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The Folmer Family w/6 year old Wendy: Wendy Sings With Mommy & Daddy - For you masochists, an entire album , featuring another version of "Something Happened To Daddy," and you must hear the ghastly, LOL-out loud "How Far Is Heaven," about Daddy dying! The Horrible Singing Child genre primarily affected country and Christian family gr oups of the ...

From the fruits of winning both a MacArthur and Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008, alto saxophonist Miguel Zenon, expands his clear vision of modern jazz and Puerto Rican folk music in Esta Plena .

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"Introducing The New 5" is a fresh post-bop debut with a classic quintet vibe. This compilation is the perfect fusion of classic and contemporary jazz.

Sunday night at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., many of the most notable figures in jazz looked toward the future and celebrated the storied past.

There arena t many musicians more eclectic than or as well-rooted as bassist Charlie Haden .

On Saturday evening October 24 at 8:00 p.m., Juan Alderete, Thomas Pridgen and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez of The Mars Volta will perform at a concert at Hollywood's Key Club which will include a presentation of Bass Player magazine's Lifetime Achievement Awards to jazz legend Charlie Haden and R&B legend Rocco Prestia.

F ILM VIFF continues with its 377 films and more than 640 screenings. What to choose? Some highlights this week include Breathless ; Charlie Haden: Rambling Boy ; Facing Ali and I Killed My Mother .

Along with Legendary Soul/Funk Bassist Rocco Prestia of Tower of Power at Bass Player Live! October 24 Bass Player LIVE! will include clinics, demos, and appearances from top musicians at SIR Studios, 6465 Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California on October 24 - 25, 2009.

Winter & Winter An unorthodox timekeeper and masterful drummer, Paul Motian's momentum has not waned since working with Bill Evans in the 1950s, Charlie Haden 's Liberation Music Orchestra and Keith Jarrett 's American Quartet in the 1960s, and, more recently, younger artists including Jacob Sacks, Eivind Opsvik and Mat Maneri in Two Miles a Day .

Jazz Laurence Hobgood with Charlie Haden and Kurt Elling, "When the Heart Dances" . Singer Kurt Elling guests on three of the 11 tracks of pianist Laurence Hobgood's and bassist Charlie Haden's "When the Heart Dances." If you were Hobgood - who has long been Elling's composer and arranger - you would be happy to have the bassist master along, too.

YOSHI'S: I've been out on the West Coast catching some fantastic music. On the Jazz side, the highlight has to be Yoshi's in San Francisco on Fillmore.

With the realization that there will always be more music coming at him than he can keep up with, AAJ Managing Editor John Kelman wonders why anyone would think that jazz is dead or dying.

Keith Jarrett is one of the most significant jazz pianists to emerge in the latter decades of the 20th century.

Musician Rob Foster plays "Hard Times" on the Riverwalk in downtown Augusta. HOMETOWN: Detroit DAY JOB: Professor of music, Augusta State University PLAYS: Saxophone, flute , clarinet, keyboard BANDS: Mood Indigo, Pulsar, Utake PERFORMED WITH: Dizzy Gillespie, Dave Brubeck, James Newton, Charlie Haden, Art Lande, John Denver, Mitch Ryder, the ...

Bassist/composer Ben Allison 's ninth album, Think Free , is part of a paradigm shift that began with his 2005 Palmetto Records release, Cowboy Justice .

Greg Thomas is a long-time writer/editor and host/co-producer of Jazz it Up!, the web's first interactive jazz series.

A unique blend of improvised and composed music will be showcased by harpists Brandee Younger , Mia Theodoratus and Riza Hequibal on August 27 at Theater 80 St.

The strange, stately beauties of pianist/composer Laurence Hobgood's new Naim Jazz release, When the Heart Dances , begin on the opening track with his funereal transformation of "Que Sera, Sera," the Jay Livingston tune that Doris Day waltzed to the top of the pop charts in 1956.

The strange, stately beauties of pianist/composer Laurence Hobgood's new Naim Jazz release, When the Heart Dances , begin on the opening track with his funereal transformation of "Que Sera, Sera," the Jay Livingston tune that Doris Day waltzed to the top of the pop charts in 1956.