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Festival

Special Guests on "Piano Jazz at Tanglewood" with Marian McPartland

Source: All About Jazz
June 10, 2008

The Boston Symphony Orchestra has announced the addition of vocalists Nnenna Freelon and Spencer Day, and pianist, Mulgrew Miller to the 2008 Tanglewood Jazz Festival lineup. They will be the special guests of Marian McPartland for the live taping of “Piano Jazz" for NPR in celebration of Ms. McPartland's 90th birthday on August 29-31, 2008. Returning again this year is the popular Jazz Cafe, an informal, cabaret style venue that features emerging talent. This year's artists in the Jazz Cafe ...

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Performance / Tour

Eliot Zigmund Quartet at Small's NYC

Source: All About Jazz
June 10, 2008

Performance / Tour

Beck's Secret Perfomance at L.A.'s Club Echo

Source: All About Jazz
June 10, 2008

Beck did a secret show at The Echo in L.A. last night, performing five new songs off of his forthcoming album Modern Guilt. He also played some from his collection of hits, but no “Loser." Word circulated around town, even made a small notice in the Times that Beck Hansen, better known as the singer/guitarist Beck returned to one of his haunts the club Echo. Seems these intimate “secret shows" at the Echo that Beck had in the past few ...

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Event

Spend Your Vacation with Rock Legends Wishbone Ash

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
June 10, 2008

It's fun for all and all for fun at Wishbone Ash fan convention at Florida resort Wishbone Ash, the ground-breaking British band that pioneered the melodic twin-lead guitar style which influenced the likes of Thin Lizzy and Iron Maiden, presents an opportunity for fans to enjoy four days of sun and fun with them at AshFest Florida 2008. Join Andy Powell, Bob Skeat, Muddy Manninen and Joe Crabtree from Sept. 4 through 7 at the Sandpiper Club Med in St. ...

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Recording

Concord Music Group Releases the 5th Historic Installment of the "Keepnews Collection"

Source: All About Jazz
June 10, 2008

Available Now, Classic Albums Reissue Series Produced By Jazz Legend Orrin Keepnews Coleman Hawkins: The Hawk Flies High (1957) Sonny Rollins: Freedom Suite (1958) Nat Adderley: Work Song (1960) Wes Montgomery: Incredible Jazz Guitar (1960) McCoy Tyner: Fly With The Wind (1976) Concord Music Group presents part five of its historic reissues series the “Keepnews Collection," which spotlights classic albums by jazz titans put on the map by the legendary ...

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Festival

Art of Jazz Celebration: Festival Was All About Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
June 10, 2008

Mark Kneeshaw learned to play the blues on the final day of the third annual Art of Jazz Celebration. The 40-year-old Toronto photographer was one of several adults who got an accelerated harmonica lesson at the Jazz For Juniors Clinic yesterday afternoon. Instructor Mike Stevens had promised that participants would learn to play four songs in an hour. “I'm a slow learner, I've got to practise," said Kneeshaw, who wound up being able to eke out a recognizable melody on ...

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Festival

All over the Map in Libbey Bowl

Source: Michael Ricci
June 10, 2008

Steve Reich returns to the Ojai Music Festival as a veteran iconoclast. OJAI -- Steve Reich, who came to Ojai in 1973 as a radical, returned over the weekend a sage. Same music. Same ambience. Some of the same people. Pretty much the same town. But very different times. The 62nd Ojai Music Festival began Thursday -- a warm, soft evening air and supernal sunset pink enveloping the outdoor Libbey Bowl -- with raucous urban sounds. It ended at dusk ...

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Performance / Tour

Lionel Loueke Trio Takes Jazz into Whole New World

Source: All About Jazz
June 10, 2008

Lionel Loueke gave Hartford its first taste of his trailblazing guitar-led trio Sunday at Sweet Jane's. The West African native enraptured a standing-room-only audience by blending cutting-edge jazz with traditional and popular sounds from his homeland. “Karibu," the title tune from Loueke's new Blue Note release (which means welcome in Swahili), opened the first set in a jaunty manner. The leader sang and played several choruses before being joined by bassist Massimo Biolcati and drummer Ferenc Nemeth. Loueke said the ...

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