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News: Festival

Summer 2010: Jazzmobile Heads Back to the Streets of New York

May 27, 2010

JAZZMOBILE'S SUMMERFEST RETURNS TO NEW YORK CITY Oldest Continuous Summer Jazz Festival to Return on June 21; Series Brings Top Talent to Neighborhoods Across the Five Boroughs NEW YORK, NY--New York's oldest continuous--and mostly free--summer jazz festival will swing into neighborhoods across the city this summer with an eclectic mix of artists. Among the more than ...

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News: Festival

BossaBrasil Festival at Birdland: June 8-12, 2010

May 27, 2010

DELTA Air Lines Presents BOSSABRASIL Festival Starring TWO LUMINARIES FROM BRAZIL EMILIO SANTIAGO and MARCOS VALLE Produced by Pat Philips & Ettore Stratta Birdland, June 8-12 BOSSABRASIL returns to Birdland with the fabulous sounds of Brazil. Launched in 2007, it is a celebration of ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Radical Paris Was Rich with Song by Yvonne Constant

May 27, 2010

Lean and shapely, with silver-blond hair, her face and body lightly dusted with glitter, the Gallic singer Yvonne Constant is the kind of ageless beauty that the French, who worship women of all ages, venerate without having to apply conditional terms like cougar. Wearing a minidress over a flesh-color body stocking and silver high heels, Ms. ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Jacob Sacks, Eivind Opsvik, Paul Motian, Mat Maneri Live at Cornelia Street Cafe, NYC

May 27, 2010

Friday June 11th and Saturday June 12th Cornelia Street Cafe 29 Cornelia Street 9:00PM & 10:30PM TWO MILES A DAY Jacob Sacks, piano; Eivind Opsvik, bass; Mat Manieri, viola, violin; Paul Motian, drums Back in 2005 ...

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Article: Live From New York

Konk Pack, Tim Hodgkinson, George Lewis and Bob Stewart

by Martin Longley
May 27, 2010

Konk PackThe StoneApril 14, 2010 RouletteApril 17, 2010 The Anglo-German improvising trio Konk Pack climaxed their epic US tour with a pair of New York City dates. They had already taken their extremist electroacoustic abstractions to far Knoxville and Kansas City, ending up performing at ...

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News: Event

Carefusion Jazz Festival NY Celebrates Herbie Hancock's 70th Birthday, June 24

May 25, 2010

CAREFUSION JAZZ FESTIVAL NEW YORK PRESENTS HERBIE HANCOCK - SEVEN DECADES: THE BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 8:00 PM AT CARNEGIE HALL Hancock Performs with Special Guests India.Arie, Terence Blanchard, Ron Carter, Bill Cosby, Jack DeJohnette, Dave Holland, Joe Lovano, Wallace Roney, Wayne Shorter & Others Birthday Celebration Continues with Tribute to Herbie Hancock: Late Night ...

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News: Book / Magazine

George Washington's Library Book Returned, 221 Years Later

May 26, 2010

It was over two centuries late, but a copy of a library book George Washington borrowed was returned yesterday to a New York library. The former president borrowed “The Law of Nations" by Emer de Vattel on 5 October 1789, according to the records of the New York Society Library. Staff discovered it was missing when ...

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News: Performance / Tour

If Not 76 Trombones, Everything else a One-Man Band Can Handle

May 24, 2010

Imagine a player piano. Now imagine you're a guitarist and composer named Pat Metheny and that you have a kind of player piano that can both play what you've composed for it. Not through perforated paper but digital technology and also replicate whatever you're playing on the guitar. You can also play a long phrase on ...

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News: Festival

2010 Red Hook Jazz Festival

May 23, 2010

The Urban Meadow in Brooklyn Proudly Announces the Red Hook Jazz Festival - 2010 in the Urban Meadow Located on the corner of President & Van Brunt Streets in Red Hook/Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn Sundays, June 13th & 20th from 1pm - 5pm $5.00 suggested donation per Adult. Kids are FREE Jazz is Alive in Brooklyn! The ...

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News: Radio

MOJA Radio/Weekly Features: May 24-30, 2010

May 23, 2010

This Monday, May 24th, we'll present another “Happy Birthday" edition of our special feature, MONDAY WITH THE MASTERS on MOJA Radio. This time the focus is on possibly the most popular jazz man of all time, MILES DAVIS just two days before what would have been his 84th birthday on Wednesday, the 26th of May. You'll ...