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Article: Big Band Report

"A Swingin' Affair" Outshines Its Name

by Jack Bowers
June 8, 2009

With an appreciative bow and genial tip of the hat to the late Chairman of the Board, Frank Sinatra, the Los Angeles Jazz Institute named its semi-annual big-band soiree May 21-24 at the Sheraton LAX Four Points Hotel “A Swingin' Affair." Was the event able to live up to its name? In the immortal words of ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Ray George

by AAJ Staff
April 4, 2009

Meet Ray George:Mixing... musical talent; acting bbility and audience participation. Ray George presents a uniquely different approach to the music and club scene. Standards, oldies, vintage music. Songs ff Gershwin, Porter and Berlin. Oldies from Carol King, The Everly Brothers And Elvis. Mellow, vocal styling, with backings of light jazz combo group, pop arrangements ...

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News: Event

Big Bad Voodoo Daddy - Celebrate the Music & Legacy of Cab Calloway

March 28, 2009

HOW BIG CAN YOU GET 100 Years of Cab Calloway featuring Big Bad Voodoo Daddy Celebrate the music & legacy of Cab Calloway Cab Calloway was a legendary fireball of talent, whose infectious hi-de-his, ho-dehos, scattin and jivin, in a baritone singing voice rich and vibrant, became the spirited cry ...

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Article: Profile

Candido: Fountain of Youth

by AAJ Staff
December 22, 2008

By Bobby Sanabria At the youthful age of 87, NEA Jazz Master Candido Camero has indeed led a full life with no signs of slowing down. While still maintaining a busy schedule of performing and traveling, “The Man of a Thousand Fingers" is still wowing audiences the world over as a shining example of ...

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Article: From Far and Wide

Cab Calloway Home a New Landmark?

by Fradley Garner
November 17, 2008

“A bad happening for the jazz community" is how reedsman Dave Liebman described the demise earlier this year of the International Association of Jazz Educators. Why IAJE filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy is still being asked, but part of the problem was the return to Toronto for this year's conference. Attendance was little more than half ...

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Hi De Ho

Featuring the music of Cab Calloway
Duration: 10:50
December 25, 2007

Singer and bandleader Cab Calloway in a Vitaphone movie short. In spite of some dreadful racial stereoptypes (which were all too common in films in 1937), Calloway and his orchestra shine in 4 musical numbers: "I've Got A Right To Sing The Blues", "The Hi-De-Ho Miracle Man", "Frisco Flo", "Some Of These Days"

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St. James Infirmary

Featuring the music of Cab Calloway
Duration: 2:30
June 4, 2007

Cab Calloway sings one of his classic songs in this 1964 television appearance.

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Article: Profile

Joe Wilder: A True Living Legend

by Greg Thomas
February 10, 2006

Joe Wilder, a true living legend of the trumpet, is at long last getting what fellow brass great Roy Eldridge used to call “his screen credits . After 60+ years of superlative support work in big bands, Broadway pit orchestras and commercials, Wilder is finally headlining his own quartet at the Village Vanguard. ...

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