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Paul Anka DVD - Rock Swings - Live At The Montreal Jazz Festival - Out May 1st

Source: All About Jazz
March 21, 2006

Paul Anka - Rock Swings Live At The Montreal Jazz Festival

Featuring swing versions of Everybody Hurts, True, Hello, Eye Of The Tiger, plus the Anka classics Diana, Lonely Boy and My Way

DVD released by Globe Records - 1 May 2006

Following on from Paul Anka's Gold Selling Top 10 UK Album, Rock Swings, comes the DVD release of Rock Swings - Live At The Montreal Jazz Festival - available from May 1st, 2006 on Globe Records / Universal ...

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Mosaic Singles & Running Low Box SetsMosaic Singles & Running Low Box Sets

Source: All About Jazz
March 21, 2006

At Mosaic, we've been pretty good at conjuring concepts for box sets in order to rescue material that might not otherwise see the light of day. The Columbia Small Group Swing Session (MD8-228) and The Classic Columbia Condon Mob Sessions (MD8-206) are good examples. But there are great records still waiting CD reissue that just don't fit into any box set concept. As the major labels do fewer and fewer straight reissues, the chances of a lot of excellent music ...

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Lost Jazz Shrines Celebrates Cafe Bohemia at Tribeca Performing Arts Center

Source: All About Jazz
March 21, 2006

Tribeca Performing Arts Center's annual “Lost Jazz Shrines" series - a celebration, remembrance and examination of some of the more significant and historic defunct jazz venues in downtown Manhattan - will focus on Caf Bohemia. Located in Greenwich Village at 15 Barrow Street, Caf Bohemia featured such great jazz stars of the 1950's as Miles Davis, John Coltrane, the Adderley Brothers and Charles Mingus. A number of classic jazz albums were recorded live at the club, such as “Art Blakey: ...

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Serbia proves to be a fertile gound for Guitarist Rale Micic

Source: All About Jazz
March 21, 2006

CTA Records has released a new album by guitarist and composer Rale Micic entitled Serbia. In this much-anticipated follow up to his 2003 debut Bridges, Micic establishes himself as one of the most inventive voices on the music scene today. With support from the trumpet great Tom Harrell, music just seems to unfold, grounded in Micic's vision.

Bursting with new ideas, this young guitarist has created music that sounds fresh and expressive. Noted jazz critic Glenn Astarita calls Micic “an ...

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Hendrik Meurkens-Helio Alves Brazilian Jzzz Duo Tuesday, March 21st at Cornelia Street Cafe

Source: All About Jazz
March 21, 2006

HENDRIK MEURKENS - HELIO ALVES BRAZILIAN JAZZ DUO

Tuesday, March 21st 8:30 PM

at the CORNELIA STREET CAFE 29 Cornelia Street, NYC 10014 (212) 989-9319 http://www.corneliastreetcafe.com

Hendrik Meurkens, harmonica Helio Alves, piano

Hendrik Meurkens and Helio Alves have been playing together since 1994, when they first toured Europe with the Hendrik Meurkens Samba Jazz Quartet. That same year, they recorded their first CD October Colors.

In the last decade, Hendrik ...

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Pine Ear Releases Reuben Radding Fugitive Pieces CD

Source: All About Jazz
March 21, 2006

Fugitive Pieces is Pine Ear's second release by composer/double bassist Reuben Radding. A major contrast to the chamber jazz of 2005's highly acclaimed Intersections CD, this outing finds Radding leading a quartet formation with Nate Wooley on trumpet, Matt Bauder on reeds, and Andrew Drury on percussion, that is traditional only in its instrumentation.

Generated by verbal explanations of Radding's graphic and text scores, conceived specifically for the languages of the players--as well as open improvisation--the seven pieces form a ...

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Franz Koglmann interviewed today at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz
March 21, 2006

Viennese trumpeter Franz Koglmann's spent the better part of his life marrying all manner of art forms into his music, from West Coast cool to European classicism to the perhaps difficult-to-find nexus point of seemingly disparate non-musical areas including architecture, poetry, film and philosophy.

All About Jazz contributor Eyal Hareuveni spoke with Koglmannn following a performance at the Tel Aviv Jazz Festival in Israel. Franz Koglmann: Viewing Jazz Through Other Arts is a fascinating look at an often overlooked artist ...

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On the Way Out :: March 23, 2006

Source: All About Jazz
March 21, 2006

On the Way Out :: March 23, 2006 BCJS Quartet Blaise Siwula - saxophones Steve Forrey - trumpet Chris Welcome - guitar John McLellan - drums

Bizingas Trio Brian Drye - trombone and analog synth Jon Goldberger - guitar Take Toriyama - drums Freddy's Backroom 485 Dean Street at 6th Ave (one block from Flatbush) Brooklyn, ...

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