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Aardvark Jazz Orchestra Presents 30th Annual Christmas Concert, Releases Two CDs

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Interview with Junior Mance at Yehoodi.com

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Yehoodi.com presents an exclusive interview with legendary jazz pianist Junior Mance. Junior reminisces about growing up with jazz in Chicago, playing at the Savoy Ballroom, what defines “swing" versus “the blues," and the “100 Magic Fingers" among other topics. Alternating between storytelling and demonstrating on the piano, the 53 minute interview is a lively history lesson for any jazz enthusiast. The entire interview can be accessed at http://www.yehoodi.com/happytime/. Yehoodi.com is co-sponsoring a night of swingin' jazz ...

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THURSDAY Other Dimensions In Music MEETS Joe Morris Trio

Source: All About Jazz

One of the world's highest regarded free jazz quartets, Other Dimensions in Music, meets the Joe Morris Trio on Thursday night at the INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART (ICA) Theater at 955 Boylston Street in Boston. Note the venue change. Please help spread the word...

OTHER DIMENSIONS IN MUSIC meets JOE MORRIS TRIO Thursday, December 12th at 8:30pm Institute of Contemporary Art 955 Boylston Street, Boston (between the Hynes Convention Center and Mass. Ave.) MBTA Green Line: Hynes/ICA Tickets are $10 ...

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Bill Evans And Dennis Chambers To Release New CDs On ESC Records In Early 2003

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Sundance Film Festival to Feature 30th Anniversary "Wattstax"

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2003 will find Stax Records -- its artists and musical legacy -- very much in view. Next month (1/16/2003 - 1/26/2003), the 30th Anniversary Edition of the documentary feature WATTSTAX will be screened at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. It will also be shown in limited theatrical release in spring 2003 through Columbia Pictures Repertory.

Originally billed as the “black Woodstock," Wattstax was a seven-hour concert for the benefit of the Watts Summer Festival, held at the ...

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Oakland East Bay Symphony to Present World Premiere of Omar Sosa's Afro-Symphony Jan. 24

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Armen Donelian CD Release Celebration Concert on December 8th at InHouse

Source: All About Jazz

with special guest Marc Mommaas

After a year which took him to Russia, Armenia, Georgia, Romania and France as a Fulbright Scholar, Jazz pianist Armen Donelian will celebrate the release of his new CD Mystic Heights on Sunnyside Records on Sunday, December 8th at InHouse in the heart of New York City's Soho district.

The second volume in his Grand Ideas solo piano series and his fifth album for Sunnyside, Mystic Heights features eight of Donelian's distinctive original compositions, including ...

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Judi Silvano and Friends Present Two Evenings of The Music & Lyrics Of Mark Murphy December 7 & 8th

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