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Monterey Jazz Festival Announces Free Bike Valet Service Provided by Monterey Green Action, September 17-19, 2010
Monterey Jazz Festival Announces Free Bike Valet Service Provided by Monterey Green Action, September 17-19, 2010 Parking Arrangements Courtesy of Monterey Peninsula College Shuttles for MJF Patrons Provided by Monterey-Salinas Transit Monterey, CA; The 53rd annual Monterey Jazz Festival Presented by Verizon is proud to host its free Bicycle Valet Parking for patrons who are able ...
And then Miles Davis and John Lennon Started Playing Basketball....
There's this most excellent footage floating around the 'net of a John Lennon / Yoko Ono party from 1972 that features Andy Warhol, Phil Spector and Miles Davis. The 16mm color film was shot by filmmaker Jonas Mekas (the date was specifically October 9, 1972). Great. Party footage. Looks like they had fun. Good for them. ...
"Concert for Kids" Kicks Off 53rd Monterey Jazz Festival Weekend,
The “Concert for Kids" is a twenty-year tradition at the Monterey Jazz Festival. The Festival invites children from Monterey County middle and high schools to attend the free event every year, with an estimated 500 students attending. The concert is part of an outreach effort on the part of the educational programs of the Monterey Jazz ...
Jazz pianist Dee Spencer named director of SF State School of Music and Dance
SAN FRANCISCO, CA—Celebrated jazz artist Dianthe “Dee" Spencer was recently named director of the School of Music and Dance at San Francisco State University. She now leads one of the longest-standing and most diverse performing arts programs in Northern California. “Dee Spencer is poised to lead our School of Music and Dance with gusto," said Kurt ...
Happy Birthday, Cat Anderson!
Jazz trumpeter William “Cat" Anderson (1916-1981) was born in Greenville, South Carolina. His parents died when he was only four years old, so Cat grew up in an orphanage in Charleston. It was here that he learned how to play the trumpet. Fellow orphans gave him the nickname “Cat," not for his trumpet playing but for ...
Legendary Randy Van Horne Singers Return To Stage on September 12
The Randy Van Horne Singers, famous for The Nat King Cole Show, Hanna-Barbera cartoon theme songs The Flintstones, Yogi Bear, The Jetsons, and many others and work with Martin Denny and Esquivel will perform live on stage at the Pasadena Central Library (CA) SECOND SUNDAY CONCERTS presents ...And All That Jazz THE RANDY VAN HORNE SINGERS ...
A Fine Vintage Wein
George Wein knew and/or worked with just about everyone in jazz over the last half century. His autobiography, Myself Among Others (Da Capo, 2004), written with Nate Chinen, is a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the life of a jazz producer and sometime performer. Wein grew up in the Boston area and opened the Storyville Club there ...
Jazz Poetry - "Lester Young"
By Ted Joans Sometimes he was cool like an eternalblue flame burning in the old KansasCity nunnerySometimes he was happy 'til he'd thinkabout his birth place and its bloodstained clay hills and crow-filled treesMost times he was blowin' on the wonderfultenor sax of his, preachin' in very cooltones, shouting only to remind you ofa certain point ...
