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Harlem Jazz Shrines Fest: Legends On The Bandstand with Heath/Hart/Mance/Sands

Harlem Jazz Shrines Fest: Legends On The Bandstand with Heath/Hart/Mance/Sands

Jazzmobile, Inc. Presents Minton’s Playhouse: Legends on the Bandstand at Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival May 6 and 8 Third Annual Festival, Presented by The Apollo Theater, Harlem Stage and Jazzmobile, Inc., Celebrates Historic Harlem Venues May 6 – 11, 2013 Harlem, USA – Jazz was born in New Orleans, but it grew up in Harlem in ...

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News: Event

Royal Hartigan Honors Ancestors In Free Concert, May 5 In Pittsfield

Royal Hartigan Honors Ancestors In Free Concert, May 5 In Pittsfield

Percussionist, author, activist, and Pittsfield (Mass.) native Royal Hartigan brings the Blood Drum Spirit ensemble to his home town, to honor his (and our) ancestors on Sunday, May 5, at 3 pm. The concert will take place at the Zion Lutheran Church at 74 First Street, Pittsfield. A free will offering is suggested and all proceeds ...

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News: TV / Film

A Jazz Tune Recorded In Heaven

A Jazz Tune Recorded In Heaven

They Died Before 40, a new jazz film, features eight jazz artists, most of them relatively unknown. They all died before reaching the age of 40. Actually, four of the eight died before reaching the age of 30! Seven died before 1944 and one died in 1956. The greatest jazz band in history has been playing ...

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News: Recording

Jazz And Bluegrass: The Rosenthals, Father-son Duo, To Release Cd Collaboration "fly Away"

Jazz And Bluegrass: The Rosenthals, Father-son Duo, To Release Cd Collaboration "fly Away"

Trumpeter/composer Daniel Rosenthal grew up playing folk music in the family band led by his father, acclaimed vocalist, songwriter, and bluegrass string player Phil Rosenthal, but he didn’t follow in his dad’s footsteps. Instead, he poured his creative energy into jazz, becoming a key member of Boston’s storied Either/Orchestra and leading his own forward-thinking quintet. But ...

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News: Festival

Harlem Jazz Shrines Fest: Cab Calloway Big Band At Alhambra Ballroom

Harlem Jazz Shrines Fest: Cab Calloway Big Band At Alhambra Ballroom

Jazzmobile, Inc. Presents Alhambra Revived Featuring the Cab Calloway Orchestra at The Alhambra Ballroom May 9, 8:00 pm at the Third Annual Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival Takes over Uptown May 6 - 11 Harlem, USA – The third annual Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival, a multi-venue partnership between The Apollo Theater, Harlem Stage ...

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News: Festival

Versatile and exciting lineup Curacao North Sea Jazz Festival 2013 with
 Marc Anthony, Toto, Paul Anka, and more!

Versatile and exciting lineup Curacao North Sea Jazz Festival 2013 with
 Marc Anthony, Toto, Paul Anka, and more!

The lineup of the fourth Curaçao North Sea Jazz edition looks festive and very promising. We have just received confirmations of none other than Marc Anthony, Toto, Paul Anka, Pernell Saturnino and Friends featuring Miguel Zenón and for Brionplein Israel & New Breed. Marc Anthony has been on the Curaçao North Sea Jazz wish-list for quite ...

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Article: Album Review

Cliff Hines: Wanderlust

Read "Wanderlust" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

Colleague Dan Bilawsky's razor review of Wanderlust noted that: “Guitarist/vocalist/composer Cliff Hines is a product of this environment [New Orleans], but he's also a man of his own time. He mixes, merges and melds many a style into his musical cauldron but, most importantly, he captures the zeitgeist of 2013." ...

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Article: Album Review

Swingadelic: Toussaintville

Read "Toussaintville" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

It's tempting to say that the great Allen Toussaint is a musical phoenix who rose out of the ashes of a Katrina-ravaged New Orleans, but that's not really true. Toussaint wasn't reborn when his city was in ruins; people just started to wake up and take notice of him again in the wake of that tragedy. ...

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Article: Dan's Den

Inside the 5th NEA Jazz Masters Awards

Read "Inside the 5th NEA Jazz Masters Awards" reviewed by Dan Morgenstern

by Dan Morgenstern

The 32nd class of National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters was formally inducted on January 14, 2013. Numbering just four, this was the smallest class since the threesome of 2003. The following year, new NEA Chairman Dana Gioia upped the ante to six and added the new category of the A. B. Spellman Jazz Advocacy ...

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Article: Album Review

Marbin: Last Chapter of Dreaming

Read "Last Chapter of Dreaming" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita

Dani Rabin is a burgeoning guitar hero and could shred with the best of them, evidenced by this first-class band's third release, featuring guest spots by drummer Paul Wertico (Pat Metheny) and percussionist Jamey Haddad (Herbie Hancock, Joe Lovano). Marked by a diverse track mix and genre-busting compositional frameworks, the artists cross that imaginary boundary, where ...


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