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New AAJ Advertising Rates

Source: All About Jazz
June 9, 2007

All About Jazz now offers banner advertising options on a CPM (cost per thousand impressions) basis.

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All 728x90 pixel ads are sold on a CPM (cost per thousand impressions) basis and our current rate is US$1.00/CPM. 500,000 above the fold banner impressions are served for $500 (below the fold impressions are also included, but not counted).

AAJ will furnish you with a click-thru report at the end of your campaign. We will ...

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"Broadway Swings" Sundays at 7 PM at the Iridium Jazz Club

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
June 9, 2007

BARRY LEVITT Presents “Broadway Swings" At the IRIDIUM JAZZ CLUB 1650 BROADWAY (Corner of 51st) NEW YORK, NY 10023 RESERVATIONS: 212-582-2121 Sundays at 7pm- $20.00 Cover, $15 Minimum: Legendary Broadway performers performing Broadway material in a casual jazz setting. A one hour performance with the Barry Levitt Trio. JUNE 10th: EUGENE FLEMING JUNE 17th: TBA June 24: BJ CROSBY July ...

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The Jazz Session Live from the Rochester International Jazz Festival

Source: All About Jazz
June 9, 2007

Jason Crane is bringing The Jazz Session to the Rochester International Jazz Festival from June 8-16. Jason will be podcasting and moblogging (live audio blogging) all week from the festival. Tune in for reviews and interviews. It's almost like being there! And if you're there, it's almost like being backstage!

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About the show: The Jazz Session

The Jazz Session is a jazz interview podcast featuring conversations with musicians, writers, broadcasters, podcasters and more. ...

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Chuck D & Randy Jackson to Host "50 Years of Stax" Benefit June 22 in Memphis

Source: conqueroo
June 9, 2007

Isaac Hayes, Booker T & the MGs, Eddie Floyd, William Bell, Mavis Staples, Mable John, the Soul Children, Angie Stone and more confirmed to appear

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - In an unparalleled celebration of Stax Records' 50th anniversary, the heart and soul of the legendary label's lineup will reunite onstage for “50 Years of Stax: A Concert To Benefit the Stax Museum of American Soul Music." The event will be held Friday, June 22 at Memphis' historic Orpheum Theater at the ...

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Shout! Factory Prepares Vee-Jay Records Box Set

Source: conqueroo
June 9, 2007

Deluxe four-CD box set with extensive liner notes features such Vee-Jay Records hitmakers as Jimmy Reed, John Lee Hooker, The Four Seasons, Jerry Butler & the Impressions, The Staple Singers, Betty Everett, Little Richard, Billy Preston, Gene Chandler, Rosco Gordon, J.B. Lenoir, Joe Simon, The El Dorados, The Dells, Jimmy Hughes, The Spaniels and more

LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Vee-Jay Records was the first successful African-American-owned record company. At various times in its 13-year tenure, it was bigger than Motown ...

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Blue Note Set to Release "Charles Mingus Sextet with Eric Dolphy" on July 17, 2007

Source: All About Jazz
June 8, 2007

Imagine the excitement that would be generated by the discovery of previously unknown masterpieces--an Orson Welles film, a Shakespeare tragedy, a Van Gogh landscape or Beethoven's Tenth Symphony. For those who hold the Jazz Art in equal esteem, Blue Note's Charles Mingus Sextet With Eric Dolphy: Cornell 1964, a truly spectacular never-before-released performance by one of the composer/bassist/visionary's most outstanding ensembles, should provoke that same kind of exhilaration. Losing a giant like Mingus at the young age of 56 in ...

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Blue Note Set to Release "Floratone" on August 14, 2007

Source: All About Jazz
June 8, 2007

A studio collaboration between drummer Matt Chamberlain, guitarist Bill Frisell, and producers Tucker Martine & Lee Townsend

While collaborative improvisation serves as the ethos of the jazz idiom, the projects that soar beyond the tradition--where the end product is monumentally greater than the sum of the parts--are rare indeed. They are even rarer when an artist gives creative reign to a producer to imagine and construct evocative soundscapes from source material. The first and inarguably the most potent artist-producer team ...

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Fulton Street Mall Kicks Off Second Annual Fulton Street Beat Concert Series in Downtown Brooklyn

Source: All About Jazz
June 8, 2007

Free Outdoor Concerts Showcase Music from the Caribbean, Latin America and New Orleans BROOKLYN, N.Y. - The Fulton Mall Improvement Association (FMIA) hosts its second year of free, outdoor concerts at Albee Square in Downtown Brooklyn. The series premieres July 7 with music from Latin America, featuring Quimbombo and Willie Villegas y Entre Amigos. The August 18 concert brings music from New Orleans to Fulton Street Mall, featuring the Jambalaya Brass Band and the Dixie Rascals. The series ends September ...

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