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News: Obituary

Frances Blaisdell, Girl Flutist Who Opened Doors, Dies at 97

March 31, 2009

Frances Blaisdell, a flutist who played her way into what was then the male world of orchestral music, becoming one of the early women to play a woodwind instrument with the New York Philharmonic, died on March 11 in Portola Valley, Calif. In addition to playing with the Philharmonic, Ms. Blaisdell performed with prominent chamber ensembles, ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Luther Dickinson, Alvin Youngblood Hart & Jimbo Mathus Tour as South Memphis String Band

March 31, 2009

Dickinson from the North Mississippi Allstars, Grammy winner Hart and former Squirrel Nut Zipper Mathus came together as friends and musical confreres, fans of the Mississippi blues and string band tradition. The South Memphis String Band, a trio composed of Luther Dickinson (North Mississippi Allstars), Alvin “Youngblood” Hart (Grammy-winning bluesman) and Jimbo Mathus (Squirrel Nut Zippers), ...

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News: Education

New on jazzpianoonline.com: The Major II-V-I Progression Update

March 31, 2009

This lesson will introduce you to this universal and ever-present jazz progression by starting with it's derivation from the major scale all the way through to building, identifying and playing major key ii-V-Is in tunes. Update includes: Expanded and improved video lesson; new quizzes; expanded and improved practice sessions and bonus licks from Tommy Flanagans 1977 ...

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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Freddie Green

March 31, 2009

All About Jazz is celebrating Freddie Green's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Freddie GreenFreddie Green - guitar (1911 - 1987) Freddie Green was the guitarist in what is generally considered to be the best rhythm section in the history of big band jazz, and dubbed the All-American ...

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News: Recording

Diana Krall's 'Quiet Nights' New CD

March 30, 2009

Album review Diana Krall's albums should come with a warning label: Do not use while operating heavy machinery. This is not a knock: Krall's round, relaxed voice is a nuanced instrument ideally suited for, as this album's title indicates, quiet nights. With this collection delving exclusively into the worlds of classic ballads and bossa ...

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News: Recording

Gary Burton Releases Quartet Live!

March 30, 2009

Gary Burton began revisiting his classic quartet in 2005 and the results of this meeting will appear on the 11-track disc, Quartet Live! (Concord) on May 26. The group includes guitarist Pat Metheny and bassist Steve Swallow, both of whom were part of Burton’s breakout band in the early 1970s. Antonio Sanchez is on drums. Metheny, ...

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News: Interview

Trombonist Clifton Anderson Interviewed at AAJ

March 30, 2009

Clifton Anderson has been on a lifelong journey of artistic evolution. From his start as a child surrounded by a musical family, to formal education mixed with the practical experience of live gigs, Clifton's odyssey is ever-unfolding. Whether playing as a long-standing member of his uncle Sonny Rollins' band, helping to run the Doxy label or ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Making the Cello Jazzy: Its All in the Pizzicato Pluck

March 30, 2009

The cellist Erik Friedlander possesses a deep, singing tone on his instrument, and when he gives into it completely, he can be a heartbreaker. At the diminutive Brooklyn club Barbs, which he regards as a second home, his sound approaches room-size resonance, with little or no amplification, just about anytime he draws a bow across the ...

News: Music Industry

USSR Craftsman Instrumental to Guitarists

March 30, 2009

One of Fender's elite guitar makers is a self-taught immigrant from the former USSR who counts pop music greats among his fans. Within the confines of his Corona work space, guitar designer Yuriy Shishkov had transformed a plank of blond ash wood into the body of a new Fender Telecaster. Seated at his bench, where he ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Idan Raichel Project Israeli Keyboardist at the Orpheum Theatre

March 30, 2009

The Israeli keyboardist-composer blends rhythms and sounds from around the globe into a zesty world music stir fry. An Ethiopian Jew by birth, Israeli keyboardist-composer Idan Raichel is a man with a mission: bringing to the Tel Aviv scene a younger generation's music that blends a bold variety of Middle Eastern, African, Indian, Latin American and ...