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News: Award / Grant

2009 JJA Jazz Awards Winners

2009 JJA Jazz Awards Winners

Drumroll, please! And the winners of the 2009 Jazz Journalist Association (JJA) awards are... Top Honors 1. Lifetime Achievement in Jazz Lee Konitz 2. Musician of the Year Sonny Rollins 3. Composer of the Year Maria Schneider 4. Up and Coming Artist of the Year Esperanza ...

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News: Recording

Mike Stern Album w/: Vai, Johnson, MMW, Brecker

GUITARIST MIKE STERN PLAYS WITH TALENTED FRIENDS IN A BIG NEIGHBORHOOD Guest artists on new recording include Steve Vai, Eric Johnson, Esperanza Spalding Richard Bona, Randy Brecker, Medeski Martin & Wood, Cindy Blackman and others Mike Stern Five-time GRAMMY nominated guitarist Mike Stern's music has always come from a colorful and diverse ...

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News: Festival

11th Annual Twin Cities Jazz Festival Set For June 18-20, 2009

11th Annual Twin Cities Jazz Festival Set For June 18-20, 2009

Allen Toussaint, Esperanza Spalding, The New Standards and many more to perform at free outdoor concerts in Mears Park in Saint Paul. St. Paul/Minneapolis, MN -- The jazz festival that almost wasn't has announced an exciting lineup for its 2009 edition. The Twin Cities Jazz Festival was so hard pressed to secure adequate sponsorship money for ...

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News: Recording

What's in My Bag: Esperanza Spalding Shops at Amoeba

What's in My Bag: Esperanza Spalding Shops at Amoeba

There's something for everybody at Amoeba Music. Just ask marvelous, young jazz musician Esperanza Spalding. Spalding was given a mere ten minutes to shop at Amoeba, but managed to find some incredible gems including Graham Central Station, Minnie Riperton and Me'Shell NdegeOcello to name a few. Spalding's eclectic taste was no match for the stacks at ...

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Article: Live Review

New Orleans Jazz Fest draws 400,000+

Read "New Orleans Jazz Fest draws 400,000+" reviewed by Sandy Ingham


New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival New Orleans, LAApril 22-May 4, 2009There are hundreds of good reasons for jazz lovers to join the crowds at the annual New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. Reasons with names like Marsalis and Jordan, Batiste and Boutte--families whose musical heritage in the Birthplace of Jazz spans several ...

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News: Recording

Banana Republic Comp Includes Exclusive Tracks from Esperanza Spalding, Ayo, and David Snchez

Banana Republic Comp Includes Exclusive Tracks from Esperanza Spalding, Ayo, and David Snchez

This summer Banana Republic celebrates the inspiration of urban life with the release of City Sounds, a new digital album featuring never-before-heard tracks from the nine music artists appearing in the City Stories national ad campaign, including exclusive first tracks from OK Go and Liz Phair’s highly-anticipated new albums, as well as songs by Sara Bareilles, ...

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Article: Album Review

The Stanley Clarke Trio: Jazz in the Garden

Read "Jazz in the Garden" reviewed by Woodrow Wilkins


How do you make one jazz trio different from so many others? Have the diverse stylings of Stanley Clarke on bass, the experience of Lenny White on drums and the adventurous spirit of Hiromi on piano. The result is the Stanley Clarke Trio. Each member of this ensemble is a leader in his ...

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News: Technology

INgrooves Adds Telarc and Headsup Overseas

INgrooves Adds Telarc and Headsup Overseas

INgrooves has inked Telarc and Heads Up International, both divisions of Concord Music Group for digital distribution worldwide excluding the US and Canada. The wide ranging Telarc and Heads Up catalogs include jazz icons like Dave Brubeck, McCoy Tyner and Stanley Clarke, the blues of Taj Mahal and Tab Benoit, contemporary jazz from the likes Candy ...

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Article: Film Review

Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense - Episode Two: 12 Notes in Real Time

Read "Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present Tense - Episode Two: 12 Notes in Real Time" reviewed by John Kelman


Episode One | Episode Two | Episode Three | Episode Four ---> Icons Among Us: Jazz in the Present TenseEpisode Two: 12 Notes in Real Time The Documentary ChannelApril 27, 2009, 09:00-10:00PMParadigm Studio2009After a promising launch on April 20, 2009, with ...

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Article: Album Review

Cindy Bradley: Bloom

Read "Bloom" reviewed by Jeff Winbush


The smooth jazz listing in Wikipedia includes only eight trumpeters/flugelhornists and half of them are artists whose surname starts with the letter “B." The names include Chris Botti, Rick Braun, Randy Brecker and Tom Browne, all of whom have their own style and have left their own mark.It's time for another “B" to break ...


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