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News: Event

BBC Top Brass Pitch in for Jazz Broadcasting Debate

January 11, 2010

Jazz On The Beeb - A Love Supreme Or Kind Of Blue? 19th January 2010, Cockpit Theatre, Marylebone BBC Radio 3 Controller And Radio 2/6 Music Head Of Programmes To Respond To Charges Of Public Sector Radio “Failing The Jazz Community" Leading Academic And Critic Prof. Stuart Nicholson To Lead The Argument Against The Corporation Full ...

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News: Event

The George Kahn Quintet Helps to Raise $11,400 to Assist Los Angeles' Homeless

January 11, 2010

(LOS ANGELES) - Jazz enthusiasts gathered once again in Hollywood this December, to enjoy the music of The George Kahn Quintet while at the same time raising money to help the homeless. This was Jazz Pianist, George Kahn's fourth year hosting a benefit concert to raise money for PATH Ventures (People Assisting The Homeless). The show, ...

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News: Video / DVD

Eagle Releases 'A Concert by the Lake' in Blu-Ray Format Only - February 16

January 11, 2010

An All-Star Blu-Ray Blast A CONCERT BY THE LAKE: Featuring Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Roger Taylor, and many others! Release Date February 16, 2010 New York, NY (January 11, 2010) --It's officially 2010, and Eagle Rock Entertainment is ready to keep the good times rolling for the concert Blu-ray circuit. On February 16, an all-star assemblage ...

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News: Recording

Frank Sinatra's 'Strangers in the Night' CD Reissued in Deluxe Edition by Concord Music Group with Three Bonus Tracks

January 11, 2010

With his biggest single as its centerpiece, the album won four Grammy Awards pairing the Chairman with arranger Nelson Riddle and producers Jimmy Bowen and Sonny Burke. LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- “Strangers in the Night" was Frank Sinatra's best-selling single and -- between the single and its namesake album -- the recipient of four Grammy Awards ...

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News: Interview

Photostory13: Harry Edison

January 11, 2010

This 1997 image of Harry “Sweets" Edison by photographer Paul Slaughter is a study in contrasts. The creases in Edison's eyes are piercing yet seductive. His smile is broad but also slightly pained. What we see here is a swinging legend late in life, relentlessly devoted to his music and the joy it brought fans. Edison ...

News: Festival

Catching Late-Night Zzzs: Jazz and Buzz

January 11, 2010

NYC Winter Jazzfest occupied the center of Greenwich Village on Friday and Saturday nights, holding down five clubs in a two-block radius, imposing its thoughtful ruckus on the normal Bleecker Street weekend: Long Island girls in microminis, corner dope dealers, 40-year-old boys taking in the Jets-Bengals game at a sports bar and then communing with Skynyrd ...

News: Music Industry

Chicago's Jazz Scene Grows with Do-It-Yourself Trend

January 11, 2010

Surveying the chaos at 1540 West North Avenue, it is hard to believe this former sports bar will soon be a sleek new jazz club. Up front sits a half-built stage. Piles of new and old wood, along with pipes and conduits tagged for disposal, litter the dust-scuffed floor. In back are strewn five big-screen plasma ...

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News: TV / Film

The Pulse of New Orleans

January 11, 2010

Larry Blumenfeld's “Cultural Conversation" with TV producer David Simon in today's Wall Street Journal is a highly recommended read. Simon, producer of HBO's acclaimed series “The Wire," is now focusing on a new jazz-tinged program that will debut on HBO in April.Tinged is not a strong enough word. Jazz is the undercurrent, and the ...

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News: Radio

The Jazz Session #133: Michael Kaeshammer

January 11, 2010

Pianist and vocalist Michael Kaeshammer has spent more than a decade making music thats both fun and smart. He draws on everything from James P. Johnson and Fats Waller to contemporary pop music on his new album, Lovelight (Alert Music, 2009). In this interview, recorded at the 2009 Tanglewood Jazz Festival, Kaeshammer talks about the nature ...

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News: Music Industry

10 Digital Media Trends to Watch in 2010

January 11, 2010

The upheaval being felt in the music industry is playing out is similar ways throughout the entire entertainment and media industries. What's ahead for 2010 is anyone's guess, but that hasn't stopped consultancy Booz & Co. from releasing it's 2010 Media Industry Perspective. Whether you are a fan of predictions or not, this list of trends ...