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GRADY TATE & FRIENDS, ROY HAYNES QUARTET, FREDDY COLE QUARTET, BENDING TOWARDS THE LIGHT: A Jazz Nativity, CHRISTMAS with HILARY KOLE, LOUIS HAYES QUINTET: Cannonball Adderley Legacy Band, NEW YEARS EVE: Hilary Kole with Chico OFarrill’s Jazz Orchestra, ANDY FARBER & HIS ORCHESTRA featuring Hilary Kole, CHICO OFARRILL’S AFRO-CUBAN JAZZ ORCHESTRA, CAST PARTY, & MORE!

Continue here: Jazz News: Birdland Jazz Club Announces December 2008 Schedule (All About Jazz)

Guitarist Stanley Jordan has been dazzling audiences since the mid-1980s with his innovative, two-hand tapping approach. His 1985 Blue Note Records debut, Magic Touch achieved commercial success and secured his position in the music industry as a bona fide guitar hero.

More here: Stanley Jordan | State of Nature (All About Jazz)

In the mid-1950s, as East Coast record labels opened West Coast offices and new California-based labels emerged, recording opportunities expanded in Los Angeles, particularly for small groups.

More here: In the summer of 1955, Candoli recorded two important quintet albums with Bill Holman that remain perfect examples of … (All About Jazz)

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Professor RJ Ross Instrument | Vocals (All About Jazz)

As viewed through a jazz prism, what is a variation if not an improvisation written down? A transcription of Coleman Hawkin’s famous 1939 recording of “Body and Soul” is no different than Bach’s Goldberg Variations or Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations . All examples present a theme and then melodic variations over the harmonic structure of the theme, and many of the most famous composers wrote …

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Vanessa Wagner | Variations (All About Jazz)

Drummer Charli Persip is a musician who can intimate that he’s done it all via his rather storied jazz legacy.

Continue here: Charli Persip & Supersound | Intrinsic Evolution (All About Jazz)

Inspiration is the intangible force that makes one person jump up from bed, bright, cheery and ready to face the world while another guy barely lifts his head from the pillow before grumbling and pulling the covers back over head to catch another twenty winks.

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”If you are fond of reggae, ska, gospel, the b flat tuba and trombone, the explorations of Clark Gayton in these musics (sic) on these instruments will have you dancing and shouting hallelujah, his in-the-pocket rock-steady a smooth groove.

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NEW YORK, NY – On November 10th, Singer/Songwriter Marcus Goldhaber will celebrate the release of his new album, Take Me Anywhere , with an Official CD Release Party.

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