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News: Performance / Tour

Antonio Ciacca Quartet in Lagos Blues

September 28, 2009

Antonio Ciacca Quartet will play in Lagos Blues On October 16, 2009. Ciacca began his career as a sideman for such acclaimed jazz artists as Art Farmer, James Moody, Lee Konitz, Johnny Griffin, Mark Murphy, Dave Liebman, Steve Grossman, who he cites as his mentor and with whom he studied for three years beginning in 1990. ...

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News: Festival

Friends of Jazz Gears up for Ragfest's Tenth Anniversary

September 28, 2009

RagFest 2009, Orange County, California's annual festival of ragtime music, unfolds in historic downtown Fullerton on Saturday, October 17 and Sunday, October 18 , with a special variety revue show at 8 p.m. on Saturday night. Now celebrating its 10th anniversary, RagFest offers several stages highlighting soloists, duets, combos, vocalists and more performing vintage and contemporary ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Ornette Coleman, Starring as Himself

September 28, 2009

Jazz at Lincoln Center opened its fall season on Saturday night with a repertory tribute to Ornette Coleman. Not that this sold-out concert, at the Rose Theater, was presented that way: there was no organized script, no resident orchestra, no Wynton Marsalis. The idea, instead, was that Mr. Coleman — the famously inscrutable alto saxophonist, composer ...

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News: Event

The Best Things in Jazz Are Free...No, Really

September 28, 2009

After a year in New York, I can say with confidence that a free lunch is hard to find. The closest I've come is a free bagel with cream cheese from a street cart vendor in Greenwich Village. The next day he changed his mind and charged me double. But in the jazz world at least, ...

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News: Radio

The Jazz Session #89: Joris Teepe

September 28, 2009

Dutch bassist Joris Teepe has lived in New York for the past 20 years, making a name for himself with everyone from Benny Golson to the late Rashied Ali. Recently, Teepe was commissioned to write music for both an orchestra and a big band in Europe. Those two experiences were so positive that he decided to ...

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News: Music Industry

Saxophonist Hailey Niswanger Tapped for Alto Chair in Either/Orchestra - Berklee Sophomore Also on NPR's Jazzset Starting 10/01

September 28, 2009

(Boston, MA - September 28, 2009) Saxophonist Hailey Niswanger (pronounced NICE-wonger), a 19-year-old sophomore studying jazz performance at the Berklee College of Music in Boston on a full scholarship, has been selected as the new alto saxophonist in the Either/Orchestra, saxophonist Russ Gershon, the founder and music director of the Cambridge, MA-based band announced today. Miss ...

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News: Recording

The Jason Parker Quartet Release Their Second Album "No More, No Less" Oct. 24

September 28, 2009

J&J Music is proud to present the release of The Jason Parker Quartet’s second album, “No More, No Less”. The JPQ will celebrate with a CD Release Party at Lucid Jazz Lounge on October 24, 2009 at 9:30pm. The JPQ is: Jason Parker (trumpet), Josh Rawlings (piano), Evan Flory-Barnes (bass) and D’Vonne Lewis (drums). They are ...

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News: Book / Magazine

AllAboutJazz-New York October 2009 Issue Now Available!

September 28, 2009

When talking about the impact of Thelonious Monk, where does one begin? Is it his inimitable style and approach to the piano, one still being dissected today worldwide? Is it his body of compositional work, music absolutely essential to the repertoire of both the most straightahead and avant garde groups? Or perhaps his persona, defining the ...

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News: Interview

Pianist Fred Hersch Interviewed at AAJ

September 28, 2009

From the start of his career as a sideman in the 1970s for such jazz luminaries as Joe Henderson, Art Farmer and Stan Getz to his own ensembles and solo projects, there has always been a great diversity and intensity to Fred Hersch's art. Having won a Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship for composition (2003) and having been ...

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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Kenny Kirkland

September 28, 2009

All About Jazz is celebrating Kenny Kirkland's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Kenny KirklandKenny Kirkland - Piano, electric, keyboards, composer, arranger, ( 1955 - 1998) Beginning his career as a teacher of classical music, Kenny Kirkland next became a jazz musician... more Website | Videos ...