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International Jazz Day 2013 celebrations

Tue, April 30 2013 6:25am - Source: Telegraph - London - UK [Music]

Herbie Hancock will lead an ensemble of renowned musicians at a concert in Istanbul tonight to celebrate International Jazz Day.

Surprising City To Host International Jazz Day Event

Tue, February 19 2013 2:07pm - Source: The Huffington Post - Entertainment

Pianist Herbie Hancock will celebrate the special connection between Turkey and jazz music forged decades ago when the Turkish ambassador opened his residence to white and black musicians at a time when segregation held sway in the U.S. capital.

Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume 264

Fri, January 25 2013 4:04pm - Source: The Huffington Post - Entertainment

New York-based Havanan classical and jazz maestro Paquito D'Rivera was born in 1948 into a musical home.

New Music Monday: Black Country Communion, Neil Young, Andrew Bird, Keith Emerson, Manu Katche

Mon, October 29 2012 1:59pm - Source: Something Else!

Neil Young returns with original music with Crazy Horse.

Todd Rhodes

Thu, May 31 2012 7:41pm - Source: Boot Sale Sounds

Mostly instrumental R&B Lp on the Contact Record label from Denmark - a compilation of tracks from the 50's.

SONY MUSIC’S POPMARKET.COM PRESENTS COMPLETE ALBUMS COLLECTIONS BY THE GREATEST NAMES IN JAZZ

Sun, November 27 2011 4:03am - Source: MOG

Call it the Ultimate Jazz Festival, as Sony Music's PopMarket.com website presents Complete Album Collections on Columbia Records and RCA Records (spanning the 1950s to the '00s) by the greatest names in modern jazz - the Dave Brubeck Quartet, Miles Davis, Stan Getz, Dexter Gordon, Billie Holiday, the original Mahavishnu Orchestra, Wynton Marsalis, Return To Forever, Woody Shaw, Wayne Shorter, Grover Washington Jr., and Weather Report (all on Columbia); and Paul Desmond and Nina Simone (on RCA).

50 great moments in jazz: Ornette Coleman at Meltdown 2009

Mon, October 24 2011 12:06pm - Source: The Guardian Music Blog

For jazz fans in the UK, autumn is a time when pulses quicken.

The Gerald Wilson Orchestra – Monterey Moods (2007)

Wed, September 14 2011 12:30pm - Source: Something Else!

Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Benny Carter, Jimmie Lunceford, Ella Fitzgerald, Sam Cooke, Sarah Vaughan, Bobby Darin, Julie London, Nancy Wilson, Ray Charles.

Digging for Gold: The Time-Life “AM Gold” Series, Part 2

Wed, July 13 2011 12:22pm - Source: Pop Dose

If you had half as much fun reading the first part of our Digging for Gold series as we did putting it together, well that means we enjoyed it twice as much.

Harry The Hipster Gibson

Thu, May 26 2011 4:39pm - Source: Boot Sale Sounds

I thought I had featured Harry The Hipster Gibson before here but a quick search through the archives reveals that I haven't.

Hay Festival: Brecon Jazz Festival

Wed, November 10 2010 4:34pm - Source: Telegraph - London - UK [Music]

Brecon Jazz Festival is a music festival held every year in the beatuiful surroundings of Brecon, in south Powys, Mid Wales.

Buddy Collette, Jazz Saxophonist and Bandleader, Dead at 89

Tue, September 28 2010 3:19pm - Source: Spinner

Buddy Collette, jazz musician, bandleader and civil rights advocate, died on Sept. 19 in Los Angeles.

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