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Come Together: Vorcza Live (CD Release Party)

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by Doug Collette

Vorcza Showcase Lounge/Higher Ground, South Burlington, Vermont December 9, 2005 There was a festive air in the Showcase Lounge at Higher Ground South Burlington VT on Friday December 9th and it wasn't all due to the Christmas season or the ...

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Monika Heidemann at 55 Bar

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by Budd Kopman

Monika Heidemann 55 Bar, New York, New York December 14, 2005 Singer Monika Heidemann, whose album Bright I recently reviewed, appeared with her band at 55 Bar on Christopher Street in NYC for a 7:00-9:00PM show. It was a very cold evening, and it was just as well ...

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Staying Straight: The Third Anguilla Tranquility Jazz Festival

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by Franz A. Matzner

From Reykjavik, Iceland to Vilnius, Lithuania, jazz events have become de rigueur throughout the world of international tourism and the jazz festival concept has blossomed into big business. Established festivals like St. Lucia's draw thousands of visitors, encouraging new gatherings to pop up on seemingly every strip of sand along the Caribbean chain. Though billed as ...

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Seattle Improvised Music Festival Fundraiser

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by Bill Bennett

Seattle Improvised Music Festival Fundraiser Gallery 1412 December 4, 2005 7:00 p.m. The original concept of one minute improvised solos by 40 musicians fascinated me from the first time I saw the fliers, certainly an intriguing idea. How in the world that many players could fit into Gallery 1412 ...

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Syncopated Rhythms: African American Art from the George and Joyce Wein Collection, Boston University

Read "Syncopated Rhythms: African American Art from the George and Joyce Wein Collection, Boston University" reviewed by Virginia A. Schaefer

by Virginia A. Schaefer

On view at the Boston University Art Gallery, Syncopated Rhythms features works by African American artists, selected from the collection of jazz impresario George Wein and his late wife Joyce Wein. The artworks were created between the early twentieth century and today, but most are dated in the 1940s through 1970s. Artists represented include Romare Bearden, ...

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Charlie Peacock Band at the Jazz Standard

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by Ernest Barteldes

Charlie Peacock Jazz Standard New York City November 9, 2005 The Jazz Standard was packed to see Charlie Peacock leading a group with Marc Ribot (guitar), Jeff Coffin (tenor sax, flute), Felix Pastorius (electric bass), Maurice Brown (trumpet) and Matt Wilson (drums) in support of his most recent CD, Love ...

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Rockin' Blues Revue: John Mayall / Robben Ford / Eric Bibb

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by Doug Collette

Rockin' Blues Revue Flynn Performing Arts Center Burlington, Vermont November 16, 2005 The Rockin' Blues Revue that appeared on the Flynn Performing Arts Center's main stage on November 16 evoked a hearty response from blues fans and guitar hero-worshippers alike. Yet before the comparatively short show was over, the ...

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The Derek Trucks Band: From The Mystic to the Mainstream

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by Doug Collette

The Derek Trucks Band Lebanon Opera House Lebanon, New Hampshire November 20, 2005A tremendous work ethic combined with seemingly boundless creativity is paying off for the Derek Trucks Band just as the buzz around them increases in volume and expanse. Judging from the way the band and their leader ...

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Minnesota Sur Seine 2005: Intercommunal Music on the Mississippi

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by Clifford Allen

Index Introduction Opening Night / Day Two Day Three Day Four Days Five-Six-Seven Days Eight-Nine Finale Introduction Despite the status of New York and Chicago as cultural capitals of America and the world, not to mention each city's firmly-cemented place in ...

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Wadada Leo Smith: An Exciting Half of the Golden Quartet

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by Erik R. Quick

I can't help but wonder how potential concert consumers choose whether or not to attend an artistic event. Trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith presented the latest edition of his Golden Quartet on a recent Thursday evening at the prestigious Merkin Concert Hall of the Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center in Manhattan. On the following Saturday, the New York ...


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