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Drummer Karl Latham Releases "Resonance" - Free Download at AAJ!

Source: All About Jazz
June 6, 2007

Drummer Karl Latham is a classic Gemini who has performed around the globe in almost every musical genre imaginable; with jazz masters Claudio Roditi, John Lee, Slide Hampton, Jon Faddis and Clark Terry, modern jazz masters Mark Egan, Michal Urbaniak and Don Braden, rockers Johnny Winter and Edgar Winter, as well as, European jazz artists Wolfgang Lackerschmid, Hendrik Meurkens and Johannes Mssinger.

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Resonance, Latham's second solo release, encompasses his diverse experiences culminating in a ...

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URB ALT Festival Harps on Alice Coltrane June 9th at Harlem School of the Arts with Res, the Exit, Muthawit Orchestra, Tenderhead, Brandee Younger and Others

Source: 4961 Polemics
June 6, 2007

Harlem, NY - June 6. The URB ALT Festival 2007 launch brings alternative music/film uptown Saturday, June 9th at the Harlem School of the Arts. Opening day features the pop-rock soulful ambience of Res; the socially incisive post rock of the Exit; the cosmic big band explorations of the MuthaWit Orchestra; he soul laced protorock melodicism of Tenderhead; the experimental violin/laptop shenanigans of Jahlili Rawkstraw; the polyphonic harp virtuosity of Brandee Younger; and the soulful tobacco-road paved electronica of Shanti ...

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Jimmy Heath Big Band and the Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All-Star Quintet Headline the Kingston Jazz Festival June 29, 30 and July 1 2007

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
June 6, 2007

Kingston International Jazz Festival THE JIMMY HEATH BIG BAND AND THE DIZZY GILLESPIE ALUMNI ALLSTAR QUINTET FEATURING SLIDE HAMPTON TO HEADLINE THE KINGSTON JAZZ FESTIVAL KINGSTON INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL 2007 June 29, 30 and July 1 2007 Kingston, New York ALL EVENTS ARE FREE - RAIN OR SHINE Produced by Planet Arts In association with the city of Kingston, New York Sponsored by The Entergy Corporation And supported by a grant from ...

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Bethel Woods Concert Series Set for August 4 with the Dave Brubeck Quartet, Earl Klugh, and Randy Crawford/Joe Sample

Source: All About Jazz
June 6, 2007

Evening of JAZZ at BETHEL WOODS featuring DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET RANDY CRAWFORD & JOE SAMPLE EARL KLUGH Saturday, August 4, 6:30pm DOORS OPEN AT 5:00 PM TICKETS ON-SALE Monday, June 11 at 10AM Ticket prices: $59.50, $35.00 Reserved and $25.00 Lawn Ticket prices, dates, times and acts subject to change without notice. All ticket prices plus applicable service charges. Charge-by-phone at (845) 454-3388. In person at Ticketmaster outlets, Steve's Music Center, Exit 109 Rock ...

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Live@courthouse Keeps the Jazz Festival Spirit Alive

Source: All About Jazz
June 6, 2007

To help cap off what will surely be another successful edition of the TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz Festival, Live@Courthouse is pleased to announce a series of concerts featuring Mina Agossi, Cowboy Junkies, Bryan Lee and Bill Frisell coming this July!

The TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz Festival officially wraps things up on Canada Day, July 1, but in the first of four post-festival concerts, Live@Courthouse presents French Beninese singer, Mina Agossi on Monday, July 2. To describe Agossi's style ...

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The Jazz Explorers - The Global Response Continues to Build

Source: All About Jazz
June 6, 2007

"This is one of the finest releases of 2007 .... outstanding artists ... Just fantastic!" Jacques Emond, CKCU-FM Ottawa, CA

“I have had great pleasure in playing almost every track of this superb recording on my national jazz Program “Jazz Hour" [broadcast nationally to 180 stations in Australia]...strong composition and arrangement ... superb musicianship...what a treat the two vocals by Carmen Lundy were! She is a great singer and George Cables piano is unique and full of power as usual ...

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Jazz Revelation Records Presents the Kendall Square Concert Series, June 7 - September 13, and Harborwalk Sounds: Berklee at the Ica, June 14 - August 23

Source: All About Jazz
June 6, 2007

Free Live Music on Thursdays at Noon and at 6:00 P.M BOSTON, MA - Jazz Revelation Records presents the 3rd Annual Kendall Square Concert Series, and is collaborating for the first time with the Institute of Contemporary Art to present Harborwalk Sounds: Berklee at the ICA. Both series offer FREE live music on Thursdays throughout the summer (complete schedule of dates and times below). Artists include Berklee student and alumni jazz, world, Latin, and r&b musicians, some of whom are ...

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Sara Gazarek's "Let's Try This Again" Free MP3 Tops 1000 Downloads on First Day!

Source: All About Jazz
June 6, 2007

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