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Dudu Pukwana: Night Time Is the Right Time | Jazz review

5050 days ago

Guardian Music — (Cadillac)Dudu Pukwana, the alto saxophonist who moved to Britain in the 60s to escape South African apartheid, was one of the most original jazz improvisers ever to erupt over the UK scene, and his early death in 1990 was one of its great unsung l... more info

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David Gilmour sang w/ Roger Waters & will do so again

5058 days ago

Brooklyn Vegan — So here's what happened. Last year, 'The Hoping Foundation' a charity that supports Palestinian refugee kids, (www.hopingfoundation.org) put on a fund raiser at Ronnie Scott's Club in London, the idea of which was to raise money by auctioning karaoke... more info

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Stanley Clarke/Hiromi: The Stanley Clarke Band | CD review

5064 days ago

Guardian Music — (Heads Up)Bass giant Clarke and young Japanese piano star Hiromi come to Ronnie Scott's on 14 July, and it'll make a big difference whether they play this programme or last year's scintillating Jazz in the Garden set. That album was an unabashed jazz... more info

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Kurt Elling | Jazz review

5068 days ago

Guardian Music — Ronnie Scott's, LondonIn his on-stage banter, the Chicago singer Kurt Elling can sound as if he's swallowed an instruction manual on the kind of cheery badinage the Fast Show's jazz critic would have relished. But the affectations only accentuate the... more info

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Ronnie Scott's Brit Jazz Festival 2010

5068 days ago

I Like Music — Brings together 28 all-British acts for the second annual Brit Jazz Festival, July-August 2010 more info

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Tam White obituary

5080 days ago

Guardian Music — Scottish singer with a second career on TVTam White, who has died after a heart attack aged 67, was once described by the musician Alexis Korner as "the greatest undiscovered blues talent of our time". White was a highly accomplished blues and jazz s... more info

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Freddy Syer obituary

5081 days ago

Guardian Music — The alto saxophonist Freddy Syer, who has died aged 80, was a member of that elite group of young jazz musicians in postwar London that mastered the technical demands and harmonic complexity of bebop, the new music of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gilles... more info

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Graciela Peréz-Gutierrez obituary

5086 days ago

Guardian Music — Versatile and risque, she was known as the first lady of Latin jazzThe Afro-Cuban singer Graciela Peréz-Gutierrez, who has died aged 94, was widely celebrated as "the first lady of Latin jazz" and known to her fans simply as Graciela. The Latin band... more info

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friday afternoon updates

5092 days ago

Totally Fuzzy — Sir Charlie Palmer said... I’ve Never Found a Girl – Eddie Floyd Live At Hurrah’s NYC January 1980 – The Specials 1 - Tim Hardin http://sircharliepalmer.blogspot.com Record Fiend said... Lonnie Mack - The Hills of Indiana (forgotten rural r... more info

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Ian Knight obituary

5093 days ago

Guardian Music — He staged concerts for Rod Stewart and Led ZeppelinIan Knight, who has died of cancer aged 69, was a leading backstage figure who used lighting and stage technology to put on elaborate rock spectaculars for Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones and Rod ... more info

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