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Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra Makes Waves In The U.K.
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All About Jazz
Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra may hang their hats inside the House of Swing at Columbus Circle, but they're also musical ambassadors around the world. NY1's Stephanie Simon tagged along on the orchestra's recent tour of Great Britain, and found out that life on the road isn't easy – no matter how well you play. “You miss your family and your kids," Winton Marsalis says of life on the road. “There are long drives everyday; concerts finish ...
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The Jazz Crusaders: Pacific Jazz Quintet Studio Sessions on Mosaic Records
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All About Jazz
A First-Time Ever Set From A One-Of-A-Kind Band - The Jazz Crusaders. A great discovery lies ahead for music buyers whose collections were assembled primarily in the CD era. And for others who let intervening years dull their memory of this band's truly original talent. The Pacific Jazz Quintet Studio Sessions is the first major retrospective of The Jazz Crusaders, a band that, later in its lifespan, would highlight different influences and become one of the most popular bands in ...
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Dan Papirany Trio Release Third Album: MLC VOL 1
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All About Jazz
The Dan Papirany Trio are releasing their third album. The Dan Papirany Trio features Israeli pianist Dan Papirany (piano), Pete McGregor (bass) and Frank Gibson Jr (drums). MLC VOL 1 features 6 standard and 2 original tunes played with great sensitivity and feel, includes: ”in your own sweet way” (standard) “I Got Rhythm” (bebop) & “Gal” (Original in samba). MLC VOL 1 was recorded live at MLC Bar and Café in Auckland New Zealand on May and June 2005, and ...
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Nnenna Freelon: Capturing the Holiday Spirit
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All About Jazz
Freelon didn't want to mimic Lady Day; she wanted to match her Nnenna Freelon isn't exactly channeling Lady Day on her latest album and tour, which honors the 90th anniversary of Billie Holiday's birth. But she does feel her spirit. “She's ecstatic," said Freelon of Holiday. “She sits on my shoulder and says, 'You better be who you are.' “ It's that kind of self-confidence and strength that the acclaimed Freelon draws from Holiday to make her tour, “Blueprint of ...
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Katrina's aftermath: The jazz city's music still speaks to our nation's soul
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All About Jazz
The last time I was in New Orleans, I watched a funeral parade march by. About 30 musicians, serious of purpose but hardly solemn, walked down the street playing a joyous old tune to honor the newly dead, a “second line" of stragglers and celebrants trailing behind. I never thought it might be an early wake for the aging grande dame of a city herself. With New Orleans in chaos in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, we've belatedly come to ...
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Rehoboth Beach jazz festival is jam-packed with A-list talents
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All About Jazz
The 16th annual Rehoboth Beach Autumn Jazz Festival, which kicked off Wednesday, continues through Sunday with headliners including Al Jarreau, Bob James, Booker T. & the MGs, and Al Green. The Delaware Celebration of Jazz Inc. organization has booked an increasingly large number of national names from in and around the jazz, blues and pop genres. Its inaugural spring companion festival, the June 4-5 Blues at the Beach event, featured a sold-out performance by B.B. King. Headliners at previous autumn ...
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Jazz Festival Offers Echo Of Big Easy
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All About Jazz
CLEARWATER For two New Orleans jazz masters, emotions will lie close to the surface when they perform at this weekend's MarineMax Clearwater Jazz Holiday. On the Saturday before Hurricane Katrina devastated his hometown, jazz vocalist and trumpeter Kermit Ruffins packed a bag, boarded up his house and bar-hopped through all his favorite Crescent City haunts. At 5 a.m. the next day, he and his family were off to Baton Rouge. When he returned home, he found his home in “pretty ...
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Additional Details Announced for 35th Annual Pitt Jazz Seminar and Concert Nov. 2-5
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All About Jazz
PITTSBURGH-The University of Pittsburgh celebrates its 35th Annual Jazz Seminar and Concert Nov. 2-5. Jazz Week will include a lineup of internationally renowned jazz musicians, free on-campus seminars and lectures, appearances in Pittsburgh-area schools and other community venues, brown-bag lunches with live jazz, a jazz memorabilia exhibition, and the annual concert at 8 p.m. Nov 5 in Carnegie Music Hall, 4400 Forbes Ave., Oakland. Jazz Week guest performers include Nicholas Payton, trumpet; Charles Tolliver, trumpet; James Spaulding, alto saxophone; James ...
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