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Mark Whitty from Fine Tunes Music Featured with O.F.P.O.S every last Sunday at Dalmeny Bowling Club NSW Australia. Kevin McCulloch Drums, John Starr Guitar/trumpet. O.F.P.O.S welcomes capable sit ins if they can work out what O.F.P.O.S means. Fine Tunes CDs available on line from URL and also at gig. Sausage sizzle in the garden. All welcome …
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2003 is starting off even hotter for singing sensation, Tony Adamo. His newly released song, "I Just Live For Your Love," from his new CD, DANCE OF LOVE, in just two days went from #700 to #12 on the Smooth R&B charts at soundclick.com. While his song "Ecstasy" is still holding strong at the #1 spot in the Smooth Jazz category at soundclick.com continuing to top Joyce Cooling, Lee Ritenour, and Patti LaBelle. This artist is listed under "Adamo" at soundclick.com. Singer/songwriter, smooth ja …
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Ramón "Mongo" Santamaría, passed away at 3:00 A.M., Saturday February 1st. After suffering three strokes he was disconnected from life support at Miami's Baptist Hospital. He died surrounded by his family and leaves the most influential conga playing legacy in history. …
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Award Winning Jazz Vocalist Laurie Krauz & The Daryl Kojak Trio are thrilled to announce their return appearance to the delicious Chez Suzette French Bistro: Saturday, March 1st from 8:30pm - 11:00pm; 675 Ninth Ave. (between 46th & 47th); Reservations (212) 581-9717 & (212) 974-9002 NO COVER; $15 yummy minimum. …
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Hot on the heels of their recording Tribal Dance the MRC Trio -- Hugh Marsh, Barry Romberg, and Rufus Cappadocia -- National Jazz Award nominee for Best Electric Group, hit the road for their first Canadian tour which will take them from coast to coast. The MRC Trio is unique not only in its instrumentation -- violin, cello, and drums -- but also in conception as the groups focus is the art of spontaneous composition. Globe & Mail's Mark Miller describes the group's modus operand …
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Darrell Diaz whom has been the man behind the music for many of today's recording artists, that includes Gerald Albright, Kevin Toney, Doc Powell, Stanley Clarke, Herbie Hancock and more will officially launch his solo debut CD, "Devotion" at B.B. King's Blues Club in Universal City California, February 25th at 8:00 PM. There is a $ 10.00 Cover Charge with $2.00 being donated to The Los Angeles Mission Project to feed the homeless. For Reservations and Information, Call (818)6-BBKING (818)622-54 …
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On February 18th RCA/Bluebird will release Freak In, the latest CD from world-renowned trumpeter/composer Dave Douglas. Freak In (Douglas’ twentieth recording as a leader) is the follow up to the Grammy nominated CD, The Infinite, and a tireless pathfinder’s adventurous journey through the world of jazztronica. Unlike the diverse bands Dave Douglas has alternately led, from the Tiny Bell Trio and Charms of the Night Sky chamber group to more traditional jazz units and the ambitious Witness, …
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Bluebird’s legendary Flying Dutchman catalog captured the musical zeitgeist of the late sixties and early seventies with gritty funk meeting driving rock and soulful jazz. This new language, now known as "rare grooves" by the musical cognoscenti, is driving DJ culture around the world. Flying Funk and Flying Groove, compiled by writer and producer Dean Rudland, one of the genre’s most renowned experts, capture all the soulful energy of the era with tracks from Gil Scott-Heron, Lonnie Liston S …
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The Litchfield Jazz Festival makes its 8th annual appearance at the Goshen Fairgrounds August 1-3. This year’s lineup stars the great jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter, 2003 critics and readers poll Artist of the Year and Album of the Year Winner. Shorter, perhaps best known for his work with Miles Davis and Weather Report, will be honored at a Hollywood Bowl retrospective immediately following his Litchfield Jazz Festival debut with pianist Danilo Perez, drummer Brian Blade and bassist John Patitu …
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RJ Ross is an artist, producer, composer and "Hit Maker." While he was keyboardist and music director of the R&B group Brainstorm, he did an album for Clarence Avant’s Tabu Records. A song from that album, " Loving Is Really My Game" went to #3 on the U.S. dance charts. This tune won an award from Billboard Magazine as the best song of the year in its class. This "Hit Maker" scored again with "This Must Be Heaven" from the same album. This great tune is still one of the most requested songs on r …
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Singer/songwriter, Adamo, is #1 and #5 on the Smooth Jazz and Jazz charts with the song "Ecstasy" and #10 on the Smooth R&B chart with the song, "Live For Your Love." The group Streetchant, featuring world-renowned percussionist, Kenneth Nash, is #5 on the Jazz Fusion chart, with "Asibah." The funk band, Calvin Darkness, is #5 on the R&B Funk chart, with "Funkn' Revolution." Singer/songwriter, producer, RJ Ross is #4 and # 25 on the World Fusion Jazz chart and the Jazz Fusion chart with the song …
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The acclaimed jazz ensemble, Natraj, seamlessly melds contemporary jazz and the classical music of India with traditional music of West Africa. Hard-driving African grooves and graceful Indian ragas meet in the band's expansive conception and disciplined ensemble playing. DATE: Friday, March 28th, 2003 TIME: 8:00 pm PLACE: Peter Norton Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway at 95th Street Tickets are available online at ashanet.org. In Advance: $21 ($11 with vali …
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Join us this Friday, the 14th of February for an anti-Hallmark celebration of Valentine's Day for those with a sense of humour and Bad Valentine's Day-Related Attitude. So come out and bring your sense of humor for this fun musical celebration. The place is a new venue called Bobby Ryder's - you might remember it as the Gin Joint - located at 312 Harriet Street (between 6th and 7th Streets in SOMA) which is shaping up to be a terrific venue for local jazz. There is free parking in the lot ne …
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Summit Recording Artists Ken & Harry Watters have a new website: www.wattersbrothers.com. Their upcoming CD for Summit Records, "Brothers III," will be released internationally May 6, 2003. …
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On May 6, 2003, Summit Recording Artists / Yamaha Artists Ken & Harry Watters will internationally release their new CD entitled Brothers III (the follow-up to their previous Summit releases "Brothers" & "Brothers II"). Featured on this recording along with the Watters Brothers are guitarist Tom Wolfe, bassist Erik Applegate, drummer Jay Frederick & pianist / fellow Summit Recording Artist Bill Anschell. Of the 12 tunes on the CD, 9 are original (penned by Ken Watters, Harry Watters, Tom …
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Rhombus Records recording artist, Tony Adamo with his song "Live For Your Love," has gone to the #1 spot on the Top 100 Jazz chart at www.musicbuilder.com. This singer/songwriter, smooth jazz vocalist, has come out of nowhere and is storming the jazz charts with his new CD release, DANCE OF LOVE. At www.soundclick.com, Adamo is #1 and #2 with his tune "Ecstasy," on their Smooth Jazz and Jazz charts. "Live For Your Love," continues to be hot at www.soundlick.com’s Smooth R&B chart and is #10. …
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Jack Maher, who served more than three decades as publisher of respected jazz magazine Down Beat and its parent company, Maher Publications, has died. He was 78. Maher died Friday at Good Samaritan Hospital in suburban Downers Grove. The cause of death was not specified. ``Jack Maher was a cheerleader, a taskmaster, a visionary, a curmudgeon when he wanted to be, and your grandfather when he wanted to be,'' said longtime Down Beat staffer Frank Alkyer, whom Maher appointed last year as his …
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For a number of years now the Jazz Mandolin Project has courageously been setting itself apart from what people expect from the mandolin. Atypical of accepted traditional approaches to the instrument and atypical of what aficionados call jazz, this project continues to break ground in its most significant recording yet (release date: March 25). "Jungle Tango" is somehow able to speak to skateboarders and artists in search of sophistication at the same time. Put out on the group’s own label, Lena …
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The Kaufman Center presents Jazz Breakthroughs with host, radio personality and jazz historian Phil Schaap, Monday, March 3 and Monday, March 17 at 8 PM. On March 3, Schaap hosts an evening of music from the 1920s "Jazz Age". Featuring the greatest modern exponent of that style, tenor guitarist/banjoist Vince Giordano & The Nighthawks, the evening will be devoted to the music of trumpeter Bix Beiderbecke. On March 17, meet Phil Schaap's All-Stars including Joe Wilder, trumpe …
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Jazz's brilliant master of guitar and harmonica, Toots Thielemans, is presently on the Blue Note Circuit touring Tokyo, Nagoya, Tukuoka and Osaka, Japan through February 26, 2003. Joining Toots on the tour are Mike del Ferro - keyboards, Bart De Nolf - double bass and Bruno Catellucci - drums. Be sure to search JazzReview and Thielemans' website for more information on this outstanding performer that has captivated listeners of all ages with his musicial genius. …
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World-class singer Barbara Lea begins a string of Friday night engagements in the cozy cabaret room at Judy's on March 7th. In an all new show billed as SOME THINGS OLD, SOME THINGS NEW, SOME THINGS BORROWED, the luminescent Ms. Lea will perform an eclectic mix of favorite songs with collaborator Wes McAfee at the piano and John Loehrke on bass. "She's terrific... a fine singer, with good intonation and excellent diction. She takes liberties with time and phrasing, but never to the detriment …
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Welcome to GlasJAZZ, your guide to the Live Jazz and Music scene in Scotland. Features include interviews with musicians, live streaming audio clips, album and CD releases, Jazz Standards, special reviews and interviews, Gig Guides and more The site went 'live' at the start of January this year, and is gaining a lot great feedback from home and abroad. There are loads of usefull features including an extended 'live' audio clip staight from the gig, interviews with Scotland's worl …
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For Immediate Release: 2/25/03 Contact: Kim Clarke Festival Co-producer (718) 429-3681, (347) 8662147 The Jazz Spot is Brooklyn’s newest, coziest Jazz café which is owned by two African American women, a mother and daughter team, whose main endeavor is to keep Jazz alive. In conjunction with bassist Kim Clarke they are putting together a women’s jazz festival entitled "LADY GOT CHOPS" Women’s Month Jazz Festival for the month of March. This spectacular month of events features som …
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JEAN SHY is an internationally acclaimed Soul, Rhythm 'n' Blues, Jazz & Gospel Singer as well as a Songwriter, Producer and Actress from Chicago. She is definitely a multi-talented Artist and audiences are overwhelmed by her powerful vocal delivery. SHY just finished her brand new CD entitled The Other Side Of Blue, recorded at the Radio Krakow Studio, with the JBBO - one of the most known European Jazz formations internationally from Krakow, Poland. Together they’ve decided to branch out …
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NATIONAL JAZZ AWARD NOMINEES DENZAL SINCLAIRE AND KARIN PLATO TO SHARE THE STAGE, SPRING 2003 Vocalists to perform concert of duets at the elegant Vancouver East Cultural Centre Vancouver, British Columbia, CANADA - On Thursday April 10th 2003, Canadian jazz vocalists Denzal Sinclaire and Karin Plato will be featured in an intimate concert of ballads, bossa novas and swing standards at The Vancouver East Cultural Centre. The critically acclaimed Bill Coon Ensemble will accompany these …
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