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'Barack Obama has a serious iPod'
The Swampby Mark Silva "Barack Obama has a serious iPod,'' says Will Dana, managing editor of Rolling Stone magazine. John Coltrane. Stevie Wonder Bruce Springsteen, and more. These are among the personal details that Jann Wenner, editor of the music magazine,.......Tags: John Kerry, Joe Scarborough, Stevie Wonder, Al Gore, Bruce Springsteen
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Remembering the 'Little Giant,' jazz saxophonist Johnny Griffin
Ask anyone who loves jazz to the name the top tenor saxophonist of all time, and he or she probably will answer in a flash. To many, it's Sonny Rollins, at 82 still a giant. Or Gene Ammons, the long-gone, soulful player from the South Side of Chicago....
Tags: Sonny Rollins, France, Howard Reich, Gene Ammons, Fred Anderson
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Concord Music Acquisition Boosts Star Power For New Haven Firm
The Hartford CourantFor Brett D. Hellerman, CEO of Wood Creek Capital Management LLC in New Haven, buying one of the most prominent independent record companies is a coup for several reasons, not least a partnership with a revered Hollywood legend. Wood Creek's purchase...Tags: Parties and Movements, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Marvin Hamlisch, Michael Jackson, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut)
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Ken Vandermark celebrates the sounds of the Midwest
Last June, Chicago reedist-bandleader Ken Vandermark convened a high-powered band for a specific and daunting purpose. Colleague Dave Rempis had asked Vandermark to think of something special he wanted to do to celebrate innovative programming by...
Tags: Melba Liston, Christian McBride, Music Industry, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Music
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Frank Catalano going strong
When it comes to playing through pain, Chicago tenor saxophonist Frank Catalano has more experience than most of his colleagues. Eighteen years ago, he severed the middle finger of his right hand while fixing his car, enduring surgery to reattach it and...
Tags: Brian Eno, Scott Williams, Music, Howard Reich, Green Mill (club)
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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: Jimmy Carter, Wynton Marsalis, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama
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Larry Coryell storms the heavens at Jazz Showcase
Guitarist Larry Coryell has performed with drummer Paul Wertico and bassist Larry Gray so often that when they reunited Thursday night at the Jazz Showcase, they sounded as if they were resuming a conversation in midstream. Coryell visits Chicago...
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Jeb Bishop's 50th birthday celebration could feel like a mini-fest
Trombonist Jeb Bishop has been a key player on Chicago's avant-garde jazz scene for the past two decades, working prolifically with such similarly indispensable figures as reedists Ken Vandermark and Dave Rempis, guitarist Jeff Parker and bassist Kent...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Howard Reich, Green Mill (club), Hyde Park, Festive Events
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Jazz Scene: Jack DeJohnette in hometown to mark hitting 70
Drummer Jack DeJohnette is having a very good year. In January, he received a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Award, widely considered the country's highest jazz honor. Subsequent accolades from the Copenhagen Jazz Festival in February and...
Tags: Ornette Coleman, Columbia College Chicago, Sonny Rollins, Miles Davis, John Abercrombie
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Ravi Coltrane leaves his band in the dust at Jazz Showcase
Saxophonist Ravi Coltrane has developed into such a distinctive voice that expectations ran high for his return to the Jazz Showcase. All the more because of his important work on his recent Blue Note Records debut, "Spirit Fiction," which showed Coltrane...
Tags: Ravi Coltrane, Music, Thelonious Monk
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Wild Belle a brother-sister combo on the rise
Wild Belle – built on the brother-sister duo of Elliot and Natalie Bergman -- has had quite a year so far. The band released a breezily enchanting single, “Keep You”; shopped a self-financed, self-produced album that attracted...Tags: Music, Barrington
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50 ways to beat the heat
Paul GreenbergIt's definitely time, way past time, to update this annual list of heat-beaters. Feel free to clip and save, mix and match, and add your own. 1. Delete all unwanted e-mails without opening them. Especially if they're from types who are always a bit hot...Tags: Another World (tv program), Physical Fitness and Exercise, Miles Davis, Howard Hawks, Radio
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