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News: Performance / Tour

Jazz Standard Announces Schedule for October 2009

Jazz Standard Announces Schedule for October 2009

JAZZ STANDARD Swings Into October with Return Visits from Saxophonist Joshua Redman and the 7th Annual Festival of New Trumpet (Font) Music Best Jazz Club 2008 (New York Magazine) JAZZ STANDARD, one of the nation's premier jazz clubs, presents another month of great jazz in October. The annual Festival of New Trumpet Music (FONT) returns to ...

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News: Interview

Baritone Saxophonist Gary Smulyan Interviewed at AAJ

Baritone Saxophonist Gary Smulyan Interviewed at AAJ

A baritone saxophonist who plays like Bird? And harvests more than a half-dozen Grammy awards in the process? That seeming contradiction characterizes the great successes of Gary Smulyan, one of today's most in-demand jazz performers, educators, and recording artists. AAJ Contributor Edward Bride spoke with Smulyan recently, and the saxophonist provides insight into his unique sound ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Dave Allen Quartet Featuring David Liebman - September at 55 Bar

Dave Allen Quartet Featuring David Liebman - September at 55 Bar

Dave Allen Quartet performs September 8th at the 55 Bar. Dave Allen Quartet with Dave Liebman - sax Chris Lightcap - bass Adam Cruz - drums 55 Bar 55 Christopher St 10pm-1am Allen has found a true voice, his effortless technique downplays the apparent ...

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News: Festival

Connecting Dots, from Bird to Michael Jackson

Connecting Dots, from Bird to Michael Jackson

Did you know Charlie Parker and Michael Jackson share a birthday? Thats right: Aug. 29. And so the long wave of this summers Jackson tributes rolled through the annual Charlie Parker Jazz Festival on Saturday. As always, the festival, organized by the City Parks Foundation, happened in two parts Saturday afternoon at Marcus Garvey Park in ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Liza Minnelli at the Hollywood Bowl

Liza Minnelli at the Hollywood Bowl

Liza Minnelli played the Hollywood Bowl this weekend, and the incessant gigglers in the audience were clearly nervous about which Minnelli was going to show up. Would it be the one whose latest Broadway outing, Lizas at the Palace, won a Tony or the erratic Minnelli of Minnelli on Minnelli, the show in honor of her ...

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News: Obituary

Chris Connor Dies at 81; Big-Band and Solo Jazz Singer

Chris Connor Dies at 81; Big-Band and Solo Jazz Singer

She was known for 'All About Ronnie,' which she did as part of the Stan Kenton Orchestra. She became a soloist in the 1950s and had hits with 'Trust in Me' and 'About the Blues.' After recording hits with the Stan Kenton Orchestra, Chris Connor became a soloist who often worked with small groups. Some of ...

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News: Obituary

Richard Moore Dies at 83; Cinematographer and CO-Founder of Panavision

In 1953 he teamed with Robert Gottschalk to start Panavision, which revolutionized film in the 1970s with a hand-held studio camera that could record sight and sound simultaneously. Moore's Aug. 16 death at his home in Palm Springs was age-related, said his son, Stephen V. Moore. His cinematography credits include “Winning" in 1969, “Myra Breckinridge" and ...

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News: Performance / Tour

West Coast Premiere of Uri Caine's "Othello Syndrome" Opens Stanford Lively Arts' 2009-10 Season

West Coast Premiere of Uri Caine's "Othello Syndrome" Opens Stanford Lively Arts' 2009-10 Season

Stanford Lively Arts opens its 2009-10 season with the West Coast premiere of Uri Caine's “The Othello Syndrome" on Saturday, October 10 at 8:00 p.m. at Dinkelspiel Auditorium. Following up on his “Mahler Remix;" (presented by Lively Arts in 2008), the iconoclastic composer/jazz pianist returns with a hand-picked ensemble of A-list collaborators for this radical re-imagining ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Tierney Sutton Band Worshop and Sat Concert at Vitello's Jazz Lounge

Tierney Sutton Band Worshop and Sat Concert at Vitello's Jazz Lounge

Two-time Grammy Nominee Jazz vocalist Tierney Sutton and The Tierney Sutton Band will conduct an interactive Jazz Band Master Class followed by an evening concert Saturday September 19, 2009. Workshop 11a-3p and the evening concert will be 8p-11p Upstairs at Vitello's Jazz Lounge in Studio City, CA 4348 Tujunga Ave. This is part of the LA ...

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News: Recording

The Song is You: Woodstock Jazz 1981

All of those players could have just stood up there for the moment to be thrilling. But as an added attraction they actually played together They put on a show memorable for all time. ECM Records press release on the Woodstock Jazz Festival The raw, live quality of these performances is balanced with a ...


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