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Jim Snidero: While Your Here (Red Records)

Source: All About Jazz

Jim Snidero Quartet While Your Here 1. While Your Here 2. Intimacy 3. A Few To Many 4. Fly Little Birdie 5. State Of Affairs 6. I Concentrate On You 7. I Can't Get Started 8. Fron Line Jim Snider: altosaxophone Benny green: piano Peter Washington: bass ...

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KEN BURNS JAZZ GOES PLATINUM

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5-CD set earns RIAA certification of 1 million units shipped, marking first time a jazz boxed set achieves this feat

Columbia Records/Legacy Recordings and The Verve Music Group are proud to announce the Platinum RIAA certification of Ken Burns JAZZ, the 5-CD boxed set companion to the documentary of the same name. This is the first time in history that a jazz boxed set has reached the feat of over one million shipped units, as the 5-CD boxed set has ...

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LA Love-In For Mr. Billy Higgins

Source: All About Jazz

Mr.Billy Higgins is in Need of another Liver Transplant.On Sunday March 18th.2001 2PM-10PM at the Musicians Union in Hollywood,there will be an Enormous “Love-In" for Billy Higgins. The Union is located at 817 N.Vine St.,Hollywood,CA.This “Love-In" will be a Benefit to help alleviate the enormous medical costs.The line-up of musicians participating in this event is as follows: David Ornette Cherry & Group,Harold Land & Bobby Hutcherson Quintet, Kenny Burrell,Ray Brown,Laurence Marable Trio,Sherman Ferguson's “JazzUnion",George Bohanon & “Bonsoir",Herbie Hancock, O.C.Smith,James Moody,Hubert ...

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CHICK COREA NEW TRIO WORLD TOUR...

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Pianist/composer Chick Corea Follows His 11th Grammy Award With An Exciting New Trio Release, World Tour and PBS Special

Chick Corea has long been known for not standing still. His latest endeavors bear this out: from his recent Grammy award for “Best Instrumental Arrangement" for “Spain for Sextet and Orchestra" for his classical release Corea.Concerto to critically acclaimed tours and albums with his acoustic ensemble Origin, and the stunning solo piano releases Originals and Standards, Corea has been ...

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Danish Music Award

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GRAPPELLI - A CELEBRATION

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Vai's Favored Nations Captures Carlton/Lukather Live In Japan

Source: All About Jazz

(Billboard - March 10, 2001) BY CLAY MARSHALL

LOS ANGELES-On a joint tour of Japan in 1998, famed guitarists Steve Lukather and Larry Carlton recorded a performance in Osaka, a city that Carlton says has some of the most loyal fans in the world. What they played is what you get on No Substitutions, a live album that Lukather says is “all non-fixed."

The loose, instrumental set, due March 20 from Favored Nations, features five songs, including performances ...

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Joe Zawinul and Alphonso Johnson interviews

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