Over the next six days, pianist/composer Bryan Nichols will play three shows in three venues in two cities with three different groups, all of which he leads, and he won’t play the same tune twice.
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Bryan Nichols times three, and this week’s jazz picks (MinnPost)
Music fans at Jazz in the Park may be allowed to bring their own wine and beer to Cathedral Square Park this summer, after the State Senate voted on a bill Tuesday.
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State Senate approves carry-ins for Jazz in the Park (OnMilwaukee.com)
By Adrian Covert Last Friday night, Wyclef Jean stood on a CNN set peforming as part of a benefit telethon for Haiti. But it wasn’t the hip-hop/reggae/dancehall we normally see and hear on American airwaves. It was Kompas – the local music of Haiti, where Wyclef is from.
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Help for Haiti? Exploring The Crisis/Sales Connection (MOG)
Unseasonably mild weather Sunday and today produced a flurry of minor motor vehicle accidents across the city. “They are all outside the city proper,” commented Greater Sudbury Police Staff Sgt
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Slippery roads produced a dozen motor vehicle accidents Sunday and Monday (The Sudbury Star)
The long-term mistress of a married Oracle executive allegedly spent in the neighbourhood of $250,000 on billboards in New York, Atlanta, and San Francisco to out their affair when she heard that he was patching things up with his wife.
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Oracle exec exposed by jilted lover (ZDNet Australia)
SOUTH BRUNSWICK — When the South Brunswick Arts Commission holds its annual reorganization meeting Thursday, the focus will be on finding new volunteers.
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South Brunswick arts panel seeking volunteers (MyCentralJersey.com)
Chicago Public Radio’s board, staff and executives didn’t mince words in their latest strategic plan about their bold experiment known as Vocalo. “As a website Vocalo must be seen as unsuccessful so far.”
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FM, web audiences elusive so far for innovative Vocalo (Current (Public Broadcasting))
Upcoming‒ Friday: The Boys & Girls Club of Elgin hosts “All The Jazz!”,its 10th annual distinguished citizens’ dinner, at the StonegateBusiness & Conference Center in Hoffman Estates. For moreinformation go online to www.events.org/BGCEDinner‒ Saturday: Winter Harvest for the Homeless: Elgin Stars Dance forPADS takes place at the Stonegate.
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“Social media has a loyal tribe of disciples. We follow each other on Twitter, connect on Facebook, read each other’s blogs and listen to each other at conferences.
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Joshua-Michle Ross Why Social Media Isn’t for Everyone – On Mashable (O’Reilly Media)
Musically speaking, with an emphasis on jazz, last week was a very good time to be in New York City. Jazz was a special focus at the APAP (Association of Performing Arts Presenters) conference, an annual date for those who book concerts and festivals across the United States and around the world.
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The NEA Jazz Masters and this week’s picks (MinnPost)
Editor’s note: Adding to the volatility that characterized the restaurant scene in 2009, one of todays Taste sections top restaurant openings of 2009 announced its closure Monday after press time.
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Tampa Bay restaurants took roller coaster ride in 2009 (St. Petersburg Times)
If you’re like many of Katy Piotrowski’s clients, the past year of economic chaos and workplace uncertainty has caused you to forget about career advancement and focus instead on just surviving. That’s a natural response, of course.
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7 New Year’s resolutions for your career (CNN Money)
Watt/ECM (2009) It’s possible to play Christmas carols with humor but not mockery. So, yes, there’s a bit of an eggnog buzz in the wah-wah muted horns of “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear,” and a soca lilt to “Jingle Bells.” But in this case, “humor” means serious-minded but without solemnity or sentimentality.
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Carla Bley | Carla’s Christmas Carols (The Boston Phoenix)
Domino (2009) Girl-group records are great and everything, yet the countless compilations out there were becoming a little hit-or-miss until 2005, when the great Girl Group Sounds Lost and Found box set finally gave this diverse genre a proper taxonomy.
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Various Artists | Nippon Girls: Japanese Pop, Beat & Bossa Nova 1966–1970 (The Boston Phoenix)
If the magic dust scattered by Hollywood were for real, this would be the Christmas when humanity’s oldest problem was solved. Related Stories Changes that could help our fishing industry to survive Look who’s talking Terry is Wo-gone, but Chris is on the right frequency Danes can teach us how to change our wasteful ways How Alliance could catch the tide of floating voters
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Dreaming of a black and white Christmas? Dream on (Belfast Telegraph)
Bringing business and software development closer together Mainsoft is looking to link business executives into the software development process by integrating the IBM Rational Team Concert collaborative environment and IBM’s Lotus Connections collaboration platform.
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Mainsoft to link IBM’s Jazz and Lotus Connections (TechWorld)
With a technology preview on Tuesday, Mainsoft seeks to link business persons into the software development process by integrating the IBM Rational Team Concert collaborative environment and IBM’s Lotus Connections collaboration platform.
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Mainsoft linking IBM’s Jazz and Lotus Connections (InfoWorld via Yahoo! News)
NEW YORK—-ReverbNation, the leading marketing platform for more than 500,000 artists, labels, managers, and venues, has announced the launch of a new music discovery program called Playlist 7 sponsored by Microsoft Windows.
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ReverbNation Launches ‘Playlist 7′ to Sponsor Free Music from Top Emerging Artists (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
I remember the first time I heard Ella Fitzgerald sing “Jingle Bells.” Who knew that song could swing? Even the oldest chestnuts, roasted or not, take on new energy in jazz arrangements.
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Let the holidays begin: This week’s jazz picks and a peek at Christmas shows (MinnPost)
By SEAN DALYTimes Pop Music CriticWhitney Houston turned 46 this year which is like 106 for someone who was married to Bobby Brown. In the past decade, the mezzo-soprano from Newark, N.J., went from using Mariah as an ottoman to being a sad, scary has-been cackling “Crack is wack!” to a wide-eyed Diane Sawyer on network TV.
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Whitney Houston’s new album channels her diva heyday (St. Petersburg Times)
All About Jazz has developed a simple solution for you to freely syndicate your jazz-related news announcements and press releases for maximum exposure. Your blog posts will appear in your RSS feed, on your Twitter page, at the All About Jazz News Center and get syndicated around the web via AAJ’s own syndication feeds and the AAJ News widget…
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ALLABOUTJAZZ.COM: Attention: Publicists! Tips to Freely Syndicate Your Announcements Via RSS, Twitter, Friendfeed and … (All About Jazz)
NPR Music is presenting full advance streams of four new albums ahead of their release dates: Terence Blanchard’s Choices; Joe Henry’s Blood from Stars; Tim Buckley’s Live at Folklore Center, NYC – March 6th, 1967 and a reissue box set from The New Lost City Ramblers. All four will be available for free, on-demand listening at www.npr.org/music as part of the site’s “Exclusive First Listen” …
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CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: NPR Exclusive First Listens:terence Blanchard, Joe Henry, Tim Buckley, and the New Lost City Ramblers (All About Jazz)
Singer-songwriter Dave Carroll’s United flight had just landed when he heard a passenger behind him exclaim, “My god they’re throwing guitars out there.” Members of his band, Sons of Maxwell, looked out in time to see their guitars being tossed by baggage handlers. When Carroll later confirmed that his beloved guitar was a casualty in the melee, it wasn’t just his $3,500 Taylor guitar that was …
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Broken Guitar Has United Playing the Blues to the Tune of $180 Million (Fast Company Magazine)
NASHVILLE, July 10 / Christian Newswire / — After nearly two months of silence, and several months of delay Derek Webb and INO Records are announcing the release of his newest album Stockholm Syndrome set to street Sept. 1, 2009. Over two years in the making, Webb co-produced Stockholm Syndrome with former Caedmon’s Call bandmate Josh Moore (Watermark, Bethany Dillon, Bun-B, Slim Thug).
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INO Records and Derek Webb Silent no More with Release of Stockholm Syndrome on Sept. 1 (Christian News Wire)