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News: Radio

Public Radio Debuts Weekly Live Jazz, Blues and Comedy Jam on 12 O'Clock Jump

By Mark Edelman Public radio has always been home for late night jazz programming. Add to that line-up 12 O'Clock Jump, public radio's brand new jazz, blues and comedy jam. Broadcast live every Saturday night/Sunday morning from midnight to 1AM central time, the weekly variety show is streamed live at wwww.kcur.org for the world to dig. ...

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Article: Profile

How Jazz May Have Influenced The Beatles

Read "How Jazz May Have Influenced The Beatles" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Introduction A publication from the French general knowledge “Tu Sais..." book series ("You Know..."), entitled “Tu Sais... Jazz," contains a final chapter on rock bands such as The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. It states that both the Beatles and the Stones “knew and loved old jazz and blues." From Paul McCartney's long familiarization with George ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Jazz Night at the Michener: Lily White in Doylestown (PA) on September 26th

Jazz Night at the Michener: Lily White in Doylestown (PA) on September 26th

Saturday, September 26, 2009 8 to 11 PM James A. Michener Art Museum 138 S. Pine St. Doylestown, PA 18901 215.340.9800 Saxophonist Lily White is one of the most promising and engaging young musicians on the New York jazz scene. In small clubs or large concert halls, on ...

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Article: Album Review

Glenn Patrik: Nuthin' But a Thang!

Read "Nuthin' But a Thang!" reviewed by Jim Santella


From America's heartland, Glenn Patrik sings and plays the kind of blues that made Kansas City a hub where musical pioneers met and exchanged ideas about swing, rhythm, blues, and being spontaneous. It was shortly before World War II and just about the same time that bebop was getting noticed in New York, when Kansas City ...

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Article: Album Review

Jay McShann: In Copenhagen

Read "In Copenhagen" reviewed by Chris Mosey


Jay “Hootie" McShann was like one of those Russian dolls that you knock down and they bounce right up again. Right up until his death in 2006 at the age of 90, he was one of the jazz world's great survivors. Born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, in 1916, his spiritual and musical home was Kansas City, where ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Charlie Parker: Bird in Time 1940-1947

Read "Charlie Parker: Bird in Time 1940-1947" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose


Charlie ParkerBird in Time 1940-1947--Selected Recordings and Rare InterviewsESP-Disk2008 Let us now praise a famous ghost... embracing the spirit of Charlie Bird Parker. They are like feathers fluttering down from a spirit up above. Bird feathers. I make haste to collect them as the settle around me ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Stanford Lively Arts Tribute to Miles Davis Culminates with “50 Years of Kind of Blue: A Live Jazz Laboratory,” April 18

Stanford Lively Arts Tribute to Miles Davis Culminates with “50 Years of Kind of Blue: A Live Jazz Laboratory,” April 18

To commemorate the half-century anniversary of Miles Davis’ legendary 1959 album Kind of Blue, Stanford Lively Arts—in a collaboration with Stanford Jazz Workshop and the National Jazz Museum in Harlem (NJMH)—will present “50 Years of Kind of Blue: A Live Jazz Laboratory” on Saturday, April 18 at 8:00 p.m. at Kresge Auditorium. This unique concert will ...

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In Copenhagen

Label: Sunnyside
Released: 2008

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Still Jumpin' The Blues

Label: Sunnyside
Released: 2007

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Hootie Blues

Label: Stony Plain Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Confessin' The Blues; Yes Sir;That's My Baby?; When The Lights Go Out; Hootie Blues; My Chile; I'll Catch The Sun; All of Me; Deed I Do; Jay McShann Interview.


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