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INTERVIEW/PROFILE: Jazz Musician of the Day: Chico Hamilton

4967 days ago

All About Jazz — All About Jazz is celebrating Chico Hamilton's birthday today! Chico HamiltonLegendary jazz drummer and bandleader Foreststorn a€~Chicoa€(TM) Hamilton, born September 21st, 1921 in Los Angeles, had a fast track musical education in a band... more info

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Great moments in jazz: Charles Mingus's The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady

4982 days ago

Guardian Music — It's almost impossible to choose just one great moment from the legacy of this pioneering bassist and compositional genius"My music is evidence of my soul's will to live," Charles Mingus once said, and the evidence of that life-force amounts to some ... more info

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CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: "India and Africa": Coltrane Tribute by Anthony Brown's Asian American Orchestra

4987 days ago

All About Jazz — For the last dozen years, percussionist-composer Anthony Brown's innovative Asian American Orchestra has reinvented classics of American music by composers Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, and George Gershwin from a Pacific Rim perspe... more info

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ALLABOUTJAZZ.COM: Critically Acclaimed Band, the Jazz Passengers Set to Release "Reunited" on October 12

5014 days ago

All About Jazz — Ensemble's First Release in Over a Decade Features Special Guests Elvis Costello, Debbie Harry, and Marc Ribot "The Jazz Passengers make jazz that's smart and witty and raucous. For all its unpredictable forms and modernist dissonances, the music co... more info

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Harry Beckett obituary

5024 days ago

Guardian Music — Jazz trumpeter and composer, his genial, unmistakable sound became legendaryBlindfold tests – invitations to identify players by listening to short snatches of their work – have always been popular challenges in jazz circles. There have been a fe... more info

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OBITUARY: Rip Harry Beckett (1935-2010)

5027 days ago

All About Jazz — The much-admired trumpeter and flugelhorn player Harry Beckett died this afternoon after a stroke on Tuesday. His last gig was Big Band Britannia with Guy Barker's orchestra last month (Photo credit: Roger Thomas). The roll-call of bands he was in m... more info

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CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Summertime, and the Re-Issues Are Jumpin' ...

5027 days ago

All About Jazz — It's the middle of the summer, apparently not the best time to release a new CD. For those willing to try, beware of the competition! According to AllAboutJazz.com's CD release schedule, this month has been rife with re-issues. From John Coltrane to... more info

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INTERVIEW/PROFILE: George Wein on the Rebel Festival

5047 days ago

All About Jazz — Most people are unaware that in 1960, Newport, R.I., hosted not one but two jazz festivals. There was the big one that had been produced by George Wein since 1954. And there was a smaller, alternative festival put on by Charles Mingus. But after the ... more info

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Six Strings / Six Guitars

5064 days ago

Guardian Music — Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonRichard Thompson had been, in the words of a friend working on the Meltdown team, "like a kid in a candy store all day" about this gig.No wonder. Including the festival curator, there were half a dozen guitar gods up on st... more info

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upcoming Skeletons & Skeletons Big Band shows

5073 days ago

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Frisicano Skeletons Big Band... Hilarious. From the Grooms blog: "One Hundred Things to Try and Sound Like besides Animal Collective's Last Three Albums 1. Their first 5 albums. 2. If Charles Mingus were in the Beatles pre-Revolver. ....... more info

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INTERVIEW/PROFILE: Jazz Musician of the Day: Chico Hamilton

Great moments in jazz: Charles Mingus's The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady

CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: "India and Africa": Coltrane Tribute by Anthony Brown's Asian American Orchestra

ALLABOUTJAZZ.COM: Critically Acclaimed Band, the Jazz Passengers Set to Release "Reunited" on October 12

Harry Beckett obituary

OBITUARY: Rip Harry Beckett (1935-2010)

CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Summertime, and the Re-Issues Are Jumpin' ...

INTERVIEW/PROFILE: George Wein on the Rebel Festival

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