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News: Performance / Tour

Jason Parker Quartet Spring 2010 West Coast Tour

February 28, 2010

The Jason Parker Quartet hits the road on May 6, 2010 for our first ever tour! We'll be traveling up and down the West Coast hitting some great jazz clubs along the way. I've been wanting to take this band on the road for three years and I've finally figured out a way to make it ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Live Jazz Music Calendar Chicago 2010 (Feb26-Mar05)

February 28, 2010

Here is what's happening with the live Chicago Jazz Venues for the dates February 26th thru March 5th, 2010...Hyde Park Alliance for Arts & Culturehttp://hypachicago.org/passport/Passport To Jazz with Reginald RobinsonOriental Institute, 1155 E. 58th St., 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.Sunday, March 7, 2010Reginald Robinson, acclaimed pianist/composer of ragtime and ...

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News: Performance / Tour

WACO at TOST This Sunday

February 28, 2010

photo by Daniel Sheehan The Washington Composers Orchestra (WACO) is back at TOST starting this Sunday night February 28th at 8 p.m. Featuring compositions by Robin Holcomb, Tom Varner, Wayne Horvitz and others, this ensemble features a fantastic line-up of great Seattle players performing scores originally written for the New York Composers Orchestra as ...

News: Interview

Weekend Extra: Desmond Speaks

February 28, 2010

After three years of keeping his alto saxophone in the closet, in 1974 Paul Desmond finally succumbed to the exhortations of the Canterino family and agreed for the first time in a quarter of a century to play a club date as leader. The Canterino's club, the Half Note, had moved from lower Manhattan to Midtown. ...

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News: Recording

50 Years Later: A Landmark Recording Session

February 28, 2010

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Randy Weston's signature recording session Uhuru Afrika, certainly a good time to reflect on that singular record in this Randy's 84th year on the planet. And Im happy to report that our as-told-to book African Rhythms: The Autobiography of Randy Weston, composed by Randy Weston, arranged by Willard Jenkins, ...

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News: Video / DVD

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Three from Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra

February 28, 2010

Our video spotlight shines this week on trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, who will be in St. Louis on Saturday, March 13 to perform at the Sheldon Concert Hall. The JaLCO functions as the house band for the jazz program at NYC's Lincoln ...

News: Performance / Tour

Douglass Street Music Collective Presents Unicycles

February 28, 2010

On Thursday, March 4 at 9:00 p.m., Douglass Street Music Collective will present Unicycles, a relay-style series of solo performances by an ensemble cast of six up-and-coming Brooklyn improvisers. The cast, which collaborates in various other groups including Gleason's Twins, Dollshot, and Cuddle Magic, will assemble one fat B-52 of sonic pleasure, piece by piece. The ...

News: Performance / Tour

Anglique Kidjo Brings African Experiences to Her Craft

February 28, 2010

Benin-born pop diva makes her Disney Hall debut on Sunday night. The term clanked off Anglique Kidjo's ear when she first heard it. “African American." How could someone be American and African at the same time, she wondered? “You think I'm stupid because I'm a little girl?" Kidjo asked the person who'd used the expression. She ...

News: Event

Hancock to be Feted at Revived NYC Jazz Festival

February 28, 2010

Jazz legend Herbie Hancock will be feted at a belated 70th birthday bash at Carnegie Hall that will highlight the revival of a major summer jazz festival in the Big Apple. The pianist, who turns 70 on April 12, will be joined by comedian Bill Cosby, saxophonist Joe Lovano, trumpeter Terence Blanchard, and saxophonist Wayne Shorter, ...

News: Performance / Tour

Celebrating 75 Years of Grooves in Village

February 28, 2010

Joe Lovano and Us Five, including, from left, Mr. Lovano, Francisco Mela and Esperanza Spalding, are celebrating the Village Vanguard's 75th anniversary this week. A warm sense of occasion surrounds this week's Village Vanguard engagement by the saxophonist Joe Lovano. The club just commemorated its 75th anniversary, another mile marker in a storied and still vital ...