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Jazz resolutions for a New Year
A new year brings new hopes for music in Chicago. Here are key resolutions for 2013: Create a concise Cultural Plan. After months of town hall meetings, the city's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events last fall came up with a 48-page wish...
Tags: Music Theater, Jazz (genre), Chicago Jazz Fest, New Music Mondays Millenium Park, Entertainment Events
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Roberta Gambarini eventually gets her groove
It took a while for singer Roberta Gambarini to find her footing – and reach her audience – Wednesday night at the Jazz Showcase, where she's in residence through Sunday. But once she did, about a third of the way into her first set, she...
Tags: Music
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Maria Cole dies at 89; singer was widow of Nat King Cole
Maria Cole, the widow of music legend Nat King Cole and the mother of singer Natalie Cole whose own singing career included a stint as vocalist for Duke Ellington's orchestra in the mid-1940s, has died. She was 89. Cole died Tuesday at a hospice in...Tags: The Boston Globe, New York City, Count Basie, Nat King Cole, Natalie Cole
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Defense gets Knights blowout win
Sports EditorIMPERIAL — The Imperial Valley Knights semi-pro football used defense to beat the East Valley Ravens of Chandler, Ariz., 47-0, in its Great West League season opener here Saturday. Five touchdowns by the Knights defense against a short-handed...Tags: Football
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PASSINGS: Snooky Young, Jeff Gralnick
Snooky Young
Jazz trumpeter in 'Tonight Show' band
Snooky Young, 92, a jazz trumpeter whose long career included working with big bands led by Jimmie Lunceford and Count Basie as well as a lengthy stint with NBC's "Tonight Show" band, died Wednesday...Tags: Weston (Fairfield, Connecticut), Television Industry, 60 Minutes (tv program), News Agency, Count Basie
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Jack Nimitz dies at 79; baritone sax player
Times Staff ReportsJack Nimitz, a jazz baritone saxophonist who played in the Woody Herman and Stan Kenton big bands and in the group "Supersax," died Wednesday of complications from emphysema at his home in Studio City. He was 79. Born in Washington, D.C., in 1930, Nimitz...Tags: Recording Studios, Death, Music Industry, Woody Herman, Charlie Parker
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Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl
Special to The TimesWynton Marsalis describes the big jazz band as "the American orchestra." It's an intriguing and, in many ways, definitive identification of the instrumental collective that has been a foundation ensemble of American jazz and popular music for more than 80...Tags: Music Theater, Lincoln Center, Wynton Marsalis, Jazz (genre), George Gershwin
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Jazz review, Bill Charlap at Jazz Showcase
Tribune arts criticEveryone in jazz knows that Phil Woods ranks among the great alto saxophonists, but the set he played Tuesday night at the Jazz Showcase reminded listeners why. Backed by a solid trio that mostly stayed out of his way, Woods—a veteran of tough years...
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