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Sarah Lynch, Pete McCann, Chris Higgins and Diego Voglino at 169 Bar Friday the 18th

Source: All About Jazz
November 17, 2005

169 Bar favorite Sarah Lynch will sing again Friday night at 8 o'clock, this time with a whole new posse: Pete McCann on guitar, Chris Higgins on bass, and Diego Voglino on drums. Todd Jenkins calls guitarist Pete McCann “an exceedingly perceptive player with the good sense to approach songs in a way that befits their basic character, and the creativity to make something fresh out of those songs at the same time." (If you were at Kavehaz when he ...

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Carol Sudhalter's 10-Piece Band Presents "Women Composers of Queens" Nov.18 at Jamaica Center for Arts

Source: All About Jazz
November 17, 2005

November 11, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected] Carol Sudhalter's 10-Piece Band Presents “Women Composers of Queens" Nov.18 at Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Queens Queens, NY has a rich jazz tradition, but its jazz women have been less known. A concert on November 18, at 7:00 PM at Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, 161-04 Jamaica Avenue, Queens, will present works of Queens' women composer / performers from Billie Holiday to Julie ...

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BET Announces Programming for December's World AIDS Day

Source: All About Jazz
November 17, 2005

WASHINGTON - BET and the Kaiser Family Foundation today announced a line up of special HIV-themed programming to mark World AIDS Day on Thursday, December 1, 2005 as part their Rap-It-Up HIV / AIDS public awareness initiative. New interactive content will also be available on both www.bet.com and www.rap-it-up.com websites. Launched in 1998, the initiative has sought to inform and raise awareness about HIV / AIDS, which disproportionately impacts African Americans.

On Thursday, December 1 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT, BET ...

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Corey Christensen's "Awakening" Tops 700 Downloads in a Week

Source: All About Jazz
November 16, 2005

Guitarist Corey Christensen's “Awakening“ (Mel Bay) was the first track to top 700 downloads in a single week at the AAJ Download Center.

The AAJ Download Center has been slowly building a following since its launch back on October 16th with guitarist Skip Heller's “The Shirley Scott Trio WAS the Time“.

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Miles Davis - "The Cellar Door Sessions 1970" Release Date Set For December 27

Source: All About Jazz
November 16, 2005

LEGACY MEDIA RELATIONS Upcoming Releases December 27 Miles Davis The Cellar Door Sessions 1970 Columbia/Legacy Jazz

Here is the Miles Davis collection that fans have most eagerly awaited. Previously available as a fraction of the music herein and only initially issued domestically (in edited form on the two-LP set, “Live Evil," “The Cellar Door Sessions 1970" was recorded December 16-19, 1970 at a club in Washington, D.C., where the great trumpeter-bandleader Davis ...

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James Blood Ulmer's Birthright Wins Blues Album of the Year in DownBeat 2005 Readers' Poll

Source: All About Jazz
November 16, 2005

New York, NY -- Earlier this year, the legendary American music iconoclast, James Blood Ulmer, released his first ever solo recording, Birthright. The album, which features Ulmer alone on vocals and guitar, quickly drew critical acclaim, garnering praise from the likes of national publications such as DownBeat, Guitar Player, Jazz Times, Jazziz, Living Blues, No Depression and Rolling Stone, while newspapers including the Chicago Sun Times, Minneapolis City Pages, Seattle Post Intelligencer and The Washington Post declared it one of ...

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Ballard Jazz Festival - This Week!

Source: All About Jazz
November 16, 2005

The 2005 Ballard Jazz Festival returns for 3 days of music in historic Ballard (Seattle, WA) November 17-19 featuring performances by the Joe Locke Quartet featuring Geoff Keezer, the Eric Alexander / Peter Bernstein Quartet, The Larry Goldings Trio and The Ballard Jazz Walk featuring 13 groups in 10 venues for a joint cover. The Brotherhood of the Drum returns November 17 at the Tractor Tavern with performances by several of Seattle's Internationally known drummers. Tickets $25 Friday/Saturday Festival Pass ...

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Roy Ayers and Bobbi Humphrey Thursday through Sunday November 17 through 20 Iridium Jazz Club

Source: All About Jazz
November 16, 2005

IRIDIUM JAZZ CLUB 1650 BROADWAY (Corner of 51st) NEW YORK, NY 10023 RESERVATIONS: 212-582-2121, www.iridiumjazzclub.com Nov. 17-20 ROY AYERS and BOBBI HUMPHREY The Iridium Jazz Club is pleased to present jazz-funk vibist Roy Ayers and flute super-star Bobbi Humphrey, Thursday through Sunday November 17 through 20. Los Angeles-born Roy Ayers (b. 1940) is a multi-instrumentalist child prodigy who was co-leading his own band with Hampton Hawes by his early twenties. Ayers came to prominence as the vibraphonist on albums by ...

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