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1 hr ago | Patch.com

Summer Concert Series Dates Announced

The TD Bank Summer Concert Series will stop in 8 towns across the Cape during the 2013 season.

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Related Topix: Chatham, MA, The Fringe, Harwich, MA, Hyannis, MA, Barnstable, MA

5 hrs ago | Fort Morgan Times

NJC gala to feature big band-style singer

This year's NJC Foundation Gala, to benefit the HOPE Scholarship, will provide new entertainment for those who attend the June event.

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Related Topix: Dean Martin, Vocal, Tony Bennett, Laughlin, NV

6 hrs ago | Lake Cowichan Gazette

Cowichan's first lady of jazz lights up Crofton

You know her fine taste from the outstanding line of musicians she's brought to Mill Bay through the Jazz Vespers series, and Crofton through the Sunday afternoon jazz series.

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Related Topix: Rosemary Clooney, Sarah Vaughan, The Four Tops, Soul

8 hrs ago | Examiner.com

Early jazz influences: from New Orleans to American fine art

Virgil Thompson, an American composer and critic, said, " Jazz is the most astounding spontaneous musical event to take place anywhere since the Reformation." That is quite the statement: the most astounding spontaneous musical event since the Reformation.

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Related Topix: New Orleans, Benny Goodman

9 hrs ago | Bangor Daily News

freezingprocess.net : A Conversation With Jazz Trio, Acronym

Welcome to Episode # 100 of the freezingprocess.net podcast!! In this episode we sat down with the members of Portland based Jazz Trio, Acronym .

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10 hrs ago | Salisbury Journal

Wiltshire Jazz Festival

Singer-songwriter Gwyneth Herbert is set to headline with her new quintet, in what will be her second appearance at the annual festival, along with Martin Taylor and Alan Barnes, and The Two Minds Big Band, featuring Dave O'Higgins and Pete Wraight.

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Related Topix: Gwyneth Herbert, Martin Taylor, Dave o'higgins

13 hrs ago | Patch.com

'All That Jazz' at Centreville High School

Centreville High School will be filled with the strains of cool jazz May 31, as school's cafeteria becomes the setting for the JazzCats Cafe.

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13 hrs ago | KSLA-TV Shreveport

Using jazz to teach concepts of democracy

A Loyola University of New Orleans faculty member is among educators and musicians who teamed this week to use elements of jazz to teach the concept of democracy.

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Related Topix: New Orleans

16 hrs ago | Southwest Riverside News Network

Thornton Winery looks ahead to annual Champagne Jazz Series

On spring evenings, the Temecula air seems a just a bit more magical. The warmth of the sun is tempered by gentle breezes that carry the sounds and smells of wine country.

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Related Topix: Temecula, CA, Wine, Drink, Peter White

Wed May 22, 2013

Eugene Weekly

Jazzing the House

With music institutions - especially those in less commercial genres - struggling musicians and fans have had to get social and entrepreneurial, increasingly relying on grassroots funding and informal venues.

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Related Topix: Shedd, OR, The Jazz Station, Eugene, OR, Portland, OR, University of Oregon, Music, Entertainment

Detroit News

4,000 missing without trace in Mich.; anguished families keep searching

Randall Childs, 52, and his girlfriend, Karen Young, left their apartment on Detroit's west side one day in June 2011.

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Related Topix: Karen Young, Norton Shores, MI

Iol.co.za

'Hotstix', Blanchard on Joy of Jazz bill

Sibongile Mngoma performs at the announcement of the Standard Bank Joy of Jazz line-up in Sandton yesterday.

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Related Topix: Democratic Republic of the Congo, World News, Africa, Carmen Lundy, Terence Blanchard

Daily Star

Mick Jagger planning to...

Jazz star JAMIE CULLUM treated commuters to a show-stopping performance at one of London's busiest railway stations on Tuesday .

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Related Topix: Mick Jagger, Pop/Rock, Jamie Cullum, Celebrities, Geri Halliwell, Spice Girls, The Rolling Stones

Homer Tribune

Tumbledown House brings 'Speakeasy' music to Homer

Billed as "Modern Speakeasy Music," the Tumbledown House musicians, Gillian Howe and Tyler Ryan Miller, are traveling to Alaska from their home in San Francisco again this month for their fifth Alaskan tour, with four performances booked in Homer.

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Related Topix: Speakeasy, Homer, AK

WIGM-AM Medford

Zoe Saldana Asks Nina Simone Fans to Give Her a Chance

Zoe Saldana wants Nina Simone fans to give her a chance. The actress will play the jazz legend in a new biopic and fans were up in arms since Saldana isn't a singer.

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Related Topix: Nina Simone, Black Entertainment, Entertainment

St. Louis Jazz Notes

Jazz this week: Freddy Cole & Harry Allen, Soul Rebels, Bluesweek, Dave Dickey Big Band, and more

There's a wide variety of jazz and creative music performances coming up this Memorial Day weekend in St.

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Related Topix: Harry Allen, Freddy Cole, The Big Band, New Orleans, Nat 'King' Cole, Lester Young

All About Jazz

INTERVIEW/PROFILE: Jazz Musician of the Day: Sun Ra

Eclectic, outrageous, sometimes mystifying but always imbued with a powerful jazz consciousness, the music of Sun Ra has withstood its skeptics and detractors for nearly three generations.

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City Pages

The best Twin Cities concerts: 5/22-5/28

The music never stops in the Twin Cities. Third Man Records' Pokey LaFarge makes a trip to the Cedar Cultural Center while singer/songwriter Lissie plays a sold out show at the Varsity Theater.

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Related Topix: Theater, Arts, Bing Crosby, France, Paris, TX, World News,

The Stranger

Data Breaker: Teebs, Thundercat, Michael Mayer, DJ Chloe, Magic Mountain High

About 19 million words have been written about post-astral-jazz-hop producer Flying Lotus , including some by The Stranger 's Charles Mudede, in this issue's Stranger Suggests.

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Related Topix: Jaco Pastorius

KJCT

On this day: May 22

A former U.S. vice president is indicted for treason, the most powerful earthquake ever recorded hits Chile, "Pac-Man" makes his debut, Johnny Carson signs off, and a deadly tornado devastates Joplin, Mo., all on this day.

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Related Topix: New Orleans, Wagner, Opera, World News, Germany, South Carolina, France,