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Recording

Verve Records To Release Unprecedented Verve Remixed Album

Source: All About Jazz
April 25, 2002

Website

Jazz Excursion Radio Program Doubles Audience Weekly During April 2002

Source: All About Jazz
April 25, 2002

The Jazz Excursion radio program has experienced incredible growth since coming back on the air in January and partnering with allaboutjazz.com. The number of listeners logging on to the show and 24/7 station has doubled every month since January and doubled every week during the month of April.

Jazz Excursion host John Sutton had this to say: “I credit the fantastic jazz audience for spreading the word about the show and the allaboutjazz.com new release hour for drawing new listeners ...

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Recording

Dreyfus Records to release Sylvain Luc's Trio Sud on

Source: All About Jazz
April 24, 2002

Music Industry

Concord Records Signs Musical Prodigy Peter Cincotti

Source: All About Jazz
April 24, 2002

Performance / Tour

Tim Lyddon Trio at the Deer Head Inn

Source: All About Jazz
April 23, 2002

Performance / Tour

Russell Malone and Ron Affif lead "Six String Sessions" May 30-June 1

Source: All About Jazz
April 23, 2002

Performance / Tour

Jon Regen Plays Carnegie Hall w/JIMMY SCOTT 4/22/2002

Source: All About Jazz
April 22, 2002

CARNEGIE HALL PRESENTS

Broadway Artists Sing the Songs of Billie Holiday Isaac Stern Auditorium Monday, April 22, 2002 8:00 PM Carnegie Hall Goes Pops Price Range [$21 - $79]

In 1943 the famed Commodore record shop in Times Square was where the stars of Broadway crossed paths with Billie Holiday and the stars of jazz. Producer Danny Kapilian and Music Director Terence Blanchard bring today's Broadway ...

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Obituary

David "Bubba" Brooks: May 29, 1922 - April 11, 2002

Source: All About Jazz
April 18, 2002

David Kenneth Brooks known a “Bubba" in the jazz community was a swing musician from the old school passed over Thursday, April 11, 2002 at Harlem Hospital. His tenor saxophone sound, derived from Coleman Hawkins to Chu Berry to Hershel Evans to Lester Young and Paul Gonsalves always expressed a personal feeling for the blues. Jazz patron Al Vollmer said, “He digested all the greats and it still came out as Bubba Brooks." Mr. Brooks was born in the “silk ...

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