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Performance / Tour

Free Friday Night Jazz At The Firehouse Farmers Market (Philadelphia, PA)

Source: All About Jazz

Performance / Tour

Jamaaladeen Tacuma to Perform at Friday Night Jazz at The Firehouse

Source: All About Jazz

Performance / Tour

Gary Morgan & Panamericana! to Perform at Birdland, May 12, 19 and 26

Source: All About Jazz

AT BIRDLAND 315 W. 44th ST. NYC May 12, 19 and 26, Two Shows, 9 & 11 PM Music Charge $20**, Minimum $10 Reservations & Info (212) 581 3080 www.birdlandjazz.com

PANAMERICANA! is a 20 piece Jazz Orchestra that plays music from the New World. the US, Cuba, and especially, the contempoary music of Brazil. Featured composers are: Chico Buarque, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Milton Nascimento, Egberto Gismonti, Hermeto Pascoal, Jovino Santos Neto and ...

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Music Industry

Henry Grimes Update

Source: All About Jazz

By now you've probably heard the great news that master bassist HENRY GRIMES, who'd been missing from the music world ever since the late '6O's, has been found in good health (though pretty much destitute) living in a single~room occupancy hotel in South Central Los Angeles. He's been living in the same room for the last 2O years but had long ago sold his bass for survival needs & has since contented himself with writing poetry, trying a bit of ...

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Award / Grant

Rene Marie reaches # 26 on Billboard

Source: All About Jazz

Recording

Rare St

Source: All About Jazz

Performance / Tour

Gene Ess Quartet @ the Blue Note - May 11, 2003

Source: All About Jazz

Guitarist Gene Ess will perform with his quartet at the world-famous Blue Note Jazz Club on May 11, 2003. Joining Gene Ess are Ravi Coltrane on saxophones, Matt Garrison on bass, and Gene Jackson on drums.

Gene Ess brings his award-winning musicianship from a very diverse background. He grew up playing the classical piano, due to his mother being a classical pianist and a well-known piano instructor on the island of Okinawa; his early years were filled with the classical ...

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