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Musicians Join Forces to Perform at Benefit for Legendary Jazz Guitarist Barney Kessel

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Barney Kessel Benefit Birdland 315 West 44th Street 212-581-3080 Tickets are $25 at the door 7 p.m

A benefit concert for jazz guitar great Barney Kessel, who has been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, has been scheduled for Wednesday, June 12th, at Birdland located at 315 West 44th Street in New York City. Artists to perform include George Benson, Jim Hall, Larry Coryell, John Scofield, George Coleman, Ray Bryant, Harold ...

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Ran Blake Trio World Premiere July 20th, US Debut July 25th

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Jungle of Stone leads mp3 vocal charts

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Heleen van den Hombergh's new jazz song Jungle of Stone leads the vocal charts on mp3.com. It is one of twelve adventurous songs on her debut cd Heard in the Scene, which was released in the Netherlands three months ago. On mp3.com this song is freely available for download. In only a few days the song reached the top of the jazz vocal charts!

Jazz singer Heleen van den Hombergh wrote lyrics and music of this ...

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El Cahon Concerts on The Green Presents

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Fresh Sound Records Releases "The Unquiet" by Double Bassist Matt Penman

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Matt Penman, 27, started his musical endeavors at the age of 6 when his mother, a classical piano teacher, deemed him mature enough to cope with the inherent difficulties of a parent-child teaching situation. She was of course wrong and spent the next 10 years discovering this. Not a very rewarding period for Mrs Penman but one in which she may well look back on with rosy-tinted nostalgia in light of Matt’s later achievements. It was during this period that ...

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Sam Most & Al Viola sparkle in this new, live! recording

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Two vital but often overlooked virtuosi, in the relaxed atmosphere of a “lounge gig," put on a dazzling display of melodic and rhythmic brilliance in “Pacific Standard Time, the new CD from UFO-BASS records. In a program of nine standards, the pair, backed by bassist Richard Simon, deliver chorus after wonderful chorus of mature yet playful improvisations, relfecting their combined experience of over a century of sophisticated music-making. Long acknowledged as one of the pioneers of jazz flute (along with ...

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The Expressions of Jazz

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Kokopelli Latin Jazz Ensemble Performs at the Lake Murray Music Festival

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