May 3, 2007
April 16 Ray Anthony – Swingin at the Tower (Montpellier) Darrell Grant – Truth and Reconciliation (Origin) Hot Club Sanwich – Green Room (Modern Hot) Todd Herbert – The Path to Infiniti (Metropolitan) Clay Jenkins – Blues State (Jazz Compass) J.J. Johnson – J.J. Johnson’s Last Concert (Jamey Aebersold) Dave Liebman – Teaches and Plays […]
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Vox “XL” SeriesVox Amplification has expanded its line of ValvetronixTM tube-driven modeling amplifiers with the Extreme Lead “XL” Series. These new high-gain amplifiers are specifically designed and voiced for hard rock/heavy metal music and deliver the most aggressive VOX tones to date. Four combos comprise the line, including the AD15VT-XL (15-Watt, 1×10″), AD30VT-XL (30-Watt, 1×12″), […]
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As one progresses through life as a jazz musician, certain pivotal choices must be made and challenging questions present themselves: What’s the best college for my needs? Who makes the cymbals that are right for me? Where should I go shopping for vintage LPs while I’m in Chicago…? In our ongoing quest to provide some […]
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Essentially Ellington, the jazz education program run by Jazz at Lincoln Center, holds an annual competition in which high school bands submit recordings of Duke Ellington’s material in hopes of being selected a finalist.The 15 schools honored with this distinction travel to NYC to perform at the Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition Festival […]
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A recent show on the ESPN television network featured a roundtable discussion with several famous veteran football players from the ’50s, ’60s, ’70s and ’80s.The conversation focused, among other topics, on the use of weights and training, and whether their widespread use made the players of today better than the players of yesteryear.One of the […]
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An inspired and innovative player, Stanley Clarke sits alongside a select few as one of the most influential bassists in contemporary music. From his early gigs with the likes of Pharoah Sanders, Art Blakey, Gil Evans, and Dexter Gordon to his groundbreaking work with Chick Corea in Return to Forever, to his more recent solo […]
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Charles Mingus� 85thIn celebration of Charles Mingus� 85th birthday, a festival was held April 25th, 2007 at Frederick P. Rose Hall, the home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, featuring Christian McBride, Boris Kozlov, Lew Soloff, Ryan Kisor, Jack Walrath, Kenny Drew, Jr., Conrad Herwig, Ku-umba Frank Lacy, Howard Johnson, Andre Hayward, Joe Locke, Craig Handy, […]
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