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Thursday Jun 25 | All About Jazz

Steven Hashimoto's Mothra: Tradewind

Tradewind is an intellectually stimulating and highly entertaining modern jazz album by Chicago bassist Steven Hashimoto's group, Mothra.

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Tue Jun 09, 2009

All About Jazz

PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Nashville-Based Jazz Vocalist, Composer, Guitarist Suzahn Fiering European Tour

Suzahn Fiering's music is an elegant entre into a romantic world of dazzling virtuosity with smoky-smooth vocals, impressive guitar work, masterful scatting, critically acclaimed originals and unique interpretations of jazz standards.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Grady Tate, Dick Oatts, Donald Harrison, New York, Worcestershire County, England, World News, Warwickshire County, England, United Kingdom, West Midlands County, England

Mon Jun 08, 2009

Paste Magazine

Six Gateway Jazz Albums for Rock Elitists

Growing up on a strict musical diet of pop and rock, I once viewed jazz as this formless gunk that intellectuals would roll around in to make themselves feel superior to the unkempt masses.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, The Dave Brubeck Quartet

Tue Jun 02, 2009

All About Jazz

CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Mike Stern Album w/: Vai, Johnson, MMW, Brecker

Guest artists on new recording include Steve Vai, Eric Johnson, Esperanza Spalding Richard Bona, Randy Brecker, Medeski Martin & Wood, Cindy Blackman and others Mike Stern Five-time GRAMMY nominated guitarist Mike Stern 's music has always come from a colorful and diverse part of town - a place where numerous artistic styles converge to create a ...

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Related Topix: Mike Stern, Jazz, Richard Bona, Medeski Martin and Wood, Randy Brecker, Cindy Blackman

Fri May 29, 2009

ProSoundWeb

Jaco & The Orange Trees: Great Times With A Bassisto Maestro

Picture Miami/Fort Lauderdale in the '70s: small and quiet, lots of birds, flowers and trees.

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Related Topix: Miami Metro, Jazz, Jimmy Smith, Home Gardening, Home

Tue May 26, 2009

Broward-Palm Beach - News

The Bendy/Pastorius Group

Admission is $5. Age 21 and up. Call 305-374-1198, or visit tobacco-road.com . When your dad was one of the most innovative musicians of all time and you've got ample ability of your own, it's only natural that you'd carry on in the family business.

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Related Topix: Miami Metro, Jazz, Weather Report, Music, Entertainment

Fri May 15, 2009

Creative Loafing Tampa

Concert tip for tonight: The Heavy Pets @ Dunedin Brewery.

One of the best kept secrets in the Tampa Bay music scene is the fact that an extremely talented on-the-rise band plays semi-regularly at one of the area's coolest locaI hotspots.

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Related Topix: Jazz

Fri Apr 24, 2009

MELODIKA.net

Jazz Musician Joseph Pernicano Stays The Course In Debut CD Release, Seven New Tracks Lead To "Evolv

In keeping with the spirit of America 's evolving change, jazz bassist & composer, Joseph Pernicano releases his debut CD entitled "Evolving Paths" . This soulful and groove-laden material features his original compositions and arrangements.

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Related Topix: Charles Mingus, Jazz, Chick Corea, Ray Brown

Mon Apr 20, 2009

The Georgia Straight

Jeff Beck concert DVD a guitar freak's wet dream

Jeff Beck is arguably the finest rock guitarist alive, and that argument just got a lot stronger with the release of his new DVD, Performing This Week...Live at Ronnie Scott's . Filmed over the course of a five-night stand at the 250-seat Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in London, England, the 21-track DVD captures the Strat master with an incredible band ...

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Related Topix: Jeff Beck, Pop/Rock, Essex County, England, World News, United Kingdom, Greater London County, England, Jazz, Jason Rebello

Wed Apr 15, 2009

All About Jazz

CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Alessandro Bottura's "Morning Grooves" ...

The multi-talented Italian Bass Player Alessandro Bottura has released his brand new CD entitled Morning Grooves, which features his RadioIndy chart-topping single "MayDay Mayhem." The album contains nine smooth fusion songs of rock, jazz, and pop instrumentals, including another radio favorite "Stern Memories" that has listeners mesmerized when ...

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Related Topix: Jazz, Italy, World News, Online Music

Thu Mar 19, 2009

SavannahNow.com

Center Stage: The bottom line with Victor Wooten

Victor Wooten, 44, has been a member of Bela Fleck & the Flecktones since 1988. Even in modern jazz, where the lexicon is loose and free-spirited, and there aren't really any rules, there have been precious few lead bass players.

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Related Topix: Victor Wooten, Jazz-Funk, Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, Jazz, Stanley Clarke, Hilton Head Island, SC

Fri Jan 16, 2009

All About Jazz

CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: David Boswell Releases New CD - I Like That

Los Angeles session guitarist David Boswell is scheduled to release his third album, I Like That, January 12, 2009.

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Related Topix: Yellowjackets, Jazz, Nelson Rangell, Eric Marienthal, David Sanborn, John Boswell, New-Age

Fri Jan 02, 2009

North Coast Journal Weekly Politics

Another Year Gone By

Okay, it's New Year's Day, which means you've made it through New Year's Eve intact, and through 2008, a year of transition on many levels.

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Related Topix: Fareed Haque, Jazz

Wed Dec 24, 2008

All About Jazz

Bill Milkowski

Bill Milkowski is the author of "Jaco: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Jaco Pastorius"... One of the most widely published jazz critics on the East Coast, Bill Milkowski has been covering jazz extensively ...

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Related Topix: Jazz, Journalism, Weather Report, Black Entertainment, John Coltrane, Milwaukee, WI, Milwaukee Metro

Mon Dec 22, 2008

All About Jazz

Jaco Pastorius: Woodchuck and the Upper Hand

This article appears in Chapter 3 of Jaco: The Extraordinary and Tragic Life of Jaco Pastorius by Bill Milkwoski .

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Related Topix: Jazz, Soul, The Isley Brothers, Bohemia, NY

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