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Clint Eastwood Presents Johnny Mercer: The Dream's On Me

Film director Clint Eastwood's love of jazz and American popular song is far from a secret, especially following his feature-length biopic about alto saxophonist Charlie Parker , during which the ever restless Eastwood got the idea to produce a feature-length film about pianist Thelonious Monk , released somewhat later during the same year as ...

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Related Topix: Jazz, Johnny Mercer, Music!, Drama Movies, Bird, Biography Movies, Charlie Parker

Thu Nov 05, 2009

All About Jazz

The State of Jazz Reissues 2009: Miles Davis and Art Pepper

Jazz is a Romance language. It relies as much, if not more, on music already played and pondered over than that being performed right now, much less germinating in a musician's mind for the future.

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Miles Davis, Jazz, Art Pepper, Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane

Tue Nov 03, 2009

The Globe and Mail

Aretha Franklin: giving the Queen of Soul her propers

Aretha Franklin: giving the Queen of Soul her propers Singer Aretha Franklin performs during the 85th annual Christmas tree lighting at the New York Stock Exchange December 4, 2008.

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Related Topix: Aretha Franklin, Black Entertainment, Soul, W., Manufacturing, Automakers, R and B, Jazz, Otis Redding

Mon Nov 02, 2009

All About Jazz

Thelonious Monk -- The Definitive Monk Bio: So, Was He Crazy, or What?

Dr. J's writing combines her love of jazz with her fascination with psychology; she enjoys focusing on where they intersect -- in the celebration of the individual spirit.

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Related Topix: Jazz

The Miami Herald

At Festival Miami, sweet sound of jazz fills the air

Festival Miami concluded with a swinging party Friday that brought jazz greats John Clayton and Jeff Hamilton to the Miami's Gusman Concert Hall stage.

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Related Topix: Miami Metro, The Orchestra, Big-Band, Jazz

Sat Oct 31, 2009

Daily Star

Music Beat: Music business lawyer offers hints

In past columns, I've written about many local bands who were just starting their careers, trying to find the time and money to begin touring.

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Related Topix: Oneonta, NY, Princeton University, New York University, Black Entertainment, John Coltrane, Jazz, Pop/Rock, The Mamas & the Papas

Fri Oct 30, 2009

New York Times

Leading From the Bottom Notes

The bassist Ben Williams took several long solos in his first set at the Jazz Gallery on Thursday night, and each one felt more like an entitlement than an indulgence.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Music, Arts, Entertainment

Thu Oct 29, 2009

Albany Times Union

For Brignola, the beat goes on

For decades, saxophonist Nick Brignola was the jazzman in the Capital Region. The winner of several prestigious Downbeat magazine awards, he passed away in 2002.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Nick Brignola, Albany Metro, Woody Herman, Albany, NY

Wed Oct 28, 2009

Jazz & Blues Music Reviews

The Apocalypse is Nigh

I am known at work for having a esoteric taste in music. Sharing an office with four other people in close proximity, I carve out my own little niche in the maelstrom by playing music as much as possible.

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Related Topix: Jazz

Bay Guardian

Our weekly picks

Valient Thorr singer "Valient Himself" has been known to shower the audience with a little rock-juice, flicking it about when not actively belting colloquial, clever lyrics about government conspiracies and being from Venus.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Arts, Ballet, San Francisco, CA

Mon Oct 26, 2009

Breath of life

Thelonious Monk / a oeClassic Monk Mixtapea

THELONIOUS MONK / "Classic Monk Mixtape" Source: Breath of Life - " 01 Classic Monk Mixtape.mp3 What fierceness tender touched us whenever Monk made music.

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Related Topix: Jazz

Sun Oct 25, 2009

The Boston Globe

High priest of bebop

Thelonious Monk was alternately viewed as a genius who introduced new ideas to jazz or a hack who simply couldn't play well.

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Related Topix: Jazz, University of Southern California

Fri Oct 23, 2009

Jazz & Blues Music Reviews

John Coltrane - Side Steps, Disc Three

Disc three of this collection of John Coltrane's recordings for Prestige as a sideman find him in familiar territory, recording with the pianist Red Garland, whom Coltrane would perform with on several occasions during his tenures with the Miles Davis Quintet.

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Related Topix: The Miles Davis Quintet, Jazz

Wed Oct 21, 2009

All About Jazz

John Coltrane: Side Steps

The 5-CD Side Steps follows two other Prestige box sets-the 6-CD Fearless Leader and 5-CD Interplay -which together catalogue saxophonist John Coltrane's recordings for the label 1956-58. The three boxes, each packed with extraordinary music, chronicle on parallel paths the years during which Coltrane's revolutionary style began to emerge, but ...

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Related Topix: John Coltrane, Jazz, Black Entertainment, Miles Davis, The Miles Davis Quintet

Mon Oct 19, 2009

Publishers Weekly

The PW Morning Report: Monday, October 19, 2009

Book and publishing news from across the Web: EU Out of Google Settlement?; Jonze's Wild Journey; Plastic Logic's Que; An Open Road to Backlist; German-E; 'Thelonious Monk' Reviewed.

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Related Topix: Where the Wild Things Are, Jazz

Hypebeast.com

John Coltrane x Supreme Collection

John Coltrane is a giant in the history of American music. He was a pioneer in developing a new sound in Jazz music with the use of modes and improvisation, and later was at the forefront of the Free Jazz movement.

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, John Coltrane, Jazz, Miles Davis & Thelonious Monk

Sun Oct 18, 2009

All About Jazz

INTERVIEW/PROFILE: Monk's Moods

Thelonious Monk, the great American jazz artist, during the first half of his junior year at Stuyvesant High School in New York, showed up in class only 16 out of 92 days and received zeros in every one of his subjects.

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Related Topix: Jazz

Sat Oct 17, 2009

Examiner.com

Monk withouth myth: New biography offers the man straight, no chaser

No figure in jazz history is as steeped in mystery and awe-inspired adjectives that, oddly, only serve to obscure the true, breathtaking scope of his work than Thelonious Monk.

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Related Topix: Jazz

Fri Oct 16, 2009

Connecticut Public Radio

FMS: Thelonious Monk

The last time I got an "F" was on an algebra test in ninth grade. So when my beloved home built in 1915 failed its energy-efficiency test, I took it personally.

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Related Topix: Jazz

Thu Oct 15, 2009

Relix

Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, La Sala Rossa, Montreal, QC.,

After wrapping up a run of shows opening for Mike Gordon in Burlington, VT., the Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey traveled North of the border to perform in the upstairs concert hall of Montreal's La Sala Rossa.

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Related Topix: Canada, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, Jazz, Burlington, VT

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