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News: Performance / Tour

Stephanie Jordan Large Band at New Orleans Jazz Fest

April 20, 2009

New Orleans - The 2009 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Presented by Shell (April 24-26 & April 30-May 3) will celebrate 40 years of musical and cultural history at this year's star-studded event. The Stephanie Jordan Large Band will perform during the first weekend of Jazz Fest on Saturday, April 25, 2009 at 3:45 p.m. ...

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News: Recording

Become Enchanted with Anne Walshs "Pretty World"

April 20, 2009

Jazz-adult pop vocalist will release a delightful collection of swoon-inducing, love-themed songs with Latin grooves. Anne Walsh releases Pretty World June 16th. Perspective is everything. While presently some see the world as a chaotic mess, others glimpse wonder and beauty in abundance and the infinite possibilities created when rooted in love. As demonstrated on her debut ...

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News: TV / Film

Another Documentary, Another Riff on the History and Mystery of Jazz

April 20, 2009

Icons Among Us, a four-part series beginning Monday on the Documentary Channel, serves as a retort to Ken Burns’s 2001 television documentary Jazz. It doesn't make this explicit, but it doesn't need to. There's no other elephant in the room. Mr. Burns's series, you may remember, outlined styles and eras and individual accomplishments. His film--with a ...

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News: Technology

Susan Boyle YouTube Video: 100 Million Hits and Cash Windfall

April 20, 2009

Susan Boyle's Britain's Got Talent video is on track to become the most popular video in the history of YouTube Amassing nearly 100 million views in its first nine days and earning the producers of the program a serendipitous windfall that could already be in the millions. The YouTube clip got massive play on U.S. cable ...

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News: Radio

The Jazz Session #54: Barbara Dennerlein

April 20, 2009

Jason Crane interviews organist Barbara Dennerlein about her pipe organ recording Spiritual Movement No. 2 (Bebab Records, 2008). The album was recorded at one of Germany’s most famous churches in front of a very appreciative audience. In this interview, recorded before a concert in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Dennerlein discusses jazz on the pipe organ; why organists should ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Femi Kuti: Tour

April 20, 2009

EXTENSIVE NORTH AMERICAN SUMMER TOUR BEGINS IN JUNE Femi Kuti On June 3 in New York City, Afrobeat pioneer Femi Kuti, backed by his band the Positive Force, will begin a 24-date summer tour spanning North America, including several shows opening for the Dave Matthews Band, a headline appearance at the Hollywood Bowl and performances at ...

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News: Festival

Freihofer's Jazz Festival 2009 at Saratoga Performing Arts Center

April 20, 2009

JAZZ FESTIVAL LINEUP Saratoga Springs, NY, Saratoga Performing Arts Center has just announced the addition of eleven more jazz ensembles to the lineup of its 32nd Annual Freihofer’s Jazz Festival. The Festival, scheduled for Saturday, June 27 and Sunday, June 28, will feature more than 20 jazz performances over two days on SPAC’s Amphitheatre ...

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News: TV / Film

Jamie Foxx's Skid Role Soloist

April 20, 2009

Jamie Foxx struggled while playing Nathaniel Ayers, who suffers from schizophrenia. The role reminded Foxx of a mentally traumatic experience he had at age 18. In nightclubs and strip joints across the country, the song of the moment is Jamie Foxx's “Blame It (On the Alcohol)," a leering tale of bad boys, well, behaving badly. The ...

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News: TV / Film

'Icons Among Us' Shows Jazz in a Different Light

April 20, 2009

Of all the genres in music, jazz might lead them in terms of the sheer number of eulogies that are racked up in its honor on a yearly basis. Which is, of course, as absurd as the similar calls bemoaning rock's death that come around every few years. However, if recent tribute activity is any indication, ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Maude Maggart Loving Climb up to the Musical Attic

April 20, 2009

Maude Maggart performing at the Oak Room at the Algonquin Hotel on Wednesday night. As Maude Maggart rummages through several decades of popular music in Parents and Children, her bewitching new show at the Oak Room of the Algonquin Hotel, you have the eerie sensation that a precocious young girl is leading you by the hand ...