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The best jazz concerts of 2012
2012 was a characteristically plentiful year in jazz performance, Chicagoans hearing a tremendous range of music. The best concerts, in chronological order: March 1: Tammy McCann at the Jazz Showcase. The majestic Chicago singer designed her four-...
Tags: Barbara Cook, Concerts, Chicago Jazz Fest, Redman, Spider (music group)
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Best jazz concerts of 2012
2012 was a characteristically plentiful year in jazz performance, Chicagoans hearing a tremendous range of music. The best concerts, in chronological order: March 1: Tammy McCann at the Jazz Showcase. The majestic Chicago singer designed her four-...Tags: Barbara Cook, Concerts, Chicago Jazz Fest, Redman, Chicago Tribune Columnists
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Hard rock supergroup, another chart-topper set for Sands Event Center
Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOGA hard rock band that has had back-to-back gold albums and whose members also are lead players in a top metal band, and another hard rocker that had a triple-platinum album a decade ago will play together at Sands Bethlehem...... -
Blues harmonica player, cover band sweep Lehigh Valley Music Awards
Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOGA blues harmonica player who won every Lehigh Valley Music Award ever given in his instrument category pushed his achievement even higher Sunday, sweeping five categories in the 14th annual awards ceremony, including the top Best All-Around Performer... -
Dave Douglas' 'Be Still' sounds weak at Green Mill
No doubt there's a certain spiritual appeal to "Be Still," the most recent recording of trumpeter Dave Douglas. As he has explained in interviews and on the recording's brief liner notes, the hymns on the album were suggested by his mother and performed...
Tags: Donovan, Green Mill (club), Entertainment, Music
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3-CD Set Of Saxophonist Thomas Chapin Released Posthumously
The Hartford CourantAlthough struck down by leukemia at40 in 1998, Thomas Chapin, the phenomenal instrumentalist/composer from Manchester, left behind a rich, life-affirming legacy. What is still very much alive are his recordings, compositions and a wealth of memories in...Tags: New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Leukemia, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Coney Island
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Obama's next four years: Tune in to jazz
Any president's second term offers another shot at fulfilling dreams that got away the first time around. So while President Barack Obama is strategizing on immigration, unemployment, the deficit and, oh yes, the fiscal cliff, I'd like to add one more...
Tags: George W. Bush, Charlie Parker, Frank Sinatra, Barack Obama, Redman
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Asian-American jazz takes a moment in the spotlight
Jazz in Chicago encompasses many overlapping scenes, and one of the most distinctive of them will launch its yearly celebration this weekend. The city's Asian-American community has contributed immeasurably to the richness and range of music in Chicago,...
Tags: Fred Anderson, Artists, Entertainment, Arts and Culture, Plymouth
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Chicago singer Tony Adriacchi loved performing
In the 1980s, Tony Andriacchi was almost as famous in Chicago as his heroes Tony Bennett and Frank Sinatra were around the world. Audiences queued up to hear one of the most lustrous male voices to come out of this city, an instrument that Andriacchi...
Tags: Pump Room, Harry Connick Jr., Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Sting
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Mighty Medicine returns to Petoskey
Those looking for dynamic talents that produce multi-faceted songs and instrumentations should mark their calendar for Dec. 30 and 31, when Mighty Medicine will take the stage in The Noggin Room at Stafford's Perry Hotel in Petoskey. To classify the...
Tags: New Year's Day, Soul (genre), Concerts, Genres, Entertainment
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Pine River Jazz Band to play for hurricane relief
CHARLEVOIX — It's what artists have, so it's what artists do: donate their skills for the benefit of others. And it's what the Pine River Jazz Band is doing. The new jazz band has a gig Saturday, Dec. 1, to help raise money and non-perishable...
Tags: Natural Disasters, Jazz (genre), Long Island, Hurricane Sandy (2012), American Red Cross
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Bassist Matt Ulery's 'By a Little Light' breakthrough album is triumph of '12
What a year this has been for Chicago bassist-composer Matt Ulery. His breakthrough album, "By a Little Light" (Greenleaf Music), has been turning up on best-of-year lists, including NPR's and the Chicago Tribune's. He has taken this hauntingly...
Tags: Concerts, Mayne Stage, Irving Park, DePaul University, Chicago Tribune
Dec 24, 2012
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Dec 24, 2012
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Dec 5, 2012
| Allentown Morning Call
Dec 3, 2012
| Allentown Morning Call
Dec 15, 2012
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Dec 13, 2012
|Story| Hartford Courant
Dec 11, 2012
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Nov 29, 2012
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Dec 5, 2012
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Dec 21, 2012
|Story| Petoskey News
Nov 30, 2012
|Story| Petoskey News
Dec 20, 2012
|Column| Chicago Tribune
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