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3 For The Festival, 4 To Go
The Jazz 88.3 Ocean Beach Music and Art Festival is this Saturday, September 11, 2010. This festival will include that cool vibe that only OB can offer, and the festival wristband is the key to the kingdom. 26 bands, 21+ venues, under 12 free, go. Watch This!
Jazz 88.3 Happy Hour 9/16
Our next Jazz 88.3 Happy Hour is September 16, at 5pm. This time it's bassist Kevin Cooper performing at Top of the Park in the Park Manor Suites. We'll mingle and consume responsibly until 7:30, then continue downstairs with Janice Edwards and Tommy Gannon. Admission is free, reservations aren't necessary, but it's a 21+ gig.
Curtis Fuller Jazz Live 9/21
The dust from The Festival will hardly be settled when Jazz Live presents Curtis Fuller on Tuesday, September 21. Yeah, that Curtis Fuller, one of the legendary names in Jazz and definitely one of the key names in trombone creativity. Jazz 88.3 Members can reserve tickets now at 619-388-3037.
Donating Strategically
Remember that donating your used car, truck, boat, or RV may be tax deductible. Plus, your used vehicle donation benefits Public Jazz Radio. Call 1-888-JAZZ-CAR and find out how you can help Your Favorite Jazz Station.
Jazz88.3, Technology, and You
Check out Jazz88.3 at MySpace, Facebook , Twitter, YouTube, and the i-phone App. From there we're moving forward on augmented browsing and/or something cool with a heads up display. Stay tuned...
Jazz em Agosto 2010
Jazz em Agosto Lisbon, Portugal August 6-15, 2010 If music-making were as simple as putting things in a box, a review of Lisbon’s 2010 Jazz em Agosto festival might go something like this: The duo of m: John Surman and m: Jack DeJohnette put as much as they could in the box, while m: Evan Parker’s Electro- Acoustic Ensemble realized the box didn’t need to be filled all the way. Guus Ganssen and m: Han Bennink discovered you can put more in if you keep dumping it out again, as did the Luc Ex band El Sol 6, if more methodically than the former. Red Trio found you can fit more in if you pack it just so, whereas the trio of Pat Thomas, Raymond Strid and Clayton Thomas filled the box with smaller boxes and Steamboat Switzerland packed so much in it had to be taped shut. And while m: Louis Sclavis wrote "Odyssey" on the side of the box, he filled it with pleasantries and forget-me-nots. m: FrA de Gjerstad’s Circulasione Totale Orchestra, meanwhile, didn’t restrict itself to the box at all...
The Complete Ahmad Jamal Trio Argo Sessions 1956-62
Ahmad Jamal The Complete Ahmad Jamal Trio Argo Sessions 1956-62 Mosaic Records 2010 If you’re familiar with pianist Ahmad Jamal, it’s more likely through his reputation and not through his music. Trumpeter m: Miles Davis famously remarked that Jamal taught him to be more economical in his playing: that the notes that aren’t played are just as important as the ones that are. He was an enormously influential pianist in the 1950s who, despite a hit record--Live at the Pershing (Chess, 1958)--has a catalog and legacy that has remained on the fringes, available mainly as imports...
