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Boys, Toys and Noise

The summer season is pretty much over, and the jazz calendar is little emptier this week, but there's still plenty of good stuff around town.

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Related Topix: Pete Christlieb, Jazz, Jack Sheldon, Music, Entertainment

Tue Sep 02, 2008

All About Jazz

Carla Bley Big Band: Appearing Nightly

Bandleader and musical provocateur Carla Bley is the Hector Berlioz of jazz. Her command of her large ensembles is complete and potent.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Carla Bley, Steve Swallow

Mon Sep 01, 2008

Jazz in Wales

Jazz in the Park, Pontypool - Sept 5-7

The ninth annual Jazz in the Park festival takes place in Pontypool this coming weekend, Friday 5 to Sunday 7 September.

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Related Topix: World News, United Kingdom, Stan Tracey, Jazz

Sat Aug 30, 2008

The Village News

Temecula Presents season announced

The Temecula Presents 2008-2009 season will feature a lineup of 26 world-class artists and 31 performances, including many artists and companies making their Old Town Temecula Community Theater or West Coast ...

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Related Topix: San Francisco Metro, Temecula, CA, Jazz, The Derailers, Country

Thu Aug 28, 2008

All About Jazz

PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Joris Teepe Big Band

The gigs are: Wednesday August 27th at 9 pm Big Band at Cecil's Thurday, August 28th at 8 pm Big Band at Sweet Rhythm SPECIAL MYSTERY GUEST ON THURSDAY Friday, August 29th at 8 pm Big Band at Puffin Foundation ...

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Related Topix: Jazz, New York Metro, The Orchestra, Big-Band

LivingstonDaily

Visiting band members seeking place to stay

An 83-member German band and choir ensemble is heading to Fowlerville next week, and members need a place to stay.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Fowlerville, MI, Muskegon, MI

Wed Aug 27, 2008

MediaGuardian.co.uk

Jazz preview: Curtis Stigers, Twickenham

American singer-saxist Curtis Stigers is plenty more than the easy-listening artist he can be typecast as - as his last album, Real Emotional, proved by mixing originals and classics by the likes of Emmylou ...

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Related Topix: Mose Allison, Jazz

Mon Aug 25, 2008

Daily Californian

By the Books, Swing Dancers Lindy Hop at Berkeley Library

George "Jazzbeaux" Spencer blew his trumpet, leading the Junius Courtney Big Band in the book stacks at the Berkeley Public Library on Saturday night.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Berkeley, CA, Libraries, Newark, CA

Sat Aug 23, 2008

MediaGuardian.co.uk

The world of Carla Bley

Her talent puts this 'wildflower' of jazz in the same league as Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus

Thu Aug 21, 2008

MediaGuardian.co.uk

CD: Jazz review: Carla Bley Big Band, Appearing Nightly

Trips down memory lane often fail to generate much more than a nostalgic kind of jazz - but if there's anyone whose musical past is likely to be captivating, it is composer Carla Bley.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Carla Bley, Count Basie

Jerusalem Post

Hed Big Band

Sixty-two-year-old Mikhail Heybudin considers himself lucky. Employed full time as a handyman at the Hed College of Contemporary Music in Tel Aviv, the former Ukrainian has an aversion for romanticizing the ...

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Related Topix: Israel, World News, Jazz, Middle East

Wed Aug 20, 2008

Telegram & Gazette

Latin Fest on Sunday

Gregorio Uribe fronts his 15-piece band as a singer and plays some percussion and accordion.

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Related Topix: US Travel, Travel, World News, Colombia, Worcester, MA, Jazz

Mon Aug 18, 2008

All About Jazz

Hilario Duran and his Latin Jazz Big Band: From the Heart

Anyone who heard the explosive band put together by multi-instrumentalist Arturo Sandoval shortly after he broke away from the seemingly indivisible Irakere would probably remember the ubiquitous young ...

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Related Topix: Jazz, Arturo Sandoval, Latin, Hilario Duran

Sun Aug 17, 2008

All About Jazz

Ed Vezinho - Jim Ward Big Band: With Friends Like These

It is a common practice to title an album after one of the pieces composed for and performed on the recording, sometimes attributing a special meaning or theme to the music.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Philadelphia Metro

Dayton Daily News

Pam Noah featured at Big Band Night

TV Online Pam Noah featured at Big Band Night By Matt Warner Vocalist Pam Noah is hoping for blue skies, not stormy weather for her performance at Riverscape Metro Park's Big Band Nite on Thursday, Aug.

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Related Topix: Weather, Jazz, Newark, OH, Cincinnati, OH, Entertainment

Fri Aug 15, 2008

SeacoastOnline

Swing dance to benefit Myanmar relief

Join Chris Humphrey and his 15-piece band as he presents a concert of new and traditional swing and Big Band music to not only entertain the family but to benefit the continued cyclone relief efforts so ...

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Related Topix: Jazz, Cape-Porpoise, ME, Kennebunk, ME, University of New Hampshire, University of Southern Maine

Wed Aug 13, 2008

Northern Michigan News

French jazz ensemble to play in Cadillac

You've heard about exchange students, well, there are also exchange bands through the Blue Lake International Program.

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Related Topix: Cadillac, MI, Jazz, France, World News,

Mon Aug 11, 2008

Chattanooga Times Free Press

Chattanooga Monday Nite Big Band celebrates 40 years onstage, still playing under the radar

Listen to a recording from a recent performance by the Monday Nite Big Band. Considering the near-deafening sound generated by an 18-piece swing jazz band, the idea that one could fly under the radar might ...

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Related Topix: Jazz

Sun Aug 10, 2008

WisInfo

Grand Opera House unveils new season schedule at Grand Scoop

Don Vajgrt saw Frank Sinatra twice as a lad and owns 'every record he ever made,' but the Oshkosh resident is curious to see just how good Steve Lippia does Ol' Blue Eyes.

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Related Topix: Frank Sinatra, Jazz, Life, Dessert, Food, Ice Cream, Appleton Metro, Oshkosh, WI

Downey Patriot

Wiseguys to headline oldies concert

The Wiseguys Big Band will headline the Downey Chamber of Commerce's fifth annual oldies concert, taking place Nov.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Long Beach, CA, A-Cappella, Wise Guys, Downey, CA

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