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Performance / Tour

Detroit Orchestra Announces Jazz Series

Source: All About Jazz
June 13, 2008

Dave Brubeck: Thursday, October 16, 2008 at 8 p.m. Regarded as a genius in his field, the pianist, composer and bandleader wrote such jazz standards as “In Your Own Sweet Way" and “The Duke." Bruebeck was awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 2007 he was honored with a BBC Jazz “Lifetime Achievement Award." EARL KLUGH: Friday, November 7, 2008 at 8 p.m. A pioneer of contemporary jazz, his signature performance and composition styles have earned him 11 Grammy ...

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Festival

Return to Forever at Freihofer's Jazz Festival

Source: All About Jazz
June 13, 2008

Return to Forever to Perform at Freihofer's Jazz Festival at Saratoga Performing Arts Center Reunion of the Pioneering Jazz-Rock Fusion Band Led By Chick Corea, Al Di Meola, Stanley Clarke and Lenny White Heralded as Highlight of Summer 2008 Tour Season June 28-29 Festival Will Also Feature Superstar Lineup of Jazz Greats Including 2008 Grammy winner Terence Blanchard, Best-selling Trumpeter Chris Botti, Acclaimed Vocalist Dianne Reeves and More Saratoga Springs, NY - Among the highlights of the 31st Annual Freihofer's ...

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Event

E Dog Benefit for Detroit Sax Man

Source: JazzStage Productions
June 13, 2008

Although he was born in Cleveland and has lived in the San Francisco area for the past 12 years, Scott Petersen, ("E Dog" to everyone he knows) has always considered Detroit his musical home. This hardworking saxophone player is known and loved from coast to coast having played with many Detroit acts and renowned names such as Aretha Franklin and Dizzy Gillespie. One of the world's longest surviving adults with cystic fibrosis, he is now awaiting a double lung transplant. ...

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Event

Tuesdays on the Terrace: Fred Anderson at MCA's Terrace and Sculpture Garden

Source: All About Jazz
June 13, 2008

Tuesdays on the Terrace presents another inspiring season of free evening jazz concerts on the MCA's Terrace and Sculpture Garden. Hosted by local radio personalities, visitors are invited to enjoy cocktails, Puck's Express snacks, or a dinner buffet from Puck's Cafe while listening to Chicago's finest jazz musicians. Dinner reservations at Puck's are recommended, call 312.397.4034. In case of rain, the event takes place in Puck's. Tuesdays on the Terrace: Fred Anderson Tuesday, July 1 5:30 ...

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Event

Jazz Memorabilia Show in New York

Source: All About Jazz
June 13, 2008

Tons of rare jazz items will be available including records (LPs, 45 rpm, 78 rpm), sheet music, photographs, posters, books, magazines, jazz art, miscellaneous items. Records include traditional jazz of Bix Beiderbecke, Sidney Bechet and other early New Orleans innovators; blues artists such as Robert Johnson, Bessie Smith and Joe Turner; swing era big bands of Fletcher Henderson, Jimmie Lunceford, Chick Webb, Count Basie, Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman: bebop stars such as Charlie Parker and Miles Davis; later jazz ...

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Event

Reviews of Kidd Jordan at Vision Festival XIII

Source: Improvised Communications
June 13, 2008

Critics review the lifetime achievement celebration of Kidd Jordan in the New York Press, New York Sun and New York Times. The Vision Festival continues through Sunday night. About Kidd Jordan Edward Kidd Jordan's multi-faceted legacy is among of the most influential and enduring in the history of improvised music. An integral part of the seminal musical tapestry of New Orleans, he is the patriarch of one of the city's most respected musical families and his parallel careers as a ...

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Performance / Tour

Death Jazz @ The Roundhouse

Source: All About Jazz
June 13, 2008

Brownwood Presents Death Jazz @ The Roundhouse, 14th July 08 Courting controversy, that impish Radio 1 Worldwide DJ Gilles Peterson has just announced A Night Of Death Jazz at Camden's Roundhouse which will feature Tokyo's Soil & “Pimp" Sessions, The Mighty Jeddo and the Neil Cowley Trio, alongside musikal selectahs Toshio 'UFO' Matsuura, drum'n'bass don Fabio and GP himself. Tokyo's hi-rise renegades Soil & “Pimp" have long billed their local sessions as Death Jazz in the hope of alienating Japan's ...

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Performance / Tour

Ray Vega Latin Jazz Quintet to Perform July 8 at Free Jazzmobile Concert at Louis Armstrong House Museum

Source: All About Jazz
June 13, 2008

FLUSHING, NY -- Louis Armstrong was famous for practicing trumpet on his balcony to the delight of his neighbors in the decidedly working-class neighborhood of Corona, Queens. Continuing the tradition, the Louis Armstrong House Museum is pleased to present Ray Vega and his Latin Jazz Quintet on Tuesday, July 8 for the seventh edition of Jazzmobile at LAHM. Organized for the benefit of our neighbors and the general public, the event will run from 6 pm to 8 pm outside ...

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