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HOT JAZZ for NEW YEAR'S EVE 2010!
I hope that your 2009 has been a spectacularly good year and that you are sorry to see it come to an end. But even if you are more than ready for 2010 to come and sweep the detritus of 2009 away for … more →
JAZZ LIVES
HOT JAZZ for NEW YEAR'S EVE 2010!
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wrote 13 hours ago: I hope that your 2009 has been a spectacularly good year and that you are sorry to see it come to an … more →
Remembering Kenny Davern (1935-2006)
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wrote 2 weeks ago: There can be few sounds as thrilling as clarinettist Kenny Davern cutting loose with one of his char … more →
Kenny Davern
wrote 1 month ago: Click on the picture to hear Kenny playing 'Travellin' All Alone' I was delighted to see … more →
Group of Groups
wrote 1 month ago: One of my favourite releases of recent months is the double Arbors CD of music by the 1970s supergro … more →
Climate Change + Land Conservation Strategies
wrote 2 months ago: In MassAudubon’s Aug-Dec 2009 issue of its newsletter, Bob Wilber, Director of Land Protection … more →
MARTY GROSZ: "EARLY BENNY"
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wrote 3 months ago: I first saw Marty Grosz at close range in 1974 when he was an invaluable member of Soprano Summit … more →
MISS LEE WILEY, 1959 and 1972
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wrote 3 months ago: I had never seen this photograph before — Lee Wiley, after her “retirement” from m … more →
Five Star Reviews From Edinburgh & Nairn
wrote 4 months ago: NAIRN INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL’S PIANO SUMMIT, COMMUNITY CENTRE, NAIRN (published in The Sc … more →
The News From Nairn
wrote 5 months ago: Quality, not quantity, is clearly the ethos of the Nairn International Jazz Festival, if this year … more →
TOO MARVELOUS FOR WORDS!
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wrote 6 months ago: As a characteristically generous response to my post on the trumpeter Joe Thomas, my longtime friend … more →
NOTES FROM SAM: CLARINETITIS
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wrote 6 months ago: That’s Leroy (Sam) Parkins, musician, man of letters, raconteur, observer, and frequent contri … more →
Who should be the patron saint of jazz clarinettists?
wrote 11 months ago: One gig which has really caught my eye is the appearance of the 80-year old Bob Wilber at- I’m … more →
DICK, DOUG, BIX, DICK (AND JOE SULLIVAN)
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wrote 1 year ago: Jazz-lovers owe Dick Sudhalter a great deal for his hot, lyrical playing, his elegantly-written rese … more →
SUMMIT SESSION WITH THE SIDNEY BECHET SOCIETY
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wrote 1 year ago: Last Wednesday, the Sidney Bechet Society, created by Eric Offner, held two concerts at Symphony Spa … more →
SUMMIT SESSION (Wednesday, June 11)
wrote 1 year ago: The Sidney Bechet Society is sponsoring what promises to be a remarkable tribute to the late clarine … more →
OUR FAR-FLUNG CORRESPONDENTS: SACRAMENTO JAZZ JUBILEE (II)
wrote 1 year ago: Bill Gallagher, also a fine writer, is encountered too infrequently in the pages of the IAJRC Journa … more →
WE'LL MISS WAYNE WRIGHT
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wrote 1 year ago: Aside from the justly celebrated Freddie Green, the rhythm guitarist is the stoker down in the ship … more →
