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November concert blends Christmas and jazzWest Coast jazz pianist Jim Martinez and his jazz trio will present "A Jazzy Christmas" Nov.
Topix.net Wednesday, November 11, 2009Concha Buika at the 2009 Barcelona Jazz FestivalConcha Buika Barcelona Jazz
festival Barcelona, Spain November 5, 2009 From the opening notes of Oro santo-Mamita to the final dramatic pauses in the familiar Ojos verdes: "Ojos verdes, verdes como la albahaca. Verdes como el trigo verde y el verde, verde limon. {{Concha Buika = 18587}} gave a bravura performance at a sold out Palau de la Musica on Thursday night, November 5th as part of the 41st Voll-Damm Festival International de Jazz de Barcelona. With a Gypsy flair and a hint of the blues, few singers, male or female, old or young have the range--from an anguished whisper to a mighty cry--that Buika displayed in a show that focused largely on her new album with Cuban pianist {{Chucho Valdes = 11001}}, El ultimo trago (Warner Music), which honors the rancheras once sung by the great Mexican singer Chavela Vargas. Vargas art, groundbreaking in the fact that she put a distinctly feminine spin on rancheras, and which until then had solely been the province of male singers, provide
All About Jazz Wednesday, November 11, 2009Soft Machine: Live at Henie Onstad Arts Centre 1971Soft Machine Live at Henie Onstad Arts Centre 1971 Reel Recordings 2009 It's a curious thing, but live performances can be issued all the time in the jazz world without the suggestion that there are too many of them, while in the rock world the release of too many similar programs will be criticized as excessive. Pianist {{Keith Jarrett = 7984}}'s last three releases with his longstanding Standards Trio--from The Out-of-Towners (ECM, 2004) through to Yesterdays (ECM, 2009)--have all been culled from a particularly fertile four month period in 2001, and each release is a welcome one, revealing a trio that continues to be creative and innovative, even with more than a quarter century under its belt...
All About Jazz Wednesday, November 11, 2009Ricky Sweum: String TheoryThe fog has lifted off of the coast of Seattle with the rise of Origin
records. As the fisherman of jazz today, they've cast their nets and pulled in a catch of fresh, raw and bold talent. Their latest catch: saxophonist Ricky Sweum. Pulling Your Own Strings, which came out in mid-August 2009, has received some of the highest accolades from today's best musicians including {{Dave Liebman = 8748}} who quotes Ricky as being a "burning tenor player with technique and ideas to spare...well worth checking out." Other musicians who praise his album include {{Walt Weiskopf = 11252}}, Saxophonist {{Bill Evans = 6592}}, Bassist {{Rufus Reid = 10628}}, Pianist {{Marian McPartland = 9297}}, and {{James Moody = 9534}} who said it was a, "pleasure for my ears...
All About Jazz Wednesday, November 11, 2009Ohio novices share music at 'Jazz Academy'Yet the dynamics of the night and weekend courses offered inside the 5,000-square-foot near-east side Columbus facility are hardly pretentious.
Topix.net Wednesday, November 11, 2009Putumayo Presents: Jazz Around the World (Audio CD) newly tagged ''jazz''Putumayo Presents: Jazz Around the World (Audio CD)By Various Artists Buy new: $13.9925 used and new from $7.97 Customer Rating: First tagged "jazz" by Alex Mitchell Customer tags: latin music,
world music, jazz, jazz fusion, putumayo
Amazon Wednesday, November 11, 2009Jazz Icons: Series 4 Box Set (8 DVDs) (DVD) newly tagged ''jazz''Jazz Icons: Series 4 Box Set (8 DVDs) (DVD)By Jimmy Smith Buy new: $99.9910 used and new from $96.95 Customer Rating: First tagged "jazz" by Alex Mitchell Customer tags: anita o day(2), erroll garner, jaki byard, art blakey, jazz, art farmer, coleman hawkins, harry edison, jazz box sets, jazz history data, jazz icon dvd, freddie hubbard
Amazon Wednesday, November 11, 2009The Best Smooth Jazz...Ever! (Audio CD) newly tagged ''jazz''The Best Smooth Jazz...Ever! (Audio CD)By Various Artists Buy new: $19.9835 used and new from $8.99 Customer Rating: First tagged "jazz" by Alex Mitchell Customer tags: smooth jazz(4), romantic love music, jazz, various artists
Amazon Wednesday, November 11, 2009Support Roots of Music jazz classes for New Orleans children: Vote Derrick Tabb CNN Hero of the YearVoting continues until Thursday, Nov. 19, 3 a.m. PT, and vote as often as you like - spread the word! Note from revolutionary scholar S.E. Anderson: Because of charter schools grounded in the massive privatization movement that's rapidly engulfing New Orleans "public" schools, we see the deliberate "disappearing" of Black music being taught in ...
Topix.net Wednesday, November 11, 2009Tito x 2: Celebrating The Kings Of Mambo AgainMusic critic Milo Miles reviews two new collections of tunes from the late Latin pioneers Tito Rodriguez and Tito Puente. The two were rivals on the bandstand of the Palladium, the epicenter of the 1950's "mambo" craze.
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