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Jim Saltzman Group at Kavehaz - Friday June 3, 2005

Source: All About Jazz
June 3, 2005

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Pat Metheny Group Free Concert to Close 25th Montreal International Jazz Festival

Source: All About Jazz
June 3, 2005

A very special free concert to close the Festival Pat Metheny Group – The Way Up Tour Sunday July 10 at 9 p.m., from the General Motors stage!

Montreal, Thursday June 2, 2005 – Here’s a great surprise gift from the Montreal International Jazz Festival to its public! A very special free concert featuring the Pat Metheny Group, to close the 26th edition of the Montreal International Jazz Festival from the main General Motors stage, presented ...

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chriscawthray.com features free audio and video downloads

Source: All About Jazz
June 3, 2005

chriscawthray.com The online home of drummer/percussionist Chris Cawthray features free audio and video downloads of Chris' current work, as well as selected cuts from previous albums and tours. Chris' current band is a bass-less trio with Tim Posgate on guitar and Ed Zankowski on tenor saxophone. They have just completed a new recording slated for release later this summer, and the website currently features a video clip from a recent (5.25.05) gig. ...

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musicformovement.com (M4M) announces new partnership with Jack Dejohnette's Golden Beams Productions

Source: All About Jazz
June 3, 2005

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

M4M welcomes Jack Dejohnette as an artist-partner

musicformovement.com is pleased to announce that the complete catalogue of Golden Beams Productions will now be featured on M4M.

Golden Beams is the new label of drummer Jack Dejohnette and currently features two titles, “Music in the Key of OM" and “Music From the Hearts of the Masters" (a collaboration with Foday Musa Suso). Jack is one of the most accomplised and distinguished artists of our time and a he ...

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Daily CD Reviews & Articles Now Available in the Early Morning

Source: All About Jazz
June 3, 2005

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Angel Records Announces the September 27th Release of Anoushka Shankar's 'Rise'

Source: All About Jazz
June 2, 2005

Anoushka Shankar's fourth album for Angel Records, Rise, marks a defining moment in the career of the Grammy-nominated sitarist. Having previously recorded strictly in the classical Indian tradition of her father, the legendary Ravi Shankar, Anoushka truly emerges here as a potent creative force, not only performing on sitar, but also exhibiting her own unique voice as a composer, arranger & producer, as she collaborates with a select crew of virtuoso Eastern and Western musicians wielding a variety of both ...

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Tzigane Music Presents The Skip Heller Trio at the Jack-O-Lantern Ballroom, Kansas City, Friday June 10

Source: All About Jazz
June 2, 2005

Guitarist Skip Heller, whose cult keeps growing via brilliant, inventive organ combo discs that at one embrace tradition and defy convention, is coming to Kansas City in support of his TWO (!) new Dreambox releases, OUT OF TIME: THE SKIP HELLER TRIO LIVE IN PHILLY (a standards date), and BEAR FLAG, a typically audacious studio date of new originals. AAJ has described listening to Heller as “like witnessing genius by lightning strike". Little wonder -- his stock in trade is ...

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Vocalist DeeAnne Gorman kicks off a summer of song in the city...

Source: All About Jazz
June 2, 2005

Relunctantly returned from Greece, jazz vocalist DeeAnne Gorman does like New York in June, and here are some dates so far to kick off a summer of song:

FRIDAY 6/3/05 10pm-1am DeeAnne Gorman Jazz Trio (D.Gorman, vocals; Eldad Zvulun, keyboard; Tal Ronen, bass) VARJAK 923 8th Ave. (bet. W. 54th & 55th Sts.) - Midtown, NYC 1 (212) 245-3212 - no cover / hip, intimate bar ...

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