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The Giants of Mainstream Jazz plus today's most exciting straight-ahead emerging artists with contemporary vocals and spices of Blues and Latin Jazz.
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The Fourth of July is a birthday party and the whole country is invited. And every party needs music. Whether meditating on America's landscape, its freedoms or the things about it that frustrate us, America is ripe for inspiration, as evidenced by the songs here.
Some of his best friend musicians call him Tooch. The extraordinary bassist John Patitucci comes to the stage at the KC Jazz Club in Washington, D.C., where an array of basses, guitars and drums await his tuned-in trio with Larry Koonse and Brian Blade. They're playing music from Patitucci's album, Line by Line.
Soul queen Naomi Shelton got her start in her Alabama church choir at age six. She would soon sing her way to the New York funk scene, filling night clubs with her soulful, jazzy style. Now, forty years later, Shelton has released a studio album, What Have You Done, My Brother?
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Fri Jun 19, 2009 — Jeffrey Callison talks with jazz host Paul Conley about the first jazz album to sell more than a million copies.
Fri Apr 3, 2009 — This week the Stockton Symphony, conducted by Peter Jaffe, premieres "Ansel Adams: America," a new orchestral, multi-media work created by jazz legend Dave Brubeck and his son Chris in honor of photography pioneer Ansel Adams.
Fri Feb 27, 2009 — Jazz is often called America’s greatest cultural export. For nearly a century it has influenced musicians on every continent. Now, musicians like Amina Figarova are returning the favor, infusing jazz with an ever-increasing global quality.
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