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Performance / Tour

Band Plays All That Jazz: Marsalis' Choices Are Not All Traditional

Source: All About Jazz
January 14, 2008

When the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis comes to Ann Arbor on Wednesday, it will be a homecoming of sorts for one member of the ensemble: Drummer Ali Jackson grew up in Detroit and graduated from Cass Tech High School in 1993. Jackson says some members of his family plan to attend the Hill Auditorium performance, but he's not making any plans for a leisurely evening visit. “No, we're usually in and out of town pretty quickly ...

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Event

Armen Nalbandian Meets Jean-Michel Basquiat at the Fresno Art Museum on March 20th

Source: All About Jazz
January 14, 2008

Performance / Tour

Jazz Showcase Fever Propels a Mini Marathon

Source: Michael Ricci
January 14, 2008

The Winter Jazzfest, now in its fourth year at the Knitting Factory, is one of the necessary gigs to attend on the New York jazz scene. With nine hours of music and 24 bands from all over the place gathered into one building, it's pure cosmopolitan overload. It's open to the public, yet half the concertgoers seem to be there on the job. Its reason for being is the annual conference of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, the people ...

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Performance / Tour

Frank Senior Gig at St. Nick's Pub on January 17th, 10pm

Source: All About Jazz
January 14, 2008

Music Industry

Jazz Drummer Saw Career Fade; Now He's Back

Source: All About Jazz
January 13, 2008

Eric Kamau Gravatt made do as prison guard for 20 years At age 21, Eric Kamau Gravatt was McCoy Tyner's drummer, one of the most coveted jobs a jazz musician could hope to get. After 20 years of working as a prison guard, he's back behind the kit -- again as Tyner's drummer. “My career started with a telephone call. McCoy called me to play," Gravatt, now 60, said. “My career stopped just as easily when the telephone didn't ring ...

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Event

Oscar Peterson: A Grand Goodbye to a Jazz Giant

Source: All About Jazz
January 13, 2008

They began to gather in the quiet hours before dawn, fans ready to swell with praise once more in a dulcet adieu to the late, great Oscar Peterson Derek Giles considers himself to be Oscar Peterson's biggest fan. He surely demonstrated that yesterday, showing up in the dark hours before dawn to be the first person in line to attend the memorial concert held in the jazz giant's memory at Roy Thomson Hall. “I've been an Oscar Peterson fan since ...

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Festival

Contemporary Rock Star David Gray to Perform Live in Dubai, on the Night of February 29th at the Skywards Dubai International Jazz Festival 2008!

Source: All About Jazz
January 13, 2008

The countdown has begun to the 6th Annual Skywards Dubai International Jazz Festival 2008; the event that is easily going to surpass anything that has been seen or heard in Dubai Media City Amphitheater! Don't Miss the artist of a very different kind - Pop idol David Gray who is set to appear for the first time at the most popular event in the region “Skywards Dubai International Jazz Festival" organized by Chillout Productions for the 6th year in a ...

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