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Alaadeen's New Africa Suite CD is "highly recommended" - All About Jazz review published

Source: All About Jazz
August 25, 2005

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Organissimo's "This Is The Place" Receives Extensive National Airplay

Source: All About Jazz
August 25, 2005

This Is The Place, Organissimo’s Much-Anticipated 2nd CD, Already Receiving Extensive National Airplay 2 Weeks After August 8th Release

Album Was Highest Debuting CD On Both Mainstream & College Jazz Charts

Lansing, MI – organissimo is proud to announce the August 8th release of its second full-length studio album, This Is The Place (Big O Records 2404) which further refines the trio’s signature sound that made its debut in 2003 on the award-winning album Waiting For The Boogaloo Sisters… (PKO ...

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Dutch piano player Glenn Corneille (35) dies in car accident

Source: All About Jazz
August 25, 2005

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Pioneering and Acclaimed Musicians Stanley Clarke, Bela Fleck & Jean-Luc Ponty Come Together in Unique Trio! August 26, South Lake Union Park Summer Nights

Source: All About Jazz
August 24, 2005

Three of music's most influential groundbreakers are set to break new ground at Summer Nights at South Lake Union Park, 8:00 p.m., Friday, August 26. Bassist Stanley Clarke, banjo player Bela Fleck and violinist Jean-Luc Ponty will debut as a trio in the aptly named Trio! for a summer tour that promises to be one of the most exciting musical events in years and genuinely worthy of the group's exclamation point. “Miles Davis told me once that it takes a ...

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BET Jazz Programming Highlights for September 2005

Source: All About Jazz
August 24, 2005

BET Jazz: The 24-Hour Jazz Channel kicks off its fall season with new programs that will showcase the best in jazz programming. The must-see highlights include the world premiere of the documentary Discovering Monk And Trane One Night At Carnegie Hall, a one-on-one with Wynton Marsalis: Live At The House Of Tribes, a musical tribute to Billie Holiday with Nnenna Freelon: Blueprint of a Lady, the best of the 2005 Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Awards, and it's 80 candles for ...

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The Ben Bowen Project, Live @ the Casbah

Source: All About Jazz
August 24, 2005

Friday, Sept. 9th, 2005 Continuing along the theme of exploring tunes from other musical genres in an instrumental jazz context, the latest manifestation of the Ben Bowen Project will be playing a fair bit more Bruce Cockburn as well as some Thom Yorke, Radiohead, Jonatha Brooke, Simon & Garfunkel, and maybe even the odd hymn. Add to that a smattering of standards and originals, and we'll be lucky to get in a set break...! The band: Ben Bowen - brass ...

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Sarah Schwabe and her Yankee Jass Band at Sassy Ann's House of Blues Friday, Aug. 26

Source: All About Jazz
August 24, 2005

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An Organ Summit Supreme: Four Major Organists & Top Musicians-Free Concert

Source: All About Jazz
August 24, 2005

August 24, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected] AN ORGAN SUMMIT SUPREME: Four Major Jazz Organists and Masters of the Hammond B-3 Sound to Perform in Free Concert: Organist Jimmy McGriff To Be Honored African American Education and Cultural Resource Center 15-19 James Street (corner of Washington Street) Newark, NJ (973) 733-6454 Sunday, October 23 3PM to 8PM Doors open at 2PM (Musical Director Bob DeVos) Organist: Dr. Lonnie Smith, Jimmy McGriff, Trudy Pitts, ...

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