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WFMU's Beware of the Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
WFMU Links Scott Williams' tribute to the facial expressions that squeeze those notes out of guitars. We received such an outpouring of extraordinary listener artwork submissions for our recent logo design contest that we just couldn't keep it all to ourselves. Hold your champagne glass high, extend your pinky, turn up your nose, and take a stroll through this gallery of WFMU-centric works from the...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | yesterday
To celebrate the upcoming 40th anniversary of ECM Records, the label will re-release 40 of the best recordings in its catalog. Since its conception in 1969, ECM has released more than 1,000 recordings. The label has been home to jazz masters of the second half of the 20th century such as Keith Jarrett, Paul Bley, Jan Garbarek, Chick Corea, Pat Metheny and the Art Ensemble of Chicago...
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Manchester Evening News (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
FROM 808 State to a 22-piece string orchestra, Manchester Jazz Festival enters its 13th year with an eclectic mix of cutting edge jazz from the north west to Cuba.
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Explore : 808 State, Artists, Bill Frisell, Caribbean, Cuba, Cutting Edge, Electronica, Gary Burton, Jazz, Manchester, Music, Record Labels
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Once upon a time Wes Montgomery plugged in his guitar and changed the way the world listened to jazz. Since then the guitar pick has been passed on to artists including George Benson, Earl Klugh, John Scofield and Pat Metheny, and each and every one has pushed the genre just a little bit further. With Love and Paragraphs, guitarist Chris Standring makes a fair bid to push it the next step forward....
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Monterey Jazz Festival Records, in collaboration with the Concord Music Group, will issue the second wave of six never-before-released, archival live recordings taped on the Arena stage of the world-famous Monterey Jazz Festival. The releases are slated for August 5, 2008, seven weeks prior to MJF's celebration of its 51st annual presentation of world-class jazz, September 19-21, 2008...
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Manchester Online (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
FROM 808 State to a 22-piece string orchestra, Manchester Jazz Festival enters its 13th year with an eclectic mix of cutting edge jazz from the north west to Cuba.
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
Charlie Haden's Ocean of Diamonds Release Sept 23rd Rosanne Cash, Vince Gill and Ricky Skaggs are among the guests artists featured on an upcoming album by jazz bassist, Charlie Haden. Ocean of Diamonds will be released on Sept. 23 on Decca...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
He changed the shape of jazz playing with the original Ornette Coleman Quartet in the late 1950s, and went on to record some of the most seminal albums in music with artists like John Coltrane, Keith Jarrett, and Pat Metheny, as well as his own provocative Liberation Music Orchestra and noir-tinged Quartet West, garnering over 15 Grammy nominations, four Grammys, and accolades worldwide...
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San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Elton John, Tony Bennett, Lou Reed and former U.S. President Bill Clinton will be among the heavy hitters appearing on Elvis Costello's new variety show.
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International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
A round-up of the day's celebrity news.
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PR-Inside.com Entertainment News (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
ELVIS COSTELLO has taped interviews with TONY BENNETT, LOU REED and SIR ELTON JOHN for an upcoming TV variety show. The British rocker has recorded four one-hour episodes of Spectacle: Elvis Costello With… for future broadcast. Costello, who won acclaim when he sat in for ailing U.S. late night host David Letterman on his The Late Show [...]
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Billboard (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
Elton John, Tony Bennett, Lou Reed and former U.S. President Bill Clinton will be among the heavy hitters appearing on Elvis Costello's new variety show.
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gorgoroth | 05/24/2008
As a distantly Bill Frisell-like player who has kept company with class acts like pianists Paul Bley, Uri Caine and Matthew Shipp, as well as Polish trumpet star Tomasz Stanko, Irish guitarist Mark O'Leary is entitled to a bigger reputation. This trio set finds him with Pat Metheny's remarkable Vietnamese trumpeter Cuong Vu, and the Tim Berne percussionist Tom Rainey, on a set of pieces dedicated
