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Bill King's Jazz Preview July 25, 2004 Jazz.Fm 91.1

Source: All About Jazz
July 22, 2004

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Regina Carter Free Concert at Camden's Wiggins Waterfront Park July 27

Source: All About Jazz
July 22, 2004

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'Light Shades': the great debut album of a talented new italian guitarist

Source: All About Jazz
July 21, 2004

The debut album of a talented new italian guitarist

Alex Milella has faced this first composition and execution performance with great competence and control of the instruments of a musician. He is able to give warmth and enthusiasm, not a simple thing to do in the realm of a musical genre where it's easy to fall in technicalities for the sake of it.

Ernesto Losavio for Jazzitalia

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UCLA Live Presents Unprecedented ECM Festival

Source: All About Jazz
July 21, 2004

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Universal Music and Concord Ink Distribution Deal

Source: All About Jazz
July 21, 2004

Los Angeles, CA--Universal Music Group, the world's leading music company and Concord Records, one of the world's largest independent recording labels announced today that the two companies have entered into a U.S. distribution agreement. The partnership, which takes effect on July 26, 2004, covers Concord's family of imprints, including Concord Jazz, Concord Picante, Stretch Records, Peak Records, Feinery and Playboy Jazz. Concord Records is set to release several highly-anticipated albums over the coming months, including the final recording from the ...

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Terry Gibbs' '52nd & Broadway: Songs of the Bebop Era' Will Be Released On July 20

Source: All About Jazz
July 21, 2004

Terry Gibbs' new CD, 52nd & Broadway: Songs of the Bebop Era, is set to hit stores on July 20. The recording, which also features the talents of Nicholas Payton on trumpet and James Moody on sax, is a new take on twelve tunes that represent the bepop era, one of the most influential eras in the history of jazz. The album is more than a historical tribute. To bring such timeless classics as Lemon Drop, Cherokee, Round Midnight and ...

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Bobby Forrester's "Organic Chemistry" released nationally today.

Source: All About Jazz
July 20, 2004

"Organic Chemistry", by the late great organist Bobby Forrester, has been released nationally today on Lollipop Recordings. It is Forrester's first and only CD as a leader, recorded at Smalls in New York City shortly before his untimely death two years ago, and includes Bubba Brooks (from Bill Doggett's group) on tenor sax, William Ash on guitar, and Tootsie Bean on drums. This is a smokin' record by the king of Harlem's Hammond B3 scene and R&B legend Ruth Brown's ...

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James Williams, 1951 - 2004

Source: All About Jazz
July 20, 2004

Jazz pianist, composer and mentor James Williams died this morning of complications from liver cancer, according to longtime friend John Tibbets. Williams was 53 and for that young age has left us a wonderful legacy of jazz. In the words of friend and fellow Jazz Messengers alumnus Geoff Keezer, “James was a tireless supporter of his fellow jazz musicians, both young and old, and maintained an almost single-pointed focus and dedication to preserving, honoring, and advancing the tradition of acoustic ...

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