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  1. A summit of Chicago jazz for NATO weekend - Chicago Tribune -

    Toronto Star
    A summit of Chicago jazz for NATO weekend
    Chicago Tribune
    This week's NATO meeting may have put a chill on attendance Thursday night at the Jazz Showcase, but it didn't turn down the temperature on the music making a bit. So even if the all-star group of Chicago musicians played to a smallish audience, ...
    Jazz on a NATO Summit weekend (part 2)Examiner.com
    Rethink the resetEesti elu

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  2. Jazz saxophonist Darius Jones' quartet debuts at Bohemian Caverns - Washington Examiner -

    Jazz saxophonist Darius Jones' quartet debuts at Bohemian Caverns
    Washington Examiner
    This jazz musician, composer and bandleader shares his life and talent with audiences at Bohemian Caverns. Drawing on his Southern background and the strong women in his life for inspiration, Jones presents "Book of Mae'bul (Another kind of Sunrise)," ...

  3. 'Jazz Loft Project' at MOPA - U-T San Diego -

    'Jazz Loft Project' at MOPA
    U-T San Diego
    Thelonious Monk made jazz history in 1959 when he and his band performed at New York's Town Hall. “The way that story has been told, pretty much since 1959, is that the white Hall Overton, who was a Juilliard instructor, took Monk's music and scored it ...

  4. Fenton Community Orchestra, Fenton High School Jazz Orchestra to Host Spring ... - Patch.com -

    The Flint Journal - MLive.com
    Fenton Community Orchestra, Fenton High School Jazz Orchestra to Host Spring ...
    Patch.com
    The Fenton Community Orchestra, in concert with the Fenton High School Jazz Orchestra, will hold a free Spring Concert on Tuesday at 7:30 pm at the Fenton High School Auditorium. The Fenton Community Orchestra was founded two years ago to be able to ...
    Fenton Community Orchestra, high school jazz orchestra to perform free concertThe Flint Journal - MLive.com

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  5. Around The Jazz Internet: May 18, 2012 - NPR (blog) -

    Around The Jazz Internet: May 18, 2012
    NPR (blog)
    As prelude to this week's links, I find it fascinating how jazz so directly led into something that could be called an original musical style. See: the Washington Post obituary, and YouTube footage of a "Go-Go Swing [It Don't Mean A Thing]/Midnight ...

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  6. Bob James Jazz Festival begins with Master Class - The Marshall Democrat-News -

    Bob James Jazz Festival begins with Master Class
    The Marshall Democrat-News
    MCC President Eric Crump introduces Bob James at the Bob James Jazz Festival Master Class. Music blared from Bob James' fingers nearly as readily as he recalled his journey to his career as a jazz pianist. After decades of musical success, ...

  7. Jazz it up Calgary - Calgary Herald -

    Jazz it up Calgary
    Calgary Herald
    Welcome to No Jazz City. It's a tag and perception that has, thanks in great part to the high-profile failure of two jazz fest incarnations, been one that has stuck with and tainted the musical reputation of this town. And the recent news that, ...

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  8. Jazz show at Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix - San Francisco Chronicle -

    Jazz show at Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix
    San Francisco Chronicle
    New exhibition Phoenix: The Musical Instrument Museum will showcase all that jazz in a new, mostly permanent exhibition that opens Saturday and includes unreleased performance footage, photos and (of course) instruments, forming one of the museum's ...

  9. Evan M. Morse is a veterinarian, fisherman, jazz host: My Cleveland - Plain Dealer -

    Plain Dealer
    Evan M. Morse is a veterinarian, fisherman, jazz host: My Cleveland
    Plain Dealer
    He has also won major fishing trophies, brought jazz stars to Cleveland and raised a daughter who's starring on Broadway. Yes. We lived in a third-floor apartment in Richmond, Va., and couldn't have dogs or cats. I had a porch full of homing pigeons.

  10. Folk jazz wins Nelson SFRQ regional final - Voxy -

    Folk jazz wins Nelson SFRQ regional final
    Voxy
    A quirky three-piece band with a folk jazz sound won the Nelson Smokefreerockquest regional final at the Theatre Royal on Saturday night. New Vinyl from Nelson College has been busking and doing gigs for over a year, and guitarist Alex Farrell-Davey ...

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