Tonight's "Jazz Legends" show boasts stellar cast

Source: San Diego Union-Tribune

“All Star Tribute to the San Diego Jazz Legends,” featuring Daniel Jackson, Mundell Lowe, Gary LeFebvre, Marshall Hawkins, Carlos Vasquez , Graham Dechter and special guests. When: 8 p.m. tonight, Sunday, May 27 Where: Tango Del Rey 3 ...
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Music Review: Durocs - Durocs

Source: Seattle Post Intelligencer

Back in 1979, I had a white-label promotional copy of Durocs on vinyl. I played side one only once, but really got off on the first two songs on side two. The Durocs' version of Gene Pitney's "It Hurts To Be In Love" and their driving "Se ...
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Triumph for home-grown talent

Source: The Australian

Peter Coleman-Wright plays a deranged dictator in Caligula. Picture: Johan Persson Source: The Australian GERMAN composer Detlev Glanert (born 1960) has provided Australian baritone Peter Coleman-Wright with the role of a lifetime in Fri ...
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Musical concert

Source: Ripley Today

THE News is getting a complete new look soon. THE late entertainer Roy Castle makes a special appearance at the Britannia Brass Concert in Alfreton. The picture was taken in June 1989 and shows Roy, who was a talented jazz trumpet player having a ...
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Listening Post / Brief reviews and select releases

Source: Buffalo News

E.s.t., Esbjorn Svensson Trio, 301 (a). We’re now in the era of the Swedish trio’s posthumous recording life. Pianist Svensson died in a scuba diving accident in 2008 so there’s simply no way of reconstituting the group without completely violating ...
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Needed: People Who Would Rather be Morally Right Than Socially Correct

Source: Dakota Voice

American Minute from William J. Federer Twentieth-Century Fox made a motion picture in 1955 titled A Man Called Peter, about the life of U.S. Senate Chaplain Peter Marshall, born MAY 27, 1902. At the age of 25, Peter Ma ...
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Memorial Day: 6,000 flags planted on graves

Source: Mansfield News Journal

MANSFIELD -- Norman Johnson arrived bright and early Saturday morning at Mansfield Cemetery to help plant about 6,000 U.S. flags in preparation for Memorial Day. At 86, the World War II veteran said he volunteers ...
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Bugler tells the real story of 'Taps'

Source: Rapid City Journal

Military bugler Jari Villanueva has played "Taps" thousands of times over his 23-year Air Force career. But on Memorial Day, Villanueva is less concerned about hitting the right 24 notes of the famous funeral song than he is with corre ...
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Observe Memorial Day and take in a show today

Source: MLive.com

Get free email newsletters to keep you connected to your interests. Like us on Facebook and get AnnArbor.com updates in your News Feed. The "Annual Memorial Day Observance" will be held at Arborcrest Memorial Park. The "Annual ...
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