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Ten Jazz Albums to Listen to Before You Die

Source: Dallas Observer, Nov 7 2012, 3:31pm CST

Because there are multiple decades of jazz, it's almost impossible to pick the top 10 albums of all time; the hip cats with their canes and cool shades will throw their used saxophone reeds in my direction and call me a young ...

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Can you learn to love music you hate?

Source: Los Angeles Times  |   May 25 2013, 11:18am CDT

That said, I keep a dark secret: There's a fair amount of music I cannot stand. Stuff from many eras that I've wondered whether I could ever learn to love. As with a lot of people who worship or hardly know the ...

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The Jazz Scene: Miles Davis and Heroes of the Horn

Source: Wall Street Journal  |   May 23 2013, 8:24pm CDT

By Will Friedwald Smoke 2751 Broadway, (212) 864-6662 Through June 30 Louis Armstrong told the world that he was born on the Fourth of July, and nobody minded when it turned out not to be the case. One almost get ...

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Woman right at home at Brubeck

Source: Recordnet.com  |   May 23 2013, 4:56pm CDT

It's a big deal. However, it's not the whole deal. Sarah Kuo is making history as the first female member of the Brubeck Institute Jazz Quintet. "I don't think of that as much as other people do," said K ...

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Jazz Listings for May 24-30

Source: The New York Times Music  |   May 23 2013, 4:50pm CDT

Full reviews of recent jazz performances: nytimes.com/jazz. A searchable guide to these and other shows is at nytimes.com/events. Peter Bernstein Quartet (Monday) Peter Bernstein, a guitarist with a clean to ...

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Music: Jazz Diary

Source: Birmingham Post  |   May 23 2013, 12:32am CDT

* If you want to hear what young British jazz sounds like in 2012, the easiest way to find out is to get to a Roller Trio gig. What you will find is great technical expertise but no preciousness about it, and no navel-gazing i ...

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Take five: John Fordham's month in jazz – May

Source: The Guardian Music  |   May 21 2013, 11:06am CDT

Ennio Morricone put a sensitive finger on John Zorn's pulse when he said of the American's wired, jump-cut reinterpretations of his famous music themes in 1987: "My ideas have been realised not in a passiv ...

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Pierre Dorge and the New Jungle Orchestra

Source: Morning Star Online  |   May 20 2013, 5:34pm CDT

The answer to this is found in the extraordinary jazz life of Pierre Dorge. He never had a record player as a boy and "there was only one hour a week of jazz on Danish radio," he remembered. "I had to write my own ...

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CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Heart to Heart - Alan Broadbent's New Solo Piano Album

Source: All About Jazz  |   May 20 2013, 5:32pm CDT

Two-time Grammy Award winning jazz pianist, composer and arranger Alan Broadbent has long been a major force behind the scenes in jazz, whether it was accompanying Irene Kral on some of the most exquisite vocal albums ever recorded, contributing a ...

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Jazz & blues indie Delmark turns 60: Catalog classics

Source: ArtsJournal  |   May 20 2013, 11:35am CDT

Congrats to Bob Koester, indie owner and producer of Chicago’s Delmark Records, on the label’s 60th anniversary, which it celebrated over the weekend — and lucky are listeners to jazz beyond jazz for the broad yet niche-like t ...

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FESTIVAL/CRUISE: Sixth Annual Red Hook Jazz Festival in Brooklyn, Taking Place June 9 and 16 in the Urban Meadow

Source: All About Jazz  |   May 20 2013, 8:23am CDT

big bang productions presents the sixth annual RED HOOK JAZZ FESTIVAL on two consecutive Sundays, June 9 and June 16 in the Urban Meadow, a community garden on the Columbia Waterfront District. Both days start at 1pm and end at 6pm. Celebrating its six ...

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