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News: Recording

Now Streaming Online: "Hemispheres" by Jim Hall and Bill Frisell

September 22, 2009

Legendary jazz guitar master, Jim Hall, and multiple Grammy award winner, Bill Frisell's, historic collaboration is now available to enjoy online! In celebration of its Grammy consideration for instrumental jazz, ArtistShare has selected multiple tracks from the 2-disc album Hemispheres to stream for free for the next couple of weeks. Enjoy the music! Click here to ...

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News: Recording

Curtis Stigers to Release New Album

September 22, 2009

Next week, Concord Jazz will release Lost in Dreams, the new album from vocalist-saxophonist Curtis Stigers. Lost in Dreams combines Stigers' signature brand of jazz, soul, pop, and blues along with his take on classic and contemporary standards. A couple members of the Lost in Dreams supporting cast include longtime keyboardist Matthew ...

News: Radio

JazzWeek Radio Chart: September 14, 2009

September 22, 2009

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 2 6 Roy Hargrove Big Band Emergence (Emarcy) 313 243 +70 7 60 1 4 2 1 1 Jackie Ryan Doozy (Open Art) 270 247 +23 0 61 1 8 3 4 19 Roberta Gambarini So In Love (Emarcy) 225 192 +33 5 52 3 ...

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News: Festival

Metropolitan International Jazz Festival Set for October 10

September 22, 2009

Third Annual International Jazz Festival, National Harbor, MD The third annual Metropolitan International Jazz Festival comes to National Harbor for a one-day jazz spectacular on October 10th. This years festival will feature an impressive line-up of acclaimed jazz artists at one of the best outdoor venues in the Washington-Baltimore region. Artist line-up: Spyro Gyra, The Marcus ...

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News: Interview

Vibraphonist Stefon Harris Interviewed at AAJ

September 22, 2009

Authenticity is a special word for vibraphone wizard Stefon Harris when it comes to his art, which springs from the tradition of jazz music, but is approached through a modern lens that takes into account the sounds and perspective of 2009. He has enough audacity--also a special word for Harris--to say it clearly, to elucidate what ...

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News: Recording

Miles Davis: The Complete Columbia Albums Collection Super-Deluxe Box Set

September 22, 2009

THE COMPLETE MILES DAVIS COLUMBIA ALBUM COLLECTION is an historic release event. The super-deluxe box set contains 52 CD and double-CD albums--which includes the previously unreleased full-length audio version of Isle Of Wight performance from 1970--70 CDs in all. (Rarities and other previously unreleased material still exist in the vast Miles Davis archive, and they are ...

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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Ken Vandermark

September 22, 2009

All About Jazz is celebrating Ken Vandermark's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Ken VandermarkFor the past 20 years, Ken Vandermark has been exploring and working to expand the possibilities of improvised and composed music in North America and Europe. Since moving to Chicago from Boston in 1989... ...

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News: Interview

Iconic Saxophonist Ornette Coleman Interviewed at AAJ

September 21, 2009

"Some people think of music as being on some higher level," Ornette Coleman says by phone from his apartment in New York City. “But basically it's the human being that receives the pleasure from sound. Not from the argument over what it is." There are a lot of questions about Ornette Coleman and the music he ...

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News: Event

Charlie Harrington to Act as Judge for Drum off Competition

September 21, 2009

The award-winning jazz drummer, Charlie Harrington, has been asked to be a judge for the 2009 Guitar Center Drum Off Competition. Charlie's own experience as the winner of the Slingerland/Louie Bellson National Drum Contest (long before Guitar Center started the current Drum Off Competition) in addition to his well established teaching practice and professionalism no doubt ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Twyla Tharp Takes Flight with Frank Sinatra

September 21, 2009

When Frank Sinatra fans play his music, classic songs like “Summer Wind," “Fly Me to the Moon" and “One for My Baby" will likely trigger strong emotions and memories. But when Twyla Tharp sifts through his catalog, it conjures up an entire world. Who was she when she first heard these songs, compared with ...