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Saturday Jul 4 | All About Jazz

Houston Person: The Wizard of Jazz A Tribute to Harold Arlen,...

As he continues on well into his 8th decade as the go-to tenor sax man, the always solid Houston Person remains a prolific and first-rate blues man.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Harold Arlen, Swing, The Big Band, Cole Porter

Sun Jun 28, 2009

St. Louis Jazz Notes

Harris-Stowe State University to present jazz concert on August 29

Harris-Stowe State University will present a jazz concert to benefit its Wolff Jazz Institute at 7:00 p.m. Saturday, August 29 in the Dr.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Harris-Stowe State University, Wycliffe Gordon, Randy Sandke

Wed Jun 24, 2009

All About Jazz

EVENT: Harris-Stowe State University Presents "A Night of Jazz Greats"

Harris-Stowe State University, home of the Don and Heide Wolff Jazz Institute, will host a benefit concert of jazz greats on Saturday, August 29, 2009, at 7 p.m., in the Dr.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Harris-Stowe State University, Randy Sandke, Wycliffe Gordon, Clark Terry

Fri Jun 19, 2009

My Fox NY

Free Jazzmobile Summer Festival

MyFoxNY.com - Jazzmobile , which presents New York's oldest continuous summer Jazz festival, will kick off its 2009 summer season with a three-borough concert tour.

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Related Topix: New York, Jazz, Wycliffe Gordon, The Big Band, Duke Ellington

Wed Jun 17, 2009

SalemNews.com, Salem, MA

Marblehead Summer Jazz kicks off 25th season Saturday

An impromptu conversation about music that took place on a Marblehead sidewalk in the 1980s set in motion Marblehead Summer Jazz, which will kick off its 25th season Saturday night at the Unitarian-Universalist Church on Mugford Street.

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Related Topix: Marblehead, MA, Makoto Ozone, Jazz, Diana Krall

Tue Jun 09, 2009

All About Jazz

Nancy Kelly

Nancy Kellya s vocal style is a study in phrasing, style and swing. Shea s both old school and new.

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Related Topix: Rochester Metro, Rochester, NY, Jazz

Sun Jun 07, 2009

Democrat & Chronicle

What our critics are listening to

RYAN BINGHAM & THE DEAD HORSES: ROADHOUSE SUN. What is it about life than can make a 28-year-old cowboy dude sound like he's a ripped-up old soul? Ridin' the rodeo circuit, living on your own since you were in your mid teens, hanging out at your uncle's saloon listening to the juke box must be what does it.

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Related Topix: Rochester Metro, Rochester, NY, Jazz

Sat Jun 06, 2009

Asbury Park Press Online

DECISIONS, DECISIONS: BLUENOTES

This first weekend in June sure is a popular one for music festivals here in the Garden State.

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Related Topix: The Blue Notes, A-Cappella, Jazz & Blues, Jazz, Drew University, Biotech, SanofiSynthlabo, Blues

Fri Jun 05, 2009

Valdosta Daily Times

MUSIC: John Burr, Henning Sieverts

Bass player Jon Burr is a stand-up guy. The bass player has worked with luminaries such as Buddy Rich, Tony Bennett, and Chet Baker.

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Related Topix: Short, Music!, Buddy Rich, Jazz, Tony Bennett, Chet Baker

All About Jazz

Alright Okay You Win

Track Alright Okay You Win Artist/Band Nancy Kelly Duration 6:02 Album Well Alright! Record Label Saying it with Jazz Description On Well, Alright! Nancy displays her immense talents on diverse material.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Portland, OR, Stan Kenton

Mon Jun 01, 2009

Redbankgreen

in oRBit: Blue Cats, Red Dogs, Black Tie

As Dorothy Creamer explains , it's an event that's still offering up three days of free sounds a ' even in a year that's got practically all of us singing the blues.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Blues

Wed May 27, 2009

The village VOICE

Jazz Consumer Guide: Chasing Sonny Rollins, Ornette Coleman, or Something Else Entirely

Houston Person The Art & Soul of Houston Person [19962008] [High Note] Joe Fields recorded Person's debut at Prestige in 1966.

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Related Topix: Ornette Coleman, Sonny Rollins, Jazz, Inside Out, Debussy, Classical, Bill Evans, Music, Entertainment

Tue May 12, 2009

Asbury Park Press Online

23rd annual Red Bank Jazz and Blues Festival ready to roll

There are many early signs of summer at the Jersey Shore; more tourists, birds chirping, flowers blooming and in less than 4 short weeks the music, food and family fun of one of the largest free music festivals in the Northeast, The Red Bank Jazz & Blues Festival.

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Related Topix: Jazz & Blues, Jazz, Red Bank, NJ, Blues, Navesink, NJ

Sat Apr 18, 2009

All About Jazz

PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Jazz Gigs New York

MICHAL ATTIAS QUARTET At 8 p.m. The Stone Avenue C and Second Street, East Village AB BAARS TRIO WITH KEN VANDERMARK At 7 p.m. Joes Pub, at the Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Street, at Astor Place, East Village BOSSABRASIL FESTIVAL At 8:30 and 11 p.m. Birdland 315 West 44th Street, Clinton DON BYRON NEW GOSPEL QUINTET At 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Jazz ...

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Related Topix: Manhattan, NY, New York, NY, East Village (New York, NY), Downtown (New York, NY), Blue Note, Jazz, Brooklyn, NY

Sat Mar 28, 2009

Midwood Paper

Get jazzed for the Central Brooklyn festival

The hills of Brooklyn will be alive with the sound of music - jazz music - throughout April.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Roy Haynes

Thu Mar 26, 2009

Post and Courier

Mea culpa: How I 'killed' the sax player

South Carolina's Houston Person is a jazz icon. Sometimes, my passion for preserving jazz goes over the top.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Houston, TX

Tue Mar 24, 2009

All About Jazz

FESTIVAL/CRUISE: Litchfield Jazz Fest Line-up Announced: July 31-August 2, 2009

July 31-August 2, 2009 Grounds of Kent School, Kent, CT The Litchfield Jazz Festival, now in its fourteenth summer, is thrilled to announce the 2009 line-up and its move to the gorgeous campus of Kent School in Kent, Connecticut.

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Related Topix: Litchfield, CT, Kent, CT, Jane Monheit, Jazz, Sonny Rollins, Bucky Pizzarelli

Sun Mar 22, 2009

All About Jazz

PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Jazz in the Big Apple

JAZZ GIGS MANHATTAN STYLE ERNESTINE ANDERSON WITH HOUSTON PERSON Tuesday through Thursday through March 29 At 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola Frederick P. Rose Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center 60th Street and Broadway WILL BERNARD BAND Thursday Keyboardist John Medeski, the bassist Andy Hess and the drummer Stanton Moore.

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Related Topix: Manhattan, NY, New York, NY, Ernestine Anderson, Jazz, Greenwich Village (New York, NY), Chelsea (New York, NY), Gene Bertoncini

Wed Mar 11, 2009

All About Jazz

CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Peter Hand Signed to Savant Records for Big Band Album with Houston Person

SOURCE: All About Jazz Publicity New York, NY - Composer, arranger and guitarist Peter Hand has been signed to Savant Records.

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Related Topix: Jazz, New York Metro, Lee Konitz

Sat Mar 07, 2009

All About Jazz

Jon Burr Band: Just Can't Wait

Bassist Jon Burr has spent many years supporting other artists. He brings a lot of that experience into Just Can't Wait , a 14-song collection that reflects the artist's obsession with love.

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Related Topix: Stan Getz, Jazz, Horace Silver, Chet Baker, Black Entertainment, Eartha Kitt

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