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12 great Memorial Day getaways

  • 8:51 AM — May 23 —
  • Source: MSNBC

Pork Shop , a combination community garage sale and neighborhood bar-b-que, featuring local pork and plenty of Schlafly beer. Read More

Legacy's Complete Albums Collections Presents Three New Box Sets By Four Of The Greatest Composers/Leaders/Players In Jazz: Charles Mingus, The Thelonious Monk Quartet, Weather Report With Joe Zawinul And Wayne Shorter

NEW YORK , May 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The ultimate year-round jazz festival of Legacy Recordings continues to set a new industry standard with three new Complete Album Collections from the Columbia and RCA archives by the greatest names in modern jazz: CHARLES MINGUS - THE COMPLETE COLUMBIA & RCA ALBUMS COLLECTION ( Columbia /Legacy) – 7 titles, 10 CDs. THE THELONIOUS MONK QUARTET - THE COMPLETE COLUMBIA STUDIO ALBUMS COLLECTION ( Columbia /Legacy) – 6 titles, 6 CDs. WEATHER REPORT – THE COLUMBIA ALBUMS 1971-1975 ( Columbia /Legacy) – 6 titles, 7 CDs. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20060130/LEGACYLOGO ) Newly assembled and affordably priced, this latest wave of jazz titles in the Complete Album Collections box set series will be available at the PopMarket.com website –  http://complete.popmarket.com – as well as at all general retail starting July 30th through Columbia / Legacy , a division of SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT . Read More

Jazz Setlist, May 17-23

Perhaps the best quote ever given on the "recipe" for jazz came from legendary saxophonist Dexter Gordon. Read More

Graded on a Curve: Booker Ervin, The Freedom Book

While he's remembered foremost as a key contributor to the bands of jazz titan Charles Mingus, tenor saxophonist Booker Ervin also recorded a slew of outstanding albums as a leader, none of them better than his 1963 outing The Freedom Book. If the accumulated weight of post-bop's golden era can sometimes feel like an unfathomable musical avalanche, this casually faultless quartet outing is unquestionably one for the hearing. Read More

May 12, 2012 – 8:00 p.m. – South Florida JAZZ Welcomes Two of the Artists Featured in the 2010 Cuban-American Cultural Documentary Ninty Miles Project Filmed in Havana, Saxophonist DAVID SANCHEZ and Vibist STEFON HARRIS in Concert with an All-star Latin

South Florida's premier modern jazz organization is excited to be privileged to present some of the most creative musicians in modern jazz in the Latin Grammy-awarded saxophonist David Sanchez Quintet featuring the critically acclaimed vibist Stefon Harris. Read More

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