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Faith and Fear in Flushing (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Mets used to regularly play Memorial Day doubleheaders, Independence Day doubleheaders and Labor Day doubleheaders, yet the holiday that launched them into the public consciousness was the one we celebrate tomorrow. That's right: the Mets are as much a part of Thanksgiving as stuffing, pumpkin pie and forced conversation you could do without . Two months before they started limbering up in St....
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | yesterday
Opal Mann Opal Mann, an accomplished jazz musician who played piano in Sacramento nightclubs, accompanied African American church choirs and backed Billie Holiday on stage, died Friday at age 84. She died of cancer, said her daughter, Mellissa Truitt. For many music lovers, Mrs. Mann was a bridge to the golden age of African American jazz clubs downtown. She played piano in bands at the Momo Club...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
KEY BISCAYNE, Fla., Nov. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- "It's Christmas Time with Sylvia Bennett" has been released, and after listening to the new CD with treasured holiday songs and four new original tunes, even Scrooge will be humming along.
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HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Nanaimo: Members of the Lionel Hampton Jazz Band, Cleave Guyton Jr on alto sax and Christian Fabian on bass, will be joinging Wellington Secondary Jazz Academy Big Band students.
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HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Nanaimo: Come out and see members of the Lionel Hampton Jazz Band, Cleave Guyton Jr on alto sax and Christian Fabian on bass, perform jazz favorites.
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Aurgasm (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
electro swing // gypsy django party If you can judge a group by its influences, try these out: Django Reinhardt, Vitalic, Cab Calloway, Justice, Lionel Hampton, Daft Punk, Billy Holiday. The Paris-based group has been touring since they broke out at the Django Reinhardt Jazz Festival in 2007. They deliver an old gypsy swing, but through [...]
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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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BestCovery (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
The electric bass entered the jazz world almost immediately after its introduction, when vibraphonist Lionel Hampton endorsed the Fender Precision. Even so, the upright bass has continued to be a jazz tradition. In spite of this, or maybe because of it, instrument companies have sought to bridge the gap between the bass guitar and bass fiddle for the last 50 years. In my humble opinion, they’ve...
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normawillson2009 | 10/29/2009
Lionel Hampton Olympia Mar 25th 1961 >>>> Download Olympia Mar 25th 1961 <<<< artist: Lionel Hampton album: Olympia Mar 25th 1961 Tracklist: 1 The Birth of the Blues mp3 2 Untitled mp3 3 Midnight Sun mp3 4 Tenderly mp3 5 Alexanders Ragtime Band mp3 6 Rollem Pete mp3 7 Flying Home mp3 8 Hey-BA-BA-Re-BOP mp3 9 On the Sunny Side of the Street mp3 10 Hamps Boogie Woogie mp3 11 Splanky
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The Age (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Johnny Carter, one of the greatest tenor singers in American popular music history, has died of lung cancer in his home town of Harvey, Illinois. He was 75.
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TheHoundBlog (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Our blogeration today concerns just one tune, which is fairly well known among record folks as Chicken by the Spark Plugs. It was re-issued a few year back on Norton (with the Condas' The Bird as the b-side, a tune that had never been released until the aforementioned Norton 45, it came to me via a listener to my old WFMU radio show who sent me a cassette of his dad's band which consisted of two songs...
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Jazz@Rochester (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
The Exodus To Jazz series of jazz gigs continues with the Johnny O’Neal Trio on Friday, Oct. 23, 2009 at the Radisson Hotel Rochester Riverside with sets at 8:00 and 10:00 pm in Frontier Hall at the hotel. Doors open...
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bebop spoken here (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Russell has kindly directed to me to an exciting new series on Radio 2. Starting this Monday, October 19, at 11:30 pm, Curtis Stigers, no less, hosts a program detailing the rise to fame of Benny Goodman. The six part series includes archive interviews with such as Peggy Lee, Buddy Greco, Artie Shaw and Lionel Hampton. Dankworth's in there too. Should be well worth twiddling the cat's whisker on your...
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normawillson2009 | 10/29/2009
Lionel Hampton Olympia Mar 25th 1961 >>>> Download Olympia Mar 25th 1961 <<<< artist: Lionel Hampton album: Olympia Mar 25th 1961 Tracklist: 1 The Birth of the Blues mp3 2 Untitled mp3 3 Midnight Sun mp3 4 Tenderly mp3 5 Alexanders Ragtime Band mp3 6 Rollem Pete mp3 7 Flying Home mp3 8 Hey-BA-BA-Re-BOP mp3 9 On the Sunny Side of the Street mp3 10 Hamps Boogie Woogie mp3 11 Splanky mp3 12 When the Saints...