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Yesterday | CBC

Ornette Coleman wins award at Montreal jazz fesitval

Jazz artist Ornette Coleman, shown in his New York apartment on April 16, 2007, plays Thursday night in Montreal.

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Yesterday | DesMoinesRegister.com The Des Moines ...

Free Giants of Jazz concert set Friday

The Scott Davis Quartet and Friends bring Miles Davis' music to life in a Giants of Jazz concert on Friday at the Sylvan Theater in Greenwood Park, 45th Street and Grand Avenue.

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Jazz

Tue Jul 07, 2009

All About Jazz

2009 Freihofer's Jazz Festival: One of the Great Jazz Lawn Parties

My return visit to to Freihofer's Jazz Festival after an eight-year absence reminded me very quickly that this two-day event remains one of the summer season's great jazz lawn parties.

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Related Topix: Abbey Lincoln, Jazz, Cedar Walton, Black Entertainment, Bettye Lavette, Soul

Mon Jul 06, 2009

Montreal Gazette

Gallery: Jazz fest Day 7

Today's events at the Montreal Jazz Festival. A July 6, 2009 10:08 PM A A A A MONTREAL, QUE: JULY 6, 2009 -- Trumpeter Wallace Roney plays a solo in front drummer Jimmy Cobb, a member of Miles Davis' recording band for the classic album Kind of Blue.

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Sun Jul 05, 2009

Guitar Player

John McLaughlin Reflects On "In a Silent Way"

"TWO THOUSAND NINE IS A VERY significant year for me for several reasons," enthuses John McLaughlin.

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Jazz, Punk, Lifetime, Joe Zawinul

Fri Jul 03, 2009

Ottawa Sun

Saxophone under troubled skies

The forecast for the Ottawa International Jazz Festival Thursday night called for overcast skies and stormy weather with brilliant flashes of tenor saxophone.

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Related Topix: Weather, Wayne Shorter, Jazz, Black Entertainment, John Coltrane, Joe Zawinul, Weather Report

Thu Jul 02, 2009

St. Louis Jazz Notes

Notes from the Net: Jimmy Wilkins profiled; Rollins, Elling and Botti ...

Notes from the Net: Jimmy Wilkins profiled; Rollins, Elling and Botti on the road; 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: Black Entertainment, Jazz, Saratoga Springs, NY, Springs, NY, Lester Bowie, The Count Basie Orchestra, Tony Bennett

Wed Jul 01, 2009

Globe and Mail

Wonder weathers the storm

Wonder weathers the storm Legendary singer/songwriter Stevie Wonder sings an adapted version of "I Just Called to Say I Love You" dedicated to the memory of Michael Jackson during a news conference Tuesday, June 30, 2009 in Montreal.

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Pop/Rock, Michael Jackson, Pat Metheny, Jazz, Tony Bennett

Mon Jun 29, 2009

All About Jazz

Partisans: By Proxy

London band Partisans has been making the hair stand up on the back of audiences' necks with its supercharged collision of jazz and rock since 1996.

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Jazz

Sun Jun 28, 2009

The Hindu

Miles to go

But, mandolin wizard U. Shrinivas seems to be papa's boy. Nana rushes to locate the car keys, puts the mandolin back into its case, fondly watches as his shy son poses f or the camera and serves him glasses of chilled water.

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Related Topix: Watches, Black Entertainment, Jazz, World News, India,

CBC News

Montreal jazz festival turns 30 with Stevie Wonder and tribute to Miles Davis

When the Montreal International Jazz Festival staged its first event some 30 years ago, co-founders Andre Menard and Alain Simard hoped it would be a "nice place of convergence" for musicians and music lovers.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Black Entertainment, Tony Bennett, Joe Cocker, Pop/Rock, Wynton Marsalis, Dave Brubeck, Entertainment

Sat Jun 27, 2009

St. Louis Jazz Notes

StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Remembering Oliver Nelson

The nearly ubiquitous Miles Davis notwithstanding, which jazz musician from the St.

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Related Topix: Oliver Nelson, Jazz, Black Entertainment, Clark Terry, David Sanborn, New York, Action TV, Entertainment, Television

Fri Jun 26, 2009

KansasCity.com

Fergie, Shia LaBeouf, Abigail Breslin, France Fashion, Sacha Baron Cohen, Miles Davis

Samantha Previte, 20, from North Brunswick, N.J., gets to meet Shia LaBeouf, co-star of the new film "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen," during his appearance on the NBC "Today" television program in New York Thursday, June 25, 2009.

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Related Topix: Bruno, Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, My Sister's Keeper, Black Entertainment, Jazz, North Brunswick, NJ, Today, Entertainment, Television

Thu Jun 25, 2009

The Gazette

Jukebox: Veterans LaVette, Burton took different routes to success

Gary Burton, left, performs with Pat Metheny. The Gary Burton Quartet Revisited is part of the Freihofer's Jazz Festival at SPAC this weekend.

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Related Topix: Gary Burton, Jazz, Pat Metheny, Black Entertainment, Dave Brubeck, Indiana, Berklee College of Music

Tue Jun 23, 2009

Tuscola County Advertiser

50 years on, drummer still relishes "Kind of Blue"

Jazz drummer Jimmy Cobb has spent the last half century laying down rhythms for stars like Sarah Vaughn and Nancy Wilson, so one might expect him to tire of talking about the milestone record on which he played in 1959.

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Related Topix: Sarah Vaughn, Jazz, Black Entertainment, John Coltrane, Washington, DC

All About Jazz

AWARD: Bob Gluck Named Keyboard Magazine's "Unsigned Artist of the Month" for June 2009

Pianist Bob Gluck 's 2007 recording Electric Brew is featured in the June 2009 issue of Keyboard magazine.

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Jazz

Mon Jun 22, 2009

The Winnipeg Free Press

Big bang theory

THERE won't be a birthday party with cake to mark the 20th Jazz Winnipeg Festival.

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Related Topix: Canada Travel, Travel, Winnipeg, Canada Travel, Cake, Life, Dessert, Food, Baked Goods, Jazz, Black Entertainment, John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, The Bad Plus

Montreal Gazette

Ornette Coleman, jazz's free spirit

Fifty years ago, the jazz world should have belonged to Miles Davis, who released the coolest and most seductive album in its history, Kind of Blue, which also revolutionized the music with improvisations upon vaguely exotic-sounding "modal" scales .

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Related Topix: Ornette Coleman, Jazz, Black Entertainment, Classical, Stravinsky, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk

Sat Jun 20, 2009

St. Louis Jazz Notes

Notes from the Net: "Miles From India" in NYC and Montreal; Elling,...

Notes from the Net: "Miles From India" in NYC and Montreal; Elling, Bridgewater pay tribute to jazz classics, plus news, reviews, interviews & 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: Jazz, Black Entertainment, The Rolling Stones, Pop/Rock, Shakti, Kurt Elling, Johnny Hartman

Fri Jun 19, 2009

SF Gate

Herman Leonard chronicles intimate jazz moments

A woman answered the door wearing a simple house dress and an apron. "First I thought, This is the maid," says photographer Herman Leonard.

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Related Topix: New Orleans, Music!, Drama Movies, Billie Holiday, Jazz, Black Entertainment, Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington, Duke Ellington, Entertainment

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