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Apr 8, 2008 | Glenwood Post Independent

All that Carbondale jazz

“I guess to see what would happen.”

It was a gentle evening at Steve's Guitars. On stage, ambient, wordless tunes were flowing. via Glenwood Post Independent

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Jazz, Carbondale, KS

Sun Apr 06, 2008

Reading Eagle/Reading Times

Concert Review: Guitarist Pat Martino leads band through musical aerobatics at Berks Jazz Fest

If you didn't know better, the slightly built, unassuming guy in the gray sweater and jeans might have been your neighbor ready for his Saturday chores. via Reading Eagle/Reading Times

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Related Topix: Reading, PA, Reading Metro, Wyomissing, PA, Black Entertainment, Jazz, Pat Martino

Fri Apr 04, 2008

Inside Bay Area

Burlingame High graduate plays jazz at Carnegie Hall

“It was such a great experience.”

Burlingame High School graduate Steven Lugerner has performed jazz for a packed house at Carnegie Hall, and now he's completed a recording and released it over the Internet. via Inside Bay Area

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Jazz, San Mateo, CA

Wed Apr 02, 2008

The Eastern Progress

Albums you should already have: Kind of Blue

The word classic is thrown around haphazardly nowadays, as it can be used to describe a YouTube video or a clever pun. via The Eastern Progress

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Related Topix: Ritalin, Methylphenidate (generic), Medicine, Medication, Black Entertainment, Jazz

Mon Mar 31, 2008

KELO-TV Sioux Falls

SDP Jazz Note: Nat Cole Comes Back to Aberdeen

Posted by: Ken Blanchard - 03/29/2008 11:16 PM If you want to appear cool among jazz cats, just refer to "Nat Cole," without using the famous entertainer's nickname. via KELO-TV Sioux Falls

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Jazz

Sat Mar 29, 2008

Kalamazoo Gazette

WMU to honor Hart for great lessons

From the start, it's been a wonderful ride for jazz drummer Billy Hart. Beginning with when he first started his career, he scored a major gig: Flying from his Philadelphia home to California to play with ... via Kalamazoo Gazette

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Related Topix: Shirley Horn, Jazz, Black Entertainment, Dizzy Gillespie, Jimmy Smith

Thu Mar 27, 2008

The Austin Chronicle

The Miles Davis Reader: Interviews and Features From Downbeat Magazine

With a career that spanned six decades and spearheaded every significant stylistic innovation during that time , Davis remains the genre's and music's quintessential modernist. via The Austin Chronicle

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Related Topix: Hal Leonard, Jazz, Black Entertainment

Tue Mar 25, 2008

New York Times

Store in a Cool, Fertile Place: 1950s California

The cool was born in New York. It was in Manhattan that Miles Davis and the nine-piece group he convened in the late 1940s forged a tightly understated alternative to the hot expressionism of bebop and recorded ... via New York Times

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Jazz, Newport Beach, CA, Painting, Arts

Sun Mar 23, 2008

The Coast Weekly

Cow Bop celebrates the release of Route 66 in Carmel Valley before hitting the highway

“He's just one of the true great fiddle players”

This January, local jazz guitarist Bruce Forman and his band Cow Bop looked out at a sea of cowboys clad in cowboy hats, bolo ties and shiny brass belt buckles before performing at the National Cowboy Poetry ... via The Coast Weekly

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Related Topix: Hermosa Beach, CA, Black Entertainment, Jazz, Chet Baker, Bakersfield, CA

Fri Mar 21, 2008

Los Angeles Times

Jazz Bakery: Battles of the saxes

BATTLES OF THE SAXES It's a generational cross-town battle this week with tenor saxophonist Pharoah Sanders , a veteran of the John Coltrane '60s, at the Jazz Bakery and alto saxophonist Kenny Garrett , a ... via Los Angeles Times

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Related Topix: Pharoah Sanders, Jazz, Black Entertainment, John Coltrane, Kenny Garrett

Wed Mar 19, 2008

KYW-AM Philadelphia

Positively Philadelphia: Kimmel Center's 2008-2009 Season

“To be bringing Dudamel, who is the hottest young conductor worldwide, with the Israeli Philharmonic, is unbelievable.”

The Kimmel Center has come out with its 2008-2009 season. Anne Ewers , president and CEO of the Kimmel Center, says this town is going to rock: "There is something for everyone in what we offer. via KYW-AM Philadelphia

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Related Topix: Philadelphia, PA, Black Entertainment, Jazz

Mon Mar 17, 2008

Sun-Journal

Lou Reed holds court at SXSW

“He is to rock "n' roll what Miles Davis is to jazz.”

The keynote address to this year's South by Southwest Music Conference wasn't a speech. via Sun-Journal

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Related Topix: Entertainment, Inventions, Science / Technology, Black Entertainment, Jazz

Sat Mar 15, 2008

hosted Hartford Courant | Hartford Courant

Reed Cheers Up, Recalling 'Depressing' Album

“I always felt he was to rock 'n”

Lou Reed is notorious for a brusque tone that sometimes borders on surly, dating all the way back to his famously cantankerous interviews with Creem writer Lester Bangs in the '70s.

It was a rare treat, then, to hear the Velvet Underground front man and influential solo artist in (relatively) good humor Thursday morning at the 22nd South by Southwest Music and Media Conference, where he talked about his career and the state of the music industry in a loosely structured keynote 'conversation' with record producer Hal Willner. Read more

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Jazz, Pop/Rock, Lou Reed, The Velvet Underground, Music, Entertainment

Thu Mar 13, 2008

WisInfo

Brain scans tune in to personal nature of improvising music

“You tell a story through notes and how you play them.”

From Eric Clapton to Miles Davis to Yo-Yo Ma, we've long heard that when musicians improvise, they're engaged in an intensely personal pursuit. via WisInfo

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Jazz

Wed Mar 12, 2008

All About Jazz

CD/Download Release: Tony Adamo Reviewed by Soul Tracks

Sitting in the jazz cafe along with a few friends, sipping Chamomile tea, singer/visual artist Tony Adamo enters the stage offering us a sweet deal. via All About Jazz

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Related Topix: Jazz, Black Entertainment, Grover Washington, Jr., Lou Rawls

Mon Mar 10, 2008

Lubbock Avalanche

Study: Creativity jazzes your brain

“It's one thing to come up with a ditty. It's another thing entirely to come up with a masterpiece, an hourlong idea after idea”

American jazz trumpeter Miles Davis is shown in concert in the old Roman Amphitheater in Caesarea, North of Tel Aviv, Israel, in this June 1, 1987 photo. via Lubbock Avalanche

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Related Topix: Jazz, Classical, Black Entertainment, Roman, Israel, World News, John Coltrane, Miles Davis & John Coltrane

Sun Mar 09, 2008

KELO-TV Sioux Falls

SDP Jazz Note: Miles, Shorter, Hancock, 1967

Posted by: Ken Blanchard - 03/09/2008 3:40 AM Here is a nice clip from 1967 , featuring Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter on bass, and Tony Williams on drums. via KELO-TV Sioux Falls

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Jazz, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Tony Williams, Wayne Shorter, Thelonious Monk

Sat Mar 08, 2008

Variety

Lincoln Center unveils jazz slate

Celebrations of the 50th anniversaries of two landmark jazz albums, John Coltrane's "Giant Steps" and Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue" are among the thousands of events planned for the 2008-09 Jazz at Lincoln Center ... via Variety

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, John Coltrane, Jazz, Mulgrew Miller, Take 6, Ahmad Jamal

Thu Mar 06, 2008

Star-Gazette.COM

Improvising music is personal; brain scans show how

“Public Library of Science ONE.”

Improvising music is personal; brain scans show how March 7, 2008 From Eric Clapton to Miles Davis to Yo-Yo Ma, we've long heard that when musicians improvise, they're engaged in an intensely personal pursuit. via Star-Gazette.COM

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Jazz

Wed Mar 05, 2008

J.B. Spins

Miles Smiles and Invents Post-Bop

Miles Davis, Miles Smiles , and the Invention of Post Bop By Jeremy Yudkin Indiana University Press Of all the various styles of jazz, "post bop" has been the slipperiest to define for my SCPS classes. via J.B. Spins

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Related Topix: The Miles Davis Quintet, Jazz, Davis Miles, Inventions, Science / Technology, Black Entertainment

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