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Tuesday Oct 27 | All About Jazz

INTERVIEW/PROFILE: Singer/Songwriter/Pianist Bruce Hornsby Interviewed at AAJ...And More

For more than 20 years, singer/songwriter, pianist/composer, and band-leader Bruce Hornsby, has proven to be a survivor in an ever changing music environment.

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Related Topix: Jazz

Mon Oct 26, 2009

Eircom.net News

Boom time as jazz fest drowns out economic blues

Ticket sales for this year's festival were up 35% on last year. Over 1,000 musicians from some 29 countries are playing at over 80 venues around the city in the event, which is now ranked as being in the top three jazz festivals in Europe.

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Related Topix: Pharoah Sanders, Jazz, Kurt Elling, The Bad Plus, Al di Meola, Monty Alexander

Tue Oct 20, 2009

All About Jazz

CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Introducing the New Five

"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.

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Related Topix: Joanne Brackeen, Jazz, Charlie Haden, Joe Henderson, Art Blakey, Stan Getz

Thu Oct 15, 2009

All About Jazz

It's The Drummer, Stupid

If you're a jazz misanthrope you probably think first to "shoot the piano player," a saying taken from the Francois Truffaut film of the same name, Tirez sur le pianiste .

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Related Topix: Elvin Jones, Jazz, Paul Motian

Tue Oct 13, 2009

Bostonist

Hope for Children: Jack DeJohnette with Berklee Students

Last week, the legendary jazz drummer Jack DeJohnette graced the stage of the Berklee Performance Center to present a program charting the past and future directions of his music.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Black Entertainment, Miles Davis, David Murray

Sat Oct 10, 2009

All About Jazz

EDUCATION: Larry Goldings Rare 5 Hour Event Upstairs at Vitellos Jazz Room Studio City Nov 1, 2009

THE LA JAZZ PRO CONNECTION will present FIVE HOURS with LARRY GOLDINGS - Piano and Organ on Sunday 11a-4p November 1, 2009 Upstairs at Vitellos.The schedule will be 11a-1:00p Master Class & Improv all instruments welcome 1p-2p Networking lunch -2-4 Master Class & Playing with the PRO"S.Beginners, young professionals and working Pro's! Music fans ...

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Related Topix: Jazz, John Scofield

Thu Oct 08, 2009

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Bruce Hornsby won't stay tied to any one sound

Bruce Hornsby -- "You can count on two or three hands the amount of people who have had lengthy, lengthy runs as Top 40 artists.

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Related Topix: Pittsburgh, PA, The Grateful Dead, Pop/Rock, Jazz, The Noise, Pittsburgh Metro

Mon Oct 05, 2009

The Boston Globe

Jack DeJohnette is the keeper of the beat

Where to begin? The early days in Chicago, between blues, bebop, and the mid-'60s avant-garde? The time in Charles Lloyd's band, or the years with Miles Davis when the master went electric with "Bitches Brew''? The four-decade friendship with Keith Jarrett and the subtle intimacy of their jazz standards trio? The Indian-infused work with Alice ...

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Related Topix: Jazz, Charles Lloyd, Miles Davis, Black Entertainment, Keith Jarrett, Alice Coltrane, Berklee College of Music, Music, Entertainment

Sat Oct 03, 2009

Poughkeepsie Journal

Film captures the music of jazzman DeJohnette

A film featuring Hudson Valley resident, Grammy winner and former Miles Davis sideman Jack DeJohnette will be shown Saturday during the Woodstock Film Festival.

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Miles Davis, Jazz, John Patitucci, Danilo Perez

Thu Oct 01, 2009

All About Jazz

WEB/TECH: Notes from the Net: A Free Miles Davis Download; a Lester...

Notes from the Net: A Free Miles Davis Download; a Lester Bowie Tribute; the "Death" of Jazz, Continued; Plus News, Reviews, Interviews, and More SOURCE: St.

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Miles Davis, Jazz, Lester Bowie, St. Louis, MO Metro, Chick Corea, Wayne Shorter

Tue Sep 29, 2009

St. Louis Jazz Notes

Notes from the Net: A free Miles Davis download; a Lester Bowie...

Notes from the Net: A free Miles Davis download; a Lester Bowie tribute; the "death" of jazz, continued; plus news, reviews, interviews, and more Here's the latest compilation of assorted news briefs and links related to jazz, improvisation, and creative music in St.

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Related Topix: Miles Davis, Jazz, Black Entertainment, Lester Bowie, St. Louis, MO Metro, Lost, Action TV, Entertainment, Drama, Television, Chick Corea

Fri Sep 25, 2009

Boston Globe

Bruce Hornsby on his constantly changing music

ROSS WEITZNER/ASSOCIATED PRESSBruce Hornsby recently scored a film and is now developing a musical.

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Related Topix: The Grateful Dead, Pop/Rock, Ricky Skaggs, Country, Jazz, World's Greatest Dad, Williamsburg, VA, Music, Entertainment

Sat Sep 19, 2009

Recordonline.com - The Times Herald-R...

Join great drummers for a day in Kingston

Percussion fans are invited to experience Drum Boogie, a free one-day music festival from noon to 7 p.m. Saturday on the lawn of Cornell Park in the Rondout Historic District of Kingston.

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Related Topix: Jazz

Fri Sep 18, 2009

Highland/Mid-Hudson Post

Beat feat

Percussed instruments may have been the original means of creative expression and communication, the musical beat tapping and pounding out the rhythms of human life itself.

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Related Topix: Dance, Gamelan, Jazz

Wed Sep 16, 2009

Westcoastmusic

Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers 'Levitate'

Following a critically acclaimed box-set, a duet recording with Ricky Scaggs and a jazz trio album w/ Christian McBride & Jack DeJohnette , the beloved songwriter/pianist/vocalist Bruce Hornsby returns to the format that has brought his greatest commercial success.

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Related Topix: Jazz, World's Greatest Dad

Sat Sep 12, 2009

Eircom.net News

Jazz festival to welcome 1,000 musicians as tickets go on sale

The festival, which runs from October 23-26, will include headline acts such as sax player Pharoah Sanders, drummer Jack DeJohnette and stunning vocalist Kurt Elling.

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Related Topix: Pharoah Sanders, Jazz, Kurt Elling, The Bad Plus, Sun Ra Arkestra, Al di Meola

Thu Sep 10, 2009

All About Jazz

Jack DeJohnette: Music We Are & America

It's been a while since Jack DeJohnette made a CD as a leader that fit so perfectly into the jazz genre as Music We Are , a straightforward recording of his trio with pianist Danilo Perez and bassist John Patitucci .

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Related Topix: Jazz, Danilo Perez, John Patitucci

Tue Sep 08, 2009

J.B. Spins

Surman at Birdland

There is something pleasantly unassuming about John Surmana s stage demeanor, which is a bit of contrast to the conspicuously large baritone saxophone he has mastered.

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Related Topix: John Abercrombie, Jazz

Sun Sep 06, 2009

All About Jazz

RADIO/PODCAST: Keith Jarrett on Piano Jazz

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

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Related Topix: Keith Jarrett, Jazz, Black Entertainment, Miles Davis, Art Blakey, Charlie Haden, Dewey Redman

Fri Sep 04, 2009

Buffalo News

Funk

Brother's Keeper [Shanachie] California saxophonist Karl Denson grew up listening to R&B, funk, jazz, punk rock, pop and soul, in the process becoming convinced that forming a hybrid based on all of these styles was as natural as breathing the air.

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Related Topix: Karl Denson, Jazz, Funk, Maceo Parker, James Brown, Black Entertainment, Soul, Cannonball Adderley, Pop/Rock, Lenny Kravitz

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