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J@LC Celebrates The World Of Roy Haynes

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Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra With Wynton Marsalis Celebrates 10th Year Of Touring In 2002-03

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The LINCOLN CENTER JAZZ ORCHESTRA (LCJO) WITH WYNTON MARSALIS will celebrate its tenth anniversary of touring with a major national and international tour schedule that begins in late September 2002 and ends in April 2003. The world-renowned resident orchestra of Jazz at Lincoln Center (J@LC) played its first tour date on September 12, 1992 in Denville, NJ. Since then, the band has traveled to more than 250 cities in 30 countries on 5 continents, reaching millions of people with performances ...

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Trumpet Summit Concert and Headstone Dedication To Mark Day Long Tribute to Legendary Trumpeter Theodore "Fats" Navarro

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Noted NY Pianist Frank Hewitt Passes

Source: All About Jazz

Pianist Frank Hewitt, born October 23, 1935, died Thursday 9/5/02 of complications from cancer.

Frank Hewitt was a mainstay on the NY jazz scene from the mid-1950s until his passing. He played as a sideman with many notable musicians, including Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, John Coltrane, Howard McGhee, Cecil Payne, Arthur Prysock, and appeared frequently with the late Clarence “C" Sharpe. He appeared in 1961 in The Living Theater's production of The Connection. Over the last eight years, Frank was ...

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Eliane Elias Trio At The Iridium Jazz Club Sept. 10-15

Source: All About Jazz

Pianist, Eliane Elias is known for her distinct and immediately recognizable musical style which blends her Brazilian roots with her impressive jazz and classical skills. She has documented dozens of her own compositions on thirteen solo albums, all of them achieving the top ten of America's jazz charts, most reaching number one on the radio airplay charts and top five in Billboard Magazine. With her 1995 Solos and Duets album she received a Grammy Nomination for Best Jazz Solo Performance. ...

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Stu Goldberg's "Dedication" Breaks Into Jazz Chart

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MAXJAZZ Artists Inaugurate Kennedy Center

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Mulgrew Miller Returns to Recording With "The Sequel" on MAXJAZZ (September 17)

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Reunites Miller with Wingspan, the group he founded over 15 years ago

At age 46, Mulgrew Miller is one of the most acclaimed -- and recorded -- jazz pianists of his generation. In a 1995 NEW YORK TIMES poll, he was selected as the “most in-demand" pianist in jazz and was also listed by the venerable Hank Jones as one of Jones' favorite pianists. Yet while he is respected by his peers and embraced by audiences worldwide, Miller always believes ...

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