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Listen to This: 6 Reviews on 6 NPR Newport Jazz Webcasts

by Rachel Cantrell on August 11, 2009

So the NPR Newport Jazz festival is over, which means NPR’s posted most of the performers online via webcast. (But rrg! I can’t find Tony Bennett anywhere.) This is pretty lame, but I’ve been waiting to listen to the Dave Brubeck Quartet webcast all day. I’m jiggling in my seat from anticipation right now. The [...]

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Listen to This: NPR’s Jazz at Newport (Day 2)

by Rachel Cantrell on August 9, 2009

Today’s webcast lineup includes the Dave Brubeck Quartet, Tony Bennett, Esperanza Spalding, and a James Carter Organ Trio. Yesterday I got a chance to listen to Cedar Walton All-Stars via webcast with Cedar Walton on the piano, Curtis Fuller on trombone, and Lew Tabackin on flute/tenor sax. (Also includes: David Willams on bass and Joe [...]

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Reincarnation?

by Rachel Cantrell on July 17, 2009

I was flipping through Downbeat today (the 75th anniversary collector’s edition; seriously, I’m going to keep this thing forever) and I read this short blurb about Toshiko Akiyoshi, a female jazz pianist from Japan (Toshiko: Japan’s First Gift to U.S. Jazz). In a nutshell, Akiyoshi’s pretty amazing – in 1952, Oscar Peterson discovered her playing [...]

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