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Sixth Street All Stars Highlight Bay Area Talent and Share Inclusive Musical Vision With 'Everybody' Set for September 16 Release on Fishwax Records
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All About Jazz
Crafted in the vibrant, cross-cultural setting of the San Francisco Bay Area, Everybody is a celebration of community and human connection. Longtime friends and collaborators Molly Skuse and Dana Hinchliffe wrote and produced this buoyant blend of jazz and salsa to express their inclusive musical vision and share complex musical ideas that simply swing. Bringing together a powerfully talented cohort of regional musicians, the Sixth Street All Stars pay homage to Fania All Stars, the seminal musical collective that pioneered ...
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Basie All Stars: Live at Fabrik, Vol 1
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Unwell in 1981 after a European tour the year before, Count Basie decided to sit out a series of booked engagements abroad. Instead, he dispatched nine members of his band to fulfill the obligations. They called themselves the Basie All Stars. Mind you, I'm not a big fan of leaderless pocket bands, which never stack up to the real deal. But in this case, the nonet works, largely due to the inclusion of Nat Pierce on piano and tough tenor ...
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SFJAZZ High School All Stars Alumni Aaron Bahr Wins First Hut Foundation Alumni Commission Award
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Marshall Lamm
SFJAZZ High School All-Stars Alumnus and trumpeter Aaron Bahr received the first HUT Foundation Alumni Commission Award. Bahr’s composition “Kenny’s Song” won the award along with a $1,000 check presented to him by saxophonist Ravi Coltrane at the SFJAZZ Center on Sunday, December 14 during the organization’s weeklong A Love Supreme 50th Anniversary celebration. In Spring 2015, the High School All-Stars Orchestra will perform Aaron's composition. SFJAZZ and the HUT Foundation invited former High School All-Stars to submit original works ...
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Louis Armstrong & The All Stars: Newport 1956 &1958 (4 LPs - #3007)
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Michael Ricci
The Jubilance That Is The Newport Jazz Festival For 60 years, every top name in jazz has seemingly made it up to Newport at least once, if not multiple times. Louis Armstrong was a fixture for many years and two of his complete sets, from the 1956 and 1958 festivals, are being released here in their entirety for the very first time. Impresario extraordinaire George Wein, the catalyst behind the NJF, was (and still is) the perfect matchmaker in deciding ...
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Cumbancha Presents Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars' "Libation"
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Press Junkie PR
Africa’s most inspirational band, Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars, celebrates ten years together with its finest album to date. Libation’s “around-the-campfire” intimacy, honest soulfulness, and technical prowess reveal how far the group has come while remaining true to its roots. Produced by Chris Velan and mixed by Iestyn Polson, known for his work with David Gray, Patti Smith and David Bowie, Libation embodies the contagious joy, optimism in the face of struggle and love for their fellow man that has ...
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Bombino & Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars Now Touring Across North America
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Chris M. Slawecki
Summer isn't over yet. Bombino and Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars are each touring now across the US & Canada and chances are one or both will be performing near you. Here's a guide to upcoming shows. Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars August 11: Pasadena, CA: Levitt Pavilion: FREE August 12: Tidewater, OR: Beloved Festival August 14: Seattle, WA: The Triple Door August 15: Seattle, WA: The Triple Door August ...
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Blue Note Jazz Club Presents The Rigas Ritmi Festival All Stars From Latvia, with Special Guests Chris Potter and Brian Lynch, May 16, 2011; 8 pm & 10:30 pm
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hubtone PR
NEW YORK, NY—The Blue Note, in collaboration with New York University (NYU) and The New York Foundation of the Arts (NYFA), presents a rare opportunity to hear world-class musicians from the venerated Baltic city of Riga in Latvia. This special evening salutes the idea of cultural exchange, as The Rigas Ritmi Festival All Stars, featuring special guest artists Chris Potter and Brian Lynch, present the sound of Baltic jazz. They come to the States as artistic ambassadors representing a country ...
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Afro-Cuban All Stars: Spring U.S. Tour Dates
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JamBase
TOUR STARTS MARCH 24 IN NEW BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY The Afro-Cuban All Stars are bringing their sounds to the West Coast and Hawaii this Spring. Juan de Marcos, the same man behind Buena Vista Social Club, has done it again. Take a look at the documentary below. TOUR DATES
03/24/11 Thu State Theatre New Brunswick, NJ 03/25/11 Fri Ridgefield Playhouse Ridgefield, CT 03/26/11 Sat The Concert Hall New York, NY 04/01/11 Fri Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN 04/02/11 Sat Variety Playhouse ...
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Eddie Condon All Stars - "Royal Garden Blues" (1964)
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Riffs on Jazz by John Anderson
Bootleg City: Louis Armstrong and His All Stars, 5/8/54
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Pop Dose
Hello, denizens of Bootleg City! Mayor Cass here, and Im happy to announce that Im finally back! starting next week. See, I left some of my Simply Red CDs in Spain, and I need to retrieve them before my ex-girlfriend, Anita, barters them for a new pair of flamenco shoes. She may think Im not fiscally irresponsible enough to waste taxpayers money on a chartered flight to Spain just so I can pick up a few tchotchkes, but Ill show ...
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