Tag: jazz
group name: music
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August 18, 2007 11:43 PM EDT --
One reason it took me such a long time to finish college--or for college to be finished with me--was that I couldn't seem to focus on my requirements. I was supposed to be a "Communication Studies" . . .
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August 10, 2007 09:21 PM EDT --
Ella Fitzgerald is back on the charts after 38 years.
Her new album is the number two jazz album, and she starts off at number 97 on the Billboard charts.
Even though she has been dead since 1996, . . .
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February 13, 2009 07:52 PM EST --
More information is now coming out about the identities of the victims of Flight 3407. The latest word is that two of Chuck Mangione's band mates - Coleman Mellett and Gerry Niewood - were . . .
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July 29, 2009 04:37 PM EDT --
I'm looking for some new music to add to my MP3 player. I've really been into alternative, jazz, blues, folk, and acoustic lately. Any recommendations would be wonderful. I've just been . . .
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March 21, 2009 01:52 AM EDT --
Today is the shared birthdate of THREE (3) totally awesome musicians.
Sister Rosetta THARPE Gospel Singer and Guitarist par excellance.
MARIAN McPARTLAND Jazz Pianist . . .
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April 08, 2009 09:45 PM EDT --
Here's some ACTUAL video of me several years ago playing at a birthday party with my friends Steve (on bass) and John (on lead guitar).
John just passed away one week after his 60th birthday. . . .
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June 01, 2009 10:14 PM EDT --
I have recently been 'logging' some archival video of the San Francisco Folk Music Club's "Free Folk Festival" from 1986 shot by my friend Paul Blake of the East Bay Media Center .
I discovered . . .
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May 04, 2007 02:10 PM EDT --
Skylark is one of Hoagy Carmichael's most famous, beloved and covered songs. He co-wrote it with Johnny Mercer in 1940.
Answers.com carries this general description of Hoagy's musical style. I . . .
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September 05, 2007 08:07 PM EDT --
Dee Dee Bridgewater is first and foremost a groundbreaker, an artist whose projects have traversed the musical kaleidoscope - from traditional vocal jazz to searing scat interpretations. Unafraid and uninhibited, . . .
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September 14, 2007 06:49 AM EDT --
Composer and keyboardist Josef Zawinul passed away the other day. He was 75. My intro to Joe was with his composition "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" during the sixties. Two of . . .
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January 29, 2007 09:39 PM EST --
Harry Connick Jr.’s ‘Oh, My Nola’ on Columbia (Sony BMG Music and Entertainment)
Let me preface this with a disclaimer… I am not a musician and don’t . . .
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June 04, 2008 10:44 AM EDT --
David Bromberg's live show remains as unique as ever. Concerts by David and his band are extraordinary events, and performances follow no set pattern of selection. Give and take between performer is . . .
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March 14, 2009 10:16 PM EDT --
I discovered Jamie Cullum on iTunes about 3 years ago. If you have never heard of him it's ok. That's what I'm here for. To spread the word of a great contemporary jazz artist that does things . . .
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October 30, 2008 09:58 AM EDT --
Video of the Wade Baker Jazz Collaboration, 10.29.08, Baba Budan's, Cincinnati, OH:
http://www.cincygroove.com/?q=node/774
Photos of the Wade Baker Jazz Collaboration, 10.29.08, Baba Budan's, . . .
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March 13, 2007 05:21 PM EDT --
Hello to all,
How much background must I give on the Beastie Boys? Does anyone need to be reminded of their "white boy rap" on such gems as Licensed to Ill, Hello Nasty, Check Your Head and . . .
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February 02, 2009 07:13 PM EST --
I have collected records all my life and I have accumulated around 1100 78 rpm records along with a couple of hundred LPs and maybe 100 45s. Hell, I've even got a few 16 2/3 rpm "talking . . .
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September 26, 2006 07:42 PM EDT --
Think "ukulele" and you'll invariably get a quaintly exotic image in your head (and the wrong pronunciation – it's "oo-koo-leh-leh," not "you-koo-leh-leh"): . . .
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May 03, 2007 11:50 AM EDT --
If I had to choose just one jazz man's music to be stranded on a desert island with, it would be Hoagy's.
From the first time I saw him in "To Have and Have Not" along side Humphrey . . .
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May 04, 2007 11:29 AM EDT --
Bill Evans made me a lover of piano jazz, just as Benny Carter made me a fan of sax jazz. I discovered Bill's music in the same way as Benny's, through listening online via music discovery services . . .
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October 18, 2009 05:39 PM EDT --
I was happily chosen by One2One Network to receive a copy of Harry Connick Jr's newest CD, "Your Songs," to listen to and review. I've been a fan of Connick's since his "Blue Light, Red Light" years . . .
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