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Composer Offers Published Christmas Music Arrangement As A Free Download

Source: All About Jazz
November 1, 2005

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Kimmo Pohjonen Nominated for BBC Radio 3 Planet Award

Source: All About Jazz
November 1, 2005

We at Thirsty Ear are pleased to announce this honorary acknowledgement for KTU's (also featuring Trey Gunn and Pat Mastelotto from King Crimson) Kimmo Pohjonen!

At the WOMEX world music expo in Gateshead/Newcastle, UK, 26-30.10, Kimmo Pohjonen was nominated for the BBC Radio 3 Planet Award. The category is Culture Crossing and the other nominees are: Kronos Quartet and Asha Bhosle (USA/India), Yasmin Levy (Israel) and Nitin Sawhney (India /UK). This is Pohjonen's second nomination for the BBC award, the ...

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651ARTS presents Randy Weston's 80th Birthday Bash at Long Island University's Kumble Theater - January 12 & 14

Source: All About Jazz
November 1, 2005

Legendary Jazz Composer/Pianist RANDY WESTON & GUESTS CELEBRATE WESTON’S 80TH BIRTHDAY And 651 ARTS’ INAUGURAL SEASON At Long Island University’s Kumble Theater for the Performing Arts, January 12 and 14 “Although Weston has used every grouping from trio to jazz orchestra to traditional musicians from Marrakech, it is in solo piano where he is most himself.” (All About Jazz ) (Brooklyn, New York, October 19, 2005) 651 ARTS celebrates the opening of their season with the 80th birthday of Brooklyn ...

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Cutting-edge Jazz and Flat Notes at Seattle Earshot Fest

Source: All About Jazz
November 1, 2005

By BILL WHITE SPECIAL TO THE POST-INTELLIGENCER

Inspiration and indifference marked the second weekend of the Earshot Jazz Festival, with concerts of varying quality heating up venues across the city.

Those who came to hear Patricia Barber sing at The Triple Door Friday night may have been disappointed, as the early set found her leaning toward the instrumental side of her repertoire.

Although her piano playing is not without merit, Barber's reputation was made as an ...

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Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra Bring Holiday Jazz To The East Coast

Source: All About Jazz
November 1, 2005

The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis tours the Eastern U.S. with a special repertoire for the 2005 holiday season. For the first half of the concerts, the world-renowned big band will perform selections from Duke Ellington's “The Nutcracker, “ followed by a repertoire of jazz selections and holiday songbook favorites for the second half. The “Ellington Nutcracker Tour" will commence on December 9 in Zeiterion Theatre in New Bedford, Massachusetts and will take the band to Brookville, New ...

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Kobo Town Brings Nick "Brownman" Ali to Town at The Speakeasy

Source: All About Jazz
October 31, 2005

Kobo Town Brings Nick “Brownman" Ali to Town at The Speakeasy Toronto, ON - October 31, 2005 - Toronto-based Kobo Town will be performing their unique blend of traditional calypso, roots reggae and West Indian folk music at The Speakeasy with special guest Nick “Brownman" Ali. One of Canada's most acclaimed jazz trumpet players, Brownman was recently voted Toronto's Best Jazz Artist of 2005 by the readers of NOW Magazine – the city's most comprehensive and respected print media for ...

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News from Fantasy Records - November 2005 Update

Source: All About Jazz
October 31, 2005

"The Soul Stirrers were very well named," Specialty Records' Art Rupe told Peter Guralnick, whose brand-new biography “Dream Boogie: The Triumph of SAM COOKE" (Little, Brown) offers several meaty, dishy, revelatory chapters' worth of Soul Stirrers and Specialty history. “They tried to get [that] feeling, emphasized and built themselves up on soul-stirring--slower singing, very melismatic. That's why Sam [Cooke] was the way he was. Sam was shaped in large measure by the Soul Stirrers during their rehearsals. He reacted to ...

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Joyce and Dori Caymmi at Satalla - November 5th and 6th

Source: All About Jazz
October 31, 2005

This weekend at Satalla, join us in welcoming Joyce and Dori Caymmi, touring on the release of their new CD, Rio Bahia, on Far Out Records. Two sets nightly. Contact info.: Satalla 37 West 26th Street Manhattan 212 - 576 - 1155 November 05, 2005 Rough Guides presents Joyce & Dori Caymmi -Brazilian -Jazz -CD Release 7:30pm & 10pm - Admission $30 in advance/$35 at the door - advance tickets on sale at Smarttix. Described by Antonio Carlos Jobim as ...

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