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Obama's next four years: Tune in to jazz
Any president's second term offers another shot at fulfilling dreams that got away the first time around. So while President Barack Obama is strategizing on immigration, unemployment, the deficit and, oh yes, the fiscal cliff, I'd like to add one more...
Tags: Fiscal Cliff, Pearl Bailey, Music Theater, Wynton Marsalis, Charles Mingus
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Swingin' rockabilly, swingin' country and swingin' swing (Wednesday platz picks)
Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOGWell, we've reached the halfway point of Musikfest — just five days remain to load up on some great free music. Let's go: Anyone looking for a good time won't go wrong with Gas House Gorillas (7:30 p.m. and 9:30...... -
Pianist Emery Smith To Close 'Baby Grand' Jazz Series
The Hartford CourantAs one of the last living participants in Hartford's exuberant Golden Age of Jazz after World War II — an era when future giants Horace Silver and Gigi Gryce graced the swinging club scene in the North End — pianist Emery Austin Smith is...Tags: Civil Rights, Guy Lombardo, Chick Webb, Farmington (Hartford, Connecticut), National Basketball Association
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Jazz review, Sir Charles Thompson at the Jazz Showcase
Tribune Arts CriticThe last time Sir Charles Thompson remembers playing in Chicago, it was 1940 or '41, the bandleader was Lionel Hampton and the club was the Grand Terrace Ballroom on the South Side. Nearly 60 years later, Thompson has swung back into town to open the...Tags: Count Basie, Charlie Parker, Lionel Hampton
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