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News: Event

35th Annual Jazz Record Collectors’ Bash June 19th - 20th Hilton Woodbridge Iselin, NJ

June 7, 2009

Announcing the 35th Annual Jazz Record Collectors’ Bash June 19th - 20th, 2009 78s, LPs, CDs & memorabilia. Hilton Woodbridge 120 Wood Avenue South Iselin, NJ 08830 hiltonwoodbridge.com Reservations: Call either the toll free number 1-800-HILTONS (800 445-8667) or the Hilton Woodbridge (732) 494-6200. Mention JAZZ ...

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News: Festival

The Bloom Festival at the Tea Lounge Thursday and Friday Nights in June

June 7, 2009

The JVC Jazz Festival is gone, but The Tea Lounge in Park Slope has brewed something strong and new: The Bloom Festival, curated by journalist Lara Pellegrinelli and violist Tanya Kalmanovitch. The two longtime friends had talked time and again about collaborating on various projects and finally thought the timing was right. “Since George Wein has ...

News: Music Industry

For TV Band, Jet Lag is Part of the Job

June 7, 2009

The drummer Max Weinberg, leads the eight-member house band on The Tonight Show With Conan OBrien. When Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed at the Izod Center in the New Jersey Meadowlands on May 21, there was one musician conspicuously absent: Max Weinberg, the groups drummer for more than three decades. As Mr. Springsteen ...

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News: Festival

The Ascona Jazz Award 2009 to Rossano Sportiello

June 7, 2009

Following singer Lillian Boutt in 2006, Red Holloway in 2007, and saxophone player and Mardi Gras Indian Big Chief Donald Harrison in 2008, the 2009 Ascona Jazz Award will be given to the talented young Italian pianist Rossano Sportiello . . . In his short musical career, the Neapolitan Sportiello conquered audiences ...

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News: Recording

Neel Murgai Ensemble CD Release

June 7, 2009

The Neel Murgai Ensemble announces the release of their Debut recording, “Audionomic Stimulus Package". “Music is a reflection of the times. This is our stimulus of vibrations into the global dialogue, a cross-cultural mlange only possible at this time: the Ancient Future Traditional.” Sitarist, overtone singer, frame drummer and composer Neel Murgai creates music that defies ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Cape May Dixieland Jazz

June 7, 2009

Cape May Traditional Jazz Society Presents Dixieland Jazz When - Sunday June 14, 2009 from 2 to 4 pm Where VFW Post 386 419 Congress St. Cape May, NJ 609-884-7961 Rhythm Kings Jerry Rife clarinet, Danny Tobias cornet, Peter Reichlin trombone, Pat Mercuri banjo, Ed Wise bass + drums playing ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Debbie Reynolds Still Here, a 1950s Sweetheart Shows Her Dark Side

June 7, 2009

How could a star with a 60-year show business career and a personal life that has made headlines not take away from the experience a profound sense of the absurd? As Debbie Reynolds, 77, speed-rapped, did celebrity impersonations and sang (sort of) at Wednesdays opening-night performance of Debbie Reynolds: An Evening of Music and Comedy at ...

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News: Music Industry

A&M/Octone's James Diener is Making the Music Business... A Business Again

June 7, 2009

James Diener is almost certainly the only head of a music label who's reading for pleasure the worlds hundred best books. Right now, hes slogging through Theodore Dreisers Sister Carrie, a novel that's a century and a universe removed from his world. But Diener's reality as CEO and president of A&M/Octone Records is far from whatever ...

News: Festival

Jazz, Baby Hugh Hefner

June 7, 2009

Hugh Hefners soundtrack? Big Band and Dixieland His magazine was approaching its fifth birthday, and Hugh Hefner wanted to celebrate in a big way. The founder of Playboy does not think small, so in August of 1959, he had George Weinimpresario of the Newport Jazz Festivalcreate a weekend of music. It was a total success: 68,000 ...

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News: Interview

Joni on Point Interview with Joni Mitchell

June 7, 2009

With her provocative ballet, The Fiddle and the Drum, Mitchell finds a new grooveand a new lens on her past Though her 1968 debut album, Song to a Seagull, was no small feat of folk glory, it was by Joni Mitchells third and fourth releasesLadies of the Canyon and Bluethat her status as one of the ...