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It's A Weekend Of Traditional Jazz At Moodus Resort
As American as Old Glory, cherry pie, Louis Armstrong and Mark Twain, the Great Connecticut Traditional Jazz Festival this weekend wraps itself in red-white-and-blue traditions ranging from ragtime to Dixieland, from spirituals to swing. Always a rip-...Tags: Jazz Music, Folk Music, Migration, Country Music, Litchfield Jazz Festival
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Bobby Durham, 71, drummer who played with jazz greats
The New York TimesBobby Durham, a drummer whose precise, understated style made him much sought after as a sideman by jazz greats like Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton, Oscar Peterson and Ella Fitzgerald, died Monday in Genoa, Italy. He was 71 and had homes near Genoa and...Tags: Tommy Flanagan, Ray Brown, New York Times, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Carter
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Radio
TIPS FOR TODAY 10:30 a.m.-12:40 p.m. -- L.A. Opera: Puccini's "Tosca," KUSC-FM (91.5). 11 a.m.-noon -- Good Food: All-night diner in Mallorca; chocolate and cavities; Michoacan ice cream; wild New Zealand, KCRW-FM (89.9). Noon-1 p.m. -- Off Ramp:...Tags: Mare Winningham, Clifford Odets, George Bush, CBS Corp., Benny Goodman
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Drummer alongside jazz greats
New York Times News ServiceBobby Durham, a drummer whose precise, understated style made him much sought after as a sideman by such jazz greats as Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton, Oscar Peterson and Ella Fitzgerald, died Monday in Genoa, Italy. He was 71 and had homes near Genoa and...Tags: Tommy Flanagan, Ray Brown, New York Times, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Carter
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Guitarists Bucky Pizzarelli And Frank Vignola At Sweet Jane's
Totally immersed in music, virtuoso jazz guitarists Bucky Pizzarelli and Frank Vignola don't so much play to live as they live to play jazz, perfectly content to jam on the changes to ballads, blues, bop or swing anytime, anywhere. They will serve...Tags: Jazz Music, West Hartford, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), Les Paul, Woody Allen
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A rare solo gig for legendary trumpeter
Tribune criticIf you listen to jazz in Chicago, chances are you've heard him play—even if you don't recognize his name. Certainly anyone who has attended concerts by the Chicago Jazz Orchestra or the Chicago Jazz Ensemble has encountered the distinctively...Tags: George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Northwestern University, Checkerboard Lounge, Classical Music
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Whatever happened to... Tommy Vann
Singer Tommy Vann, who opened what seems like 100 acts at the old Civic Center, lives in Abingdon. He's getting a new CD ready, Captured by the Sound. He's also recording a doo-wop album and another of Christmas music. He is 69. "Everybody thinks I was...Tags: Radio Industry, Kenny Rogers, Richard Nixon, Glenn Miller, Parkville
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Jazz legends who called Queens, Long Island home
martin.evans@newsday.comJohn Coltrane was not the only jazz great to eschew Manhattan for points east. Here are the other legends, living and dead, who've made their homes on Long Island and in Queens. MOSE ALLISON, Smithtown After growing up in a Mississippi Delta cotton town...Tags: Jimmy Dorsey, Photography, Astoria, Ray Brown, Dizzy Gillespie
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New houses built for New Orleans musicians
Standing outside his new mint-green house, Fredy Omar hears the rumble of construction trucks, the buzz of drills and the thud of hammers. It's all an overture for something far sweeter -- the sound of music. Maybe it'll come from Omar, himself,...Tags: Harry Connick Jr., Family, Meteorological Disasters, Natural Disasters, Weather Reports
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Holiday session lands in university archive
Associated PressWith cocktail glasses clinking in the background, jazz singer Billie Holiday stood near a piano amid partygoers inside an apartment overlooking New York City's Hudson River. She began singing "Good Morning Heartache." It was Nov. 18, 1956. Tony Scott...Tags: Jazz Music, Carnegie Hall, Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman
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