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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Lee Morgan

July 10, 2009

All About Jazz is celebrating Lee Morgan's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Lee MorganMorgan was a jazz prodigy, joining the Dizzy Gillespie big band at 18, remaining a member for two years. Beginning in 1956, he began recording as a leader, mainly for the Blue Note label... ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Steve Kuhn Revisiting an Old Boss Named John Coltrane

July 9, 2009

The pianist Steve Kuhn can play John Coltranes music meaningfully without sounding as if he lives by it. That shows self-possession, for a couple of reasons. Coltrane was the most influential jazz musician in the late 1950s and 1960s, when Mr. Kuhn got started. And Mr. Kuhn, now 71, also has something many of his peers ...

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News: Festival

George Wein's CareFusion Jazz Festival 55

July 9, 2009

In Newport, RI, August 7 - 9, 2009 and CAREFUSION NEW YORK JAZZ FESTIVAL in New York City, June 2010 New Names for Jazz Festivals at Historic Sites NEW YORK, NY, David Schlotterbeck, CEO of CareFusion, announced today that the corporation will be the title sponsor for George Wein's Jazz Festival 55 in Newport, RI. In ...

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News: Event

Grammys' Ehrlich Tells How Jackson Tribute Came Together

July 9, 2009

Grammy Awards producer Ken Ehrlich was the man behind the effort to rush a program into place for Michael Jackson's memorial service. I've never been a real fan of Jackson's, but after watching the live 2 1/2 -hour televised memorial service to him, I must congratulate those around him who produced it. As a former radio ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Power Banjo, Extreme Jazz and a Bit of Twitchy Punk

July 9, 2009

Seabrook Power Plant began and ended its set on Tuesday night at Zebulon, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, with a grimly combative clamor. Jared Seabrook, the bands drummer, bashed a manhole-cover-size ride cymbal and viciously pummeled his snare; Tom Blancarte clawed at his upright bass with something like frenzied desperation. In the foreground Brandon Seabrook, Jareds brother, was ...

News: Recording

'Louis and Keely' Releases Cast Album

July 9, 2009

The little musical that could, “Louis and Keely: Live at the Sahara" has gone from a matchbook-size hit at Sacred Fools Theatre to a major (and revamped) stage event directed by Taylor Hackford at the Geffen Playhouse. The latest phase in the musical's life will take place July 22 when the show's producers release the official ...

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News: Interview

Tom Waits X Beck Hansen : PT. 1

July 9, 2009

Irrelevant Topics in a new section featuring conversations between musicians, artists, writers, etc. on various subjects, without promotional pretext or editorial direction. For the first in this series of conversations, the legendary musician and performer, Tom Waits agreed lend an hour of his time to talk about anything and nothing in particular. In Part 1 of ...

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News: Radio

New Internet Jazz Radio Station Exclusively Plays 12-Bar Blues Tunes

July 9, 2009

AccuJazz Internet Radio continues its weekly roll-out of creatively programmed jazz channels today with the launch of “Nothin' But the Blues," a streaming channel playing hundreds of jazz versions of the classic 12-bar blues. The channel is completely free to use and available 24 hours a day. As cutting edge jazz pianist Jason Moran noted with ...

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News: TV / Film

Soul Power

July 9, 2009

The documentary focuses on the music festival 'Zaire 74' that was organized to go along with the Ali-Foreman 'Rumble in the Jungle.' Most everyone remembers “The Rumble in the Jungle," the 1974 heavyweight championship fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire, but who remembers “Zaire 74," the music festival that was organized to ...

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News: Obituary

Marl Young Pianist and Arranger Memorial Service Set

July 9, 2009

A memorial service for Marl Young, a pianist and arranger Young who died April 29 at the age of 92, memorial will be held by Professional Musicians, Local 47, from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Local 47 auditorium, 817 Vine St., in Hollywood. Young played an important role in the merger of the black ...