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Marty Ehrlich CD release party at the Jazz Standard 9/15-18

Source: All About Jazz
September 15, 2005

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Marty Ehrlich “News on the Rail" CD Release at the Jazz Standard On September 15-18 the Marty Ehrlich Sextet will be celebrating the release of Marty's second CD for Palmetto Records at the Jazz Standard in New York City. The final night of this weekend will be the world premiere of a piece written by Marty Ehrlich for the Dark Woods Five. The Marty Ehrlich sextet features James Zollar on trumpet and flugelhorn; Howard Johnson on tuba ...

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Moutin Reunion Quartet Wednesday September 28, 2005 at The Rudyard Kipling

Source: All About Jazz
September 15, 2005

September 15, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: Jazz Promo Services Press Contact: Jim Eigo, [email protected] Jazz Promo Services September 15, 2005 Wednesday September 28, 2005 Moutin Reunion Quartet Appearing at the The Rudyard Kipling - Louisville 422 West Oak Street in Louisville, Kentucky 40203 Call 502-636-1311(after 6:30 pm) or call 812-949-1895 (daytime) http://www.therudyardkipling.com The Moutin Reunion Quartet “Something Like Now” Nocturne/Lightyear (distributed by WEA) 54701-2 Street Date: August 30, 2005 Lithe, lean and muscular, Something Like Now is a lock on ...

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Paula Lammers Appears at the Harvest Festival in Lakeville, Minnesota

Source: All About Jazz
September 15, 2005

PAULA LAMMERS

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September, 2005

*Premier Minnesota Jazz Vocalist, Paula Lammers Blankets You with Seduction*

GOING FOR ARTIST PREVIEW/CD REVIEW

Paula Lammers, currently embarked on a National press campaign to bring awareness to her debut release “Blanket of Blue.” Lammers is a classically trained vocalist that found her niche in jazz. Her blend of precision and beauty takes vocal jazz to new heights. A resident of Minnesota she comes from a lineage of strong performers. In ...

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Benoit Delbecq / Tanya Kalmanovitch duo performance (Sun.9/25) in New York!

Source: All About Jazz
September 15, 2005

"Sundays at 5“ PRESENTS ... BENOÎT DELBECQ (piano, prepared piano) TANYA KALMANOVITCH (violist/violinist) September 25th at 5pm at Hudson View Gardens “Lounge" 116 Pinehurst Avenue, Washington Heights $12 French Canadian pianist/composer BENOÎT DELBECQ and Canadian, now New York-based violist/violinist TANYA KALMANOVITCH will perform new music and improvisation for this very special concert and musical meeting of strings.

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Sterling Dorwin Weed: Oldest U.S. big band leader dies at 104

Source: All About Jazz
September 15, 2005

ST. ALBANS, Vt. --Sterling Dorwin Weed, the nation's oldest known active bandleader, whose Weed's Imperial Orchestra played dates from the early 1930s to this summer, has died. He was 104.

“It was age, and he was just worn out, really," Derby said.

Weed studied piano as a youth, but said in an Associated Press interview in 2001 that his public career began in 1912, when he was 11. His older brother Ora, a trombonist, said the city band's piccolo player ...

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John Scofield and Victor Wooten to play in Toronto

Source: All About Jazz
September 15, 2005

Toronto Downtown Jazz and GMP Productions present influential bassist Victor Wooten and a rare Toronto appearance by legendary guitarist John Scofield will be playing in Toronto in October. Scofield’s latest album, That’s What I Say, reinterprets the music of Ray Charles while Wooten’s Vanguard Record debut, Soul Circus, can only be described as a high-wire act on a bevy of basses. Both will be memorable performances not to be missed.

On That’s What I Say, Scofield crafts each tune in ...

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Phenomenal Giants of Jazz Concert, October 15

Source: All About Jazz
September 14, 2005

What: The Giants of Jazz VIII, honoring Jazz Master Dr. Billy Taylor

Who: Jazz Master Dr. Billy Taylor, Clark Terry, Slide Hampton, Jimmy Heath, Frank Wess, Benny Powell, Roy Hargrove, Junior Mance, Ronnie Mathews, Bucky Pizzarelli, Steve Davis, Don Braden, Bill Kirchner, Steve Davis, Douglas Purviance, Jason Jackson, Earl May, Chip Jackson, John Lee, Dennis Mackrel, Winard Harper, Duke Lee, Justin Robinson, Andre Hayward

Where: South Orange Middle School 70 Ridgewood Rd. South Orange, NJ 07079

When: Saturday, October 15 ...

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The Five Corners Quintet

Source: All About Jazz
September 14, 2005

It may be of no surprise that a band should release a few vinyl singles that filter to key tastemakers to critical acclaim. That they should receive praise from an ever-increasing underground scene, and that the hype surrounding them escalates beyond a core. Indeed, that sales of those singles should quickly reach over 12,000, and they find themselves performing on Top of the Pops in their home country. But in the case of the Helsinki-based postmodern jazz outfit, the Five ...

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