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Source: All About Jazz
May 14, 2008

Walking Bassline Part 1 and Part 2 Listen to virtually any jazz recording and you will hear it: the quarter note bassline walking up and down the scale providing both rhythm and harmony. This is the walking bassline and it is one of the defining elements of jazz. Playing a walking bassline over any set of changes is an essential skill not only for every bass player but for every pianist too. You will use the walking bassline in duos ...

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Hilario Duran Trio: Tour Canada 2008

Source: All About Jazz
May 14, 2008

Montreal, Quebec, CANADA - Cuban-Canadian pianist/ALMA Records recording artist Hilario Duran will lead the Hilario Duran Trio on a cross Canada tour, summer and fall of 2008. The Hilario Duran Trio will perform at this country's major jazz festivals and venues from coast to coast. This is the debut national tour as a leader for Hilario Duran, a multi award winning and internationally acclaimed Cuban-Latin jazz pianist, composer, arranger, bandleader and educator. The Hilario Duran Trio features the highly acclaimed ...

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Bassist Hugh Hopper Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
May 13, 2008

Hugh Hopper started out on his path through music as a stalwart of the British Canterbury scene, from which came bands including Soft Machine, of which Hopper was a member for five years, Caravan and Hatfield and The North. In a sense he's embodied the music which emerged from that scene, which might be best described as an idiosyncratic take on jazz-rock fusion. Any pigeonholing this might imply does him an injustice however, as it takes no account of his ...

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Dizzy Gillespie's Career CD

Source: All About Jazz
May 13, 2008

Dizzy Gillespie is the greatest post-war musician never to make a truly great album. Career: 1937-1992 (2 Disc Set)

Before bebop, of course, musicians did not make “albums", but merely 78 RPM singles. They recorded these “sides" in batches certainly, but they were not conceived of as groups of songs, and so the great recordings of Armstrong, Ellington, and Hawkins were released piecemeal and today are collected in anthologies that we think of as “great albums." But Dizzy ...

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Eagles Long Road Out of Eden Tour

Source: All About Jazz
May 13, 2008

Eagles Long Road Out of Eden Tour

Rock and Roll Hall of Famers, the Eagles, will return this summer for their “Long Road Out of Eden" World Tour. With five number one singles and four number one albums, the Eagles were among the most successful recording artists of the 1970s; at the end of the 20th century, two of those albums, Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975) and Hotel California, ranked among the ten best-selling albums ever, according to the ...

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Wynton Marsalis Plays the Hollywood Bowl

Source: All About Jazz
May 13, 2008

Jazz AT The Bowl (JZ1)

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchastra with Wynton Marsalis and Special Guest Natalie Cole. Hollywood Bowl July 9th.

The New Orleans trumpet king and his ultra-swinging jazz orchestra will delight with foot stompin' standards, Ellington-inspired arrangements and rousing improvisations. It's jazz at its finest. Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra

The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO), comprising 15 of the finest jazz soloists and ensemble players today, has been the Jazz at Lincoln Center resident orchestra ...

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Julio Santillan Trio at Babouche - May 25

Source: All About Jazz
May 13, 2008

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DeeAnne Gorman Jazz Duo Appears in Peter Chelnik's "East Coast Jazz Poetry Explosion"

Source: All About Jazz
May 13, 2008

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