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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Rabih Abou-Khalil

August 17, 2009

All About Jazz is celebrating Rabih Abou-Khalil's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Rabih Abou-KhalilThe oud virtuoso Rabih Abou Khalil was born in Beirut Lebanon in 1957 and grew up during the two decades when Beirut was on of the most cosmopolitan of all cities. He studied traditional ...

News: Performance / Tour

Charlie O's Jazz This Week

August 16, 2009

Charile O's Sunday line-up begins with Ron Anthony and Barry Zweig are here on the 16th with Kendall Kay and Luther Hughes. Our Monday performances in August this week include the great Luther Hughes Cannonball Coltrane Project (Luther, Ed Czach, Bruce Babad, Glenn Cashman, Paul Kreibich) on the 17th. Reservations are suggested for these performances. Tuesday ...

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News: Music Industry

Out of Exile, Back in Soulsville

August 16, 2009

Al Bell, who led Stax Records in Memphis during the labels 1960s and 70s heyday, has returned to the city as chairman of the Memphis Music Foundation to resuscitate its entertainment stature. AS the peacock-blue Cadillac with the gold trim and fur lining spun on a giant turntable in the Stax Museum of American Soul Music ...

News: Recording

Retro-Soul and Jazz

August 16, 2009

John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble The drummer and composer John Hollenbeck inhabits a world of gleaming modernity, and Eternal Interlude (Sunnyside), the second album featuring his Large Ensemble, reflects both the clarity and brightness of his vision. Timbre is his forte as much as rhythm: his strategies for the band often involve an autumnal rustle of woodwinds ...

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News: Obituary

Jim Dickinson, Memphis Producer, Musician and Father of 2 North Mississippi Allstars, Dies

August 16, 2009

Jim Dickinson, a musician and producer who helped shape the Memphis sound in a career that spanned more than four decades, died Saturday. He was 67. His wife, Mary Lindsay Dickinson, said he died in a Memphis, Tenn., hospital after three months of heart and intestinal bleeding problems. The couple lived in Hernando, Miss., but Dickinson ...

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News: TV / Film

Making Movies the Old Way: On Film

August 16, 2009

Digital video? No, thanks. 'Beeswax's' Andrew Bujalski and other indie directors shoot old school. 'I love how it feels on-screen,' he says. At a time when many top-shelf Hollywood directors -- names such as Michael Mann, Steven Soderbergh, David Fincher and Francis Ford Coppola -- are proselytizing the advantages of shooting on high-definition digital video, a ...

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News: Performance / Tour

40 Years Later, Havens Performs Iconic Woodstock Song

August 16, 2009

Richie Havens performed “Freedom", 40 years later, on the original Woodstock site. Nearly 40 years to the day that he christened the crowning achievement of the 1960s counterculture, Richie Havens returned to an open field in Sullivan County to sing about a primal human condition, the pursuit of which binds us all. “Freedom," Havens bellowed from ...

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News: Event

In Your Ear: The Thirsty Ear Tavern Presents an Evening of Americana and Blues

August 16, 2009

Americana and Blues will come together at the Thirsty Ear Tavern at 9:30pm on Saturday, August 28. The show will open with a set by Matt Monta and the Hot Coal Band playing their own whiskey-soaked, gut-bucket original Americana music. They will be followed in the second set as the dynamic four-piece electric blues act Long ...

News: Performance / Tour

This Month Upstairs at Vitello's

August 16, 2009

New Jazz Venue: Upstairs at Vitello's is a custom-built listening room over Vitello's Italian Restaurant in Studio City; it is called the Upstairs Room. Like a Vegas lounge, with great sound, lights and stage and there is not a bad seat in the house. Vocalist April Williams Local musicians say this room is reminiscent ...

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News: Radio

FCC Seeks Comments on musicFIRST Petition

August 16, 2009

The Federal Communications Commission is seeking comments on the petition filed by the musicFIRST Coalition. The petition details how radio stations across the country refuse to air musicFIRST ads, threaten artists who support the effort to create a fair performance right on radio and continue to run misleading ads produced by the National Association of Broadcasters ...