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Andy Stein's Blue Four at Midsummer Music with the Westchester Philharmonic

Source: All About Jazz
June 19, 2006

Andy Stein's Blue Four will perform jazz favorites at dusk during the first concert of the Midsummer Music with the Westchester Philharmonic series on Saturday, July 8, at Lasdon Park, Arboretum and Veterans Memorial in Somers.

The evening's program will feature Andy Stein's Blue Four performing classic ballads and jazz of the 1920s and '30s to the lesser known compositions by Ellington, Redman and Gershwin. Stein's group features Scott Robinson on reeds; Matt Munisteri on guitar; and Conal Fowkes on ...

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Jazzloft.com: Music for People Who Listen

Source: All About Jazz
June 19, 2006

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Bob Cranshaw: Celebrating An Unsung Hero

Source: All About Jazz
June 19, 2006

Bob Cranshaw has been the bassist of choice for Sonny Rollins since 1959. Their forty-seven-year collaboration is the subject of a new video on Sonny's website, “Bob Cranshaw and Sonny Rollins, The First Gig." Created by Bret Primack, it features interviews with both Rollins and Cranshaw . Exclusive performance footage includes excerpts from The Sonny Rollins Group in Concert back in April in California. The content is also available as an MP3 download. Born December 10, 1932, the Evanston, Illinois ...

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Daniel Levin Quartet : Some Trees on hatOLOGY 632

Source: All About Jazz
June 19, 2006

Daniel Levin Quartet : Some Trees, hatOLOGY 632

Nate Wooley - trumpet Matt Moran - vibes Daniel Levin - cello Joe Morris - double bass

Performing “Out To Lunch" by Eric Dolphy, “Wickets" by Steve Lacy, “Morning Song" by Ornette Coleman and compositions by Daniel Levin.

“It's obvious this is not an ordinary jazz quartet. Paul Bley once suggested to me that “one of the ways to get out of a particular ...

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Cecil Taylor Unit : The Eighth on hatOLOGY 622

Source: All About Jazz
June 19, 2006

Cecil Taylor Unit: The Eighth, hatOLOGY 612

Cecil Taylor - Boesendorfer piano Jimmy Lyons - alto saxophone William Parker - double bass Rashid Bakr - drums

Recorded November 8th, 1981 at Freiburger Jazztage Freiburg, Germany; CEDAR processing and new CD master by Peter Pfister, January 2006.

“Taylor's art confronts nature so organically because it embraces the same attitudes, makes the same demands. Rejecting frivolous entertainment, it is ritual--a rite of creation that ...

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Andrea Wolper, Ron Affif, Ken Filiano @ 55 Bar June 21

Source: All About Jazz
June 19, 2006

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"My Favorite Things" with Russ Neff for The Week of June 18, 2006

Source: All About Jazz
June 18, 2006

"My Favorite Things" For The Week of June 18, 2006

A classic jazz recording by the Horace Silver Quintet opens up this edition of My Favorite Things as we offer a musical celebration of Father's Day.

We also feature this week new recordings by saxophonist Eric Alexander and vocalist Nancy Kelly.

Join us for this week's edition of My Favorite Things.

This week's tunes:

Song For My Father - Horace Silver Quintet - Song For My Father

You Took Advantage ...

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Baku Jazz Festival 2006

Source: All About Jazz
June 18, 2006

From the 19th-27th of June, a jazz festival will be held in the capital of Azerbaijan Baku which will feature world-famous jazz artists Al Jarreau and Herbie Hancock as well as musicians from many other countries (Portugal, Italy, Israel, USA, Germany, Canada, Russia ), as well as Azerbaijan's own jazz stars. This will be the second festival of such prestige to be held in Baku. Last year's principal guest was the legendary Joe Zawinul, with his group 'Syndicate'.

According to ...

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