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Dave Brubeck, Terence Blanchard & Jason Moran, Nnenna Freelon, Nancy Wilson & Ramsey Lewis, on Philadelphia

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Matthew Nicholl Named New Chair Of Contemporary Writing And Production Department At Berklee College Of Music

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BOSTON, MA, October 16, 2002 -- Prolific musician and award-winning educator Matthew Nicholl was recently appointed chair of the Contemporary Writing and Production Department at Berklee College of Music.

Since 1980, Nicholl has worked as a composer/arranger and keyboardist. He has composed soundtracks for films by the National Geographic Society, NASA, the US Postal Service, the Marriott Corporation, and Blue Cross/Blue Shield, and scored station ID and promotional packages for PBS, as well as numerous local television and radio stations. ...

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Blue Note Records Releases The 2-CD Compilation "The Classic Blue Note Recordings"Of Saxophone Great Wayne Shorter

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Kazuko Baba Trio Releases "ai" on Playscape Recordings

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The power of love, it would seem, is central to the work of Kazuko Baba, pianist-composer. Above and beyond the reference in the title ("ai" means “love" in Japanese) and the different phases of romance that the composer says spawned each of her tunes, the sublime force is chief among the things required if one is to do as Baba has done in the decade or so since she came under the spell of jazz in her native Japan. Within ...

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DePaul Jazz Ensembles

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Pianist Beegie Adair Releases Centennial Composers 6-CD Box Set on Green Hill

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Roughly a century ago, six composers were born -- Irving Berlin, Hoagy Carmichael, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Duke Ellington and Richard Rodgers -- and they forever changed the style of popular music. To celebrate their awesome musical accomplishments, pianist Beegie Adair and her jazz trio have released a four-and-a-half-hour Centennial Composers six-CD box set with new renditions of a dozen or more of the best-known tunes by each songwriter.

With a full CD devoted to each composer, this expansive and ...

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ECM Releases Charles Lloyd's 2-CD Set "Lift Every Voice"

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Charles Lloyd: tenor saxophone, flute, taragato Geri Allen: piano John Abercrombie: guitar Marc Johnson: double-bass Larry Grenadier: double-bass Billy Hart: drums

ECM 1832/33 (2-CD-Set 440 018 783-2)

Charles Lloyd introduces a new line-up, or line-ups, on Lift Every Voice. The recording derives from two sessions in Los Angeles in January and February of this year. The first employed the services of pianist Geri Allen (making her ECM debut), Larry Grenadier ...

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Rhinohandmade.Com To Release Jimmy Scott's Lost Masterpiece "Falling In Love Is Wonderful"

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