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TV / Film

Gemini Soul w/ Ajamu Akinyele "Live" - Cyber Jazz on December 16th, 19th, 23rd & 26th

Source: All About Jazz
December 15, 2006

WLTV Channel 26 (Comcast Cable) to broadcast Cyber Jazz recording artists Gemini Soul w/ Ajamu Akinyele “Live"

Gemini Soul featuring Ajamu Akinyele “Live" on WLTV Saturday - December 16, 2006 @ 1 PM Tuesday - December 19, 2006 @ 6 PM Saturday - December 23, 2006 @ 1 PM Tuesday - December 26, 2006 @ 6 PM

WLTV Channel 26 (Comcast Cable) Broadcasting Area: Oakland, CA; Emeryville, CA; ...

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Performance / Tour

Russ Lorenson returns to New York with his tribute to Tony Bennett

Source: RL Productions
December 15, 2006

Russ Lorenson returns to New York City with his acclaimed show, Benedetto/Blessed: A Tribute to the Life and Music of Tony Bennett, for two performances only, at The Hideaway Room at Helen's, 169 Eighth Avenue, New York City, NY 10011. The shows are being presented as official Showcase events as part of the 50th Annual Members Conference of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP), to be held January 19-23, 2007 in New York City. The ...

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Event

Pioneers of Rock'n'Roll, Rhythm & Blues and American Roots Music to Perform at Ponderosa Stomp in New Orleans in 2007

Source: All About Jazz
December 15, 2006

Annual roots romp to take place May 2nd at House of Blues

NEW ORLEANS, LA - December 14, 2006 - After a year in exile in Memphis, the 6th Annual Ponderosa Stomp, a music festival that celebrates and pays tribute to the unsung heroes of rock 'n roll, rhythm & blues, and other forms of American roots music, will return home to New Orleans on Wednesday, May 2, 2007 at the House of Blues from 6 p.m. - 2 a.m. ...

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Recording

Art Pepper: Unreleased Art Vol. 1

Source: All About Jazz
December 15, 2006

Art Pepper: Unreleased Art Vol. 1

The Complete Abashiri Concert

VOLUME 1 is a two disc set, a complete concert performed in Abashiri, in Northern Japan, in the snowy winter of 1981 for an audience who showered Art and the guys with uncommon enthusiasm and wild love. They responded with a performance that seems to levitate with energy. You get to be there and hear Art declare this performance of “Body and Soul" “one of the best things I ever ...

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Recording

Steve Lacy At The New Jazz Meeting Baden-Baden 2002 on hatOLOGY 631

Source: All About Jazz
December 15, 2006

Radio

Go Dodo With Freedom Jazz Dance This Sunday

Source: All About Jazz
December 15, 2006

Hear the great Dodo Marmarosa and more on Freedom Jazz Dance---modern jazz from bebop to freebop and beyond---on 90.1 FM WDCE and live stream at www.wdce.org. Show time is 5-7 PM. This week I'll also be featuring selections from seminal bebop pianist Dodo Marmarosa, pianist Poul Reiman, alto saxist Steve Coleman and his Five Elements, Sonny Clark and a little tribute to the late, great Jay McShann who passed away recently at the age of 90.

Call in at 804-289-UR90 ...

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Performance / Tour

Sean Noonan's Brewed By Noon American Composers Forum premiere w/ Marc Ribot, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Mat Maneri, Abdoulaye Diabate, Susan McKeown etc.

Source: All About Jazz
December 15, 2006

NOONAN'S BREWED BY NOON DELIVERS A RICH BLEND OF TRADITIONS ON STORIES TO TELL

Songlines Debut from NY-based Drummer Fuses Jazz-Punk, Rock, Blues with Celtic and West African Rhythms

Speaking of his Brewed by Noon project, which will release its new CD, Stories To Tell, on January 9, 2007, drummer Sean Noonan describes it as “tribal rhythms by an Irish griot". “My goal is to adapt folklore in a modern jazz context, merging storytelling and folk music from bardic and ...

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Recording

Colin Vallon Trio : Ailleurs on hatOLOGY 636

Source: All About Jazz
December 15, 2006

Colin Vallon Trio : Ailleurs on hatOLOGY 636

Colin Vallon - piano, prepared piano Pat Moret - double bass Samuel Rohrer - drums

The members of this trio all share a strong awareness of sound quality and timbre, which sets them apart from other musicians. Three distinct instrumental voices - Colin Vallon's singing piano, Pat Moret's full reverberating bass and Samuel Rohrer's polyvalent drums - blend into a highly complex ensemble sound; here, too, ...

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