcoming 'Special Guest' Appearances Stern to Appear in Documentary on Hermeto Pascal Recent Television Appearance Features Two Live Performances New Leni Stern CD in the Works; Headlining Shows Set for NYC Acclaimed singer/songwriter/guitarist Leni Stern will make a series of 'Special Guest' appearances in the weeks and months ahead. On October 23rd, she will join her friend Morley at Joe's Pub in New York City, for the CD ...

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Performance / Tour

Charlie Hunter and Saxophonist Daniel Bennett Play Boston on December 7

Source: Bennett Alliance
October 17, 2008

The 7th installment of the Bennett Alliance Concert Series has arrived. On December 7, the Charlie Hunter Trio and the Daniel Bennett Group will play a rare double bill performance at the restored Cambridge YMCA Theatre (820 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA). Visit bennettalliance.com for advance tickets and more information. As the “hip-hop" or “acid jazz" movement of the mid-1990s gained momentum in the United States, Charlie Hunter was leading it in the San Francisco Bay Area. Young groups of avant-garde ...

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Performance / Tour

The Ellis Marsalis Quintet Featuring Delfeayo and Jason Marsalis, the McCoy Tyner Trio, Brad Mehldau

Source: All About Jazz
October 17, 2008

Join us as we close out the 2008 Greek Theatre season on Sunday, November 16 with An Evening with The Ellis Marsalis Quintet featuring Delfeayo and Jason Marsalis, The McCoy Tyner Trio and Brad Mehldau. This is the first time these renowned jazz musicians will all be performing together on one stage. It will be a family affair when The Ellis Marsalis Quintet take the stage as Ellis will be joined by his sons Delfeayo on trombone and Jason on ...

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Recording

Test of Time Reissues Duke 'N' Bird by al Haig

Source: All About Jazz
October 17, 2008

Test of Time Records is proud to announce the remastered reissue of Al Haig's Duke 'N' Bird. his unique solo piano album recorded on May 6th 1976 at New York’s Vanguard Studios. It is being released now on CD for the first time in the U.S. Al Haig was born in Newark, New Jersey on July 22, 1924. Starting early as a boy, he played piano, harp and clarinet. He started concentrating on the piano when ...

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Obituary

William J. Claxton, 80; Made 'Jazz for the Eyes'

Source: All About Jazz
October 17, 2008

As the premier chronicler of West Coast jazz, photographer William Claxton took his subjects out of the shadows and into the light. Instead of posing musicians such as Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins in dark, seedy-looking clubs, wreathed in cigarette smoke, he photographed them on golden beaches, riding on carousels, strolling in the Mojave Desert, emerging from the ocean cradling a trumpet. Mr. Claxton, who worked in a style he called “jazz for the eyes," died Oct. 11 ...

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Education

Northwestern Jazzes up Its Faculty

Source: All About Jazz
October 17, 2008

Remember that famous scene in “Citizen Kane," in which the title character decides he wants to have an all-star newspaper staff—and hires one, en masse? The musical equivalent unfolded Monday night at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, where Northwestern University's Bienen School of Music unveiled its all-star jazz faculty—newly hired, en masse. Suddenly, Northwestern's jazz department, which never commanded much of a national profile, was reaching for the big leagues. And though it obviously takes more than a high-powered faculty to build ...

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