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Ubiquity Records Turns Fifteen
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All About Jazz
It’s Ubiquity’s 15 year anniversary! Well, technically it’s 15 years since Michael and Jody McFadin high-tailed it from Southern California to San Francisco with a dream of starting a record label out of their new-born record store called The Groove Merchant. They had visited San Francisco on their honeymoon, and despite being caught up in the devastating Loma Prieta earthquake they fell in love with the city. Investing the last of their savings into a business that would combine their ...
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Blue Note to Release Newly-Discovered Recording of Monk & Coltrane in 1957 Concert at Carnegie Hall
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All About Jazz
On September 27th, Blue Note Records, in conjunction with Thelonious Records, will release Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall, a never-before-heard jazz classic that documents one of the most historically important working bands in the history of the music, a band that was both short-lived and, until now, thought to be frustratingly under-recorded. The concert, which took place at the famed New York hall on November 29, 1957, was preserved on newly-discovered tapes made by Voice of ...
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New CD Release from John Beasley: One Live Night
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All About Jazz
What happens when Ralph Moore (tenor sax), Dave Carpenter (electric bass), Gary Novak (drums), Carlos Del Puerto (acoustic bass), Kevin Richard (chekere, tambourine) and John Beasley (Fender Rhodes, CPU) get together in L.A.'s Baked Potato? One Live Night of on-the-spot jazz that dares the listener's boundaries and borders. From Wayne Shorter's “Parapheralia" to Beasley's own compositions such as You Should Know, Galaha and the groovy Less Mister Yes. And it doesn't really hit ya until you realize there's no guitar ...
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Local Charities Benefit From Kansas City Music Blues And Jazz Festival
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All About Jazz
KANSAS CITY, KS Music lovers can give back to the community when they attend the 2005 Kansas City Music Blues and Jazz Festival Sept. 3-4 at the Woodlands Horse Track. Specifically, show organizers are donating $2.50 for each advanced ticket they sell during the Labor Day jazz extravaganza to four Kansas City-area charities, including Midland Hospice, Youth Arts Consortium (YAC), KC Fee Health Clinic and PUPS-Without-Partners.org. According to Mark Valentine, festival founder, Kansas City jazz has been such a ...
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Trio reconnecting to offer music services to Georgia's jazz market
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All About Jazz
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: LaGrange/Atlanta Georgia 7-26-2005 … Coe Cloud, Paul Hammock and Pat Patten are reconnecting after almost 10 years to offer audio and wrap-around video/DVD, web, publicity and promotion services to the burgeoning jazz market in Georgia and beyond. Beginning this month (July 2005) under the Jammates banner, the trio will target Georgia’s jazz community offering a myriad of services including location multi-track recording, pro-tools editing and mixing, electronic press kit production, promotional trailer creation, ...
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German Jazz Trombonist Albert Mangelsdorff Dies at 76
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All About Jazz
Albert Mangelsdorff (born 5. September 1928, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; died: 25. July 2005, Frankfurt am Main, Germany) Trombonist Albert Mangelsdorff, probably the most important jazz musician in post- war Germany, died on the morning of Monday, July 25th, 2005 in his hometown Frankfurt am Main, Germany, after long illness. Albert Mangelsdorff had violin lessons as a child and was self-taught on guitar. His brother, alto saxophonist Emil Mangelsdorff (who is still alive and playing at age 80), introduced him ...
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Jazz Organist Bernie Thompson's Memorial Set for August 2nd, 2005
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All About Jazz
Jazz organist Bernie Thompson who passed on July 18th, 2005 (Monday), will have a memorial service at TRANS FIGURATION LUTHERN CHURCH -- 74 West 126th Street at 11:00 A.M. in Harlem. Bernie died from a heart attack, and will be missed by many friends and musicians. Musicians wishing to perform at memorial may contact Sandi O, Quendo, flutest at (718) 857-0014 who will be coordinating musicians who wish to play at the memorial. If you wish to send a card, ...
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Anthony Braxton (+ Duke Ellington) Concept Of Freedom, hatOLOGY 614
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