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Like the alleged corpse vociferously protesting in Monty Python's "Holy Grail," the compact-disc format refuses to accede to its seemingly imminent demise. Even as CD sales continue to plunge, musicians devote considerable time and money creating
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The Seattle Times
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/musicnightlife/2010525936_topjazz20.html?syndication=rss
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Cyrus Chestnut's new album, Spirit (Jazz Legacy Productions), is subtitled Solo Piano, and it's true that the Baltimore native's piano is the only thing heard on the 14 tracks. But the record nonetheless provides a fascinating dialogue between two
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Baltimore City Paper
http://www.citypaper.com/music/story.asp?id=19460
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BRADEN-RAPP - the new band led by world-renowned saxophonist, flautist and composer DON BRADEN and MARK RAPP, one of Downbeat Magazine's "top emerging trumpeters" - has released their debut recording The Strayhorn Project. Paying tribute to jazz
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Broadway World
http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/BradenRapp_Presents_Their_Debut_CD_The_Strayhorn_Project_To_Be_Released_1142010_20091208
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Art Blakey, Live in '65 (Jazz Icons). The Blakey entry in the new Jazz Icons DVD release will come as a surprise even to many of the drummer's most persistent fans. The band it presents in France was not an edition of Blakey's celebrated Jazz
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ArtsJournal
http://www.artsjournal.com/rifftides/2009/12/recent_viewing_art_blakey.html
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Join us this Friday, December 4th, for an in-store Barnes & Noble interview with legendary drummer Jack DeJohnette.
Born in Chicago in 1942, Jack DeJohnette is widely regarded as one of jazz music's greatest drummers. Music appreciation flourished in
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All About Jazz
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=46320
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Hal Weary, A Rendezvous with Deja Vu (halwearyjazz). Weary is a pianist from the west on the rise in New York City. The quintet numbers on his debut CD draw on the hard-bop/gospel spirit of Horace Silver and Art Blakey. On Tenderly," he touches on but
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All About Jazz
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=46143
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Gala Pre-Performance Reception and Concert is $100
Concert only is $40
Box Office: 732-499-8226
Rahway, NJ -- The Union County Performing Arts Center (UCPAC), 1601 Irving Street in Rahway, NJ, presents five concerts on one night for one low price
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All About Jazz
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=45794
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Cepia
Cepia is the electro-ambient brainchild of Minneapolis-based bassist/songwriter and sound engineer Huntley Miller. Founded in the early aughts, Cepia = a marriage of music, rhythmic-math, and specter-effect emotion. Collaborations include
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Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/phil-ramone-and-danielle-evin/dog-ears-music-volume-nin_b_365539.html
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It may simply be that some are born cool, or at least with the requisite quanta of intelligence and temperament, and the rest of us are not.
Cool is self-direction, self-possession, self-sufficiency, capability, discretion, and a bit of wit. Not-cool
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The American | American Enterprise Institute
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/American/~3/bw9AtYQk4MU/the-death-of-the-cool
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In the early 1960s, drum maestro Art Blakey expanded his Jazz Messengers, adding trombonist Curtis Fuller to a front line that also boasted tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter and, alternately, trumpeters Lee Morgan and Freddie Hubbard. The post gave
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NJ.com
http://www.nj.com/entertainment/music/index.ssf/2009/11/post_41.html
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An illustration by Jim Flora, whose portraits of jazz giants graced record sleeves and ephemera throughout the 1940s and 1950s
Photo: The Estate of James Flora; see JimFlora.com
Recorded jazz is still under a century old, but in a little over nine
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The Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/6515486/100-Best-Jazz-Recordings.html
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Alex Riel (drums)
Poul Halberg (guitar)
Frans Bak (keys)
Hans Ulrik (sax)
Bo Stief (bass)
During the 1980s SANTA CRUZ was one of the most successful jazz-rock fusion bands in Denmark. Today their only release from those days, the LP Daylight
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All About Jazz
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=44954
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An all-star quintet featuring renowned saxophonist Hadley Caliman, the legendary Curtis Fuller (trombone), Larry Vukovich (piano), Jeff Chambers (bass), and Eddie Marshall (drums) concludes its Pacific Northwest tour in a special tribute concert to the
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All About Jazz
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=44740
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"The rhythm section is the essence of every style of music," the late Max Roach told me back in 1992. "Charlie Parker can play whatever he wants on the saxophone, but if I play a polka beat on the drums, the music's going to sound like a polka-if I
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Baltimore City Paper
http://www.citypaper.com/music/story.asp?id=19189
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New York City trumpeter Ingrid Jensen is a modernist whose compelling abstractions are shaped by a warmly dark sound, fleet neo-bebop technique and deep emotional soul.
While reflecting a mastery of the grammar and syntax of post-bop giants Miles Davis
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CJOnline
http://cjonline.com/life/2009-10-25/review_jazz_trumpeter_shines
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Tenor saxophonist Jimmy Heath is best known as the timeless anchor of the famed Heath Brothers band. When Jimmy's brother and bassist Percy died in 2005, Jimmy and drummer Albert Tootie" Heath continued on,
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All About Jazz
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=44320
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AP Photo/Ric FrancisStevie Wonder performs at the funeral for Grammy Award-winning jazz trumpet player Freddie Hubbard on Jan. 6, 2009, in Inglewood, Calif.
Another phone rings in the background, but Stevie Wonder remains relaxed. Cool. Confident. Full
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Syracuse.com
http://blog.syracuse.com/listenup/2009/10/stevie_wonder_talks_about_past.html
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Of all the fine jazz musicians to emerge from Philadelphia in the last two decades, Christian McBride plays a uniquely multifaceted role, as a bassist but also a broadcaster, educator, curator, and jazz advocate. This year, he's been marking his 20th
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Philadelphia Inquirer
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/magazine/20091015_Jazz_bassist_does_more_than_just_make_music.html
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Kenny Barron is a jazz pianist.
Barron, who brings his trio to the University of Notre Dame's DeBartolo Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday, also is an educator.
Barron the jazz pianist has recorded more than 40 albums as a leader in a career
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South Bend Tribune
http://www.southbendtribune.com/article/20091007/INTHEBEND/910079952/-1/XML
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October is the season of the witch - Halloween witches, that is; which makes this a perfect time to check out some of the scarily good jazz and blues artists who will hit the Garden State next month.
John Hammond's total absorption of classic folk
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Asbury Park Press
http://www.app.com/article/20090927/ENT/909270311/1031/rss09
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SOURCE: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
In this video clip, bassist Niels-Henning rsted Pedersen introduces Freddie Hubbard, who chooses the verse of one imperishable ballad to set up the chorus of another, to NHOP's evident bemusement. It may be
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All About Jazz
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=42906
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Los Angeles, CA -- Concord Records caps a year in which it reissued many of Ray Charles' classic albums (Genius: The Ultimate Ray Charles Collection, Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music, A Message From the People and
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All About Jazz
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=42647
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Peter plays with his current band with Alan Pasqua and Darek Oles. Whatta TRIO! Upstairs at Vitello's is becoming known as one of LA's best listening rooms". This combination will present a stellar evening
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All About Jazz
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=42506
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For many listeners, Fred P. was one of 2009’s major discoveries. Less a young upstart than a veteran finally getting his due, Fred Peterkin has become one of the key players in New York City’s resurgent house scene. His affiliations with Jus-Ed and
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Little White Earbuds
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/littlewhiteearbuds/gKeY/~3/w46chtk9ic0/
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The Mile High Chapter Choir performing at the 2008 Gospel Prayer Meetin' at the Vail Jazz Party. The choir will perform again this year on Sunday.
Friday
Friday opening evening session
7:30 p.m.— Jeff Hamilton Trio
8:40 p.m.— Ann Hampton Callaway
9:50
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Vail Daily
http://www.vaildaily.com/article/20090903/AE/909039979/-1/RSS10
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The celebrations of a half-century of Ronnie Scott's jazz club usefully coincide with two other 1959 landmarks, John Coltrane's Giant Steps and Miles Davis's Kind of Blue. The Mobo award-winning tenor saxophonist Denys Baptiste's quartet tackle the
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The Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/gary-crosbys-nu-troopdenys-baptiste-quartet-ronnie-scotts-london-1780181.html
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Cannonball Adderley, Mary Lou Williams and Freddie Hubbard are celebrated in Smithsonian Institution concerts next October, February and April; a December "Swingin' in the Holidays" performance by the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra completes
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ArtsJournal
http://www.artsjournal.com/jazzbeyondjazz/2009/08/smithsonian_jazz_09-10_four_sh.html
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If one human voice could dignify the plight of the impoverished, celebrate the brief respite of the working class and honor the patriotism of a people, in that post-turbulent era of the early ‘70s—that instrument would belong to singer-pianist Ray
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PopMatters
http://www.popmatters.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=PopMatters&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.popmatters.com%2Fpm%2Freview%2F109034-ray-charles-a-message-from-the-people%2F&seed_title=Ray+Charles%3A+A+Message+from+the+People
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Bringing to town such stars as Branford Marsalis, Joshua Redman, Charlie Hunter, Claudia Acuńa and Kurt Elling, the 2009 Indy Jazz Fest is gearing up for a multi-day run Sept. 19-27.
Unlike past installments, this year's festival will begin with
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Indianapolis Star
http://www.indystar.com/article/20090805/ENTERTAINMENT/908050404
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Cedar Walton, who’ll be at the jazz festival Saturday, might be the quintessential jazz accompanist and sideman. His piano playing — interesting but not flashy, with harmonic inventiveness and rhythmic support — helped him make his name, most notably
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Providence Journal
http://www.projo.com/music/content/ARTSUN-WALTON_08-02-09_G9F7UA8_v7.2b0b83c.html
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Chaka Khan says she was “born and weaned on jazz.”
This weekend won’t mark Chaka Khan’s first appearance at the jazz festival in Newport, but Friday night will mark the first time she’s sung straight-ahead jazz standards at the venerable fest.
Khan
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Providence Journal
http://www.projo.com/music/content/ARTSUN-KHAN_08-02-09_O3F7HNI_v11.2b070ea.html
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NEW YORK, July 30 /PRNewswire/ -- In commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the original 7" 45 rpm two-sided single, Legacy Recordings, the world's premier catalog label, is issuing a new line of Digital 45s, along with a variety of new Digital Audio
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PR Newswire
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/07-30-2009/0005068764&EDATE=
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Next was supposed to be mini-supergroup Mighty Underdogs but apparently there was a schedule conflict. Chief Xcel of Blackalicious (who manned the wheels for the Lifesavas) replaced them by rocking a party-time DJ set. This was when we wandered down
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Done Waiting
http://www.donewaiting.com/2009/07/22/therothburyreport/
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Courtesy of the ArtistOn "Oriental Express," Akiko Tsuruga moves from slow and steamy to straight swing to down-home funk.
Manchester, N.J., resident Jack Kreisberg has produced so many albums highlighting Garden State jazz musicians for Portland, Ore.
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NJ.com
http://www.nj.com/entertainment/music/index.ssf/2009/07/akiko_tsuruga_plays_the_keys_t.html
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Duane Gregg, left, and Isabelle Diehm, both of Urbandale wait for the Jazz in July concert to start on July 8 behind West Des Moines City Hall. The Jim Oatts Quintet played the music of Freddie Hubbard.
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Des Moines Register
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/desmoinesregister/Photos/~3/G4eluHXHDiI/gallery
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When German emigrés Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff founded the Blue Note record label 70 years ago in New York City, jazz held most of the market for recorded music. Nowadays, it's decidedly a niche genre. So why do so many artists with mainstream
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National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=1737041
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Jazz trumpeter Dominick Farinacci and his U.S. debut "Lovers, Tales & Dances" (E1 Entertainment) continue to make waves with some of the most influential names in jazz. Released this February, the album is winning over insiders and media alike,
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Broadway World
http://www.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=57003
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IN 1969 trumpeter Freddie Hubbard was second only to Miles Davis.
He was a player with enormous range and this find from the Blue Note vaults of old London and Germany dates is a treat.
Accompanied by star bassist Ron Carter, Freddies quartet flies
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Daily Express
http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/108665
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Dominick Farinacci leads a trumpet trio at the Detroit Jazz Festival in a tribute to the one-of-a-kind Lee Morgan.
JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater, June 18, 2009 - Lee Morgan came from Philadelphia
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NPR
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105578576&ft=1&f=1039
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Dominick Farinacci leads a trumpet trio at the Detroit Jazz Festival in a tribute to the one-of-a-kind Lee Morgan.
Lee Morgan came from Philadelphia and lived from 1938 to 1972. At age 14, he took up the trumpet. He was still in his teens when Dizzy
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NPR
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105578576&ft=1&f=1109
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Dominick Farinacci leads a trumpet trio at the Detroit Jazz Festival in a tribute to the one-of-a-kind Lee Morgan.
Lee Morgan came from Philadelphia and lived from 1938 to 1972. At age 14, he took up the trumpet. He was still in his teens when Dizzy
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NPR
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105578576&ft=1&f=10002
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Time to go deep
The name of this dude is Mor Thiam. A Senegalese drummer who moved to the United States and settled in St Louis, Thiam has the power to rattle cages with his take on the funk. In the past, he worked with jazzers like Freddie Hubbard and
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Irish Times
http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/ontherecord/2009/06/11/tune-of-the-week-ayo-ayo-nene/
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Trumpet great (1938-2008) was a jazzman who could knock you flat. His virtuosic horn technique, rich melodic imagination, driving swing and pile of superb compositions left a major impact on modern jazz -- influencing and moving musicians and listeners
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NJ.com
http://www.nj.com/entertainment/music/index.ssf/2009/06/freddie_hubbard_salute.html
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Christian McBride's previous band was built to boogie, but his latest group is built to swing. The virtuoso and versatile bassist, whose charismatic musicianship and personal warmth endeared him to fans last year as the artist-in-residence at the
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Detroit Free Press
http://www.freep.com/article/20090607/ENT04/906070333/1118/RSS
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The New York Times
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Scotty wrote The World of Jazz Trumpet, which is the first work of its kind. The volume has an introduction by Clark Terry and the late great Freddie Hubbard. This was a significant achievement for the artist and the new solo release is yet another
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BusinessPortal24
http://www.businessportal24.com/en/Scotty_Barnhart_Prefers_Say_Plain_371935.html
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Seattle jazz trumpeter Thomas Marriott has a new album, and tonight he's bringing his quintet out to celebrate. "Flexicon" (on local label Origin) features Marriott as a trumpeter and producer, with such varied tunes as Freddie Hubbard's "Take it to
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The Seattle Times
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/musicnightlife/2009207962_zmus12marriott.html?syndication=rss
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Tenorman Don Braden and pianist Xavier Davis lead off a month of free performances at Whole Foods West Orange, 235 Prospect Ave., West Orange. South Orange's Braden, who has played with greats like Freddie Hubbard, and West Oranger Davis, an insightful
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NJ.com
http://www.nj.com/entertainment/music/index.ssf/2009/05/horns_and_pianos.html
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Arusha — Each April, the United States of America celebrates Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM), honouring one of the most significant contributions from America to world culture. The U.S. Government, through its embassies worldwide, supports Jazz
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AllAfrica.com
http://allafrica.com/stories/200905040709.html
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The mayor hasn’t explained how bad the economy will be if Albany doesn’t approve new taxes and union givebacks.
Co-vocabularists are invited to share family phrases that they use to describe private foibles and traditions.
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The New York Times
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