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News: Performance / Tour

Jazz Standards That Aren't

July 17, 2009

If Ellington went indie, he'd sound something like Darcy James Argue. In high-school jazz bands there's always a group of players who yawn at the song list. Even when the music isn't that old, it sounds that way to them. Once rehearsals are over, though, the kids pop in headphones to get their fix of their ...

News: Recording

Bee Gees' 50th Anniversary Inspires Two New Collections

July 17, 2009

The Bee Gees' 50th anniversary will be celebrated with a pair of retrospective packages on Nov. 3 from Reprise. “Mythology" is a four-disc box set curated and produced by surviving Bee Gees Barry and Robin Gibb that will dedicate one disc each to the three brothers in the group, including the late Maurice Gibb, and one ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Ethan Mann & Friends Featuring Jazz Vocalist, Francina Connors @ Jules Bistro

July 17, 2009

Ethan Mann & Friends swing in Saturdays this week featuring guest Jazz vocalist, Francina Connors. Experience live jazz and delicious french fare at this great spot in the heart of the East Village! Ethan Mann & Friends Featuring Francina Connors Saturday, July 18 8pm @

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News: Performance / Tour

A Free-Form Jazz Exploration of Phish

July 17, 2009

All this week, fellow NPR Music blogger Carrie Brownstein is conducting a little experiment: she's trying to become a Phish fan. The band, she writes, is one “that some people intuitively don't like; it is the liverwurst, the Twilight book series, and the waterbeds of the music industry!" Which is why she's trying to give them ...

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News: Award / Grant

Billie Holiday Statue Finally Gets Finishing Touches

July 17, 2009

Graphic panels in the base add elements of black history When Baltimore sculptor James Earl Reid created the city's first memorial to the stunningly gifted jazz singer Billie Holiday in 1985, something was missing. Gone were the panels containing references to the Jim Crow era and the lynching that Holiday so chillingly recounted in the ballad ...

News: Event

Mike Antonovich vs. Wagner

July 17, 2009

On Tuesday, Los Angeles County Supervisor Mike Antonovich called for Los Angeles Opera -- which is scheduled to mount Wagners four-opera Ring cycle next spring as well as coordinate a citywide festival on the Ring -- to delete the focus on Wagner. He asks this on the grounds that Wagner was a racist and anti-Semite whose ...

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News: Recording

'Oliver!' Like You've Never Heard It Before

July 17, 2009

Inner City/Classic Jazz is proud to announce the re-issue of Bob Dorough's 1954 album An Excursion Through 'Oliver!' While the arrangements and conceptions are credited chiefly to Dorough, a great deal of integrated creativity was brought to bear by quartet members Al Schackman (guitar), Ben Tucker (bass), and Bobby Thomas (drums). Working at the time in ...

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News: Music Industry

Potent Anesthetic Propofol Primary Reason Jacksons Heart Failed

July 17, 2009

The potent anesthetic Propofol was the primary reason Jacksons heart failed. Should toxicology and autopsy results confirm it, the criminal investigation into the stars death will seek out whoever prescribed and administered the drug to the singer. The results of Michael Jacksons full autopsy will be delayed, a spokesperson for the Los Angeles coroners office tells ...

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News: Music Industry

Michael Jackson's Pseudonyms for Drugs

July 17, 2009

Investigators target Michael Jackson's pseudonyms. Associates say the pop singer had long used false names to acquire prescriptions, a violation of federal and state laws designed to curb drug abuse. At least five physicians are focus of probe. For those who live in the tabloid cross hairs, the fake name is essential. Privacy-seeking celebrities have standard ...

News: Music Industry

AEG Faces Aftermath of Singer's Death

July 17, 2009

Things seem to be getting back to normal in the offices of AEG, the owner of both venues and the promoter behind the 50 sold-out concerts at Londons 02 Arena that Michael Jackson was prepping for before his death June 25. While AEGs VP of communications Michael Roth is fielding phone calls and emails related to ...