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This is My Music, My Culture! - Vinyl Art Featured in Gallery Show in San Diego, CA

Source: All About Jazz
October 2, 2007

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Why Lee?: A Musical Scrapbook About Lee Wiley - The Metropolitan Room

Source: All About Jazz
October 2, 2007

LOIS WALDEN, BARRY KLEINBORT, PAUL GREENWOOD CAPTURE THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF AN ELUSIVE SONGBIRD THE METROPOLITAN ROOM NOVEMBER 1-5, 2007 Award-winning performers Lois Walden, Barry Kleinbort, and Paul Greenwood will tell the largely untold story of acclaimed and notoriously enigmatic American singer Lee Wiley while celebrating her enduring musical legacy in WHY LEE?: A MUSICAL SCRAPBOOK ABOUT LEE WILEY during a five-night engagement at The Metropolitan Room (34 West 22nd St. between 5th ...

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The Geri Allen Trio at the Village Vanguard Tuesday Through Sunday (October 2 - October 7) Sets at 9:00 & 11:00 PM

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
October 2, 2007

Geri Allen, piano; Kenny Davis, bass; Mr. Jimmy Cobb, drums Tuesday through Sunday (October 2 - October 7) at 9:00 & 11:00 PM Village Vanguard 178 7th Ave S New York, NY 10014 (212) 255-4037 Geri will be playing music from her current Telarc CD Timeless Portraits and Dreams “Timeless Portraits and Dreams" features: Geri Allen, piano; Ron Carter, bass; Jimmy Cobb, drums Wallace Roney, trumpet; Donald Walden, tenor saxophone ...

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This Week on JazzPianoOnline.com

Source: All About Jazz
October 2, 2007

The Blues Progression: Jazz piano students are always asking about the blues. What are the chords? What is the blues scale? How do I improvise over the changes? Well here are the answers. The basics of the blues progression are laid out in this lesson: blues form, major and minor blues chord progressions and the blues scale are covered. Learn how to use the blues scale to improvise over the blues progression by incorporating three effective improvisational techniques ...

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Jazz & R&B Artist, Darrius Willrich Comes to the Triple Door in Seattle

Source: All About Jazz
October 2, 2007

Neo-Soul/R&B and Jazz performer, Darrius Willrich, who is scheduled to headline the Main Stage at the Triple Door Theatre on Friday, October 5th, 2007 announced today that he and the Triple Door Theatre, along with an organization known as Retail Therapy (www.ineedretailtherapy.com) will donate $1 from every ticket purchased to that night's performance to the Jackson Street Music Business Academy in honor of World Teacher's Day.

Willrich and his full ensemble will headline the Triple Door for one show only. ...

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M'dears Monday Night Blues Jam Hosted by Bernie Pearl Going Strong After Four Years

Source: Teresa Conboy PR
October 2, 2007

For the past four years blues guitarist Bernie Pearl has hosted the Monday Night Blues Jam, 8:00 - 11:00 p.m. at M'Dears in Los Angeles on Western and 78th. Bernie's history goes back to working at his brother's legendary Ash Grove club where he learned how to play the blues directly from the masters themselves, sometimes even playing on stage with Lightnin' Hopkins, Big Mama Thornton, J.B. Hutto, Johnny Shines & Walter Horton, Koko Taylor, and Freddie King, among others. ...

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Chambers Brothers' Vault Blues Years Reissued on Collectors' Choice

Source: conqueroo
October 2, 2007

The Chambers Brothers will forever best be known for their 1968 hit “The Time Has Come Today" on Columbia Records. But long before they inked with CBS, the Mississippi-bred, California-weaned sibling band logged an extensive discography of bluesy soul recordings on Jack Lewark's L.A.-based indie Vault label, known primarily for the surf band the Challengers. On October 31, 2007, Collectors' Choice Music will reissue four out-of-print early Chambers Brothers albums: People Get Ready for the Chambers Brothers; Now; Shout!; and ...

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Drummer Alvin Queen Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
October 2, 2007

There are two types of great drummers in jazz, the impeccable time keepers and the ones who bring something more to both the instrument and the pieces/groups in which they appear. Alvin Queen is of the latter group, possessing a casual grace and instantly recognizable sound. He is in a direct line of artistic descendants from other great skin-men including Billy Higgins, Elvin Jones and Max Roach.

AAJ contributor Maxwell Chandler sat down with Queen to talk about his impressive ...

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