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George Benson is to appear in Liverpool, UK

Source: All About Jazz

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The Berkeley Item - #88

Source: All About Jazz

For “PICKS," a new feature debuting this week on the Fantasy web site, we have asked friends and colleagues in the business to provide a list of their ten favorite titles from the Fantasy catalog. http://www.fantasyjazz.com/html/picks_main.html

Company chairman and film producer SAUL ZAENTZ couldn't stop at ten; his preferences range from the soundtrack for “Amadeus" (the film earned him a “Best Picture" Oscar) to recordings by artists he worked with in the '50s and '60s (Lenny Bruce, Dave Brubeck, Vince ...

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Pianist Marc Sabatella releases new CD of jazz standards

Source: All About Jazz

Jazz pianist Marc Sabatella balances a profound sense of lyricism with a dynamic, adventurous streak. For his latest CD “Falling Grace", Marc has chosen a set of standards and lesser-known jazz compositions that deserve to and may yet become standards in their own right. The performances are beautiful and joyous examples of mainstream piano playing, drawing from the traditions of musicians like Bill Evans, Thelonious Monk, Oscar Peterson, and Don Pullen.

Marc Sabatella is perhaps best known as the author ...

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MATTHIAS LUPRI QUINTET with Bruce Gertz

Source: All About Jazz

Mainstream contemporary jazz vibraphonist Matthias Lupri, will be performing music from the release of his latest cd“Shadow of the Vibe", (Chartmaker Jazz CMG5060) with his quintet in concert on Thursday, July 20, 2000 at the Quincy Festival, Mainstreet Quincy, Ma at 12 noon (Free) and Friday, July 21, 2000 at the Acton Jazz Cafe, 452 Great Rd., Rte. 2A, Acton. (978) 263-6161. (Admission $10). Show starts 9PM. Performing with Lupri will be Steven Kirby (g), Bill Vint (s), Bruce Gertz ...

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Catalyst Productions Delivers Music From The Heart

Source: All About Jazz

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Seattle's ROCKIN' TEENAGE COMBO is now up at mp3.com!

Source: All About Jazz

Rockin' Teenage Combo, Seattle's beloved space-walking, tight-tripping, twenty-something acid-fusion trio will bring a smile to even the most serious jazz, funk, or rhythm head. Alternating between funky grooves, noisy outbursts, and melodic escapades, these three experienced players (they're not REALLY teenagers, you see - the name comes from a tongue-in-cheek Frank Zappa quote) kick out a vamp-heavy mix that's soulful, smart, uppity, unpredictable, always memorable - and quite often unforgetably blissful.

That said, do head on over to their site ...

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SOUL NOTE releases FRANK KIMBROUGH - NOUMENA on June 13th

Source: All About Jazz

THE JAZZ COMPOSERS COLLECTIVE AND SOUL NOTE RECORDS ANNOUNCE THE RELEASE OF NOUMENA BY FRANK KIMBROUGH, with SCOTT ROBINSON, BEN MONDER and TONY MORENO

RELEASE DATE - JUNE 13th The album's title is taken from Jack Kerouac's book On The Road, where he writes that “Noumena is what you see with your eyes closed". Kimbrough's compositions are what we hear with our eyes closed, loosely written to encourage freedom, spontaneity, interpretation and improvisation, with melody and ...

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Swedes Deliver Unpretentious Jazz

Source: All About Jazz

NEW YORK (AP) - It was just jazz - straightforward, unpretentious. But what the Swedish musicians delivered Tuesday at Carnegie Hall, in a kind of prelude to the 12-day JVC Jazz Festival, was of quality that the festival's participants may find difficult to match.

All evening, Swedish musicians in various groups made straightforward jazz interesting, playing with skill, feeling and fluency. They improvised and didn't overembroider; they played a lot more clarinet than one gets from American jazz concerts these ...

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