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feminist blogs (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Later this month, the documentary film “The Jazz Baroness” will air on cable TV. The film was made by the English artist (and member of the Rothschild banking family) Hannah Rothschild. The “Jazz Baroness” explores the life of Kathleen Annie Pannonica Rothschild de Koenigswarter, the filmmaker’s great-aunt and patron of American jazz. A short write-up (here) [...]
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
All About Jazz is celebrating Kevin Eubanks' birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Kevin EubanksKevin Tyrone Eubanks (born November 15, 1957 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), is an American jazz guitarist who has been the leader of the Tonight Show Band with host Jay Leno since 1995. He played with Art Blakey, Roy Haynes, Slide Hampton... more...
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The Big Picture (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
This is truly a Friday Night Jazz: Via the NYT, we learn that Wolfgang’s Vault has a substantial collection of pristine audio recording from the Newport Jazz Festival. Some of the recordings will blow you away — I suggest the Count Basie concert, but all 3 are excellent (free registration required). There is also Art Blakey and [...]
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Wolfgangs Vault (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Download for $9.98. Listen to The Jazz Messengers performed at Newport Jazz Festival on July 4, 1959
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SBS - The Business of The NFL (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Seven & Out – Week #9 By Michael – Louis Ingram-Director of Scouting/ Associate Editor-Football Reporters Online FRO/BASN PHILADELPHIA (FRO/BASN): The weeks keep tickin’ and some teams take a lickin’; but as we pass the half-way mark with Week 9, the spin is as predictable as the bones hittin’ the back of the crap table. Alright – new shooter comin’ out…...
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The Allmusic Blog (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Contrary to recent reports, Steven Tyler is not leaving Aerosmith. Tyler joined guitarist Joe Perry at one of Perry’s recent shows promoting his solo album Have Guitar, Will Travel for an ad hoc performance of “Walk This Way”. Tyler subsequently announced that he had not left Aerosmith. [Billboard.com] Online music archive wolfgangsvault.com is now offering downloads [...]
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Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
From the Article: It’s a complicated story. But if you want to know why the Newport Jazz Festival has been so important to American music, it’s easy: you just have to hear the recorded evidence. Bits and pieces have emerged over the years, in live recordings by Ellington, Coltrane and others. Now Wolfgang’s Vault, the online [...]
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Pianist Edgar van Asselt teams his fine trio with tenor saxophonist David Schnitter and trumpet player Nico Schepers for A Smooth Journey, an album that both swings hard and lovingly embraces. Schnitter is perhaps best known for his stint with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers in the '70s and as a hard bopper who can carry a session on his own. Here, however he is wonderfully immersed in these van Asselt...
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Japan Times (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
"The Lounge Lizards and Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers in a Japanese brothel," is how acclaimed U.K. DJ and record-label owner Gilles Peterson has described funky jazz sextuplet Soil & "Pimp" Sessions. Formed around 2001 by a group of like-minded musicians looking to put the funky flavor and body-rocking swing sounds back into plain-Jane jazz, the group has managed to produced...
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[objet petit a] (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
From Cannonball Adderley's Somethin' Else [1958] Cannonball Adderley on alto sax Miles Davis on trumpet Hank Jones on piano Sam Jones on bass Art Blakey on drums Listen to it here .
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Awdio Blog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Nublu’s first annual jazz festival brings together some of New York’s bright new stars and legendary players between the 5th and 22nd November. Putting their own stamp on the NYC jazz scene, they will host a superb array of celebrated veterans as well as rising stars and favorites who are part of the Nublu pantheon [...] Related posts: Dance to the sounds of Nublu It’s 10pm in New...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Benny Golson Live Interview with Dave Schroeder at Barnes and Noble (NYC) on Friday, October 6th at 7:00 p.m. Join us this Friday, October 30th, for an in-store Barnes and Noble interview with saxophonist, epic composer and jazz legend, Benny Golson Time: 7:00pm - 8:00pm Barnes and Noble 150 East 86th Street New York, NY 10028...
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Metro Times Music Blahg (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Former Detroiter Linda Jones (her byline graced The Detroit News once upon a time) on her new blog at Open Salon remembers the great drummer Art Blakey, who passed away 19 years ago this month. Not your typical musician profile, Jones, now based in Dallas, recalls what it was like being hit on by a jazz great old enough to be her father, and hanging with Blakey and the band (an up-and-coming Wynton...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Three forces transformed Latin music in the fall of 1962. First, the grittier, slinky funk of Horace Silver, Bobby Timmons and Art Blakey had a big impact on artists, shifting Latin music away from popular Cuban dances. Second, waves of Puerto Rican immigrants to New York in the 1950s had created a new youth market for rhythms emerging from the city's Hispanic neighborhoods, particularly East Harlem....
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bebop spoken here (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
After a recent meeting with Claire Delamore regarding the possibilities of incorporating some jazz into the Lit and Phil's calender of events we talked about the library's extensive music collection and the amount of jazz it contained. As a result, Claire sent the following which I am sure is of interest to North-east jazz enthusiasts. Lance. ----- The Literary and Philosophical Society (Lit &...
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