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"My Favorite Things" with Russ Neff For The Week of May 21, 2006

Source: All About Jazz
May 21, 2006

A birthday tribute to Miles Davis headlines this edition of My Favorite Things. We'll also hear a new recording from saxophonist Vincent Herring and some jazz organ from Papa John DeFrancesco. Join us for this week's edition of My Favorite Things. This week's tunes: Delaware Fox - Papa John DeFrancesco - Walking Uptown No More Blues - Paquito D'Rivera - Return To Ipanema Stable Mates - Vincent Herring - Ends & Means The Touch ...

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Festival

Jazz in bloom

Source: All About Jazz
May 21, 2006

Festival International de Jazz de Montreal: The summer jazz festival season gets underway in Canada June 29-July 9. This year's jazz highlights include: the Brad Mehldau Trio, the Wayne Shorter Quartet, McCoy Tyner's ”Story of Impulse!" Septet, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Pharoah Sanders, the Bad Plus, Patricia Barber, Pat Martino, Stefon Harris & Blackout, the Joe Lovano Quartet, Don Byron's Ivey-Divey Trio, and the Dave Brubeck Quartet. Not to mention pop stars Tony Bennett, B.B. King, Paul Simon, and Elvis Costello & ...

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Festival

The two sides of Jazz Fest

Source: All About Jazz
May 21, 2006

NEW ORLEANS - This year's Jazz Festival meant everything to New Orleans. Music is the heart and soul of the city, and officials were counting on music lovers from all over the world to help bring back the spirit that separates “N'Awlins" from any other place on earth. The two-weekend event, which took place April 28-30 and May 5-7, was a resounding success, featuring big acts like Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen, Jimmy Buffett, Dave Matthews Band, Herbie Hancock ...

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Award / Grant

Theodore Croker lands jazz-mentor spot

Source: All About Jazz
May 21, 2006

Theodore L. Croker, a junior at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Cleveland, has been selected for an internship this summer with the jazz-mentor program at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif. The 20-year-old is the grandson of the late jazz great Adolphus “Doc" Cheatham. He is the son of Alicia Croker of Leesburg and the late William H. Croker. Croker, who plays the trumpet, also was the recipient this year of the Theodore Presser Music Award, a $7,000 grant ...

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Award / Grant

Washington jazz bands score Ellington awards

Source: All About Jazz
May 21, 2006

High-school bands from Western Washington state claimed two of the top four honors at Lincoln Center's elite Essentially Ellington jazz competition Saturday while one local high school senior garnered an Ella Fitzgerald Outstanding Vocalist Award. This is the fourth year four bands from Washington made the finals. But it was Roosevelt senior Isabella Du Graf's first trip to the competition in New York. She received the outstanding vocalist award after singing Duke Ellington's “Rocks in My Bed." “It was the ...

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Event

Saxophonist debuts Parker scores at Fieldcote summer concert series

Source: All About Jazz
May 21, 2006

In a Canadian first, a famous bird will visit Ancaster. Local jazz musician Darcy Hepner has obtained a very rare musical score containing 1,632 pages of musical arrangements used by Charlie “Yardbird" Parker. Widely thought lost or destroyed, Mr. Hepner heard rumours that a New York record producer found the score, which had sat for almost 60 years untouched, while cleaning out his basement. After a phone call, the producer told Mr. Hepner he could have a copy as long ...

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Performance / Tour

"Jazz in the Sky" at Terrace in the Sky

Source: All About Jazz
May 21, 2006

Produced by RobertaOnTheArts.com At TERRACE IN THE SKY 400 West 119th Street (bet. Amsterdam Ave & Morningside Drive) New York, NY 10027 212.666.9490 Reservations suggested for guaranteed seating Sky Grille & Cash Bar. No Cover! LIVE MUSIC 7:30PM - 9:30PM OPEN BAR LATE! Spectacular skyline views & river views ** Outdoor tapas & grille Superb wines & exotic drinks ** Great networking events OPENING ...

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Performance / Tour

Merrell / Block / Rossi live in 'On the Way Out' at Freddy's on May 23

Source: All About Jazz
May 21, 2006

Brooklyn, NY -- If you could grab electricity in the air, and turn it into a Kubrick film without the film, what would it sound like? Find out when Todd Merrell joins forces with musicians Casey Block and Lou Rossi on Tuesday, May 23, 2006, at 8:00 pm in 'On the Way Out' at Freddy's Bar and Backroom, 485 Dean Street, Brooklyn, New York - suggested donation: $5. Merrell makes sounds from the sky, instruments from machines, and cinematic music ...

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