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Reissue of Miles Davis' 'Kind of Blue' Reignites the Debate: Greatest Jazz Record Ever?

Source: All About Jazz
September 28, 2008

Kind of Blue was just 3 years old in 1962, but Miles Davis was already fed up with the spotlight that album and its successors were shining on him.

“It bugs me, because I'm not that important," the trumpeter told Playboy. “Why is it that people have so much to say about me?"If he were alive, the grumpy genius probably wouldn't be happy about the lavish 50th birthday party being given to Kind of Blue, which comes out Tuesday as ...

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Grammy Award Winning Guitarist Martin Taylor Comes to Tour the USA

Source: All About Jazz
September 28, 2008

Grammy Award winning guitarist Martin Taylor brings his new album Double Standards and tour to the USA for his first major tour of the country in years. The legendary British guitarist is to play a series of intimate concerts throughout October starting in Lincroft and ending in Chicago. 12.10.2008 - USA, Lincroft - Brookdale Community College (Martin Taylor) 14.10.2008 - USA, Annapolis - Rams Head (Martin Taylor) 15.10.2008 - USA, Washington - Inter-American Series of Concerts, ...

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Guitarist Vernon Neilly's Tribute to Stevie Wonder

Source: All About Jazz
September 28, 2008

Smoothie Award winning jazz guitarist Vernon Neilly’s new CD - featuring the Legendary Hit Maker Stevie Wonder’s music - is chocked full of Wonder’s hit songs and has got to be one of the best Tribute CDs I’ve heard in a long while. The album reeks of Pure Class. Vernon has out done himself with the arrangements, recording, and engineering of this sweet music. The record label owner and producer has taken those celebrated hits and has made them flawlessly ...

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Tony Middleton at Enzo's Jazz on October 22

Source: All About Jazz
September 28, 2008

Jazz Vocalist & Lead Singer of the Willows At Enzo's Jazz at the Jolly Madison Towers Wednesday, October 22, 2008 8:00pm & 9.30pm Tony Middleton will be performing at: Enzo's Jazz at the Jolly 22 East 38th Street New York, NY 10036 Reservations- 212-802-0600 Having sung for years as an R&B, Soul, and Jazz performer in New York, London, Paris, and more recently a tour in Wales, Tony is now singing with his pianist ...

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Enter the Brian Blade and The Fellowship Band 3-CD Discography Giveaway Contest

Source: All About Jazz
September 27, 2008

All About Jazz members are invited to enter the Brian Blade and The Fellowship Band 3-CD Discography giveaway contest starting today. We'll select one lucky winner at the conclusion of the contest on October 27th. Click here to enter the contest

All contestants will join the Brian Blade @ AAJ fan network and one winner will be chosen from that list.

Good luck!

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All About Jazz Tops 19,000 Alexa.com Ranking

Source: All About Jazz
September 27, 2008

All About Jazz's Alexa.com rating has eclipsed 19,000 making it one of the highest ranked websites in the world. With a current ranking of 18,892, AAJ has surpassed nearly 1,000 websites since June 18, 2008. To put AAJ's position into perspective, the closest jazz sites have rankings anywhere from 270,000 to 765,000. As a publicist, what does Alexa.com mean to you? As a publicist, you can benefit from downloading the free Alexa.com toolbar (for IE and Firefox users only) and ...

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Boz Scaggs Performs at McCallum Theatre

Source: All About Jazz
September 27, 2008

Boz Scaggs will appear at the McCallum Theatre in Palm Desert, California, on Friday, October 10, 2008, at 8:00pm. The 10th Anniversary season of the Fitz's Jazz Cafe series at the McCallum Theatre opens with Boz Scaggs. One of music's most creative and original artists, Boz Scaggs has combined rock, jazz, R&B, and blues to create a trademark sound, evident in such hits as “Lowdown, “ “Look What You've Done to Me, “ and “Lido Shuffle." Boz Scaggs grew up ...

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McCabe's Guitar Shop Performers Play a Dedication

Source: Michael Ricci
September 27, 2008

Performers have found more than instruments and audiences over the years at McCabe's.

Most Southland music fans know McCabe's Guitar Shop for the innumerable folk, country, blues, jazz and world-music concerts presented over the decades in the tiny back stockroom that can hold about 150 folding chairs when all the instrument cases are shoved out of the way.

But in 1958, Gerald McCabe opened the doors on Pico Boulevard in Santa Monica intending to focus on furniture design and restoration. ...

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