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Sunday Jul 5 | NowPublic

Switzerlanda s Prestigious Music Festival-Montreux Jazz Festival

Prince performs at the Jazz Festival this year bring excitement along the shores of lake Geneva.

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Herbie Hancock, Jazz, Quincy Jones, Montreux, Travel, Switzerland Travel

Fri Jul 03, 2009

Copenhagen Post

And in July, God said let there be jazz

Copenhagen Jazz Festival Various locations around Copenhagen: starts Friday, ends Sunday 10 July; www.jazz.dk Welcome to a unique mix of music with roots both in the African-American south and the stoic Scandinavian character and landscape.A The artists serve the soul and spontaneity, the crowds respond with some foot tapping and rhythmic clapping, ...

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Related Topix: Jazz, Charles Lloyd, Brad Mehldau, Black Entertainment, New Orleans, Music!, Drama Movies, Gospel, The Blind Boys of Alabama

Thu Jul 02, 2009

Pasadena Weekly

Early fireworks

Lisa Finnie is a familiar voice at Caf 322, playing a cool mix of Americana, jazz and folk - most of them her own original works.

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Jazz, Sierra Madre, CA

Tue Jun 30, 2009

TheNational

Geneva jazz

Soul luminaries such as Chaka Khan have been a partof the Montreux Jazz Festival's rich musical tradition.

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Related Topix: Weather, Black Entertainment, Jazz, Jan Garbarek, Weather Report, Ella Fitzgerald, Hard-Rock, Deep Purple

Mon Jun 22, 2009

National Public Radio

Evolution Of A Song: 'Strange Fruit'

Billie Holiday is one of many who've interpreted Abel Meeropol's words for "Strange Fruit," but she left the deepest impression.

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Related Topix: Billie Holiday, Jazz, Black Entertainment, Marion, IN, Lady Sings the Blues, Music!, Drama Movies, Biography Movies

Sun Jun 14, 2009

The Sligo Champion

Summer festivals to beat the band

SUMMERTIME is festival time all over Europe , and space permits only a glance at a little of what's on offer.

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Related Topix: Ken Peplowski, Jazz, Benny Goodman, Dianne Reeves, Black Entertainment, Hank Jones, Roy Hargrove

Fri Jun 12, 2009

All About Jazz

PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Sing the Truth: Nina Simone Remembered: Barbican...

Sing The Truth: Nina Simone Remembered featuring Dianne Reeves, Lizz Wright, Angelique Kidjo and Simone Tickets 20/25/30/35 Produced by the Barbican in association with Serious Part of Blaze A singer of unique emotional effect, Nina Simones passing left a huge gap in the music world.

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Related Topix: History Movies, Good Night, and Good Luck., Drama Movies, Jazz, Black Entertainment, Dianne Reeves

Mon Jun 08, 2009

Tehachapi News

Sultry songress returns

Start: Jun 12, 2009 End: Jun 12, 2009 Time: 7:00pm Price: $10 in advance and $12 at the door Contact: 822-2326 Location: 426 E. Tehachapi Blvd., Tehachapi, CA 93561 From the first fiery note to the last whispery phrase, Christine Rosander's sultry voice grabs hold and doesn't let go, stirring up yearning and desire long after a song has ended.

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Related Topix: Tehachapi, CA, Folk, Joni Mitchell, Black Entertainment, Jazz, Billie Holiday

Thu Jun 04, 2009

All About Jazz

FESTIVAL/CRUISE: Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2009

Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2009 - from retro to rebirth in 10 days... Now the program for the Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2009 has been published.

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Jazz, Ben Webster, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Palle Mikkelborg, Chick Corea

Mon May 18, 2009

Warrnambool Standard

Five covers that are better than the ...

AS a general rule, the original version of a song is better than any of the dozens of cover versions that might follow.

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Related Topix: The Rolling Stones, Pop/Rock, John Lennon, Industrial, Nine Inch Nails, Jazz, Black Entertainment, Folk, Simon & Garfunkel

Fri May 15, 2009

All About Jazz

PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Michelle Walker Live @ Zinc Bar Monday May 18th...

Critically acclaimed jazz vocalist, Michelle Walker , will perform in concert at the intimate stage of the The Zinc Bar in its widely respected jazz lounge.

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Related Topix: Zinc, AR, Cassandra Wilson, Jazz, Black Entertainment, Betty Carter

Thu May 07, 2009

MediaGuardian.co.uk

Readers recommend: Songs about numbers

It's been quite a revolutionary week and the soundtracks you have provided couldn't have been more welcome.

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Related Topix: Steel Pulse, Reggae, Jazz, Black Entertainment

Mon May 04, 2009

Hickory Daily Record

Festival draws area art lovers

" "Voice of Hope" - " dedicated to promote awareness about domestic violence. Matt Ninemire - " "Jazz and Nina Simone" - " depicts the life of jazz musician Nina Simone.

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Jazz, Hickory, NC

Sat May 02, 2009

All About Jazz

Music Industry: Interview: Creed Taylor

Interview: Creed Taylor SOURCE: JazzWax by Marc Myers Throughout his six-decade career as a record producer, Creed Taylor has operated with bold strokes, subtleties and contrasts.

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Related Topix: George Benson, Jazz, Don Sebesky, Black Entertainment, Grover Washington, Jr., Jim Hall, Speakers

Sun Apr 26, 2009

Financial Times

A London jazz club celebrates 50 years

Ronnie Scott's Soho jazz club started life 50 years ago with the DIY makeover of a grubby Gerrard Street basement cabbies' den, in what is now Soho's Chinatown.

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Related Topix: United Kingdom Travel, Travel, Essex County, England, World News, United Kingdom, Greater London County, England, London, United Kingdom Travel, Jazz, Peter King, Beverages, CocaCola, Ben Webster, Black Entertainment

Fri Apr 24, 2009

The Sligo Champion

Talented Caoimhe is thrilled to be back performing again

CAOIMHE DUANE really makes singing sound effortless, but the Ardmore Park girl has been putting in the work since childhood and sits down at her piano every day to practice – discipline that belies her 22 years.

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Jazz

Thu Apr 23, 2009

EGigs.co.uk

REVIEW : The Wailers Band / Andreya Triana / MC Testament

Leaving the lovely warm day behind and crowding into the cellar venue of Leeds University , everyone here is looking forward to some summer sounds.

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Related Topix: The Wailers, Reggae, Jazz, Black Entertainment

This is Somerset

Taking a jazz journey with soulful singer

Take Art presents The Lady Loves Jazz, a wonderful celebration of traditional and contemporary jazz songs that will ignite the spirit and warm the soul, at St John's Church Hall in Chilcompton on Saturday.

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Ella Fitzgerald, Jazz, Norah Jones, Eva Cassidy

Tue Apr 21, 2009

Billboard

This Day In Music

2007 Australian pub rocker Lobby Loyde dies of cancer in a Melbourne hospital. He is 66.

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Related Topix: R-N-B, Al Wilson, Fontana, CA, Jennifer Hudson, Jazz, Black Entertainment, Pop/Rock, S Club, Country, B.J. Thomas

Fri Apr 17, 2009

Berkshire Eagle Online - Berkshires Week

Activist folk

Lizzie West and Baba Buffalo will play Club Helsinki on Friday. Thursday, April 16 Who: Lizzie West and Baba Buffalo Genre: Folk, blues, ragtime and cabaret with vocal harmonies, politically-charged lyrics and a deeply spiritual sensibility - and fans around the world as close as family.

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Jazz, Thelonious Monk

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