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Tuesday Jul 7 | All About Jazz

2009 Freihofer's Jazz Festival: One of the Great Jazz Lawn Parties

My return visit to to Freihofer's Jazz Festival after an eight-year absence reminded me very quickly that this two-day event remains one of the summer season's great jazz lawn parties.

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Related Topix: Abbey Lincoln, Jazz, Black Entertainment, Miles Davis, Bettye Lavette, Soul

Thu Jun 18, 2009

All About Jazz

FESTIVAL/CRUISE: 2009 Caramoor Jazz Festival to Feature Reeves, Walton, Valdes, Weston, and More

The 2009 Caramoor International Music Festival , hailed by The New York Times as '... the loveliest Festival of them all," presents its 16th Annual Jazz Festival on August 1 and 2 at the Venetian Theater.

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Related Topix: Theater, Arts, Jean-Michel Pilc, Jazz, Black Entertainment, John Coltrane, Dianne Reeves, Junior Mance

Tue Jun 16, 2009

Rochester City Newspaper

Rochester Jazz Festival 2009: Day 4: Cedar Walton, Mike Melito, Jongo Trio, Stephane Wrembel

Cedar Walton 's three-year association with The Jazz Messengers is what drew me to his set at Harro East last night.

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Related Topix: Jazz, The Jazz Messengers, Watches, Music, Entertainment

Mon Jun 15, 2009

All About Jazz

Liner Notes

When renowned jazz critic Leonard Feather was asked about this record, he said something favorable.

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Miles Davis, Jazz, Max Roach, Paul Chambers, Blue Note, Michigan

Sun Jun 07, 2009

KansasCity.com

KC jazz vocalist Deborah Brown reflects on the influence of her hometown

Deborah Brown is one of the finest jazz vocalists in the business, a singer’s singer with a magnificent voice and mind-boggling technique.Nevertheless, despite being very possibly one of the greatest jazz singers of all time, she is less well-known in the U.S. than in Europe and elsewhere.Perhaps the reason for her missing in action status is ...

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Related Topix: Deborah Brown, Jazz, Dorothy Donegan, Roger Kellaway, Clark Terry, Charlie Parker

Fri May 22, 2009

Detroit Free Press

Lateef named a Jazz Master

Compiled by B.J. Hammerstein, Free Press Staff Writer and editor of Detroit.Metromix.com. * May 22, 2009 The Detroit-bred saxophonist, multi-reedman and composer Yusef Lateef has been named an NEA Jazz Master for 2010 by the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Related Topix: Detroit, MI, Detroit Metro, Yusef Lateef, Jazz, Jazz Masters, Muhal Richard Abrams

Sat May 02, 2009

Buffalo News

Closing act

With jazz musicians as venerable as 82-year-old Lou Donaldson and 75-year-old Cedar Walton already announced as stalwarts in next season's Art of Jazz series at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, this season ends this weekend with a rare double bill of a couple of much-lionized and universally respected jazz fiftysomethings: singer Kendra Shank and ...

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Related Topix: Lou Donaldson, Jazz, Frank Kimbrough

Thu Mar 26, 2009

City Newspaper

Jazz Fest 09: Monday, June 15, schedule and bios

From his early days with Kenny Dorham and J.J. Johnson through his stints with Hank Mobley, Milt Jackson, Lee Morgan, and many more jazz giants, Cedar Walton has been a first-call pianist since the late-1950's. While with Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, Walton composed some of the group's most innovative tunes, including "Mosaic," "Ugetsu," and ...

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Related Topix: J.J. Johnson, Jazz, Lee Morgan, Kenny Dorham, Hank Mobley, Milt Jackson, Entertainment

Tue Mar 03, 2009

All About Jazz

Ben Markley: Second Introduction

Denver-based pianist Ben Markley, winner of the 2007 ASCAP Young Jazz Composers Award , is a well-studied musician whose achievements thus far demonstrate a willingness to stand apart from the multitude of ...

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Related Topix: Jazz, Black Entertainment, Ahmad Jamal

Mon Feb 23, 2009

New York Times

Horns Add Heft for a Strutting Piano Vamp

The pianist Cedar Walton has been a mainstay of New York jazz circles since the 1950s, usually working in small-combo mode.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Brooklyn, NY, New York, NY, Long Island University, Vincent Herring, Music, Arts, Entertainment

Thu Feb 19, 2009

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Jazz Legend at Kumble

The Brooklyn-Queens Conservatory of Music is presenting an evening with jazz great Cedar Walton at Long Island Universitya TMs Kumble Theater on Feb.

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Related Topix: Jazz

Wed Feb 18, 2009

Straight No Chaser

Cedar Walton - Getting His Due

The Brooklyn Conservatory of Music concert series "Jazz at the Conservatory" presents an evening with Cedar Walton at the Kumble Theater, Long Island University .

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Related Topix: Jazz, Long Island University, New York, J.J. Johnson, Black Entertainment, John Coltrane

Thu Jan 15, 2009

LA Weekly - The Essential Online Reso...

Brick's Picks: Blue Note 7, Ravi Coltrane, Stones reedman Tim Ries and more

The Blue Note Records 70th Anniversary Tour pulls into town this Thursday with a show by the Blue Note 7 at Royce Hall.

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Related Topix: Blue Note, Jazz, Ravi Coltrane, Blue Note Records, Peter Bernstein, Nicholas Payton, Music, Entertainment

Tue Jan 13, 2009

No Rock&Roll Fun

Bookmarks: Some stuff to read on the internet: NYT critic

The New York Times' jazz and pop but mainly jazz critic Ben Ratliff is taking questions from the readers about pop, but mainly jazz: In the last 60 years, people almost completely stopped dancing to jazz, and ...

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Related Topix: Publishing, New York Times, Jazz

Sat Dec 27, 2008

Ning Blog

Play it with feeling at Jazz Player

It doesn't matter if you like acid, traditional, easy listening or none of the above.

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Related Topix: Roy Hargrove, Jazz

Thu Dec 18, 2008

All About Jazz

PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Cedar Walton Trio: Live at the Village Vanguard

A savvy veteran of jazz's hard-bop heyday, pianist Cedar Walton has always been in high demand.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Art Blakey, Black Entertainment, John Coltrane

Thu Dec 11, 2008

All About Jazz

EVENT: Cedar Walton and Roy Hargrove at Jazz at Lincoln Center on January 9-10

Pianist, composer and arranger Cedar Walton and acclaimed trumpeter Roy Hargrove join forces to make beautiful music in the second concert of Jazz at Lincoln Centers Duo Tones series.

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Related Topix: Lincoln Center, KS, Roy Hargrove, Jazz, Black Entertainment, John Coltrane, The Jazz Messengers, Freddie Hubbard

Tue Dec 09, 2008

Straight No Chaser

Podcast 127: Say It Real Fast - Six Singers Singing Sweet Songs

These six women cover a variety of styles, and all are well worth a listen. Some are international, others regional singers who are just getting their due.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Pittsburgh Metro

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