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Yesterday | All About Jazz

Don Cherry: Symphony For Improvisors

By September of 1966, the so-called "free jazz" movement was in full swing. It had been nearly six years since Ornette Coleman's highly controversial landmark residency at the Five Spot.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Albert Ayler, Black Entertainment, John Coltrane

Fri Feb 03, 2012

Area93.com

Eagle Eye Cherry

With his breakthrough American hit "Save Tonight," alternative singer/songwriter Eagle-Eye Cherry became the latest member of his family to stir the music world: his father was avant-garde jazz trumpeter Don Cherry, and his sister was alternative rap pioneer Neneh Cherry.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Eagle-Eye Cherry, Jazz

Thu Feb 02, 2012

Toronto News.Net

Hockey Day in Canada schedule to be busiest yet

Hockey Night in Canada's Ron MacLean, left, will host the 13-hour Hockey Day in Canada from a specially built rink in Summerside, P.E.I., and will have commentator Don Cherry, right, by his side.

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Related Topix: Ron MacLean, Canada, Pop/Rock, Ronnie Wood

Brandon Sun

Prince Edward Island's hockey passion to be featured in hockey day telecast

Prince Edward Island will be the featured backdrop for more than 13 hours of broadcasting when CBC mounts its annual Hockey Day In Canada telecast Feb.

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Related Topix: Canada, World News, Ron MacLean

Mon Jan 30, 2012

All About Jazz

Delirium in Concert: Dialoguing with...

Musicians constantly dialogue with two entities: themselves and tradition. Music is rarely ever totally new, but builds on what has come before, adding extensions and responses.

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Related Topix: Ornette Coleman, Jazz, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Yusef Lateef

Thu Jan 26, 2012

The Guardian

Giorgio Gaslini: Incanti | CD review

Born in Milan in 1929, Giorgio Gaslini has been one of the major figures of European jazz for six decades, although remaining virtually unknown in Britain.

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Related Topix: Steve Lacy, Jazz, Gato Barbieri

All About Jazz

Festival International de Jazz de...

In 1989, Charlie Haden inaugurated the Montreal Jazz Festival Invitation Series.

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Related Topix: Charlie Haden, Jazz, Paul Bley, Joe Henderson, New York, Symphony, Arts

Wed Jan 25, 2012

All About Jazz

A Fireside Chat With Ken Vandermark

Improvised music post-Wynton has been a barren wasteland of record company manufactured 'young lions' or all-star jam sessions.

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Related Topix: Ken Vandermark, Jazz, The Vandermark 5, Thelonious Monk

Sat Jan 21, 2012

All About Jazz

A Fireside Chat With Wadada Leo Smith

Free jazz denotes an idiom and has little to do with freedom. John Litweiler's The Freedom Principle chronicles how Leo Smith, born in Leland, Mississippi, a hub for the blues, entered into the service , discovered Don Cherry, moved to Chicago, joined the AACM, and developed into a standard for lyrical contrasts and space.

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Related Topix: Wadada Leo Smith, Jazz, Leland, MS

The Winnipeg Free Press

The measure of a man

According to a University of Michigan study, the reason men loathe shopping is because of their prehistoric past.

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Related Topix: Travel, Canada Travel, Winnipeg, Canada Travel, Electronic Arts, NHL, Video Games, EA Sports

Fri Jan 20, 2012

All About Jazz

The Creative Music Studio Goes To...

In 1972 I founded the Creative Music Studio with Ingrid Sertso and Ornette Coleman.

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Related Topix: Ornette Coleman, Jazz, Classical, Gil Evans, John Cage, George Russell, Gunther Schuller

All About Jazz

Henri Texier's Strada Sextet: Vive la...

Tonight the air is full of revolt. Not just because of the fiery music on offer, or the defiant spirit of '68 embodied in the calmly radical physical presence of Henri Texier, the revolutionary elder statesman.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Henri Texier, Bud Powell, Dexter Gordon

Mon Jan 16, 2012

All About Jazz

Pharoah Sanders and Don Cherry:...

Pharoah Sanders' Elevation was recorded in 1973, three years after Sanders' appearance on Alice Coltrane's Journey in Satchidananda , and shares much of the ambiance and sonic palette of that classic album.

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Related Topix: Pharoah Sanders, Jazz, Alice Coltrane

Sun Jan 15, 2012

92.9 Y93

Eagle-eye Cherry

With his breakthrough American hit "Save Tonight," alternative singer/songwriter Eagle-Eye Cherry became the latest member of his family to stir the music world: his father was avant-garde jazz trumpeter Don Cherry, and his sister was alternative rap pioneer Neneh Cherry.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Eagle-Eye Cherry, Jazz

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