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Discover "Related Artists" at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
June 9, 2008

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Pianist/Los Gauchos Leader Guillermo Klein Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
June 9, 2008

Argentine pianist, composer, and bandleader Guillermo Klein is a musician for the global age. He grew up in Buenos Aires, studied in Boston, made his name in New York, returned home for two years, and then relocated to Barcelona. His wife is American; his children are Spanish. His most famous band, Los Guachos, has an international cast that has included the likes of Miguel Zenon, Chris Cheek, Bill McHenry, Luciana Souza, and Jeff Ballard, and features an adventurous genre-defying sound. ...

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Breaking: Beck Tonight at Echo

Source: All About Jazz
June 9, 2008

Beck Performs Secret Show at The Echo in Los Angeles TONIGHT!

Singer Beck is playing a secret show at the Los Angles Echo Park club The ECHO the Times is reporting, lost in it's pages.For more information contatc the club or take your chances.

BE THERE OR BE SQUARE!

ECHO 1822 W Sunset Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90026 (Echo Park) (213) 413-8200 TONIGHT (Monday for those who don't know what ...

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Returning to Forever Was Easy for Bassist

Source: All About Jazz
June 9, 2008

Although 25 years had passed since he had played with the pioneering jazz-fusion group Return to Forever, bass virtuoso Stanley Clarke had only one fleeting moment of doubt about reuniting. “I usually don't think too much about, 'Wow, is this music going to work?' “ Clarke says of the reunion tour that brings him, co-founder Chick Corea and Return to Forever to Phoenix on Saturday. “But I will say one thing: About 10 minutes before we played (the first rehearsal), ...

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Birth of the Cool Doesn't Come Cheap

Source: All About Jazz
June 9, 2008

Belden's Miles From India was a labour of love Mixing jazz and Indian music is a bit like putting ketchup on your curry, according to the man behind the new album Miles From India: A Celebration of the Music of Miles Davis. The two do blend well, but few would think to combine them. Davis memorably did on 1972's On the Corner, an album that producer Bob Belden recently repackaged and recomposed, and that got Belden thinking. The self-described “producer, ...

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Acoustic Alchemy at Blair Mansion in Silver Spring, MD on Saturday, June 14th

Source: All About Jazz
June 9, 2008

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iPhone 2.0 & 3G Unveiled

Source: All About Jazz
June 9, 2008

Steve Jobs did something never before seen in the history of Apple: He unveiled a cutting-edge product that's relatively cheap. The iPhone 3G handles data at nearly three times the speed of its predecessor, and has built-in, always-on global positioning via satellite, but costs $199 $400 less than the original iPhone, unveiled almost a year ago. The phone will be available in the U.S. and 21 other countries on July 11; within a few months of that, the phone will ...

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New Jazz Piano Works for Ivan Ilic at Carnegie

Source: AMT Public Relations
June 9, 2008

Paris-based American pianist Ivan Ilic completes his critically acclaimed worldwide tour of mesmerizing piano recitals featuring young American composers. Ilic showcases the world premiere of The Story of Jazz by composer/music theorist Dmitri Tymoczko; the New York premiere of Bgi Wgi by Argentine-American composer Fernando Benadon; Afterglow by Keeril Makan, Assistant Professor of MIT; Reservoir by Donnacha Dennehy; and eight of Debussy's Preludes from Book 2. Oscillating from an ebullient be-bop to a simple pentatonic melody, The Story of Jazz ...

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