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9 hrs ago | The Bennington Banner

Memorial Hall features tribute to Duke Ellington

On Tuesday, July 7, at 7:30 p.m., Memorial Hall Center for the Arts , Wilmington, will proudly celebrate the return of Alki Steriopoulos to Memorial Hall in a concert titled A Tribute to Duke Ellington, with Alki Steriopoulos on piano and vocals, Michael Zsoldos, on saxophone, and Mike Houlis, on bass.

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Related Topix: Duke Ellington, Jazz, Wilmington, VT, Entertainment

Fri Jul 03, 2009

Jerusalem Post

Keeping time

Epithets like "living legend" are often bandied about more for the purpose of hype than as a true reflection of some personality's true value to his or her particular profession and to the public in general.

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Related Topix: Roy Haynes, Jazz, Charlie Parker, Black Entertainment, Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell

Thu Jun 04, 2009

Bohemian.com

Profile: John Handy

E ven if John Handy had quit playing immediately following his 1959 solo on "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat," from the celebrated Charles Mingus masterpiece Mingus Ah Um , his stature in jazz would have been cemented.

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Related Topix: John Handy, Jazz, Charles Mingus, San Francisco, CA, San Francisco Metro

Wed Jun 03, 2009

All About Jazz

DVD/VIDEO: Lester Young, 1950

SOURCE: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey For a project connected with his Jazz At The Philarmonic operation, the impresario Norman Granz filmed Lester Young with trombonist Bill Harris, Pianist Hank Jones, bassist Ray Brown and drummer Buddy Rich.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Ray Brown

Mon Jun 01, 2009

All About Jazz

Music Industry: 56 Years of Rust: Pell Rescues Prez's Horn

Lester Young drew on Louis Armstrong, Frank Trumbauer, Bix Beiderbecke and his own genius to create one of the most personal styles in music.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Black Entertainment, Bix Beiderbecke, Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday

Thu May 28, 2009

St. Joseph News-Press, St. Joseph, MO

1959-A Great Year in Jazz

To many people, 1959 was one of the greatest years in the history of modern jazz recording.

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Related Topix: Billie Holiday, Jazz, Black Entertainment, Sidney Bechet, Brubeck, Blues, Dave Brubeck

Mon May 11, 2009

NBC Action News

Mutual Musicians Foundation Gets Government Funding

A key part of the city's musical heritage will get nearly $150,000 in government funding.

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Related Topix: Jazz

Sat May 09, 2009

All About Jazz

Frank Wess: Basel 1956 Part 1; Once is Not Enough; Hank and Frank II; ...

At 87, Frank Wess is a member of the exclusive jazz fraternity old enough to remember and have participated in the last years of the Swing Era.

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Related Topix: Frank Wess, Jazz, Ben Webster, Johnny Griffin, Hank Mobley, Count Basie

Tue May 05, 2009

WNYC-AM New York

The real jazz icon

At first, today's Smackdown topic seems an easy one to answer. Which instrument has had the bigger impact on jazz, the sax or the trumpet? Gotta be the sax, right? I mean, sure, the trumpet had Louis Armstrong and Clark Terry and Miles Davis.

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Jazz, Louis Armstrong, Clark Terry, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Coleman Hawkins

Sat Apr 25, 2009

WCPN-FM Cleveland

Talking Tenors

Dexter Gordon , Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane are three of jazz's greatest tenor players.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Dexter Gordon, Sonny Rollins, Black Entertainment, John Coltrane, Coleman Hawkins, Bud Powell

Thu Apr 23, 2009

NPR

Lester Young; credit: Ronald Startup/Hulton Archive

Lester Young gave Billie Holiday her nickname: "Lady Day." WBGO, April 23, 2009 - Jazz has no shortage of celebrated masters.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Black Entertainment, Billie Holiday, Take Five, Art Tatum

Tue Apr 14, 2009

River Falls Journal

Listen to music of Lester Young and Billie Holliday

The UW-River Falls RADD Jazz Series 2008-09 Presents: Prez and Lady Day: The Music of Lester Young and Billie Holiday, featuring the UW-River Falls Jazz Ensemble, directed by David Milne this Saturday, April 18 at 7:30 p.m. at Abbott Concert Hall.

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Related Topix: Jazz, River Falls, WI, University of Wisconsin River Falls, Billie Holliday, Black Entertainment, Billie Holiday

Mon Apr 06, 2009

Los Angeles Times

Paris' Quai Branly Museum celebrates 'Jazz Century'

Reporting from Paris -- Bump Picasso. Forget Rococo. The Quai Branly Museum, a steel-and-glass palace on the Seine River, has news for the culture world: "Three Little Bops" is art.

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Related Topix: Shorty Rogers, Jazz, Painting, Drama Movies, New Orleans, Music!

Tue Mar 24, 2009

All About Jazz

Caltech Jazz Bands: The Variety Pack

The California Institute of Technology's Caltech Jazz Bands present their third album of largely big band music, offering selected charts by musicians and composers identified with the music from one end of the jazz spectrum to the other.

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Related Topix: California Institute of Technology, Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, Jazz, Thelonious Monk, Chick Corea

Fri Mar 20, 2009

All About Jazz

Sphinx and Preacher: James Carter and the Odean Pope Saxophone Choir

For the first thirty minutes of its set on Sunday night, the Odean Pope Saxophone Choir displayed its signature blend of precision and warmth, eight saxes - nine when Pope stopped conducting and took up his axe - soaring and diving in unison like a well-built wooden rollercoaster.

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Related Topix: Jazz, James Carter, Max Roach

Mon Mar 16, 2009

MetaFilter

Lester Young

One of the saddest lives in jazz was the inspiration for Geoff Dyer's But Beautiful - which Keith Jarrett praised as "the only book about jazz that I have recommended to my friends.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Keith Jarrett

Sat Mar 14, 2009

Earth Times

'1959 - Jazz's Greatest Year,' Classic Albums by Miles Davis, Dave...

In celebration of "1959 - Jazz's Greatest Year," all three of those albums have been reconfigured as multi-disc expanded editions .

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Miles Davis, Jazz, Sidney Bechet, Billie Holiday, John Coltrane

Thu Feb 26, 2009

DVD Verdict

Coleman Hawkins: In Europe

Judge Dan Mancini is on the level, when he says Coleman Hawkins was the Real McCoy.

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Related Topix: Coleman Hawkins, Jazz, Black Entertainment, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Dexter Gordon, Fletcher Henderson

Mon Feb 23, 2009

Hattiesburg American

Mississippi has rich jazz heritage

The great jazz singer Billie 'Lady Day' Holiday once had this to say about tenor sax genius and Woodville, Miss., native Lester Young.

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Related Topix: Mississippi Government, Mississippi, Pop/Rock, Billie, Woodville, MS, Jazz, Jackson Metro

Sat Feb 21, 2009

All About Jazz

FESTIVAL/CRUISE: Portland Jazz Festival, Part 3

SOURCE: Rifftides Final report on the opening days of the Potland Jazz Festival: In elegant Schnitzer Hall, clarinetist and tenor saxophonist Don Byron had Edward Simon on piano and Eric Harland on drums in his ...

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Related Topix: Don Byron, Jazz, Buddy Rich

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