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News: Recording

Geri Allen and Timeline - Live (Motema)

June 16, 2010

Pianist Geri Allen is in the midst of an artistic and creative roll. Recorded at Oberlin Conservatory, this densely-packed and highly satisfying performance follows the release of a solo recital, also on Motma and carries forward in a similar vein with some marked departures. Chief among them is her crew of assembled accompanists. Bassist Kenny Davis ...

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News: Recording

Tom Rainey Trio - Pool School (Clean Feed)

June 16, 2010

A much-belated case of “giving the drummer some", Tom Rainey's debut as a leader is long-overdue formal recognition of his substantial talents. Leave it to the relentlessly prolific Clean Feed label to recognize and rectify the lapse. Rainey's appeared on a number of the imprint's releases over the years and his gig docket remains reliably full ...

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News: Recording

Air - Air Raid (Why Not)

June 16, 2010

Cue the bugles and bata drums: We're in the midst of a full blown Henry Threadgill renaissance thanks to a recent compiling of the multi-reedist/composer's Black Saint/Soul Note albums and another from Mosaic gathering his work for Arista, RCA and Columbia slated for the immediate horizon. Add to that copious bounty the reissue by Candid of ...

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News: Event

St. Charles Big Band Honors Arranger Richard Wargin, SR.

June 16, 2010

The St. Charles Big Band honored its longtime arranger and trumpet player, the late Richard Wargin Sr., with a concert of Wargin's arrangements this past Sunday at Frontier Park in St. Charles. The Suburban Journals' Steve Pokin wrote a feature story here about the band and Wargin, who passed away at age 80 in February from ...

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News: Festival

Carefusion Newport Jazz Fest Discounts Tickets for Health Care Practitioners

June 16, 2010

MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS INVITED TO ENJOY WORLD-CLASS JAZZ AT CAREFUSION NEWPORT JAZZ FESTIVAL Discounted tickets made available for health care practitioners Newport, R.I.--New Festival Productions today announced that discounted tickets are being made available to health care professionals who would like to attend the 2010 CareFusion Newport Jazz Festival in Newport, RI August 6-8. Generously donated by ...

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News: Festival

Playboy Jazz Festival, Day 1

June 16, 2010

Jazz writers like to grouse about how nothing changes at the Playboy Jazz Festival from year to year but the names on the program. Yet one can look at this stasis in a different way, as comfort food in bad times, as a ritual that one can depend upon and hopefully will never go away. It ...

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News: Technology

Wireless Oligopoly is Smother of Invention

June 16, 2010

If the people who brought us television had played by the same rules that today's wireless carriers impose wed probably all be listening to the radio. Which is a nice way of saying the wireless industry AT&T, Sprint, Verizon and T-Mobile needs some ground rules that make clear they are common carriers that get the right ...

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News: Award / Grant

Jazz Journalists Association Announces 2010 Jazz Award Winners

June 16, 2010

The Jazz Journalists Association announced winners of the 2010 Jazz Awards at the City Winery in New York City on Monday, June 14, honoring honoring more than 40 musicians, presenters, jazz supporters and jazz journalists for the 14th year. Recipients of the Jazz Awards receive engraved statuettes from the international organization of some 450 writers, broadcasters, ...

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News: Festival

SF Stern Grove 2010 Lineup

June 16, 2010

THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS, MACEO PARKER IN THIS YEAR'S LINEUP They Might Be Giants Magical moments happen regularly at Stern Grove Festival, San Francisco's long-running admission-free outdoor performing arts festival. The 73rd Stern Grove Festival takes place Sundays at 2:00 p.m., June 20-August 22, 2010 (Sigmund Stern Grove, 19th Ave. & Sloat Blvd., San Francisco; ...

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News: Event

Wavy Gravy's All Star Jam | 6.13.10 | SF

June 16, 2010

YOU'VE GOT GRAVY IN YOUR EAR! On Sunday, June 13th, various All-Star musicians converged on stage at The Great American Music Hall to benefit the Seva Foundation. The cast of characters included Steve Kimock, Mark Karan, Billy Kreutzmann, Melvin Seals, Papa Mali, Lebo, Dave Brogan, Bo Carper, Reed Mathis, Matt Hubbard, special guest Bobby Vega and ...