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At 97, one of New Orleans' oldest working jazz musicians is still humming along

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In the 1930s, people danced in New Orleans night clubs to the sweet and melodic jazz of Creole singer and trumpeter Lionel Ferbos. He still performs regularly at French Quarter clubs and has appeared at the New Orleans Jazz &...                

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At the 92nd Street Y, Jazz for All

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One evening in the early '60s, the bassist Charlie Haden was playing at the Village Vanguard as a member of the Ornette Coleman Quartet. He was in the middle of a particularly intense solo, and he decided to close his eyes....                

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Patent analysis - how search engines deal with inbound links

promotiondata.com     yesterday   1 related          

Copyright Axandra.com Web site promotion software This month, Yahoo was granted a patent that describes how link texts may be used to increase the relevancy ranking of a web page. Although the patent was filed in 2002, it...                

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californianonline.com: Tito Puente & His Orchestra are featured on a new CD titled 'Live at the 1977 Monterey Jazz Festival.' californianonline.com

COLUMN: Leyde: Best of Jazz Fest coming to CD

californianonline.com     yesterday          

Something old, something new, something blue, something cool. There's all of that and more in Monterey Jazz Festival Records' latest Six Archival Recordings, set for release Aug. 5. Featured in this second round of recordings...                

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'Jazz' a theatrical tribute to Bollywood's unsung musicians

indiaenews.com     yesterday          

'Invented by the devil for the torture of the saints' - that is how playwright Ramu Ramanathan defines jazz in his play of the same name on the lives of Goan and Anglo-Indian musicians who never got their share of fame in...                

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Franz Jackson: virtuoso swing-era tenor saxophonist

timesonline.co.uk     yesterday          

It would be no exaggeration to say that the jazz musician Franz Jackson was the last of the heavyweight swing-era tenor saxophonists. His gritty tone and energetic phrasing were heavily influenced by Coleman Hawkins and Ben...                

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Why Ron Paul really, really, really wants to fly Air Force One now

thirdpartywatch.com     yesterday          

The following report is taken from the Trail Blazers blog of the Dallas Morning News: 9:48 PM Tue, Jul 22, 2008 Dave Levinthal In part, because it probably wouldn’t depressurize while skirting the stratosphere. Paul, a Texas...                

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Monroeville Jazz Festival this weekend

yourpennhills.com     Jul 24, 2008   1 related          

The sixth annual Monroeville Jazz Festival will run from 5 to 9:30 p.m. on Saturday in the north parking area outside the Boyce Park wave pool. The free event will feature the Joyce Breach quartet with David Budway on piano,...                

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She & Him

newsobserver.com     Jul 24, 2008   10 related          

She & Him's "Volume One" (Merge Records) is a winsome, wonderful and cheerful-sounding pop record. So it's disconcerting to see the project's first video, for "Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?," in which singer/actress Zooey...                

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artknowledgenews.com: Gloria Swanson by Edward Steichen 1924 Vanity Fair, February 1928 © Condé Nast Publications Inc. Courtesy George Eastman House artknowledgenews.com

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) hosts Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913–2008

artknowledgenews.com     Jul 24, 2008          

Los Angeles, CA - The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents Vanity Los Angeles, CA - The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913–2008, the first major exhibition to...                

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