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GRAMMY AND TONY AWARD-WINNING JAZZ VOCALIST DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER APPEARS AT UNITED NATIONS WORLD FOOD DAY 10/27

GRAMMY AND TONY AWARD-WINNING JAZZ VOCALIST DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER APPEARS AT UNITED NATIONS WORLD FOOD DAY EVENT OCTOBER 27TH IN NEW YORK CITY As a Goodwill Ambassador to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Bridgewater continues to appeal for international solidarity to finance global grass-roots projects in the …

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Herbie Hancock/Fan Created Music Video

CANON U.S.A. INC., LAUNCHES PIXMA PRO-1 PRINTER AT “LEGENDS IN IMAGING” EVENT FEATURING ICONIC RECORDING ARTIST HERBIE HANCOCK Special Live Performance by Herbie Hancock Generates a First-of-its-Kind, Print-Inspired, “Crowd-Sourced” Music Video for his classic song, “Chameleon” LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., October 27, 2011 – Canon U.S.A. Inc., a leader in digital …

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Kevin Crabb, Waltz For Dylan

By: Edward Blanco When accomplished composer/drummer and educator Kevin Crabb isn’t behind the drum set producing music, he can most probably be found teaching snare drum technique from his LA studio. Crabb has performed with some of the finest jazz artists in the world from Los Angeles to Toronto, from …

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Book Review: African Rhythms: The Autobiography of Randy Weston by Randy Weston and Willard Jenkins BY LARRY RENI THOMAS

BOOK REVIEW: AFRICAN RHYTHMS: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF RANDY WESTON. By Randy Weston and Willard Jenkins. 319 pp. Duke University Press.   Pianist, composer, bandleader, National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master, Randy Weston’s long-anticipated, much-talked-about, consciousness-raising, African-centered autobiography, African Rhythms, is a serious breathe of fresh air and is a …

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Music of 1970s Lagos

By John Stevenson It was the era of national reconstruction (after a particularly bitter civil war), Udoji awards, military coups, OPEC-fuelled prosperity, FESTAC, and a naira that reigned supreme. Indeed, the decade of the 1970s represents not only a period when oil money flowed as liberally as palm wine and …

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