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Bears score one for veterans -- via jazz
When the Chicago Bears and the Houston Texans step off the grass at Soldier Field for halftime on Sunday evening, 60,000-plus fans — and possibly a national TV audience — will see and hear something they've never encountered before. For...
Tags: Veterans Day, Music Industry, Chicago Cultural Center, Howard Reich, NBC (tv network)
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CT.com Interview: Ben Ratliff, New York Times Music Critic
Ben Ratliff, jazz and pop critic for The New York Times since 1996 and the author of three books of jazz criticism, has the rare ability to write about avant-garde jazz, doom-metal, indie rock, hip-hop, and probably a dozen or so other musical genres with...
Tags: Reviews, Authors, Middletown, Music Industry, Manhattan (New York City)
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Teacher Feature: Nancy Kindelspire
Editor's note: This is an occasional series that will feature area educators. This is a question and answer with Nancy Kindelspire of the Leola School. She recently took five of her students to the All-State Chorus and Orchestra concert in Rapid City....Tags: Teaching and Learning, Schools, Music, Entertainment, High Schools
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Chicago Humanities Festival: Let freedom swing
How fitting that a festival exploring a theme as vast as "America" should be playing stages across Chicago next month. For no art form reflects the fundamentals of the American experiment more urgently than jazz, and no city has contributed more to the...
Tags: PBS (tv network), Music Industry, Green Mill (club), Benny Goodman, Music
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Senior briefs
Support groups The Department of Aging and Disabilities has updated a booklet on community support groups. The booklet focuses on groups for care giving, Alzheimer's disease, bereavement for adults and children, diabetes, brain injury, cancer, stroke,...Tags: Financial Planning, Nursing Homes, Medical Specialization, Flu, CVS Corp.
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Celebrating Billy Strayhorn with a three-day soiree
The centennial of the inimitable jazz composer Billy Strayhorn doesn't come around until 2015, but, in a way, the festivities will begin this weekend in the Chicago area. A three-day Billy Strayhorn Jazz Festival organized by the Music Institute of...
Tags: Vocal Music (genre), Duke Ellington, Music Industry, Green Mill (club), Music
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Sugar Blue a soaring voice for the blues
Last May, during a conference on "Race, Gender & the Blues" at Dominican University, the master harmonica player Sugar Blue addressed the theme in an impassioned, unforgettable soliloquy. Lamenting that blues increasingly has been expropriated by white...
Tags: Lionel Hampton, David "Honeyboy" Edwards, James Cotton, Music Industry, Howard Reich
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Calendar
Friday 'Monarch Beach' Discussion Author Anita Hughes will discuss her new book, "Monarch Beach," at 6 p.m. at Laguna Beach Books, at 1200 S. Coast Hwy. The event is free. Helen Popper Book Signing Author Helen Popper will discuss her new book,...Tags: Animal Crackers, Authors, Music, Entertainment, Peter Dobson
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Hampton Jewish Mother location offers live rock, swing, reggae and ska
The Hampton Jewish Mother is not a big space, but lately it's gone in big for local live music. This past weekend, the restaurant and deli hosted two shows featuring Hampton singer-guitarist Johnny Trash (a.k.a. T.J. Linkous). Friday, Trash played...
Tags: Judaism, Ska (genre), Religion and Belief, Halloween, AMC (tv network)
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Florida travel calendar for October
Check out festivals and events in October across the state.
View events this coming weekend, or view the whole month's offerings by region below:
Coming up this week
Through Nov. 12: Epcot International Food and Wine Festival, Walt Disney World. The...Tags: Kissimmee, Coral Gables, Christian Orthodoxy, Sparrow (music group), North America
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Jose Curbelo dies at 95; Latin jazz bandleader
Jose Curbelo, a Latin jazz bandleader, agent and promoter who helped popularize the cha-cha in the United States and made Tito Puente a star, has died. He was 95. A resident of North Miami Beach, Curbelo died Friday of heart failure at a hospital in...
Tags: Heart Failure, Music Industry, North Miami, Manhattan (New York City), Music
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An illuminating start to Chicago Jazz Philharmonic's season
Trumpeter Orbert Davis has worked for years to train his Chicago Jazz Philharmonic in Third Stream techniques – that is, playing music that embraces both jazz and classical traditions. But during the CJP's season-opening concert Saturday night at...
Tags: Miles Davis, Music, Bix Beiderbecke, Entertainment, Arts and Culture
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