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Take Five With Sarah DeLeo

by AAJ Staff
May 16, 2009

Meet Sarah DeLeo: Jazz vocalist Sarah DeLeo takes the best from the masters and combines it with her own signature style to produce a sound that is both timeless and fresh. One hears her singing and is swept away to another time, and yet her powerful presence as a musical storyteller is thoroughly in ...

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Take Five With Mark Rapp

by AAJ Staff
May 14, 2009

Meet Mark Rapp: The Mark Rapp Group has played sold out shows at the Blue Note (New York), Joe's Pub, Le Poisson Rouge and such venues as the JVC Newport Jazz Festival, Dizzy's at Jazz Lincoln Center, Euphoria Festival and more. Mark was named a “top emerging trumpeter" by Down Beat Magazine, featured on ...

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Take Five With Damon Zick

by AAJ Staff
May 13, 2009

Meet Damon Zick:Damon Zick and Friends play their own unique brand of original jazz, emphasizing melody, groove and communication. Damon's compositions provide an eclectic wealth of departure points for some top-notch improvisation. The band formed 15 years ago while members were attending the prestigious Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY. While there they ...

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Take Five With Michael Smith

by AAJ Staff
May 12, 2009

Meet Michael Smith: I am a retired music teacher after 39 years of teaching experience in grades four through College. Starting in Indiana after graduating from Indiana State College, Terre Haute, Indiana and teaching two years in a small farm town, I transferred to California mostly in San Diego area because of a graduate assistance-ship at ...

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Take Five With Hanjin

by AAJ Staff
May 11, 2009

Meet Hanjin:Here's one of those rare multi-disciplinary musicians who is at that stage in his career where you know he's brilliant but you can't quite put a finger on what he's exactly about just yet. He sings straight from the heart but if you listen closely, there lies some immaculate technique and maturity under ...

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Take Five With Helen Abbey

by AAJ Staff
May 9, 2009

Meet Helen Abbey:Helen Abbey graduated from the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama with a Diploma in Performing Arts. She started her singing career with The Swing Sisters, an a capella group performing on the alternative cabaret scene, and The Seafood Mamas, a close harmony group with a regular slot at The Ritz ...

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Take Five With Chico Hamilton

by AAJ Staff
May 8, 2009

Meet Chico Hamilton: Known for representing jazz in its purest form, octogenarian Chico Hamilton shows virtually no signs of fatigue. Saluted by the Kennedy Center as a “Living Jazz Legend," and appointed to the National Council on the Arts, Chico Hamilton is considered one of the most important living jazz artists and composers. He is currently ...

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Take Five With Tine Bruhn

by AAJ Staff
May 7, 2009

Meet Tine Bruhn:Tine Bruhn is a jazz vocalist with extensive solo and ensemble experience. She lives in New York City, where she has put together a new group of excellent up and coming musicians. They perform jazz standards and R&B classics along with contemporary instrumental pieces to which Tine has written original lyrics. The ...

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Take Five With Bill Stevens

by AAJ Staff
May 6, 2009

Meet Bill Stevens:Bill Stevens (trumpet and flugelhorn) received a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education from Fredonia State University in 1978 and a Masters degree in Jazz Studies from the University of Miami in 1980. Bill spent the next 10 years playing professionally in Miami, Florida; upstate New York; New York ...

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Take Five With Asaf Sirkis

by AAJ Staff
May 5, 2009

Meet Asaf Sirkis:Born in 1969 in Petah-Tikva, Israel, Asaf later moved to the town of Rehovot, where he spent his teens and early twenties. This was an influential move for Asaf, as it was here amongst the diverse cultural influences he found in Rehovot that Asaf began to show an interest in music and ...