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Blood On The Fields Special on CNN Impact

by AAJ Staff
March 12, 2004

Blood On The Fields Special on CNN ImpactLegendary jazz trumpeter and composer Wynton Marsalis is trying to come to grips with one of the most troubling times in his nation's history.On Sunday, April 6 at 9 p.m., Marsalis tells CNN IMPACT correspondent Farai Chideya that turning a tragedy like slavery into an affirmation of ...

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JVC Festival Offers Night of Stinging Songs

by AAJ Staff
March 12, 2004

Submitted on behalf of Joel Simpson Dave Frishberg and Bob Dorough occupy a unique place in US culture: they're the musical bards of the jazz-oriented lexophiles, that aging hip cohort who still find witty conversation the most provocative kind of foreplay. And whereas the English-speaking world was once inhabited by such song-lyric giants as Cole Porter, ...

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The Jazz Gallery

by AAJ Staff
March 12, 2004

Submitted on behalf of Joel Simpson In a preview of the upcoming JVC Jazz Festival in New York in the Sunday Times Arts section of June 10, Ben Ratliff notes that many Big Apple jazz cognoscenti don't feel they're missing much by skipping George Wein's concerts. In fairness to Mr. Wein Ratliff does indicate that JVC ...

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Joshua Redman at Night Town

by C. Andrew Hovan
March 12, 2004

Joshua Redman Quartet Night Town Cleveland, Ohio Saturday, June 23 Talk about separating the men from the boys. Put a well-known jazz artist with a local rhythm section and you’ll get acceptable results. But, present a true working group of New York heavies and watch the sparks fly. ...

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Earthworks Digs Deep

by AAJ Staff
March 12, 2004

Bill Bruford’s Earthworks Scullers, Boston MA May 29, 2001 There are many I’m sure that have come to feel that jazz is more “museum music” than anything else. Many, I’m sure wondering is it possible to do anything new or genuinely exciting in the jazz idiom, given its unfortunate tendency ...

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Doheny Beach Blues Festival May 19 & 20, 2001

by Mike Robinson
March 12, 2004

Face it - blues is made to be played in one of two places: at a nightclub late at night, or on a wide-open California beach in early summer! And if you really like dem blues, the Doheny Beach Blues Festival (Dana Point, California) is ready to serve you up with exactly what you like, no ...

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NEAR Fest--Prog-Rock is NOT DEAD!

by AAJ Staff
March 12, 2004

Submitted on behalf of Phil McKenna NEAR Fest (North East Art Rock Festival) June 23-24, 2001 Zoellner Arts Center Lehigh University Bethlehem PA Well, here we were, a rag tag bunch of prog loving souls descending on bucolic Lehigh U. and causing the locals to wonder if they ...

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Le Festival International De Jazz De Montreal 2001 Part 1-2

by AAJ Staff
March 12, 2004

Submitted on behalf of Tom Terrell A nice cat manning the Festival's airport kiosk name of Nicola got me a ride into town. I got the VIP treatment at the Hotel Wyndham Montreal, met old friends in the press room (Claudia, Natalie, Katia, Alain), new faces (Sophie, Myriam) and the estimable Andre Menard (Premier VP and ...

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The Tommy Gallant Jazz Festival IV

by AAJ Staff
March 12, 2004

Submitted on behalf of Paul Combs Sunday July 8, 2001 Prescott Park Portsmouth, NH The Tommy Gallant Jazz Festival traces its origins back many years to an earlier Portsmouth Jazz Featival which, in 1996, ceased to be viable. A group of musicians and jazz lovers volunteered to start the current ...

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Tony Malaby at TCAN

by AAJ Staff
March 12, 2004

Submitted on behalf of Paul Combs The Center for the Arts in Natick Natick, MA Friday, July 6, 2001 Tony Malaby is a tenor saxophonist making his name in New York these days. Since I do not get down to the Big Apple as often as I would like, I ...