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The Odean Pope Saxophone Choir To Perform At Lincoln Center

Source: All About Jazz
August 7, 2002

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Odean Pope "Voices" Featuring Dr. Art Davis And Tyrone Brown

Source: All About Jazz
August 7, 2002

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Introducing Conduit Records With Debut Release by Jazz Legend Julian Priester

Source: All About Jazz
August 7, 2002

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With Sales Flat, The Jazz Industry Has Lost Its Groove

Source: All About Jazz
August 7, 2002

By Fred Kaplan, Globe Staff, 8/4/2002

NEW YORK - Way back in 1968, on an avant-garde album called “Congliptious," trumpeter Lester Bowie slyly asked, “Is jazz as we know it dead?" Then, after taking a blazing solo, he replied, “That all depends on what you know, heh, heh, heh."

If Bowie were still alive, he might not find the question so funny. Jazz is not dead, but few would call it healthy.

Americans spend $13 billion a year on compact ...

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Jazz Brunch featuring Kurt Elling and the Laurence Hobgood Trio

Source: All About Jazz
August 7, 2002

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482 Music Releases Debut from Butcher/Masaoka/Robair

Source: All About Jazz
August 7, 2002

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AAJ's Marshall Bowden Authors "Quotable Jazz" - Due Out in September 2002

Source: All About Jazz
August 7, 2002

Musicians Speaking Freely

Do you know who said: “I spent a lot of time playing in miserable places that were not a lot of fun. Somebody once said it is character building and I was like 'My character is just fine'"? You can find out the jazz musician behind this and other humorous quotations in Marshall Bowden's Quotable Jazz, published September 2002 by Sound And Vision Books.

Jazz is hot. Since last year's showing of Ken Burns' Jazz on public ...

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Saxophonist Mike Phillips: Changing the Game Interview

Source: All About Jazz
August 6, 2002

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