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News: Event

Dave Brubeck Takes Time for Jazz Hall

August 25, 2009

The Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame is proud to celebrate its 2009-2010 Membership Campaign with the most celebrated jazz pioneer alive today, jazz icon Dave Brubeck. As the honorary chairman of the new membership campaign, Brubeck invites all Oklahomans to become a member of the Jazz Hall of Fame this year and join him in celebrating ...

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News: Recording

In Walked Monk: Bobby Broom on His New Album and Personal Jazz Heroes

August 25, 2009

Bobby Broom was just a teenager when he became enamored with jazz, but even then he figured hed started too late. As the Chicago-based guitarist explains in the interview below, he realized even in 1976 that human mortality being what it is it would be years before he acquired the chops needed to play with his ...

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News: Event

Pony Boy Jazz Picnic - September 13

August 25, 2009

Pony Boy Records is very proud, once again, to announce the date for the Sixth Annual Jazz Picnic. Returning to Magnuson Park on Sunday afternoon, September 13, by overwhelming popular demand, the label is bringing another great line-up for this years’ Jazz Picnic featuring some of the Northwest’s finest jazz from the Pony Boy Records stable ...

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News: Interview

Photostory 6: Dizzy Gillespie

August 25, 2009

One of my favorite photos of Dizzy Gillespie is this one by Paul Slaughter. I love it because Dizzy has an expression not often seen in other images of the trumpet great. It's a before-the-gig look, and through his face you feel all of his creative energy and physical exhaustion. Paul picks up the story behind ...

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News: Video / DVD

An Elis Regina Trove

August 25, 2009

The world may have known about it, but I just stumbled upon a rich cache of Elis Regina video clips on YouTube. They come from a 1973 Brazilian television special. The program seems to have been available on a DVD that quickly disappeared from the market. Amazon, CD Universe, Netflix and several other sources say it ...

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News: Festival

Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola September 2009 Lineup: Diet Coke Women in Jazz Festival

August 25, 2009

Dizzys Club Coca-Cola September 2009 Lineup Amina Figarova, Renee Rosnes, Elana James, Marian McPartland, Marlena Shaw, Sherrie Maricle & The DIVA Jazz Orchestra, Valerie Capers, Carmen Lundy, Evi Siamanda, Karrin Allyson & Others Featured in the 5th Annual Diet Coke Women In Jazz Festival 5th Annual Diet Coke Women In Jazz Festival Diet Coke, the world's ...

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News: Video / DVD

Legendary Vintage Jazz Icons DVD Series October 27th

August 25, 2009

FOURTH SERIES OF AWARD-WINNING JAZZ ICONS DVDS TO BE RELEASED “Jazz Icons is doing for jazz what the Criterion Collection has done for classic and important films." -Jazz Times “The sound quality is first rate, and the performances are extraordinary." - Newsweek “I can't say enough about the presentation of these DVDs. ...

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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Pat Martino

August 25, 2009

All About Jazz is celebrating Pat Martino's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Pat MartinoWhen the anesthesia wore off, Pat Martino looked up hazily at his parents and his doctors and tried to piece together any memory of his life. One of the greatest guitarists in jazz... more ...

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News: Recording

Live at Last: "Les Sabler Live" to be Released September 1st

August 24, 2009

The guitarists Fragile serviced to radio, finishing next studio album The tape was rolling one special spring night in 1995 when multidimensional guitarist Les Sabler led his six band members onto the Sarasota Opera House stage for a magical program comprised of contemporary jazz, rock fusion, adult pop, blues and Latin rhythms. The inspired performance will ...

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News: Festival

Behind the Scenes at Monterey, Part 2: The Hard-Working Staff and All That Jazz

August 24, 2009

Yesterday, I posted the first of a two-part interview with Timothy Orr. Monterey Jazz Festival marketing associate since 2006, Orr oversees much of the media/publicity effort surrounding the event, which is set for Sept. 18-20 at the Monterey County Fairgrounds. If you’ve never attended the festival, make 2009 the year. As I’ve previously noted, there is ...