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News: Performance / Tour

Dmitry Baevsky Quartet at Dizzy's Club, October 27-31

October 27, 2009

After-hours at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York. Dmitry Baevsky Quartet is: Dmitry Baevsky (alto sax) Jeb Patton (piano) David Wong (bass) Peter Van Nostrand (drums) Tuesday-Thursday: 11:00pm Friday & Saturday: 12:30am About Dmitry Baevsky Dmitry Baevsky was born in St-Petersburg, Russia in 1976. He ...

News: Interview

Keeping the Flame Burning for a Beloved Queen of Salsa

October 27, 2009

Celia Cruzs mausoleum at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx looks downright homey. Colorful plants flank a modest walkway, and clear side windows let visitors peer inside, where family photos, a rosary and a Cuban flag rest atop the singers tomb, along with a framed magazine clipping about The 10 Unbelievable Wigs of Celia Cruz. While titans ...

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News: Recording

Eddie Palmieri: Azucar Pa' Ti

October 27, 2009

By the mid-1960s, Latin-jazz was in rapid transition. Americans' appetite for Cuban dance music had cooled as tensions between Fidel Castro and the United States heated up in the early 1960s. At the same time, new forms of Latin music were emerging from the Puerto Rican neighborhoods of New York's Spanish Harlem and South Bronx. Largely ...

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News: Music Industry

The Youth Movement + New Music

October 27, 2009

There's been a lot of chat on the jazz internet about the music “dying" and a lack of interest from young people. That may be true in some areas but, over the past few years, a number of fine young musicians under the age of 35 have created some impressive music. Performers/composers such as saxophonists Sam ...

News: Music Industry

Kompoz Offers Collaborative Self-Publishing

October 27, 2009

Music collaboration site Kompoz, has launched an online publishing feature which allows musicians to self-publish collaborative projects while retaining all rights to the original work. Musicians can use Kompoz to launch a project, work with other musicians around the world to complete the song, publish it and offer customized licensing options for use in films, TV, ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Wilco | 10.18 | Chicago

October 27, 2009

By: Cal Roach Wilco :: 10.18.09 :: UIC Pavilion :: Chicago, IL Jeff Tweedy - Wilco by Casey Flanigan It has taken the hype surrounding Wilco's first show in the “huge arena" that is UIC Pavilion to make me realize how NOT huge this ...

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News: Education

Monterey Jazz Festival's Next Generation Festival Now Accepting Applications from Student Big Bands, Combos, Vocal Ensembles, Composers, Individual Musicians

October 27, 2009

Monterey Jazz Festivals Next Generation Festival Now Accepting Applications From Student Big Bands, Combos, Vocal Ensembles, Composers, Individual Musicians Next Generation Festival Jazz Competition Open To Middle School, High School, Conglomerate School, And College Level Musicians And Vocalists Country's Top Young Players Compete For Performance Opportunities At 53rd Annual Monterey Jazz Festival, September 17 - 19, ...

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News: Obituary

Lloyd Bartlett, Jazz Pianist and Former St. Louisan, Dead at Age 85

October 27, 2009

According to an article published today by the Arizona Daily Star, jazz pianist and former St. Louisan Lloyd Bartlett (pictured) has died of natural causes at age 85.Bartlett moved from St. Louis to Tuscon, Arizona “about a dozen years ago," the article said, and had continued to perform solo and with local groups including ...

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News: Radio

SIUE Chancellor Vandegraft Says WSIE Will Keep Jazz Format

October 27, 2009

In a story published today by the Belleville News-Democrat, Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville chancellor Vaughn Vandegrift is quoted as saying that radio station WSIE (88.7 FM) will retain its jazz format. The fate of the university owned station has been in question for months, as a committee appointed by Vandegraft studied station operations ...

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News: Interview

The Art of Art Farmer

October 27, 2009

Reviewing the Art Farmer Jazz Icons DVD the other day stimulated thoughts of his unique place in the pantheon of major jazz soloists. I started to write them, then realized that I already had. Here is an excerpt from the Farmer chapter of my book Jazz Matters. Even on some of Farmer's first recordings in the ...