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News: Event

"This is Our Music" is Back! Sex Mob, Planet Dream, and Glassband on April 10 in NYC

April 7, 2009

This Friday, April 10 at the Glasslands Gallery in Brooklyn, guitarist Brad Farberman's This Is Our Music series returns for its ninth installment, a triple bill featuring Glassband, Planet Dream and Sex Mob. The show kicks off at 7PM. There is a $5 cover. This Is Our Music IX Friday, April 10, 7PM, $5 ...

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News: Recording

Cassandra Wilson Releases New Collection of Pop / Rock Covers

April 7, 2009

Grammy-award winning jazz vocalist Cassandra Wilson released Closer To You: The Pop Side this week via Blue Note / EMI. Closer To You: The Pop Side celebrates the finest pop covers from Wilson’s seven albums recorded with Blue Note during her lengthy tenure with the legendary label. With her unmistakable voice, Cassandra covers an array of ...

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News: Event

Jazz Vespers for Drummer Charlie Rice at St. John Baptist Church in Camden, NJ

April 7, 2009

Jazz Vespers Sunday, April 19th St. John Baptist Church Camden, NJ 5:00-6:00pm Alto saxophonist Tony Williams, pianist Don Wilson, bassist Mike Boone, and drummer Craig McIver will be performing a jazz vespers to raise money for the Charlie Rice Legal Defense Fund on Sunday April 19th from 5-6PM ...

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News: Performance / Tour

John Scofield Jazz Guitarist in a Gospel-Soul Catharsis

April 7, 2009

John Scofield and the Piety Street Band, with Mr. Scofield, right, on guitar, and clockwise, the pianist Jon Cleary, the bassist George Porter Jr. and the drummer Ricky Fataar at B. B. King Blues Club & Grill. Groove has always been an essential element for the jazz guitarist John Scofield, expressing itself in ways either subtle ...

News: Interview

Interview: Billy Taylor (Part 1)

April 7, 2009

Pianist Billy Taylor has always been perceived as lucky. It's a trait that owes as much to his extraordinary talents as his charismatic and gregarious personality. Billy also has been one of the great jazz evangelists. In New York, he started Jazzmobile in 1964, an education program that has been responsible for exposing hundreds of thousands ...

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News: Technology

Yahoo Music to Include iTunes, Youtube Integration

April 7, 2009

Yahoo will launch a revamped version of its music service Tuesday, which will include artists' pages and modules from competing services like iTunes, Pandora, and Amazon. Users visiting Yahoo Music will have the option of listening to music from iTunes, Amazon, Last.fm, Rhapsody, Pandora, or YouTube while remaining on the Yahoo site. The site will also ...

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News: Recording

The Greg Heath Quartet: CD Release "Fact & Fiction"

April 7, 2009

Progressive modern jazz in the classic jazz quartet format featuring: Greg Heath (tenor sax), John Donaldson (piano), Nick Kacal (bass) and Laurence Lowe (drums) Originally from New Zealand studied at the NSW Conservatorium in Sydney under the tutorage of world renowned brass virtuoso James Morrison and Australian sax and woodwind legend Don Burrows. Resident in the ...

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News: Recording

“The New Voice of Portuguese World Music,” Ramana Vieira, CD Release in Bay Area

April 7, 2009

Called “a rising star in World Music” by the San Francisco Examiner, vocalist Ramana Vieira will bring her unique style of Fado music to the 142 Throckmorton Theatre on Saturday, April 18th at 8:00 PM to celebrate the release of her new CD Lagrimas De Rainha (Tears Of A Queen) on the Pacific Coast Jazz label. ...

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News: Recording

Supergenerous:Sao Paulo Slim

April 7, 2009

By: Dennis Cook A bundle of sweet, expertly molded madness, Sao Paulo Slim (OMM) harks back to early Caetano Veloso with splashes of Bonzo Dog Band, Captain Beefheart and the Sun City Girls--all purveyors of sublime perversity that's a ball to imbibe. Released last year, Slim is the byproduct of a rich collaboration between Cyro Baptista ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Simon and Garfunkel Reunion Tour

April 7, 2009

AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND SNARE THE WORLD'S ONLY CONFIRMED CONCERTS FOR SIMON & GARFUNKEL IN 2009 Simon & Garfunkel What was called an early Valentine's gift for New York fans, today became a love letter penned exclusively for Australia and New Zealand. Simon & Garfunkel, ranked among the greatest artists of all time, are ...