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Yes Cancels 40th Anniversary Tour

June 16, 2008

Yes Legendary rock band Yes announced last week that the group will be canceling their 2008 40th Anniversary Tour. The 26-city tour was scheduled to kick off in Quebec next month and run through the summer. Yes frontman and founding member Jon Anderson was admitted to the hospital last month after suffering a severe asthma attack. ...

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Botti's Jazz Music is All About Style, Mood

June 15, 2008

His 2007 effort, Italia, was nominated for a Grammy Award. Smooth jazz for the hip crowd is what trumpeter and composer Chris Botti provides the musical world. Perhaps what separates the Oregon native from his peers is he rarely enters into the schmaltzy sounds of, say, Kenny G. Instead, there's an edge to Botti's work, which ...

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Sat Eye Candy: Montreux Jazz Fest

June 15, 2008

A SPLASH OF APPLAUSE FOR ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS, DIVERSE FESTIVALS EVER As folks gather in the dusty hills of Tennessee to enjoy a rainbow of musical offerings this weekend, it's worth sparing a thought for one of the ancestors in Bonnaroo's DNA, the Montreux Jazz Festival. Begun in 1967 by Claude Nobs, ...

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Bob Weinberg Joins Hot House Florida

June 14, 2008

Bob Weinberg is a veteran jazz and blues writer living in South Florida. For more than a dozen years, he was employed by the alternative weekly City Link, where he penned a jazz and blues column and other features. In addition to writing the Traditions column for Jazziz magazine and freelance arts pieces for the Sun-Sentinel, ...

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Ornette Coleman Plays Burlington

June 14, 2008

By: Josh Potter Ornette Coleman :: 06.07.08 :: Flynn Theater :: Burlington, VT Ornette Coleman In most cases, the debate over a given artist's “genius" is generally moot - relative, as it were, to the way a listener fits the art in their own schema of history, interest ...

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Sirius: Roots of the Dead

June 14, 2008

SIRIUS SATELLITE RADIO TO FEATURE THE “ROOTS & BRANCHES" OF THE GRATEFUL DEAD Music that inspired The Grateful Dead and artists they influenced to be featured on SIRIUS Satellite Radio's exclusive Grateful Dead Channel The Grateful Dead WHAT: SIRIUS' Grateful Dead channel to launch a new feature celebrating music that inspired The ...

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E Dog Benefit for Detroit Sax Man

June 14, 2008

Although he was born in Cleveland and has lived in the San Francisco area for the past 12 years, Scott Petersen, (“E Dog” to everyone he knows) has always considered Detroit his musical home. This hardworking saxophone player is known and loved from coast to coast having played with many Detroit acts and renowned names such ...

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How I Conquered Space

June 14, 2008

Anyone with a large compact disc collection will understand the difficult choice I faced: get rid of several hundred CDs (at least), build a wing on the house to accommodate the collection or find a way to make the existing shelves hold more. The point of desperation was approaching, fast. Then a friend casually mentioned that ...

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Replay: Joe Segal's Jazz Showcase Lives Again

June 14, 2008

"Good to see you up and running," says an enthusiastic attendee Thursday night at the packed opening of Joe Segal's new Jazz Showcase. “Feels like 'Up and creeping,'" responds Segal, with characteristic dry humor and skepticism. But there's a lot to be said for the perseverance of Chicago jazz club owners. Just as saxophonist Fred Anderson ...

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Afro-Peruvian Jazz: Pasache Music

June 13, 2008

On a Mission to Promote Afro-Peruvian Jazz: Pasache Music NY good business begins every days work with a focus upon their mission statement. Its generally a paragraph that simply and clearly states the companys goals and defines the motivation behind their work. It provides each employee with a direction to guide their work and it allows ...