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Tommy Peltier's Musical Life

Source: All About Jazz
August 5, 2005

Tommy Peltier's Musical Life Posted: 2005-07-21 Tommy Peltier's Musical Life Born in New Orleans many years ago, Tommy started playing trumpet at the age of 10. At the age of 13, he moved to Hollywood, Ca. with his mother. After one year of college, was drafted into the U.S. Navy. He spent two years playing in the Navy Band where he honed his arranging and playing skills. After the Service he hooked up with Bill Plummer, Charles and Joann Brackeen ...

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Jazz Vocalist Robin Aleman To Release Debut CD August 8th

Source: All About Jazz
August 5, 2005

August 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected] JAZZ VOCALIST ROBIN ALEMAN TO RELEASE DEBUT CD AUGUST 8TH NYC based vocal jazz artist Robin Aleman will release her debut CD on Monday, August 8th, 2005. The CD, entitled Tonight, features some of the best young talent in the scene today: David Epstein on piano, Bob Sabin on bass and Peter Retzlaff on drums. Also playing is guitarist Pete Smith, featured on 2 of the 14 ...

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Grammy-Nominated Jazz Vocalist Nnenna Freelon releases tribute to Lady Day” on her 6th Concord release

Source: All About Jazz
August 5, 2005

Blueprint of a Lady – Sketches of Billie Holiday in stores August 23 “No two people on earth are alike, and it’s got to be that way with music, or it’s not music.” — Billie Holiday Traditional tribute albums normally feature one artist paying tribute to another in an attempt to evoke their legendary forebear. But when Nnenna Freelon set her vocal sights on songs associated with Billie Holiday, she determined that she wanted to emulate the spirit, rather than ...

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Cabaret singer Hildegarde dead at 99

Source: All About Jazz
August 4, 2005

NEW YORK (AP) -- Hildegarde, the “incomparable” cabaret singer whose career spanned almost seven decades, has died. She was 99. The performer, who was credited with starting the single-name vogue among entertainers, died Friday at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Hospital, said Don Dellair, her longtime friend and manager. Born Hildegarde Loretta Sell in Adell, Wisconsin, she was known for 70 years simply as “The Incomparable Hildegarde,” a title bestowed on her by columnist Walter Winchell. During the peak of her popularity ...

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Early Jazz Legends and Legends in the making at the Lighthouse California 1950’s –60’s

Source: All About Jazz
August 4, 2005

Some unbelievably talented people during that time frame. Never before or since has there been so many with so much talent, and to see a lot of them share a stage made it even better. Didn't happen with all of them but enough to just thrill those fortunate enough to be there. Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane, Dizzy and Frank Rosolino , (now that was a kick) , Stan Levey with Charlie Parker and with just about everyone, Stan Getz ...

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Early Jazz Legends and Legends in the making at the Lighthouse California 1950’s –60’s

Source: All About Jazz
August 4, 2005

Some unbelievably talented people during that time frame. Never before or since has there been so many with so much talent, and to see a lot of them share a stage made it even better. Didn't happen with all of them but enough to just thrill those fortunate enough to be there. Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane, Dizzy and Frank Rosolino , (now that was a kick) , Stan Levey with Charlie Parker and with just about everyone, Stan Getz ...

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Tommy Peltier's Musical Life

Source: All About Jazz
August 4, 2005

Tommy Peltier's Musical Life Posted: 2005-07-21 Tommy Peltier's Musical Life Born in New Orleans many years ago, Tommy started playing trumpet at the age of 10. At the age of 13, he moved to Hollywood, Ca. with his mother. After one year of college, was drafted into the U.S. Navy. He spent two years playing in the Navy Band where he honed his arranging and playing skills. After the Service he hooked up with Bill Plummer, Charles and Joann Brackeen ...

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Blues king Little Milton dead at 70

Source: All About Jazz
August 4, 2005

MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- “Little" Milton Campbell, who sang the blues and performed with some of the country's top performers, died Thursday of complications of a stroke.

Campbell, 70, died about 8:50 a.m. at Delta Medical Center in Memphis, Tenn. A statement from the family said the musician died from a cerebral hemorrhage as a result of a stroke Campbell suffered on July 27.

Funeral services were pending. Campbell is survived by his wife, Patricia, and three children.

Greg Preston, a ...

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