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Bebo Valdés, Giant Of Cuban Music, Is Dead
One of the giants of Cuban music, pianist and composer/arranger Bebo Valdés, died Friday in Sweden due to complications from pneumonia, according to his wife and manager. He was 94.Ramón Emilio "Bebo"...
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How Norway Funds A Thriving Jazz Scene
Did you hear about the Italian gallery owner who burned his gallery's paintings last year — with the cooperation of the painters? It was a sort of desperate smoke signal to his government; a means of...
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The Creators Of Jazz Appreciation Month Start Celebrating
The 12th official Jazz Appreciation Month began when April did. But today, the Smithsonian Museum of American History, which founded the JAM campaign, kick started its own celebration with a series of...
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Meet The Man Who Assembles The World's Biggest Jazz Concert
The pianist and composer John Beasley has one of the most formidable tasks of anyone associated with today's International Jazz Day, the celebration produced by UNESCO and the Thelonious Monk Institute...
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A Look Back At Jazz Fest, Where Ages Were Made
Some music festivals are known for certain specific things; others are known for a broad assortment. The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival is known for everything. The city's arms are just that...
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Jazz Pianist And Pedagogue Mulgrew Miller Dies
Mulgrew Miller, whose supple touch and thorough command made him a leading jazz pianist, died early Wednesday. His death was related to a stroke he suffered a week earlier, according to saxophonist...
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Ben Tucker: Remembering A Bassist And Citywide Icon
We jazz fans tend to filter through a lot of names. For every Sonny Rollins or Wes Montgomery on the cover of an album, there might be two, three, four, five, eight, 14 more musicians backing him or...
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Reflections On A Dozen Years With Abbey Lincoln
Marc Cary came to New York City to find and save his father. Instead, he found artists like Betty Carter and Abbey Lincoln— and saved himself."I hadn't seen my dad in 10 years," Cary says over a recent...
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Facing Illness, An Improviser Learns The Art Of Patience
Dayna Stephens is a patient musician. The 34-year-old tenor saxophonist and composer fashions supple, searching improvisations that brim with melodic cogency. His compositions often exude a widescreen...
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Remembering Laurie Frink, The 'Trumpet Mother' Of The Jazz Scene
Sometimes, the most important musicians are the ones farthest away from the spotlight.Laurie Frink was a great trumpet player. Great enough to tour with jazz big bands led by Benny Goodman, Gerry...
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What To Expect From The 2013 Newport Jazz Festival Webcast
If you didn't manage to fly in, drive up or sneak your way aboard a yacht bound for coastal Rhode Island — well, we can't help you get to the 2013 Newport Jazz Festival. But if you're not near...
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Newport Jazz Festival 2013: Day One In Photos
It's almost like a joke now: Which Newport festival weekend is going to get more rain? Folk or Jazz? Because the Narragansett Bay doesn't play around. Aside from the morning monsoon, the first day of...
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The 2013 Newport Jazz Festival In GIFs
Clap your hands now! From Michel Camilo's stomping, tassled Oxfords to Esperanza Spalding's vibrating upright-bass strings and a whole lotta dancing, here's the 2013 Newport Jazz Festival forever...
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Bebo Valdés, Giant Of Cuban Music, Is Dead
One of the giants of Cuban music, pianist and composer/arranger Bebo Valdés, died Friday in Sweden due to complications from pneumonia, according to his wife and manager. He was 94.Ramón Emilio "Bebo"...
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How Norway Funds A Thriving Jazz Scene
Did you hear about the Italian gallery owner who burned his gallery's paintings last year — with the cooperation of the painters? It was a sort of desperate smoke signal to his government; a means of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Creators Of Jazz Appreciation Month Start Celebrating
The 12th official Jazz Appreciation Month began when April did. But today, the Smithsonian Museum of American History, which founded the JAM campaign, kick started its own celebration with a series of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Meet The Man Who Assembles The World's Biggest Jazz Concert
The pianist and composer John Beasley has one of the most formidable tasks of anyone associated with today's International Jazz Day, the celebration produced by UNESCO and the Thelonious Monk Institute...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Look Back At Jazz Fest, Where Ages Were Made
Some music festivals are known for certain specific things; others are known for a broad assortment. The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival is known for everything. The city's arms are just that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Jazz Pianist And Pedagogue Mulgrew Miller Dies
Mulgrew Miller, whose supple touch and thorough command made him a leading jazz pianist, died early Wednesday. His death was related to a stroke he suffered a week earlier, according to saxophonist...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ben Tucker: Remembering A Bassist And Citywide Icon
We jazz fans tend to filter through a lot of names. For every Sonny Rollins or Wes Montgomery on the cover of an album, there might be two, three, four, five, eight, 14 more musicians backing him or...
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