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Tony Bennett Performing in Cohasset and Hyannis on August 14-15

August 14, 2010

Jazz legend Tony Bennett is performing two shows in Massachusetts this weekend: at the South Shore Music Circus in Cohasset on Saturday, August 14, and at the Cape Cod Melody Tent in Hyannis on Sunday, August 14. Both shows start at 7:00 p.m. Tickets are available online at the Music Circus and the Melody Tent or ...

The Real Book Argentina (Free Download)

August 14, 2010

In 2008, Argentine pianist Esteban Sehinkman undertook a grand project: he would create a “real book" of compositions by Argentine jazz musicians. Anyone who has ever played in a high school jazz combo is familiar with the American real book (or “fake book"), a collection of lead sheets for pretty much every standard you can think ...

One Track Mind: Miles Davis with Mike Stern, "Fat Time" (1981)

August 14, 2010

By Pico Like many of the greatest American musicians, Miles Davis has had a comeback—-he's had four or five of them, actually—-but only one where he came back from not playing at all. It was also his least successful one in the short run. The 1975-1981 retirement was a period where Miles watched a lot of ...

New Photos from Joe Lovano and McCoy Tyner at Middelheim

August 14, 2010

Abbey Lincoln, RIP

August 14, 2010

Abbey Lincoln died today in New York. The singer and actress was 80 years old. After meeting Max Roach when he played drums on one of her record sessions in 1957, Ms. Lincoln came under his sway in her approach to music and in uncompromising civil rights activism. She and Roach married in 1962 and divorced ...

University Singers Ends UK Five-City Tour in Reading and London

August 13, 2010

Jamaica's highly acclaimed University Singers, under the direction of Noel Dexter, approaches the end of its five-city UK tour with a penultimate performance in Reading on Saturday, August 14. The tour began in London on July 23 and travelled to Berlin, Germany August 1-3 before returning to the UK. Conducted under the theme, Connecting with Diaspora: ...

The Exposed Blues Duo Will Celebrate Bare (Greene Avenue Music) at Barbes September 15th

August 13, 2010

On Wednesday, September 15th, The ExPosed Blues Duo, featuring vocalist Fay Victor and guitarist Anders Nilsson, will celebrate their August 31st debut, BARE (Greene Avenue Music), with a special hometown performance at Barbès in Brooklyn. Best known for their work together in Ms. Victor's acclaimed quartet, the Fay Victor Ensemble, these frequent collaborators have used this ...

Leon Breeden, Gone

August 13, 2010

The average jazz listener—whoever that might be—may never give a thought to how his favorite musicians learned their art. There was a time, long past, when most professional jazz artists reached proficiency through on-the-job training. Music departments in institutions of higher education took decades to recognize jazz as a serious branch of music. Older jazz players ...

Rebirth Brass Band to Play October 7 at the Gramophone

August 13, 2010

This just in: New Orleans' Rebirth Brass Band (pictured), recently featured in several episodes of the HBO TV series Treme, is coming to St. Louis to perform on Thursday, October 7 at the Gramophone. Former in 1983 by Keith Frazier, Philip Frazier and Kermit Ruffins, the Rebirth Brass Band (along with their New Orleans cohorts the ...

Jazz This Week: David Sanborn Trio, Guitars and Saxes, Miles Davis Jazz Festival, and More

August 13, 2010

The weather in St. Louis is brutally hot this week, but if you can brave the scorching conditions enough to leave the house, there are several shows of interest to jazz fans happening during the next few days. Most notably, saxophonist and former St. Louisan David Sanborn (pictured) and his current trio featuring organist Joey DeFrancesco ...