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Essentially Ellington Winners!

Source: All About Jazz
May 22, 2006

NORTH AMERICA'S BEST HIGH SCHOOL JAZZ BANDS! JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF ITS 11th ANNUAL ESSENTIALLY ELLINGTON HIGH SCHOOL JAZZ BAND COMPETITION & FESTIVAL 1st Place: Douglas Anderson School of the Arts Jazz Ensemble 1, Jacksonville, Florida. 2nd Place: Battle Ground High School Jazz Band, Battle Ground, Washington. 3rd Place: Garfield High School Jazz Ensemble, Seattle, Washington. New York, NY (May 20, 2006) Tonight, three high school jazz bands took top honors ...

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Sitar Jazz Fusion Concert at Walt Disney Concert Hall

Source: All About Jazz
May 22, 2006

Hear Sitar Music as Never Before Sitar (Indian Classical) Fused with Western Jazz. The Magical Sound of Pradeep Ratnayake and the Pradeepanjalee Troupe Featuring #1 Contemporary Jazz Pianist Freedie Ravel, Accliamed Saxophonist Eric Marienthal, Internationally renowned Sri Lankan Bassist Hussain Jiffry. July 22nd, 2006 7:30 p.m. at world famous Walt Disney Concert Hall, Downtown Los Angeles Tickets start at $20.00 at Proceeds from the concert will help build another set of homes for families that were displaced by the tsunami ...

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Don Alias featured at All About Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
May 22, 2006

When Don Alias passed away suddenly on March 28, 2006, the world lost one of the truly great percussionists of the past 50 years. Alias never released a single album under his own name, although Stone Alliance, '70s trio with bassist Gene Perla and saxophonist Steve Grossman, was a vital musical force in its time (and there are plans to make much of its discograpy available on CD for the first time in the coming months) - but he played ...

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Randall "Big Daddy" Webster Returns To Irleand From Florida This May & June 2006

Source: All About Jazz
May 22, 2006

The Emerald Isle keeps drawing Randall “Big Daddy" Webster back to its shores from his home in Tallahassee, Florida - some thirty-eight times since 1991 all the while performing Blues as a solo acoustic artist, part of an acoustic duo, and with his full band “Big Daddy & Red Hot Java." There's an undeniable musical connection between Webster's Blues and Ireland. Say's Big Daddy, “The tradition of playing music from the Soul (Ceol Dan Anam in Irish) is much the ...

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Joe Chambers Performs at the Blue Room May 27th in Kansas City

Source: All About Jazz
May 22, 2006

Joe Chambers Quartet, featuring Logan Richardson Saturday May 27th, 2006 7:00pm to 12:30am Appearing at the Blue Room at the American Jazz Museum 1616 E. 18th St. Kansas City, MO 64108 Tickets are $15 Call the American Jazz Museum Box Office (816-474-6262) or visit Ticketmaster Composer and drummer extraordinaire Joe Chambers brings his quartet to the Blue Room May 27th. The evening also features ...

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Tedd Baker's Debut "Mugshots" Is Officially Released

Source: All About Jazz
May 22, 2006

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Carmen Lundy Nominated For Best Jazz Vocalist By Jazzweek Readers!

Source: All About Jazz
May 22, 2006

AFRASIA PRODUCTIONS IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THAT CARMEN LUNDY HAS BEEN NOMINATED JAZZ VOCALIST OF THE YEAR BY JAZZWEEK READERS! Ballots appear in the May 22nd issue, and Winners will be announced at the JazzWeek Summit, June 17, 2006 in Rochester, New York Be sure to vote! Carmen's Latest CD CARMEN LUNDY AND THE NEW SONGBOOK ARTISTS “Now, for those who've missed some or all of Lundy's seven previous albums, there's this two-disc set, recorded live at LA's ...

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3rd Annual West Oak Lane Jazz & Arts Festival -- 500 musicians, War, Roy Ayers, Joey DeFrancesco, more

Source: All About Jazz
May 21, 2006

3rd Annual West Oak Lane Jazz & Arts Festival June 23, 24, 25 2006 - FREE! 3 DAYS , 4 OUTDOOR STAGES 500+ musicians, including War, Roy Ayers, Joey DeFrancesco, Trudy Pitts and over 70 fine art vendors.

May 21, 2006: Philadelphia, PA -- The Ogontz Avenue Revitalization Corporation (OARC) presents the 3rd annual West Oak Lane Jazz and Arts Festival on June 23, 24, and 25, 2006 on the 7100 to 7200 blocks ...

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