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Avishai Cohen's International Vamp Band to Appear at Jazz Gallery

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James Louis "J.J." Johnson dies

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INDIANAPOLIS -- James Louis “J.J." Johnson, an influential jazz trombonist who later forged a career arranging and recording scores for motion pictures and television, died Sunday. He was 77. Johnson, who had been ill in recent months, committed suicide at his home Sunday morning, the Marion County Sheriff's Department said. The Indianapolis native, who began playing piano at age 11, was a perennial winner of “Down Beat" magazine's reader's poll as best trombonist. While he was praised by jazz aficionados, ...

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BEFORE NIGHT FALLS SOUNDTRACK TO BE RELEASED FEBRUARY 27th, 2001

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Music from acclaimed film highlights Cuban legends and more

On Tuesday, February 27th, 2001, Blue Thumb Records will release the soundtrack to the acclaimed film Before Night Falls. The CD features many renowned artists from several decades of Cuban music.

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 2000 Venice Film Festival, Before Night Falls is a journey into the life and writings of Cuban author and exile Reinaldo Arenas. The Fine Line Features film was directed and co-written by ...

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Trombonist J.J. Johnson passes

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2001 harman: how to listen

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What is harman: how to listen?

harman: how to listen is a touring music-appreciation course targeting multicultural, urban elementary schools for children ages eight to ten. The program's master-class presentations are conducted to accommodate groups of one hundred and fifty to two hundred students.

harman: how to listen takes an interactive, participatory approach designed to explore, with young minds and young ears, new ways of “how and what" to listen for in music. Using the harman: how to listen curriculum, ...

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MUSICAL LEGEND CHUCK MANGIONE JOINS HARMAN INTERNATIONAL'S MUSIC EDUCATION PROGRAM "harman: how to listen

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Randy Cannon Trio Live at Sundowner's, Bangkok, Thailand

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Sundowner's Jazz Club Imperial Queen's Park Hotel, 199 Sukhumvit Soi 22, Bangkok 10110, Thailand T +66 (2) 261 9000 F +66 (2) 2619481 EMAIL: [email protected] Daily except Monday from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. until September 2001 Randy Cannon, piano Thardsak Wongvichien, bass Lester Esteban, drums Leonard Feather, author of the famed 'Encyclopaedia of Jazz' writes: “Cannon is a pianist of formidable gifts, with rich dynamic variety and consistently galvanizing rhythmic sensitivity". Randy Cannon Playing Jazz since the age of ...

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Original Art JAZZ PAINTINGS David Dalessandro http://www.geocities.com/ddaless879

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New York Artist David Dalessandro Using jazz as his inspiration, this New York artist paints with bright colors and strong gesture. These paintings look great in black frames. The large paintings are great as the focal point of any interior. This painter attended one of the most prominent art schools in New York, The New York Studio school of Painting, Drawing & Sculpture. Paul Georges, Philip Guston, Esteban Vicente, and Mercedes Matter were amoung the 1st & 2nd generation Abstract ...

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