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ASA: silence, jazz can reduce heart rate after surgery
October 14, 2014New Orleans — (October 13, 2014) Researchers are one step closer to confirming what people in New Orleans have known for decades: Jazz is good for you. Patients undergoing elective hysterectomies who listened to ...
The New Yorker: Getting Jazz Right in the Movies
October 13, 2014By Richard Brody Movies about musicians offer musical approximations that usually satisfy in inverse proportion to a viewer’s devotion to the actual music behind the story. Few, if any, fictionalized ...
NPR: What Is Jazz Night In America?
October 8, 2014Along with NPR Music’s partners at WBGO and Jazz At Lincoln Center, we’re proud to announce a new public media initiative: Jazz Night In America. You can check it out on your local public radio station, ...
Wynton Marsalis To Christen St. Louis Jazz Center
September 28, 2014ST. LOUIS (AP) — Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis will help christen a new St. Louis jazz center that organizers hope will serve as a venue worthy of the genre’s top acts while inspiring the next generation of jazz ...
Arizona jazz figure Charles Lewis celebrates 81st birthday with party, intimate concert
September 24, 2014David Marino Downtown Devil Renowned jazz pianist Charles Lewis may be 81 years old, but he is still highly energized and smooth on stage as he pounds out jazz tunes. “I’ve reached a point in my life where I can ...
Remembrance: Kenny Wheeler , Influential Sound In Jazz
September 18, 2014Kenny Wheeler, a jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist and composer who was as comfortable improvising with uncompromising avant-gardists like the saxophonist Anthony Braxton as he was writing challenging arrangements for a ...
Joe Sample, Pianist Fused Jazz, R&B, Acoustic and Electric, Dies at 75
September 13, 2014Maane Khatchatourian Variety Legendary jazz pianist Joe Sample died on Friday morning in Houston. He was 75. Sample, who revolutionized jazz fusion in the ’60s and ’70s, was also a keyboardist and composer for more ...
Violinist John Blake Jr., 67, Dies
August 21, 2014Dan DeLuca Philadelphia Inquirer Music Critic John Blake Jr., the Philadelphia jazz violinist and music educator who toured with Grover Washington Jr. and McCoy Tyner and taught generations of students at the ...
The Guardian: Cecil Taylor Swindled Out of $500,000 Kyoto Prize
August 13, 2014Cecil Taylor had a prize sum of nearly half a million dollars stolen from him by a general contractor who befriended the pioneering jazz pianist while working next to his house in New York City, according to a ...
NPR: Newport Jazz 2014 In Photos
August 9, 2014by Patrick Jarenwattananon NPR / A Blog Supreme The Newport Jazz Festival turned 60 this year, and expanded to three days to celebrate. Throughout last weekend, more than 45 bands performed at Fort Adams State Park ...
