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Friday Oct 31 | All About Jazz

Trio Viriditas: Live at Vision Festival VI

Clean Feed Records Recorded at the 2001 edition of the long-running New York concert series, Live at Vision Festival VI showcases the top-notch Trio Viriditas, featuring reedsman/trumpeter Alfred Harth , ...

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Related Topix: Jazz, Black Entertainment, John Coltrane

Mon Sep 08, 2008

Providence Journal

Mp3s: Jazzy Jimi Hendrix '69: Money origami

Jimi Hendrix, This Flyer Said to be recorded at Jimi's house at Traver Hollow Road near Shokan, NY in 1969 .

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Related Topix: Shokan, NY, Pat Metheny, Jazz, Providence, RI

Fri Aug 22, 2008

All About Jazz

Corey Wilkes: Drop It

At just 29 years of age, Corey Wilkes has emerged as the next big thing in the trumpet world.

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Related Topix: Wynton Marsalis, Jazz, Illinois, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Kahil El'zabar

Mon Aug 11, 2008

All About Jazz

August 2008

Standing before a specially assembled band for his July 10th show at The Living Theatre, Steven Bernstein spoke freely about his early days in New York.

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Related Topix: Steven Bernstein, Jazz, Jim Black, Fletcher Henderson, Donald Byrd

Fri Jul 18, 2008

Chicago Sun-Times

Wilkes sets the ultimate scene at JVC jazz fest

There are few musicians who qualify as "on the scene" more than Corey Wilkes -- wherever the young trumpeter is, you can be sure there's a party close by.

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Related Topix: Roscoe Mitchell, Jazz, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Louis Armstrong, Black Entertainment, Entertainment

Fri Jul 04, 2008

Montreal Gazette

New life for old tunes

James Carter arrived in a big way in the early 1990s, a multi- instrumentalist who attacked old jazz tunes as if he owned them, with a braggadocio that mirrored his phenomenally flashy technique.

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Related Topix: Jazz, James Carter, Don Byas, Duke Ellington, Sun Ra

Sat Jun 28, 2008

Canada.com

Musical brainstorming pays off at Jazzfest

The idea to put a group of jazz musicians together for a week or so to see what they come up with in the way of new compositions first gained popularity in New York's so-called loft scene in the early 1970s.

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Related Topix: Anthony Braxton, Jazz

Tue Jun 10, 2008

City Pages

The Art Ensemble of Chicago and William Parker

OVER 30 YEARS ago the Art Ensemble of Chicago blew up out of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians , tempering the fury of free jazz with an approach that incorporated the nuances of space ...

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Related Topix: Jazz, William Parker, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Music, Entertainment

Wed May 21, 2008

All About Jazz

CD/Download Release: Delmark Records Summer 2008 Releases

Delmark New Releases Corey Wilkes Drop It Jazz trumpeter Corey Wilkes burst on the Chicago jazz scene in 2002.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Roscoe Mitchell, The Ethnic Heritage Ensemble

Sun Apr 27, 2008

All About Jazz

Live At The Green Mill

Ari Brown - Published: April 27, 2008 Ari Brown has deep-running roots and, though in the past he's been associated with the likes of Lester Bowie, the music on this DVD is more straight ahead than his ... via All About Jazz

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Related Topix: Jazz

Fri Apr 25, 2008

MetaFilter

The Art Ensemble of Chicago

An introductory piece on the Art Ensemble of Chicago . Some funk from the quintet. via MetaFilter

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Related Topix: Jazz, Art Ensemble of Chicago

Fri Apr 11, 2008

Chicago Tribune

New book trumpets creative ferment of dynamic AACM

“Every one of them started out at the bottom - maybe not the flat bottom, but pretty close.”

Four letters that changed music: AACM. From the South Side of Chicago to the boulevards of Paris to the townships of South Africa, that acronym long has been synonymous with fearless, genre-defying ways of ... via Chicago Tribune

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Related Topix: Fred Anderson, Roscoe Mitchell, Jazz, Anthony Braxton, Kahil El'zabar, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Music, Entertainment

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