CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Gerry Mulligan Plays Mulligan

05/25/11 When most jazz fans think about Gerry Mulligan in the early 1950s, two recordings come to mind: his March 1950 session with the Miles Davis Nonet (later coined Birth of the Cool) and his influential August 1952 pianoless quartet date in Los Angeles with Chet Baker, Bob Whitlock and Chico Hamilton. The California session would mark the birth of a more laid-back West Coast sound. But nestled in ...

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Take Five With Benjamin Drazen

06/06/11 Meet Benjamin Drazen: Benjamin Drazen is a native New Yorker, and grew up in Roslyn, NY. He got his frist great jazz saxophone education from the late great Dave Burns. (Dave was a master trumpeter with the m: Dizzy Gillespie and m: Duke Ellington Orchestras as well as leading his own groups) A graduate of the prestigious New England Conservatory of Music, Drazen studied with such legends as m ...

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10-day Juneteenth celebration to focus on individuals in art, music and entertainment

06/08/11 Indiana-born jazz musician Larry Ridley, who has performed with Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman and Dinah Washington, to be part of festivities

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