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News: Event

Icons Among Us Visits Detroit, Wednesday June 15 at Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History

June 8, 2011

Episode One: A Quiet Revolution to screen at Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History Wednesday June 15 @ 6:30 pm Spread the word to your friends in Detroit. This FREE screening of the modern jazz documentary's first episode throws the spotlight on the emergence of new waves of artists and their relationships with their ...

News: Festival

54th Annual Monterey Jazz Festival September 16 - 18

April 20, 2011

The 54th Monterey Jazz Festival, three-time winner of the JazzTimes Readers poll for “World's Best Jazz Festival" takes place September 16 to September 18 at the Monterey Fairgrounds, home to the Festival for 54 consecutive years. Described as “a cultural colossus" by the San Jose Mercury News and “a mecca for true jazz fans" by the ...

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News: Festival

2011 Playboy Jazz Line-Up Announced

February 11, 2011

By Chuck Koton There are many reasons for Americans to express their collective gratitude to Hugh Hefner. He played a fundamental role in sophisticating society's senses in the1950s. And there are the women. There is the ground breaking path Hef carved in transcending the puritanical sexual mores of the Eisenhower era. And there are the women. ...

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Article: Year in Review

J Hunter's Best Releases of 2010

by J Hunter
January 9, 2011

Counting down the best releases of 2010: Allison Miller Boom Tic Boom Foxhaven 2010 Anyone with job references as diverse as organ icon Dr. Lonnie Smith and indie singer/songwriter Ani DiFranco must have something interesting to say, and drummer Allison Miller proves that out. Boom Tic Boom is ...

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News: Obituary

Charles Fambrough - R.I.P.

January 3, 2011

After a long bout battling liver disease and many years of suffering, the great jazz bassist Charles Fambrough passed away on Saturday, January 1, 2011. Fambrough had apparently been awaiting a transplant match. Several musical tributes were held in Philadelphia over the last several years to help Fambrough and his family pay the bassist's outrageous medical ...

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Chris Massey

by AAJ Staff
September 11, 2010

Meet Chris Massey:Chris Massey is fast becoming one of the most talked about young talented players in the world of jazz. Growing up in small town Ohio where he picked up his first pair of drumsticks a the age of nine he took his first steps into his musical career as a Jazz Performance ...

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News: Radio

Continuum, A Journey Through Jazz: "Satchmo Summerfest"

July 27, 2010

Soulandjazz.com Presents: Continuum, A Journey Through Jazz Episode 16--"Satchmo Summerfest," Part 1 Hosted and Produced by J. Scott Fugate, “The Jazz Evangelist" As always, the show is free, absolutely legal, fun for the whole family, and available for listening right now, right here. It's almost time for my annual trip to New Orleans to ...

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Article: Album Review

Dr. John and The Lower 911: Tribal

by Chris May
July 7, 2010

With hindsight, keyboards player and vocalist Mac Rebennack's return to his “Dr. John, The Night Tripper" oeuvre might have been foreseen before the recording of Tribal, when in 2006 he once more donned the full-blown voodoo regalia for his appearance at the Bonnaroo Music Festival. But then Katrina came along and Rebennack's attentions became focused on ...

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Article: Live Review

Christian Scott Quintet, Live at the Saville Theater, San Diego, CA

by Robert Bush
June 26, 2010

Christian Scott Quintet Saville Theater (San Diego City College) San Diego, CA April 13, 2010 I believe it was the English writer/contrarian George Bernard Shaw who first coined the phrase: “Youth is wasted on the young." Anybody buying into that cliché was soon set straight--provided they were fortunate enough to ...

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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Donald Harrison

June 23, 2010

All About Jazz is celebrating Donald Harrison's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Donald Harrison(The King of Nouveau Swing) Donald Harrison is being called one of the most important musicians of the new millennium by CBS Sunday Morning. A list of his accomplishments shows that he has developed ...