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'Amazing Things' for Grace Kelly

by Cassandra Cheung
July 7, 2005

Amazing Things Art Center Inc. truly lived up to its name when it brought 13-year-old singer-songwriter-saxophonist Grace Kelly to the stage the night of Saturday, June 18. This pixie-sized prodigy wowed her audience at the Dr. Joseph A. Keefe Performing Arts Center in Natick with a stellar collection of jazz and jazz-pop crossover tunes, ...

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Music School Directors Cheer for Grace Kelly

by Cassandra Cheung
July 7, 2005

Angelic harp melodies are not the only strains of music to be heard on a cloud. Not this cloud, at any rate. On November 20, 2004, a raw Saturday night, Cloud Place in Boston was buzzing and bustling - not only due to the many moms and dads who were preparing their artistic progeny for a ...

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Wayne Shorter and Dave Holland at Carnegie Hall

by Chad Kushins
July 6, 2005

When Wayne Shorter put a new working acoustic jazz band together in 2001, there were two possible outcomes that his fans and listeners could have expected: 1) “Nice! Wayne Shorter is going to finally bring back is innovative style of playing and band-leading with new, original compositions that just might rival his composing power demonstrated during ...

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Festival International de Jazz de Montreal 2005, Day 5

by A. Henkin
July 5, 2005

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 | Day 8 | Day 9 | Day 10 | Day 11 After the absolutely stellar Hussain/McLaughlin show on Day 4, your correspondent mulled over the idea of having that be the last impression of this ...

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Festival International de Jazz de Montreal 2005, Day 4

by A. Henkin
July 5, 2005

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 | Day 8 | Day 9 | Day 10 | Day 11 In 1989, Charlie Haden inaugurated the Montreal Jazz Festival Invitation Series. Those were monumental concerts with performers like Paul Bley, Joe Henderson, Don Cherry ...

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Freihofer Jazz Fest Burns In Saratoga

by R.J. DeLuke
July 5, 2005

Searing temperatures in the upper 90s were not the only thing that burned during the two-day Freihofer Jazz Festival in Saratoga Springs, the 28th edition produced at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center by George Wein and his Festival Productions crew. This year's festival was not resplendent with the biggest “star names in jazz -- though there ...

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Ottawa International Jazz Festival - Day Eleven, July 3, 2005

by John Kelman
July 5, 2005

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 | Day 8 | Day 9 | Day 10 | Day 11 With the number of truly outstanding performances at this year's Ottawa International Jazz Festival, it's hard to imagine how the organizers could ...

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25th Ottawa International Jazz Festival - Day Ten, July 2, 2005

by John Kelman
July 4, 2005

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 | Day 8 | Day 9 | Day 10 | Day 11 Day 10 and it's back to regular programming for the Ottawa International Jazz Festival, following the special events on Canada ...

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Festival International de Jazz de Montreal 2005, Day 3

by A. Henkin
July 3, 2005

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 | Day 8 | Day 9 | Day 10 | Day 11 As reported previously, the Montreal Jazz Festival likes to make its programming thematic. This usually applies by venue: the big-draw acts play the Theatre ...

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27th Annual Playboy Jazz Festival

by Patricia Myers
July 3, 2005

27th Annual Playboy Jazz Festival June 11-12, 2005 Hollywood Bowl, California Although the “pure element of its name further erodes every year, the annual Playboy Jazz Festival always plays to nearly sold-out crowds. That's because most of the 18,000 listeners are there to party first and enjoy the performers as a secondary ...