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Dekel Bor Trio performing Tonight at Charley O's

Source: All About Jazz
December 5, 2006

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Vadim Neselovskyi @ Philadelphia's Chris' Jazz Cafe on December 9, 2006

Source: All About Jazz
December 5, 2006

Best known from work with Gary Burton's New Generations, pianist Vadim Neselovskyi and his group will perform at Chris' Jazz Cafe on December 9th.

Neselovskyi grew up in Odessa, Ukraine and moved to Dortmund, Germany as a teenager. His early interests included classical music and while living in Germany, he discovered jazz. A graduate of Berklee College of Music, Neselovski currently resides in Brooklyn, NY.

His quintet features Amanda Baisinger, voice, Matt Shulman on trumpet, Oleg Osenkov on bass and ...

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Updated Stone (NYC) Schedule: December 6-10

Source: All About Jazz
December 5, 2006

Due to ill health, Lol Coxhill could not fly here this week for his sets at The Stone. Lol had a hip operation earlier this year, has been having hearing problems as of late and fears not being able to play well or at all when he was to arrive in New York earlier today. We all wish him well and a speedy recovery.

The new schedule for The Stone this week is as follows:

* Tuesday, December 5th at ...

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Oboist Kyle Bruckmann Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
December 5, 2006

Anyone who has heard intrepid oboist Kyle Bruckmann would not be surprised to hear he recently recorded some tracks with experimental metal act Oxbow. Nor that, in order to make a living he works as an orchestral musician.

Anyone who hasn't heard his own records (including his latest, Intents and Purposes) and is of an adventurous disposition is missing out on an artist who is taking his instrument to truly new and wonderful places.

AAJ contributor James Taylor spoke with ...

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SFJAZZ Records Announces The Release of SFJAZZ Collective Live 2006: 3rd Annual Concert Tour

Source: Marshall Lamm Promotions & Public Relations
December 5, 2006

All-star ensemble's latest limited, numbered edition release features all new original repertoire and the music of Herbie Hancock SFJAZZ Collective Live 2006 Bobby Hutcherson - vibraphone & marimba Joshua Redman - saxophones (artistic director) Nicholas Payton - trumpet Miguel Zenn - alto saxophone Andre Hayward - trombone Renee Rosnes - piano Matt Penman - bass Eric Harland - drums

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Jazz Pianist George Kahn Holds Jazz Fundraiser for the Homeless

Source: All About Jazz
December 5, 2006

PERFORMANCE SET FOR TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 19th, 2006

Los Angeles--Jazz Pianist George Kahn returns to the new CATALINA BAR & GRILL with a holiday performance benefiting PATH VENTURES: People Assisting The Homeless - Ventures, Tuesday evening, December 19th, at 8:30 PM.

The George Kahn Quintet will feature George on piano, Justo Almario on sax, Ramon Flores on trumpet, Karl Vincent on bass and M. B. Gordy on drums. In addition, Special Guest Vocalists, The Wright Combination, will add their singing ...

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Hot Stride Piano by 22-Year-Old French Pianist at Shutters Cafe Dec 16

Source: Daniel Kassell - Authentic Marketing
December 5, 2006

Hot Stride Piano

“Little Fats"

Jean-Baptiste Franc - piano supported by Australian drummer Adam Pache

Saturday, December 16, 2006, 8pm - 12:00am

Harlem Stride Piano style with tributes James.P.Johnson, Fats Waller and Sidney Bechet.

From 10pm an All-Star Band of Swing-Jazz Improvisers have been invited

JEAN-BAPTISTE “Little Fats" FRANC - A 22-year-old Stride Pianist whose influences are Fats Waller, James P. Johnson and Donald “The Lamb" Lambert, an almost unknown but well recognized genius, who Duke Ellington and Count Basie ...

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HighNote Records Signs Trumpeter Tom Harrell To Multi-Disc Deal

Source: MFA - Mitchell Feldman Associates
December 4, 2006

(New York City Dec. 4, 2006) HighNote Records today announced the signing of acclaimed jazz trumpeter Tom Harrell to a multi-disc contract. Harrell, who received a Grammy nomination in 1999 for his big band recording Time's Mirror was voted Best Trumpeter in both the 1996 Downbeat Critics and Readers Polls and the Jazz Times Reader's Poll of 1997. The trumpeter is scheduled to begin recording at Rudy Van Gelder Studios on December 5th with his current band consisting of saxophonist ...

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