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50 great moments in jazz: Birth of the Cool

Emerging from the shadow of his hero Charlie Parker, Miles Davis rejected the aggressive tempo of bebop to pioneer a smoother style that became a landmark in jazz evolution Cool-headed ... Miles Davis circa 1950.

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Miles Davis, Jazz, Media, Gerry Mulligan

Fri Nov 06, 2009

All About Jazz

Clint Eastwood Presents Johnny Mercer: The Dream's On Me

Film director Clint Eastwood's love of jazz and American popular song is far from a secret, especially following his feature-length biopic about alto saxophonist Charlie Parker , during which the ever restless Eastwood got the idea to produce a feature-length film about pianist Thelonious Monk , released somewhat later during the same year as ...

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Related Topix: Jazz, Johnny Mercer, Music!, Drama Movies, Bird, Biography Movies, Thelonious Monk

Wed Nov 04, 2009

All About Jazz

Roberta Gambarini: Learning to Love Jazz

Not long ago a veteran Chicago jazz disc jockey played a track from a female vocalist's new CD only after complaining on the air about the seemingly unending stream of new recordings by female singers sent to his notice each week.

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Jazz, Louis Armstrong

Mon Nov 02, 2009

J.B. Spins

On-Stage: Love, Linda

Everyone from Fred Astaire to Charlie Parker has performed the music of Cole Porter.

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Related Topix: Fred Astaire, Jazz, Cole Porter, Theater, Arts

Sat Oct 31, 2009

Chicago Reader Online

The List: October 29, 2009

Critics' Choices and other notable concerts: Ghostface Killah, Dan Deacon, Thao with the Get Down Stay Down, and more Music Picks archives>> Ghostface Killah thursday29 PEEPING TOM On its superb debut album, File Under: Bebop , this clever French-Swedish trio transforms classic tunes by the likes of Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, and Bud Powell ...

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Related Topix: Jazz, Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk

Thu Oct 29, 2009

City Paper

Bending the Beat

"The rhythm section is the essence of every style of music," the late Max Roach told me back in 1992.

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Related Topix: Max Roach, Jazz, Startups, I-play, Kenny Clarke, Black Entertainment, Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Hayes, Music, Entertainment

Tue Oct 27, 2009

NorthJersey.com

A Look Back - Legendary jazzman

Jazz great John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie was born on Oct. 21, 1917, in Cheraw, S.C., and settled in Englewood in the mid-1960s, where he lived until his death in 1993.

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Related Topix: Cheraw, SC, Jazz

Sun Oct 25, 2009

Town Topics

Tatum and Webster: Celebrating Two Jazz Giants at 100

I wish I could play like Art Tatum's right hand. Charlie Parker On Art Tatum's 100th birthday last Tuesday, October 13, Rene, an elephant at the Toledo, Ohio Zoo, painted a piano in honor of the city's native son.

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Related Topix: Art Tatum, Jazz, Toledo Metro, Toledo, OH, Fats Waller, Count Basie

Fri Oct 23, 2009

Detroit Free Press

A stunning glimpse of jazz history

EDITOR'S NOTE: This story originally appeared July 28, 1996. It was like stumbling upon a lost Rembrandt in the attic.

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Related Topix: Detroit, MI, Detroit Metro, Clifford Brown, Jazz

Thu Oct 22, 2009

Freep.com - RSS

5 questions with George Benson, guitarist-vocalist

Best known for conquering the pop and R&B charts in the 1970s with such hits as "Give Me the Night," "On Broadway" and "This Masquerade," guitarist and vocalist George Benson started his career firmly planted in the world of jazz while working with legends like Jack McDuff and Miles Davis.

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Related Topix: George Benson, Jazz, Black Entertainment, Wes Montgomery, Miles Davis, Charlie Christian, Arizona

Wed Oct 21, 2009

Times Union

Happy birthday to the great King of Bebop

For nearly 17 years now, Dizzy Gillespie has been living up to his signature tune, "Groovin' High." Or maybe I should say he's groovin' on high -- in heaven.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Black Entertainment, Dizzy Gillespie, Dizzy, House, Miles Davis, Opinion

Mon Oct 19, 2009

National Public Radio

Big Apple Jazz: Five Picks From The Orchard

October 19, 2009 from WBGO - There are thousands of apple varieties - even a new conventional breed called " Jazz ." Much like the music which lends its name to this autumn delight, Jazz is a hybrid .

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Related Topix: New York, New Zealand, World News, Life, Fruits, Food, Jazz, Fletcher Henderson, Coleman Hawkins

Sat Oct 17, 2009

The Lufkin Daily News

Around Angelina: Variety of musical styles set to hit stage at Ac's Temple Theater

A variety of musical styles and talents will take the stage this month for Angelina College's Fall Concert featuring the AC Swinging Roadrunner Jazz Band, the AC Concert Band and the Lufkin Community Band.

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Related Topix: Lufkin, TX, Black Entertainment, Thelonius Monk, Miles Davis, Jazz, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX

Thu Oct 15, 2009

The Georgia Straight

Forest Whitaker goes truly wild for Where the Wild Things Are

Forest Whitaker has had a varied career, one that has seen him playing characters as diverse as a legendary jazz man and an African dictator.

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Related Topix: Where the Wild Things Are, Music!, Drama Movies, Bird, Biography Movies, Forest Whitaker, Black Entertainment, Jazz

Wed Oct 14, 2009

WNYC-AM New York

The Untold Story of a Black Icon

Billy Eckstine was not only the greatest jazz-crooning hit-maker of his era; he was also one of the first African American sex symbols and a bandleader who scouted Miles Davis, Charlie Parker and Sarah Vaughan.

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Related Topix: Billy Eckstine, Jazz, Miles Davis, Black Entertainment, Sarah Vaughan, David Krakauer

Tue Oct 13, 2009

Nashville Scene

Nashville Jazz Orchestra

The Nashville Jazz Orchestra celebrates a vital but often overlooked part of the improvisational strain, the large group tradition.

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Related Topix: Nashville Metro, Nashville, TN, Black Entertainment, Dizzy Gillespie, Jazz

Sun Oct 11, 2009

Jazz & Blues Music Reviews

Miles Davis - The Birth of the Cool

Miles Davis's first great record as a leader came when he was very young, just 23 years of age.

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Miles Davis, Jazz, Gil Evans, Gerry Mulligan

Fri Oct 09, 2009

All About Jazz

The Story Of Jazz Saxophone

For some, the saxophone is the sound of jazz. The unique fusion of brass and woodwind that is the sax found an electrifying vibrato in the hands of jazzmen that truly changed the world.

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Related Topix: Classical, Saxophone, Coleman Hawkins, Jazz, Johnny Hodges, Lester Young, Stan Getz

Wed Oct 07, 2009

Bostonist

Friday Happenings

George Russell, who died earlier this year, freed jazz in the 1950s when he discovered "a new way to relate to chords." His Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization yielded both the modal jazz of Miles Davis and the free jazz of John Coltrane, but Russell's own compositions were nothing to sneeze at, either.

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Related Topix: George Russell, Jazz, Black Entertainment, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Boston, MA, Theater, Arts

Mon Oct 05, 2009

All About Jazz

The Joshua Breakstone Trio: No One New

Woody has been a jazz fan for about 30 years, starting with the diverse sounds of Maynard Ferguson's bands of the 1970s.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Maynard Ferguson, Lee Morgan

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