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  • AWARD: Los Angeles Jazz Society's 27th Annual Jazz Tribute Awards Dinner and Concert, Honors Grammy Award Musician Poncho Sanchez on October 10th
    GRAMMY WINNING MUSICIAN PONCHO SANCHEZ TO RECEIVE 2010 JAZZ TRIBUTE AWARD AT THE 27th ANNUAL LOS ANGELES JAZZ SOCIETY AWARDS DINNER and CONCERT LOS ANGELES MARRIOTT DOWNTOWN, SUN., OCT 10 Pianist and Composer Mike Melvoin Also To Receive "Lifetime Achievement Award"&#151Event Raises Money To Promote Music Education Throughout LA...
  • INTERVIEW/PROFILE: Sonny Rollins: The Abstract Expressionist
    After 60 years of playing tenor sax, Sonny Rollins thinks he just might be getting the hang of it. Sonny Rollins, saxophone colossus, turns 80 on September 7. You wouldn't know it to see him standing at the front of the bandstand, one of the last of the jazz legends, unleashing his soul through the frantic force of brash and sinuous improvisations, much as expressionist painters once attacked their canvases with color. On his best nights, Rollins rides the rhythm for chorus after chorus, no two alike, exploring every avenue that a chord or melody opens up. Then, just as you think he's exhausted all possibilities, he darts into some uncharted alley and invents a whole new way of phrasing music&#151all the while never losing his grip on the pulse, shape, or swing of the song...
  • INTERVIEW/PROFILE: Jazz Musician of the Day: Butch Warren
    All About Jazz is celebrating Butch Warren's birthday today! Butch WarrenButch Warren (born in 1939) is an American jazz double bassist who plays in the hard bop genre. He was especially active in the late-50s and the 1960s. Contents Warren began playing professionally at age 14 in a local Washington, D. C... more...

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