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Jeremy Steig Qt (Tonight) Morrison Motel (Tue) Tony Malaby Qnt (Sat) & George Dulin (Sun) at the Cornelia Street Cafe

Source: All About Jazz
October 14, 2005

October 14, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected] Cornelia Street Cafe 29 Cornelia Street Greenwich Village, NY 10014 Tel: 212-989-9319 Fax: 212-243-4207 Web: corneliastreetcafe.com between West 4th and Bleecker Sts, Greenwich Village 1,9 Subway to Sheridan Square; A, C, E, B, D, F to West 4th St. “a culinary as well as a cultural landmark" Mayoral Proclamation, City of New York 1987 This Weekend at Cornelia Street Cafe Oct. 14 thg Oct. 16 Fri ...

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Father of Russian Jazz Oleg Lundstrem Dies

Source: All About Jazz
October 14, 2005

MOSCOW, October 14 (RIA Novosti) - Oleg Lundstrem, the father of Russian jazz, died Friday at the age of 89. “Oleg Lundstrem passed away during the night," said Alexander Bryskin, the director of the Jazz Music Orchestra. “Lundstrem was an epoch in music," said Igor Butman, a famous Russian jazz musician. “He was a unique person, an outstanding organizer, who managed to maintain an orchestra of top musicians and music arrangers for several decades. He was an extremely modest person ...

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Jazz Musicians Who Have Suffered Katrina Devastation Play for Nevada Relief Workers in Mississippi

Source: All About Jazz
October 14, 2005

Saturday, October 15, 2005, musicians from the Mississippi Coast Jazz Society will play for the Nevada Medical Group encamped on Pass Road in Gulfport, MS, where doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals are giving free medical assistance and immunizations to local coast residents. Musicians from the Society have been fighting to preserve and perpetuate traditional jazz in the aftermath of the Hurricane Katrina disaster by performing both for coast residents who are trying to recover from Katrina, and for the ...

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Barbados Jazz Festival 2006 Headliners

Source: All About Jazz
October 14, 2005

An All-Star Line-up Set to Perform at the Barbados Jazz Festival January 9 – 15, 2006 Lionel Richie to Headline the 13th Annual Jazz Festival Barbados, WI – October 11, 2005 – A dazzling line-up of international performers, including singing sensation Lionel Richie and musician Jill Scott, make the Thirteenth Annual Barbados Jazz Festival a must for music lovers of all ages. There is an assortment of music for every taste, from up and coming talent to jazz purists. The ...

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Jazz concert at St. Philip's Church

Source: All About Jazz
October 13, 2005

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Bluesman Paul 'Wine' Jones dies

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October 13, 2005

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Jazz Museum in Harlem Welcomes NEA Jazz Master John Levy on November 10

Source: All About Jazz
October 13, 2005

(October 13, 2005 – Los Angeles, CA) The Jazz Museum in Harlem's bi-weekly series, “Harlem Speaks,” continues its Thursday’s series, featuring a lively discussion and Q&A with the legendary John Levy, one of the seven living legends of American music who join the ranks of the National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters in January 2006. Levy will receive the A.B. Spellman NEA Jazz Masters Award for Jazz Advocacy, for his career as manager. Mr. Levy, who lived in Harlem ...

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NEC Presents Fall Masterclasses

Source: All About Jazz
October 13, 2005

New England Conservatory Masterclass Schedule, Fall 2005

Every year, New England Conservatory invites a wide range of music masters to coach students in informal public performances and to share their artistic insights. The informative classes are free and open to the public. Here is the schedule of NEC’s fall masterclasses:

Anner Bylsma, Baroque cello: October 19, 4 p.m. NEC’s Keller Room October 20, 9:30 a.m. NEC’s Keller Room

Warren Jones, Collaborative piano: October 27, ...

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