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Jazz Jamboree: Michael Brecker Quartet, Dave Holland Quintet & Wynton Marsalis Septet With Joe Lovano, April 25

Source: All About Jazz

In a concert that promises to be one of the most exciting in the 2002-03 season, Jazz at Lincoln Center (J@LC) will produce a special JAZZ JAMBOREE featuring three of jazz music's most electrifying ensembles. For one night only on Friday, April 25 at 8pm, the WYNTON MARSALIS SEPTET with special guest JOE LOVANO, the DAVE HOLLAND QUINTET, and the MICHAEL BRECKER QUARTET will convene on the stage of Avery Fisher Hall for a blowout performance. The ensembles will perform ...

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Delmark Records 50th Anniversary CD Sets

Source: All About Jazz

On April 22nd, Delmark Records will release a pair of double-disc compilation CDs and box set to commemorate its 50th Anniversary (I've pasted the one sheet below.) These releases are a comprehensive collection of Delmark's 50 year old catalogue of jazz and blues recordings - a virtual slice of musical history.

Special notes: 2003 is the “Year of the Blues." This year's 20th Annual Chicago Blues Festival (May 29 - June 1) has planned a tribute to Delmark, the “Golden ...

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RKM Music Poised for 2003

Source: All About Jazz

Since the inception of the jazz business over 80 years ago, progressive-minded jazz musicians have yearned for both the artistic freedom and career control that the creation and ownership of their own recordings would provide. Today, with label cutbacks resulting from the retail crisis and the availability of free product on the Internet, combined with the access to affordable high quality recording technology, more and more musicians are talking about self-empowerment through issuing their own recordings.

But two outstanding musicians ...

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The Billy Taylor Jazz Series at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Source: All About Jazz

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street New York, New York 10028-0198

For tickets, call the Concerts & Lectures Department at 212-570-3949. Updated schedules and programs are available at the Museum's Web site, www.metmuseum.org

Student discount tickets are available for some events; call 212-570-3949.

The Billy Taylor Jazz Series

March 27, 2003 The Russell Malone Quartet Tickets: $35 ...

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Trumpet Star Terence Blanchard Signs With Blue Note Records

Source: All About Jazz

Trumpeter, composer and bandleader Terence Blanchard has inked a deal with Blue Note Records and is currently putting the final touches on his debut recording for the label, which is tentatively scheduled for a release in August or September of this year. The record is co-produced by Blanchard and Michael Cuscuna, and features his working band: pianist Aaron Parks, bassist Brandon Owens, drummer Eric Harland, guitarist Lionel Loueke and saxophonist Brice Winston.

Pictured in Blue Note's Manhattan office are (L-R): ...

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Rhino Jazz Celebrates Jaco With 2-CD "Punk Jazz" Anthology

Source: All About Jazz

LOS ANGELES -- Jaco Pastorius is widely acknowledged as the man who forever changed the way the bass guitar is played and viewed. “Jaco thought like an orchestrator as he played, dealing in advanced concept of harmony, counterpoint and texture," wrote Jaco biographer Bill Milkowski in his comprehensive notes to Punk Jazz: The Jaco Pastorius Anthology. Not only a pioneer in style and technique, Jaco crudely pulled out his frets with a pair of pliers, smoothed over the holes with ...

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The 8th Annual Vision Festival at The Center May 21 thru May 26, 2003

Source: All About Jazz

ARTS FOR ART, INC 508 East 6 Street, NYC 10009 tel 212 226 0513 fax 212-533-1939 www.visionfestival.org

The Eighth Annual Vision Festival The AvantJazz Festival The Center 268 Mulberry Street Wednesday MAY 21 thru Monday May 26, 2003

New York, NY -- Operating within a vast ocean of mediocrity, a culture of sameness and tired conventions, Arts for Art presents New York's world renowned, AvantJazz festival, ...

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JazzWeek Holds Annual Jazz Summit Rochester, New York on June 5-7, 2003

Source: All About Jazz

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