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Amazon.com Names Soweto Kinch's Dune Records Release "Conversations With The Unseen" #5 In Editor's List of Top-10 Jazz CDs of 2004

November 11, 2004

British Alto Saxophonist / Rapper Soweto Kinch's Dune Records Release “Conversations With The Unseen" #5 In Amazon.com (US) Editor's Picks For Top-10 Jazz CDs of 2004 1. Ivey-Divey by Don Byron 2. Funeral for a Friend by Dirty Dozen Brass Band 3. Friends Seen & Unseen by Charlie Hunter 4. Careless Love by Madeleine Peyroux 5. ...

Concord Records Signs Rita Coolidge

November 10, 2004

Soprano Hilary Gardner joins "Monday Off"

November 8, 2004

November 9, 2004: Monday Off, the jazz vocal quartet hailed by Skitch Henderson as having “exquisite taste, rich creativity, fresh ideas, spread over a palate of standard repertoire" is welcoming a new member to their group, Hilary Gardner. The group has already begun recording their second album for release in 2005. Classically trained vocalist Hilary Gardner ...

Jazz-photographer Jos Knaepen Re-launches Website

November 6, 2004

3000 Vinyls of Bill Lane's collection '50s -'80s 65% are Jazz For Sale

October 31, 2004

Karl Berger named Chairman of UMass/Dartmouth Music Department

October 25, 2004

London Jazz Club Ronnie Scott's Celebrates 45th Anniversary

October 20, 2004

Ronnie Scott's, the most famous jazz club on earth, is this week celebrating its 45th anniversary. It's an endurance record hardly any other establishment running an all-jazz programme has ever managed. “Like a prison sentence," the late Ronnie Scott once exhaled wearily, when the 30th anniversary came up, in 1989. “Thirty years in a jazz club." ...

Get to Know BD Jazz

October 18, 2004

We'd like to announce the launching of BD Jazz, a new French label that's put out a series highlighting some of the most highly acclaimed jazz musicians in history. The set includes double CDs, featuring artists such as Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole and Dizzy Gillespie among others. Additionally, a 16 page ...

Bearden Created the Visual Equivalent of Jazz

October 5, 2004

Music - particularly jazz, the blues, folk - was a persistent theme in the life and art of African-American artist Romare Bearden. Jazz musicians were among his close friends. He wrote lyrics to supplement his meager income in the early 1950s. Many of his paintings are named after songs. Paintings throughout Bearden's career don't merely depict ...

3000 Vinyls of Bill Lane's collection '50s -'80s 65% are Jazz

October 5, 2004

The “Bill Lane Album Collection" consists of over 3000 albums. The list contains 33 1/3 rpm vinyl albums and there are additional 78 rpm and 12" disco albums. The recordings consist of Pop, R & B, Musical Theater, high quality Classical boxed sets and, for the most part, Jazz. This collection sports Bill Lane's tremendous love ...