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FREE RED RECORDS DOWNLOADS at VITMANIC.COM

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Free Red Records downloads at: http://stage.vitaminic.com/red_records/

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29th Street Saxophone Quartet, Bobby Watson, Cedar Walton, Dave Liebman, Fabio Morgera, Fabrizio Bosso Quintet, Giammarco, Lande, Leveratto, Gatto, Giovanni Tommaso, Hector “Costita" Bisignani, J.D. Allen, The Jazz Tribe, Jerry Bergonzi, Jim Snidero, Luis Agudo, Minichillo Norberto, Pablo Bobrowicky, Piero Bassini Trio, Piero Odorici, Ray Mantilla Space Station, Robert Stewart,Salvatore Tranchini & Franco Ambrosetti, Sphere, Steve Grossman, Victor Lewis, Walter Bishop Jr. and more. ...

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Red Records releases The Jazz Tribe featuring Ray Mantilla & Bobby Watson

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HERBIE HANCOCK LAUNCHES RECORD LABEL FOR ALL GENRES OF JAZZ

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Controversy Growing Around Metheny Remarks About Kenny G

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(6/14/00, 10 a.m. ET) - Controversy has been growing over comments guitarist Pat Metheny made about saxophonist Kenny G on his website (patmethenygroup.com). In the website's “question and answer" section, Metheny placed remarks he made during an interview for a Polish TV show in context -- he had been asked to talk to 8-to-11 year olds about jazz and he encouraged them to seek out the music of the greats and “not to get confused by the sometimes overwhelming volume ...

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Dana Gillespie and London Blues Band perform at Highgate House, Northamptonshire

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SUMMER JAZZ CONCERT

IN AID OF THE ETHEL FLOYD FOUNDATION SATURDAY 22ND JULY 2000

The Ethel Floyd Foundation are delighted to announce a summer jazz concert at Highgate House, Creaton, Northampton on Saturday 22nd july 2000.

Dana Gillespie who has toured with artists such as Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton and David Bowie will provide the live jazz. With over 37 albums released and a career span of 30 years Dana is well renowned and known as the female ...

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Jazz Journalists Awards 2000

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The Jazz Journalists Association will announce winners of the Jazz Awards 2000 at a cocktail party Sunday, June 25, 2 - 4 p.m., in the main space of the Knitting Factory (74 Leonard St., NYC NY). All musicians and jazz journalists are invited.

Honoring jazz musicians and jazz journalists for the fourth year in a row, the JJA's Jazz Awards represent a two-ballot process, wherein the approximately 300 members of the Association (writers, photographers, broadcasters and new media professionals) are ...

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DAVID BENOIT TO PARTICIPATE IN A CAPITOL FOURTH

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Pianist/composer brings musical celebration of Charles Schulz to Washington, DC.

GRP recording artist David Benoit will participate in A Capitol Fourth on Tuesday, July 4th, 2000. The annual event, which takes place on the West Lawn of the U. S. Capitol building, will be broadcast live on the local PBS affiliate in DC, and will be fed live to the national PBS network, the Armed Forces Radio and TV network, and National Public Radio.

Hosted by Barry Bostwick, A Capitol ...

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LADY SMITH BLACK MAMBAZO AND NATALIE COLE, IN LIVERPOOL, UK

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