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SFJAZZ plays another bold riff
SAN FRANCISCO — "This is one of my favorite rooms," said SFJAZZ founder and Executive Artistic Director Randall Kline, smiling as he stepped over exposed pipes and dusty planks in the SFJAZZ Center. "Then again, they're all my favorite rooms," he...
Tags: Culture, Lincoln Center, Music Industry, Blindness, Frank Gehry
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Donald Byrd dies at 80; jazz trumpeter was a funk-fusion experimenter
Jazz trumpeter and band leader Donald Byrd, whose clean, elegant phrasing made his reputation in the 1950s and '60s before he began experimenting in the '70s and '80s with jazz-funk-R&B fusions on discs such as "Black Byrd" and "Thank You ... for F.U.M.L....
Tags: Sonny Rollins, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Howard University, Nas
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The Times' NBA rankings
AND THE GOLDEN GLOBE GOES TO …
1. OKLAHOMA CITY (35-12)Â Westbrook blames Sefolosha for five-second violation, global warming. (2)
2. MIAMI (29-14)Â Ray Allen (scoreless on 0-for-9 shooting) doesn’t have game vs. Pacers. (1)
3. SAN ANTONIO...Tags: Damian Lillard, James Harden, National Basketball Association, Andre Iguodala, Miami Heat
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Tommy Igoe and the Birdland Big Band Play the Jorgensen in Storrs on Jan. 31
Featuring the Birdland Big Band (pictured) and its director, Tommy Igoe, Live At Birdland sends audiences back to the heyday(s) of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonius Monk, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Stan Getz, and Lester Young — artists who...
Tags: Miles Davis, Lester Young, Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts, Dizzy Gillespie, Storrs
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Labor of love: Luxuria Music spins with all volunteers
In a small studio on the far edge of Glendale, a worldwide flow of music is in a moment of transition. On the turntable is a 45rpm disc of spectral, hypnotic sounds from 1980, as radio DJ Lee Joseph begins winding down his two-hour show on LuxuriaMusic....
Tags: Clear Channel Communications Inc., Pulp Fiction (movie), Quincy Jones, Miles Davis, Dodger Stadium
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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: Scott Williams, Brian Eno, Green Mill (club), Pumpkin, Smashing Pumpkins (music group)
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Ravi Shankar dies at 92; sitar master
Ravi Shankar was already revered as a master of the sitar in 1966 when he met George Harrison, the Beatle who became his most famous disciple and gave the Indian musician-composer unexpected pop-culture cachet. Suddenly the classically trained Shankar...
Tags: Philip Glass, Ravi Shankar, Movies, Obituaries, Music Industry
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3-CD Set Of Saxophonist Thomas Chapin Released Posthumously
The Hartford CourantAlthough struck down by leukemia at40 in 1998, Thomas Chapin, the phenomenal instrumentalist/composer from Manchester, left behind a rich, life-affirming legacy. What is still very much alive are his recordings, compositions and a wealth of memories in...Tags: Glen Campbell, Thelonious Monk, Music Industry, Charlie Parker, Coney Island
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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: Illinois Jacquet, Peanuts, Media Industry, Charlie Parker, Eubie Blake
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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...
Tags: Music Industry, Music
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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: Jimi Hendrix, Entertainment Events, Sparrow (music group), South Shore, Jazz Institute of Chicago
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Critic's Notebook: Vince Guaraldi's 'A Charlie Brown Christmas' score is a gift
It's here. The holiday season. And with it, an ever-creeping onslaught of music stuffed with enough synthetic cheer to weave a polyester overcoat for Dodger Stadium. Hearing such tidings of great joy seems innocent enough, but repeated exposure could...
Tags: John Travolta, Charlie Brown (fictional character), Thelonious Monk, A Charlie Brown Christmas (tv program), Music Industry
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