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Jazz In Marciac Festival: Day 3

by Mark Sabbatini
August 6, 2005

Professionalism verses passion. Debates about which is preferable exists in all professions. Fielding a smart quarterback who doesn't lose games or one who gambles to win. Promoting the disciplined or impulsive employee. Staying at the Hilton or Betty's Bed And Breakfast. There's no clear-cut winner, although I confess a preference for the latter. But ...

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Jazz In Marciac Festival: Day 2

by Mark Sabbatini
August 4, 2005

Only 50,000 of the estimated 180,000 attendees at the Jazz In Marciac Festival see the featured top-name concerts in the ultra-modern performance tents. That leaves a lot of people wandering the streets of this tiny 13th century village seeking entertainment. Much of it comes during free performances in the Marciac Cote Jardin center square and the ...

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Jazz In Marciac Festival, Day 1

by Mark Sabbatini
August 3, 2005

If the Great Salt Lake is the ultimate vacation disaster for slugs, Marciac might be the equivalent for ducks. There are more fois gras stands in this southwest region of France than Seattle has coffee shops, along with plenty of other ways to purchase waterfowl in various sliced, canned and pureed ways. Forget beer and ...

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Django Bates' Human Chain: Live At The Hackney Empire, London, 24 July 2005

by Chris May
July 31, 2005

After twenty-something years subverting and enlivening the UK jazz scene - with Loose Tubes, Delightful Precipice, and Human Chain, amongst myriad other projects - Django Bates has announced he is leaving the country. Tonight's performance was the last London gig before he relocates to Denmark, to become the inaugural Professor at Denmarks's adventurous, and generously state-funded, ...

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Grand Union Bangla Band: Live At The Spitz, London, 21 July '05

by Chris May
July 29, 2005

Always a glorious artistic experience - a uniquely deep blend of jazz and other world musics - tonight's performance by Tony Haynes' Grand Union Bangla Band had a powerful extra-musical significance. A few hours earlier, to commemorate the mass murder they'd committed precisely two weeks before, terrorists had planted another four bombs on London's public transport ...

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Hafarot Seder Festival 2005

by Eyal Hareuveni
July 24, 2005

Hagada Ha'Smalit Tel Aviv July 16, 2005 In the Israeli discourse the term Hafarot Seder, disorders in Hebrew, is associated with state spokesmen during the first Palestinian uprising, the Intifadah. These spokesmen used this term in their newspeak in order to de-legitimize the Palestinian right to oppose the brutal Israeli Occupation, the ...

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Kermit Ruffins Spreads the Word

by Franz A. Matzner
July 23, 2005

Demonstrating his flexibility as a performer, New Orleans trumpeter and vocalist Kermit Ruffins brought his Barbecue Swingers to the Kennedy Center's Millennium Stage for a free concert last week and found himself greeted by the distinctive blend of audience members one can only find at the Kennedy Center's Millennium stage. Featuring free concerts ...

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Vision Festival X - Day Three, June 16, 2005

by John Sharpe
July 22, 2005

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6Thursday June 16 was billed as the day to celebrate the Fred Anderson Lifetime Achievement Award, honouring the Chicago tenor sax elder statesman and operator of the fabled Velvet Lounge. Previous Vision Festivals have honoured dedicatees like Don Cherry, ...

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Vision Festival X - Day Two, June 15, 2005

by John Sharpe
July 21, 2005

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6The ornate carvings around the hall bear testament to the fact that the Angel Orensanz Foundation for the Arts was once a synagogue. But its walls are now emblazoned with paintings, drawings, and photographs, while metal sculptures by Alain ...

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Festival International de Jazz de Montreal 2005, Day 11, July 10, 2005

by John Kelman
July 11, 2005

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 | Day 8 | Day 9 | Day 10 | Day 11 Over a hundred thousand people patiently waited in 30°C heat for the closing event of the 26th edition of the Festival International ...