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Nice guy Here's how it feels to share a stage with Pat Metheny....
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Roll away the stone A fresh taste of my Duke Ellington biography, straight out of the fountain....
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In the beginning Louis Armstrong's very first appearance in print....
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If you happen to be in the neighborhood... Pat Metheny and I are sharing a stage at Florida's Rollins College on Wednesday....
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Just because Today's video: Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson sings the blues with Cootie Williams' band in 1943....
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"Organ Monk" weds funk to Thelonious' knotty classics Greg Lewis in a monk's robe energizes organ trio versions of T. Monk's "ugly beauty"...
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RIP Etta James and Johnny Otis, unacknowledged jazz masters The Godfather of R&B and First Mama of Funky Stuff, inspired by jazz, popularized it...
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The Lundgren-Beghofer-LaBarbera Stealth CD They didn't know it was being recorded. It's a masterpiece....
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Who should be the next NEA Jazz Masters? How 'bout Eddie Palmieri, Junior Mance, Reggie Workman, Carla Bley for U.S. jazz honors?...
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NEA Jazz Masters @ JALC concert and webcast a smash NEA Jazz Masters continues, live and on the web: honoring active, vital American artists...
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NEA Jazz Masters concert webcast, fellowship continues Listen to NEA Jazz Masters play live on WBGO, Sirius, tonight - fellowships to continue...
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Josef Skvorecky, RIP: jazz, satire, detection vs. political tyranny Czech exile writer Skvorecky, d. Jan 3 2012 age 87, on jazz beyond "just" the music...
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New Recommendations For 2012 CDs that differ dramatically from one another, an intimate Chet Baker DVD, and the autobiography of an irrepressible jazz institution....
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Wynton streaming his best Armstrong & Jelly Roll 12/29/11 Hear Wynton Marsalis excel playing classic jazz on livestream & facebook tonight!...
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Jazz & beyond heroes Sam Rivers & Don Pullen, together Sam Rivers and Don Pullen recorded an album, were video'd in ensemble Roots...
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Sam Rivers, 1923- 2011, an energized life of music A multi-instrumentalist/composer/bandleader of indefatigable vitality, Sam Rivers recalled...
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Last minute, no-fail impressive gift beyond "jazz" If I didn't have the Jazz Icons Series 5 vids of Coltrane, Monk, et al, I'd sure want it bad...
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Wynton Marsalis: The Artist as Cultural Correspondent Wynton's new role at CBS News has one precedent: the late Dr. Billy Taylor...
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A master's music Here are five Bob Brookmeyer CDs of which I'm especially fond....
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Bob Brookmeyer, R.I.P. An irreplaceably great jazz musician is gone....
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Way out music NYC week before Christmas, Afro-Cuban 12/27 - 1/1 Richard Bona introduces Mandekan Cubano project; Wadada, Dolphy, minimalism, more...
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Ten Best jazz & beyond recordings? Many more . . . Sonny Rollins' Road Shows vol. 2 among 30-some fine new cds/dvds...
