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Our Picks: Shows at Fairfield University's Quick Center
Fairfield University has got a couple of interesting shows happening at the Quick Center this week. First, on Friday, FU music program director Brian Torff leads a band of jazz professors (called the Jazz Professors) in a fresh interpretation of Duke...
Tags: Fairfield University, Music, Entertainment
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NSU Football trivia
- The Wolves won 76 percent (211-61-6) of their football games between 1946-76. - The 64th annual Gypsy Day game on Oct. 9, 1982, was cancelled against St. Cloud State. A monsoon-like rainstorm came through Aberdeen that morning and flooded Swisher Field....
Tags: National Collegiate Athletic Association, College Sports, Dennis Miller, World War II (1939-1945), Football
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Trice: Recalling an oasis known as Idlewild
Since the mid-1920s, Ann Hawkins has summered on an idyllic oasis in northwestern Michigan called Idlewild, once known by some as the Martha's Vineyard of the Midwest, but for well-to-do black folk. She grew up riding horses there, swimming in the...
Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Count Basie, History (tv network), Crime, Law and Justice, NAACP
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A peek into Prince's mind
CHANHASSEN, Minn.— Prince is rolling his eyes. "The hardest thing with musicians," he explains to a visitor to his Paisley Park recording studio, "is getting them not to play." The quintuple-threat singer-songwriter-producer-performer-multi-...
Tags: Michael Jordan, Soul (genre), Count Basie, Mavis Staples, Entertainment
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34th Jazz Festival closes with victories and defeats
Some of the best music of the 34th annual Chicago Jazz Festival played during its finale on Sunday night. But so did some of the worst. Several performances at the Petrillo Music Shell projected quite clearly from the acoustically challenged venue. But...
Tags: Festive Events, Jazz (genre), Grant Park, Weather, Entertainment
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Jazz Fest launches with a warm tribute to Ella Fitzgerald
The pleasant, populist program that opened the 34th annual Chicago Jazz Festival on Thursday night certainly had a great deal going for it. Three top Chicago vocalists. The splendid Chicago Jazz Orchestra. And the Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park,...
Tags: Allen Toussaint, Jerome Kern, Vocal Music (genre), Spider (music group), Howard Reich
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The Valley Line: A summer of song and remembrance
Hallelujah, on Wednesday morning I awoke to a cool and refreshing beginning to the day. At last the oppressive heat wave we had been experiencing had broken. I know that our hot days are only at bay for a little while, but what a delight it was to...
Tags: Marvin Hamlisch, Leonard Bernstein, Scott Joplin, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Arts and Culture
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Dance review: 'Dance in the USA' has hits and misses
The Pacific Ballet Dance Theatre's presentation of “Dance in the USA” at the John Anson Ford Theatre on Aug. 17 was sometimes whimsical, other times inspiring and, a few times, a bit lackluster. However, overall, the Burbank dance company'...Tags: Bruce Springsteen, Irving Berlin, Michael Jackson, Arts and Culture, Music
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Jazz at Ward highlights Final Friday
Four Twin Cities musicians will play Friday night at the Ward Plaza restaurant as part of the monthly Final Friday celebration of live music and art in downtown Aberdeen. Performing will be Paul Fonfara on reeds, Steve Hobert on piano, Josh Granowski...Tags: Arts and Culture, Music, Arts, Entertainment, Thelonious Monk
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Black jazz, Jewish prayers at upcoming concert
Get Jewish cantors to huddle with Duke Ellington and Louie Armstrong. What would they come up with? Maybe something like "Jazz Wisdom Spirit," a concert planned for Sept. 9 in Delray Beach. Created by a rabbi and a music professor, the concert will set...
Tags: Delray Beach, Music, Yamim Noraim, Concerts, Human Interest
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What to hear at the 34th annual Chicago Jazz Festival
Now that the 34th annual Chicago Jazz Festival is fully underway – having kicked off Thursday night at Millennium Park – Chicagoans can focus on figuring out what to catch this weekend. Following is an annotated guide to some of the most...
Tags: Howard Reich, Roosevelt University, Festive Events, Grant Park, Jazz (genre)
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Nonstop week of music surrounds Chicago Jazz Festival
Though the 34th annual Chicago Jazz Festival surely has its flaws, it generates tremendous energy and interest for America's greatest gift to the arts: jazz. The festival proper features major shows at 6:30 p.m. Thursday and Aug. 31 at Pritzker...
Tags: Miles Davis, Lincoln Center, Spider (music group), Irving Park, Roosevelt University
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