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Billy Higgins - Bank data to send money

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Brooklyn Sax Quartet CD now out on innova Recordings

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"The Way of the Saxophone" Brooklyn Saxophone Quartet innova 549

“...one of the strongest reed units anywhere, one that is focused in ensemble and distinctively individualistic in solos." -- Bob Blumenthal, The Boston Globe

The Brooklyn Saxophone Quartet, co-founded by tenorist David Bindman and baritonist Fred Ho, and joined by Sam Furnace and Chris Jonas, is a boldly colorful, radical saxophone quartet performing original works and arrangements which span the breadth of new music and harmonically ...

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JAZZ GIANTS

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LARRY CORYELL * STEVE MARCUS * STEVE SMITH * KAI ECKHARDT - COUNT'S JAM BAND - REUNION (Tone Center)

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Before fusion became popular in the early 70s, there was a community of musicians in NYC experimenting with Jazz/Rock in the mid-to-late 60s. Two of the leaders of this movement were guitarist Larry Coryell and saxophonist Steve “The Count" Marcus. They documented these radical new ideas on two classic recordings made in 1967 and 1968 using the name Count's Rock Band. The two musicians also collaborated on many of Larry Coryell's late 60s and early 70s recordings.

Once Coryell started ...

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Chuck Zueren: Why Not?? - Red Records

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Cuck Zeuren Why Not?? 1. Why Not?? 2. Wuz Up?? 3. Boos 4. Frunk 5. Old Friend 6. Ber-Goz-Crazy 7. At Last 8. Samber 9. Put Yo Foot In Yo Mouf And Say Ah! Chuck Zeuren - drums Shunzo Ono - trumpet, flugelhorn Dave Finucane - tenor ...

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BILLY HIGGINS UPDATE

Source: All About Jazz

As many of you may be aware legendary drummer Billy Higgins is very sick and in need of a liver transplant.

We have been in communication with Billy and he wants everyone to know that his spirit is strong and that he is grateful for all the support, prayers and donations that he has received.

However, he is not out of danger and has been unable to work since the end of October. This has not only been very hard ...

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Subtle But Groovin' Soul Jazz Star

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By Kenny Mathieson

Jack McDuff, who was often known as Brother Jack McDuff, but later upgraded that honorific to Captain (an image completed by a jaunty, Count Basie-style yachting cap), was one of the handful of leading exponents of the soul jazz style created on Hammond organ by Jimmy Smith in the late 1950s. Soul jazz was one of the most popular (and populist) of all jazz-based styles, and remains so today.

Although it had its roots in the piano ...

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Premier Exponent of Jazz Trombone

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By Kenny Mathieson

The death of J. J. Johnson by self-inflicted gunshot wound has not only ended the life of the greatest jazz exponent of his instrument, the slide trombone, but also erodes one of the few remaining links to the formative era of modern jazz. Johnson emerged from a basic grounding in swing to establish himself as the undisputed premier voice on trombone in the bebop era, and invented a new language for the instrument in the process.

There ...

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