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Performance / Tour

Rhythm Is Our Business Tour: Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra With Wynton Marsalis Central And Southern United States March 25 - April 24

Source: All About Jazz

Event

Tribute for Teddy Edwards

Source: All About Jazz

Mr. Byron Winston and “Friends Of Teddy Edwards" request the pleasure of your company at:

“A SUNDAY AFTERNOON FOR TEDDY" Sunday -February 2,2003 2pm to 6pm

The Musicians Union 817 North Vine Street Hollywood,California

$20.00 per person At The Door All Proceeds Will Go Directly To Teddy Edwards

(Food And Drink Will Be Available)

Chuck Niles And James Janisse From KKJZ Will Be The MCs

Expected Performers

Ernie Andrews

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Award / Grant

Keith Jarrett wins the Polar Music Prize 2003

Source: All About Jazz

Royal Swedish Academy of Music Award For Keith Jarrett

2003, the 20th anniversary year of the Keith Jarrett/Gary Peacock/Jack DeJohnette trio, begins with the announcement that Keith Jarrett has won the prestigious Polar Music Prize. Jarrett is the sole prize-winner this year as, for the first time, the Polar jury sets aside its habitual “popular" and “serious" categorization. The pianist has resolutely ignored such criteria throughout his career, and the terms can have little meaning when applied to the work ...

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Music Industry

New York City Band Curse Records New Version Of Jazz Classic "Pull My Daisy" With David Amram And Marc Ribot

Source: All About Jazz

(New York, NY) The song, “Pull My Daisy" is familiar to jazz fans as the soundtrack of the 1959 Alfred Leslie / Robert Frank film of the same name, which featured Jack Kerouac (narrator), Allen Ginsberg, Larry Rivers Gregory Corso and David Amram. Amram also wrote the score, with lyrics by Kerouac and Ginsberg.

In the summer of 2002, the New York City band Curse teamed up with Amram to record a new version in the spirit of the original. ...

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