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Thursday Dec 10 | Guitar Player

Presents Charlie Hunter Dec 15th at

Guitar Player Presents Charlie Hunter Dec 15th at Yoshi's SF - Win Tickets! ,Dec 08, 2009 GP Presents is happy to help Yoshi's support jazz ace Charlie Hunter for the 10th anniversary of his Home for the Holidays series of dates.

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Related Topix: John Scofield, Jazz, Don Byron

Tue Dec 08, 2009

JamBase

Charlie Hunter New Album 01/12

CHARLIE HUNTER TO RELEASE GENTLEMEN, I NEGLECTED TO INFORM YOU YOU WILL NOT BE GETTING PAID ON JANUARY 12, 2010 Charlie Hunter Charlie Hunter 's latest recording effort, Gentlemen, I Neglected To Inform You You Will Not Be Getting Paid , features the jaw-dropping guitarist alongside drummer Eric Kalb , and a new horn section including trombonist ...

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Related Topix: John Scofield, Jazz, The Jazz Passengers, The Lounge Lizards, Don Byron, Kenny Wheeler

Sun Dec 06, 2009

All About Jazz

David Sylvian: Manafon

With the realization that there will always be more music coming at him than he can keep up with, AAJ Managing Editor John Kelman wonders why anyone would think that jazz is dead or dying.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, David Sylvian, Jazz, Mark Isham, Kenny Wheeler, Progressive-Rock, Robert Fripp, Marc Ribot

Tue Dec 01, 2009

National Public Radio

Jim Hall: Guitar As Miniature Orchestra

Jim Hall's idiosyncratic guitar techniques have graced albums and stages with Sonny Rollins, Bill Frisell, Bill Evans, Jimmy Guifree and many more.

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Related Topix: Jim Hall, Jazz, Bill Evans, Sonny Rollins

Sun Nov 29, 2009

All About Jazz

CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Recent Listening: Hal Weary, Bill Frisell, Emil Viklicky

Hal Weary , A Rendezvous with Deja Vu . Weary is a pianist from the west on the rise in New York City.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Horace Silver, Art Blakey, Erroll Garner, Kenny Dorham, Freddie Hubbard

Thu Nov 26, 2009

National Public Radio

Bill Frisell Trio: Spontaneous At Kennedy

"Keep Your Eyes Open" "Raise Four" "Throughout/Poem for Eva" "Lovesick Blues" "Ventura" November 26, 2009 from WBGO - It's true: Bill Frisell wears glasses, dresses casually and is modest and soft-spoken in person.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Thelonious Monk

Sun Nov 22, 2009

MediaGuardian.co.uk

Bill Frisell/Mike Gibbs/BBCSO | Jazz review

Composer Mike Gibbs's festival appearance surely made him part of the week's most unusual trio.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Joey Baron, Classical, The Orchestra, Symphony, Arts, Big-Band, Aaron Copland

Fri Nov 20, 2009

TexasMonthly

Danny Barnes

As an instrumental virtuoso with a wildly curious nature, the 47-year-old songwriter, banjo player, and guitarist is known for genre cross-pollination: He has played bluegrass with Austin band the Bad Livers, jazz with Bill Frisell, and country with Robert Earl Keen.

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Related Topix: Bluegrass, Danny Barnes, Austin, TX, Jazz, Bad Livers, Robert Earl Keen, Country, Hank Williams

Wed Nov 18, 2009

Jazz & Blues Music Reviews

Decade's best jazz?

Patrick Jarenwattananon at A Blog Supreme has thrown down the gauntlet once again, this time asking which jazz albums should be included in a list of the decade's finest.

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Related Topix: Jelly Roll Morton, Jazz, William Parker, The Bad Plus

Fri Nov 13, 2009

Financial Times

Free spirit with a big canvas

Time was when the prospect of a jazz soloist playing with a full symphony orchestra struck fear into the jazz-loving breast.

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Related Topix: Symphony, Arts, Jazz

Mon Nov 09, 2009

All About Jazz

Sex Mob: Sexmob Meets Medeski live in Willisau 2006

Thirsty Ear Recordings How best to describe slide trumpeter Steven Bernstein 's singular quartet Sex Mob? Maybe we should start with mercurial musical magician Bernstein himself, whose exotic career as sideman, musical director, arranger and composer has included ten years with John Lurie 's Lounge Lizards and stints alongside everyone from Bill ...

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Related Topix: Acid-Jazz, Sex Mob, Steven Bernstein, Jazz, The Lounge Lizards, Sam Rivers, Watches

Paste Magazine

The Best Producers of the Decade

Producers are studio wizards, the men - why are they always men? - behind the scenes, laying the sonic foundation for our favorite albums.

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Related Topix: The Decemberists, Pop/Rock, Jazz, Indie, Iron & Wine, The Shins

Sun Oct 18, 2009

Connect Savannah

Loveless, Frisell, Trucks among SMF headliners

The news about Wilco's appearance at the 2010 Savannah Music Festival has spread like wildfire, but there are lots of other shows worth talking about on the just-announced schedule.

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Related Topix: Johnny Mercer, Jazz, Theater, Arts, Symphony

Fri Oct 16, 2009

Comox Valley Echo

Steve Dawson and trio tonight at Joe's Garage

Steve Dawson is an accomplished Canadian guitarist and multi-instrumentalist. Specializing in slide and fingerstyle guitar, pedal steel, lap steel, banjo and other stringed instruments, he is in-demand as a live performer, session musician, and producer.

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Related Topix: North America, Canada, World News, Jazz, Madeleine Peyroux

JamBase

Bill Frisell: Disfarmer

Michael Disfarmer was an odd, curmudgeonly fellow from the WWII-era Midwest whose hobby was taking photographs of the various townsfolk from his hometown of Heber Springs, AK.

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Related Topix: Jazz

Thu Oct 15, 2009

Express

Guitarist Bill Frisell evokes the essence of rural photographer Michael Disfarmer.

MUSICAL POSTCARDS ARE always par for course for guitarist Bill Frisell . Through his sublime reconciliation of jazz, country, rock and blues, he creates picturesque soundscapes that transport listeners to small-town America where it seems as if time has stopped.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Arkansas, Arkansas Government

Wed Oct 07, 2009

Rhyl Journal

New seasons of North Wales jazz begins

THE acclaimed Richard Iles/Tim France Quintet - boasting a trumpet and sax frontline - makes its first appearance in Waen this month for the first in a new series of jazz concerts.

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Related Topix: Kenny Wheeler, Jazz, Anthony Braxton

All About Jazz

CD Release: "Backward Compatible" by Steve Shapiro & Pat Bergeson,...

New York vibist Steve Shapiro and Nashville guitarist have released their third recording, Backward Compatible , on the Apria label.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Madeleine Peyroux, Bill Evans, Country, Pop/Rock, Lyle Lovett, They Might Be Giants, Chet Atkins

Mon Oct 05, 2009

All About Jazz

Scary Americans

Track Scary Americans Artist/Band Steve Shapiro & Pat Bergeson with Annie Sellick Duration 5:08 Album Backward Compatible Record Label Vibraphonic/Apria Records Description Respected studio musicians from New York and Nashville, Steve Shapiro & Pat Bergeson have worked with artists such as: Alison Krauss, Steely Dan, Bill Frisell, Lyle Lovett, Bill ...

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Related Topix: Jazz, Bill Evans, Spyro Gyra, George Barnes, Victor Feldman, Marc Johnson

Sun Sep 27, 2009

All About Jazz

Sam Yahel

One of the more distinctive voices among a new breed of Hammond B-3 organ players on the jazz scene, Sam Yahel has earned the top spot in Down Beat's annual International Critics Poll as a Talent Deserving Of Recognition for the past four consecutive years.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Joshua Redman, Eric Alexander, Peter Bernstein, Ryan Kisor, Jim Rotondi

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