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News: Website

AAJ Launches Contest Giveaways with Lester Young and Oscar Peterson Box Sets and "Live from Monterey Jazz Festival" Series

August 26, 2008

All About Jazz has re-launched its contest feature giving MY AAJ members an opportunity to win quality jazz products. Enter our contest giveaways! We're giving away one box each of the Lester Young/Count Basie Sessions 1936-1940 4-CD set and the The Complete Clef/Mercury Recordings Of Oscar Peterson Trio 7-CD set. We're also giving away the 6-CD ...

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News: Contest

Enter the Mosaic Records "Oscar Peterson Trio" Giveaway

August 26, 2008

All About Jazz readers are invited to join the Mosaic Records The Complete Clef/Mercury Recordings Of Oscar Peterson Trio 7-CD set giveaway starting today. We'll select one lucky winner at the conclusion of the contest on September 26th. Click here to enter the contest All contestants will join the Oscar Peterson @ AAJ fan network and ...

News: Festival

51st Monterey Jazz Festival

August 26, 2008

51st Annual Monterey Jazz Festival Presented By Verizon September 19 - 21, 2008 Features Groundbreaking And Legendary Artists On 9 Stages For 3 Days Of Nonstop Jazz Entertainment The Monterey Jazz Festival Presented by Verizon, launches its second half-century of legendary live jazz presentation, reflecting the artistic excellence that has made MJF the longest running jazz ...

News: Event

Eric Frazier at Rustik: Not Your Average Tuesday Night in Brooklyn

August 26, 2008

By DuEwa Frazier Rustik Tavern 471 Dekalb Avenue Brooklyn, New York 11205 (347)406-9700 Tuesday, August 11, 2008 On Tuesday, August 11th at 8pm, a crowd of music lovers, neighbors and musicians gathered for the weekly jam session and open mic hosted by jazz percussionist, ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Grammy Nominee Sammy Figueroa Appearing at Berkeley's la Pea Cultural Center

August 26, 2008

Grammy nominee and one of the world's premier Latin jazz bands Sammy Figueroa and his Latin Jazz Explosion appearing at Berkeley's La Pea Cultural Center Long known as one of the world's great players, percussionist Sammy Figueroa has performed and recorded with artists such as Miles Davis, the Brecker Brothers, Mariah Carey, Chaka Khan, and John ...

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News: Music Industry

Most Sung-About Body Part? The Eyes Have It

August 26, 2008

Visual artists Fernanda Vigas and Martin Wattenberg analyzed over 10,000 songs to find out which parts of the human body were mentioned the most and broke down the resulting data by genre. The result: An interactive graphic work called “Listen" that correlates musical genres with the body parts they mention the most, as part of their ...

News: TV / Film

Woodstock: Rock's Famous Fest Heads to the Big Screen

August 26, 2008

Oscar-winning director Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain, The Ice Storm) and his producer partner James Schamus are dialing back to 1969 in their current project Taking Woodstock. Based on a true story, Demetri Martin stars as interior designer Elliot Tiber, who inadvertently played a pivotal role in Woodstock when he offered his family's Catskills hotel to organizers ...

News: Festival

Jazz Fest to Honor Motown Superstar Marvin Gaye

August 26, 2008

Somewhere, Marvin Gaye is smiling. The singer was known as “the Prince of Motown" and became one of that fabled label's most commercially successful artists on the strength of hits like “How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)" and “I Heard It Through the Grapevine." He turned musical revolutionary with “What's Going On," his ...

News: Technology

Jacqui Dankworth Launches Exclusive New Website

August 26, 2008

The UK's leading vocalist Jacqui Dankworth, daughter of Dame Cleo Laine & Sir John Dankworth, has just launched her new website at jacquidankworth.com. The website has been constructed in two halves. The first half is open to everyone who simply visits the site, but the second half is only open to those who join Jacqui's information ...

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News: Interview

Percussionist Steven Kroon Interviewed at AAJ

August 26, 2008

Percussionist Steve Kroon has spent many years walking through a variety of musical worlds. He spent his childhood years surrounded by all sorts of musical figures, with connections to jazz, Cuban music, rhythm and blues, Brazilian music, and more. His deep involvement led to local performance and recording jobs, and eventually a high profile gig with ...