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Music Industry

A Displaced Jazz Musician Rebuilds in New York

Source: Michael Ricci
November 22, 2007

The musical Prince of New Orleans has been touring New York in vagabond shoes. “I've been walking around at night looking at all the clubs and the restaurants, just trying to figure out a new beginning for myself," said Davell Crawford, 32, sitting on a piano bench recently at Roth's Westside Steakhouse on the Upper West Side, where he practices. “I'm just thankful to be given another chance in a great city like this, a chance to fit in somewhere ...

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Festival

London Jazz Festival: We All Love Ella / Charlie Hunter / Gerard Presencer

Source: All About Jazz
November 22, 2007

"I didn't want it to end," a woman in front of me was saying to her friend as the London jazz festival's We All Love Ella opening show wound up on a vocal-relay race through A Tisket a Tasket that threatened to blow the packed Festival Hall into the street. I did. I wanted to get up to the West End to catch Charlie Hunter, the fearsome American avant-funk guitarist, and maybe get the word on double-bass legend Charlie Haden's ...

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Interview

Singer Susie Arioli Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
November 22, 2007

This summer, AAJ contributor Mary Ann Lacey interviewed Susie Arioli before and after her closing concert for the 2007 Montreal International Jazz Festival. Arioli and her partner, Jordan Officer, make up the core of the Susie Arioli Band, whose gentle jazz and swing ballads have enraptured audiences across the country and abroad since their start in 1997. Arioli sings in a soft but clear voice while playing brushes on the snare drum. Her repertoire includes jazz tunes like “Pennies from ...

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Performance / Tour

Sam Yahel Trio with Lionel Loueke and Francisco Mela at the Jazz Standard, November 27-28

Source: All About Jazz
November 21, 2007

Sam Yahel Trio Sam Yahel - organ Lionel Loueke - guitar (27th) Peter Bernstein - guitar (28th) Francisco Mela - drums The Jazz Standard New York, NY November 27-28th Sets at 7:30pm and 9:30pm $20

Free MP3 Download Saba Sam Yahel From Truth And Beauty 7:53 One of the most distinctive voices ...

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Event

Nine Bands Ready to Rumble in Detroit Blues Challenge Finals "Big Dance" This Weekend

Source: Just Roots PR
November 21, 2007

Largest Regional Competition Of Its Type In The World To Determine Very Best In Detroit

All nine of the preliminary rounds are now complete for the 2007 Detroit Blues Challenge and the nine finalists are prepared to do battle this coming Sunday, November 25, 2007. The nine preliminary rounds make the Detroit Blues Challenge the largest regional competition of it type in the world. The Detroit Blues Society is proud to sponsor and host these prestigious competitions each and every ...

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