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She DARES to Call THIS Jazz!?

Domina — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 06:51:28 GMT

Ambient. Jazz. Rock. Electronica. World. Discover Singapore's undiscovered Asian Transgendered Jazz-Rock Guitarist, Composer, and Self-Sufficient Soloist/Virtual Band. Domina Catrina, has created her debut self-realized, solo album project, "The Book Of Worlds". Domina Catrina's music is a mystery wrapped in a cathedral of enigmas, informed by the noetics of jazz, powered by the force of rock, catapulted around this planet we call :earth: that a young child created by opening up a secret book. The book describes a Shamanic Journey into the Lower Worlds, and Redemption via Dismemberment/Resurrection, also suggestive in the interlinked Suite of song titles - the Return to the World/marketplace as described in the Buddhist :ox-herding: pictorial cycle. An Important Update ::The Book Of Worlds:: concept CD album is now available directly from CD Baby. The wait is over. You can order your copy of "The Book Of Worlds" now:

http://cdbaby.com/cd/dominacatrina

Each CD is burned individually, all cover art work by the artist herself. Free sample tracks from this continuously running tone poem here:
http://www.myspace.com/xhulijingx

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Name this tune...PLEASE!!!

Mark — Thu, 14 May 2009 19:19:17 GMT

Can anyone help identify this tune? If you know the title/artist/album I would really appreciate the info. Thanks!

http://www.lacyunlimited.com/mystery_sax.mp3

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I just found this!

sarah — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:25:48 GMT

Just found a free download from a new jazz group I'm really into: Project Grand Slam. Incredible musicians, and even though I'm getting their album later in the month, I was excited to find a free single. :) Sharing the joy.......

http://www.filebam.com/download/69937-eab7bc/10

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Supersonic Jazz Show

travischaney — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:20:15 GMT

After a one month break, I am returning to hosting the Supersonic
Jazz Show on www.radioksoc.net

Friday mornings from 10:00 to 11:50 PST

Bright moments,
Travis Chaney

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January news from Vicki Burns/Melanie O'Reilly's "Jazz On The Bay" wins prestigous award!

floragreen — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:18:18 GMT

Happy New Year Everyone!
I am writing to you all from snowy Maine as I plan my move to New York City within the next couple of weeks...Almost as soon as I arrive, I will be performing at North Square, a wonderful intimate venue in Greenwich Village located in the Washington Square Hotel.

Please tell your friends and family in NYC to come and support my NYC debut! This is a great place to listen to jazz vocalists.
Roz Corral and others like Sasha Dobson perform regularly on Sunday afternoons, so if you are a fan of jazz vocals, don't miss this venue!

I am very excited to be performing with an extraordinary duo: Paul Meyers on guitar and Santi Debriano on bass. They have been performing together for some time now and I am really honored that they will be on this date with me!

Vicki Burns Trio featuring Paul Meyers on guitar and Santi Debriano on bass performs at North Square on Sunday February 9th 2009!

North Square

103 Waverly Place @ Macdougal

New York, NY

No cover or minimum

Sets: 12:30 & 2:00 p.m.

Reservations: 212 254-1200

www.northsquarejazz.com

Breaking News!

I am also very excited and honored to have been a part of Melanie O'Reilly's award winning jazz radio series!
Check out the rebroadcast which will start on the 15th of January!

National Radio Award for Melanie O'Reilly's "Jazz on the Bay" ---
This winning series includes "Women of Jazz on the Bay", featuring Vicki Burns, Anna de Leon, Susan Muscarella, Frankye Kelly, Tammy Hall, Faye Carroll,and Denise Perrier.

Melanie O'Reilly, Celtic Jazz singer and educator, who hails from Dublin Ireland, and is based in Berkeley, CA, has just won PPI Radio Award/National Radio Award 2008 for her radio series "Jazz on the Bay".

Melanie presents and co-produces this innovative series which features interviews and the music of jazz musicians/vocalists of the Bay Area as well as international jazz artists such as Dave Brubeck, Marion Mc Partland, Chick Corea, and James Moody.
Chosen as Music Specialist Program of the Year, it won over major competitors, such as BBC Radio! In a country which has the highest radio listenership in Europe, this was no mean feat!

http://www.ppiradioawards.co/2008/winners_2008.asp

Melanie's "Jazz on the Bay" broadcasts on RTE Radio 1, Ireland's National Broadcasting station , which was voted as Station of the Year!

Jazz on the Bay -
The winning series will be repeated on the RTE Radio 1 every Thursday , starting Jan 15th 2009 at 1.03pm Californian time, (that's 9.03pm Irish time!) - see below, for further info, click on

http://www.rte.ie/radio1/jazzonthebay/

Melanie is also a wonderful, innovative vocalist. Please check out her website and perfomances!

http://www.mistletoemusic.com/

Thank you one and all for your wonderful support! It was so heartwarming to see so many of you at my last gigs in the Bay Area...

All The Best,
Vicki Burns

http://www.myspace.com/vickiburnsjazz

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Video - Wade Baker Jazz Collaboration, 12.19.08, Rohs St Cafe

Scott — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:31:20 GMT

Video of the Wade Baker Jazz Collaboration, 12.19.08, Rohs St Cafe, Cincinnati, OH:

http://www.cincygroove.com/?q=node/892

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Vicki Burns Sings In December and a Fond Farewell!

floragreen — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:08:50 GMT

Hello Everyone!
As some of you already know, I am leaving the Bay Area on December 24th , at least for a while. I am headed "back East" (so called, it seems because that is where many of us or our families are from!)to spend sometime with family and friends and hopefully have a few new musical adventures as well. I have been so rich in friends and in music in the last few years and I want to thank each of you for being such a special part of my life. There are a few gigs this month where you can come and say goodbye and so I truly hope to see many of you before I go! Also, if any of you have friends or contacts in NYC, please feel free to put us in contact! I am hoping to do some teaching and singing there when I am town in February.

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Vicki Burns Quartet "Live At Anna's Jazz Island" has been getting some great airplay, both here in the Bay at KCSM and also lately in Pennsylvania at the NPR affiliate WQLN, with special thanks to Rob Hoff, the evening jazz host who says that the recording is a hit with his listeners.

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I have a wonderful interview on jazzreview.com by Donna Kimura. Please check it out and watch for a CD review coming soon!

http://www.jazzreview.com/article/review-6607.html

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"Vicki Burns Quartet Live at Anna's Jazz Island" is now available on itunes, emusic and Rhapsody as well as the reapandsow store. Please visit and download a tune or the whole album!

http://reapandsow.downloadcentric.net/app

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Vicki Burns debuts in New York City on February 8, 2009!!!

Please tell your friends and family that may be in the New York City area to come on down for a fabulous jazz brunch in Greenwich Village. I will be performing with an outstanding guitarist, Paul Meyers and bassist Santi Debriano. Special thanks to Roz Corral who also sings at this beautiful venue, in fact please treat yourself to her luscious singing if you are visiting the Big Apple soon!

http://www.northsquarejazz.com/

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New Venue, the 7 Mile House in Brisbane!

The Al Molina Project featuring: Vicki Burns

Tuesday December 16th 7-10:00pm

7 Mile House
2800 Bayshore Blvd., Brisbane, California 94005, Brisbane, California 94005
Cost: no cover

"Vicki Burns will be scatting with the Al Molina Quartet. She brings a depth of feeling for ballads and a height of joy for fast tunes. It should be interesting to hear her in a new musical environment. This is a first." Tuesday night Jazz at the 7 Mile is becoming a swingin’ hang for longtime jazz fans.

I am honored that Al has asked me to sing with his outstanding group on this date. His trumpet is legendary in the San Francisco scene!
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Jordan's at the Claremont Hotel!

I will be returning with my trio of excellent
musicians on Sunday, December 14th!

There will also be a variety of fantastic guest artists as this will be my final gig in the East Bay for now...

With me will be the fantastic line up of David Udolf on piano, Chris Amberger on bass and Smith Dobson V on drums!

Please join us for dinner and dancing from
6:00-10:00pm.

Reservations recommended!

The food and staff are absolutely superb!

For more info please visit their website:

http://www.bay-area-reservations.com/claremont/

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Zingari Ristorante!

I will be at Zingari on Wednesday, December 10th with the great Bliss Rodriguez on piano!

http://www.zingari.com

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New Venue, Cafe Royale!

Please join me on December 21st, Sunday from 6-8:00pm as I come full circle for my time in the San Francisco Bay area with the fab John Nichols on guitar. John is one of my oldest and dearest friends in the Bay and he and I performed together at my first featured gig in San Jose at Garden City with Smith Dobson the Elder back in 1990. This is my last scheduled gig in the City and I would so love to see some friends here as I say farewell.

http://www.caferoyale-sf.com/

Thank you one and all for your continued support and may the Holiday Season bring warmth to your heart and joy to your lives!

All The Best,
Vicki Burns

http://www.myspace.com/vickiburnsjazz

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THE SAXOPHONE IS THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE!!! (ORNITHOLOGY tribe here; anyone interested in Charlie Parker's music?)

bobstad — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:01:09 GMT

I've been moderator of ORNITHOLOGY tribe,(which has about 32 members also) since about 2003 when the previous moderator Justin suddenly turned the tribe over to me due to some issues of his personally.

I'd found tribe.net from doing a web search for "Charlie Parker" which had impressed Justin; who is a musician in the bay area playing guitar in the styles he learned living in France about fifteen years or more ago with the Manouche' Gypsies who are the tribe Django Reinhardt is from.

As moderator of ORNITHOLOGY tribe I've made a few posts; but have deleted them as not too appropriate or interesting. The tribe has grown from seventeen to the current thirty two since I joined, but though an interesting looking group never a lot of interaction. I hadn't checked out what was going on there for some time; when I looked to see most recently that we'd picked up a couple more members. I guess the slow constant growth is a sign people are interested, and the various members do have some times intriguing profiles to look at.

Justin is about the only person at tribe.net I've had much to do with other than the Voice of Roma representative who is one of my three friends too at tribe.net.(I'm involved with Voice of Roma as a volunteer at their annual HERDELJEZI festivals to raise money to help Kosovoan Rromani impacted by the war; which is horrific often <www.voiceofroma.com> )

I once had four tickets to a Yuri Yunakov performance at U. C. Berkeley and had them left for Justin with a friend working in a music store in Berkeley, but they were never used.(I didn't know I couldn't get a refund...opps!) I've been in a master class with Yuri and have heard him play a few times now, who is a very nice man and endures my bad musicianship affably which is a rare and appreciated encouragement.(I think I've had twenty saxophones total; and now have three altos, a Yamaha YAS-23 that is exactly like one Yuri is photographed playing on a CD cover I've seen, a '51 Buescher Aristocrat made the year I was born that has rarely been played, and a '29 Buescher which needs an overhaul badly I got in '97 I'd played until unplayable held together with elastic hair ties, nylon thread and rubber bands, when I'd got the Yamaha in 2003)

By the way, I'm probably the only person who has proven scientifically that the saxophone is the center of the universe. The universe really has no center of course, but in a relative sense were this possible the saxophone would be it.

My contention is that the past five millennia of human social evolution, as macrobiotic theorist Georges Ohsawa points out, has been devoted to technological development at the expense of the advancement of most other facets of the human potential.(Ohsawa says "mastery of fire and salt" or in other words metallurgy and chemistry) He credits the ice ages and the much more difficult to survive in environment of Europe for the phenomena, which also led to the dominance of global society by Europeans and such odious institutions as the African slave trade with the western hemisphere.

The saxophone was invented and developed by Adolph Sax in the nineteenth century, an era in Europe especially when the greatest minds then, of which Sax was surely one, were communicating much more directly with the lay person of society; unlike now and which developed so rapidly during the twentieth century, where specialization is the rule and intelligence is made into an esoteric pursuit almost alien to the masses of humanity.

I've been greatly moved as no doubt many of you have; by the music and musicianship of the late great baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan whose albums from a live Paris concert with Carson Smith, Shadow Wilson and Bob Brookmeyer and one with Thelonious Monk were two I'd been given with several others as a youth by my uncle who'd been a jazz pianist.

From those albums I'd especially liked, particularly the Paris concert and "Bernies Tune" I'd had a love of Mulligan's playing and as a music student I'd followed his career until I'd ended up with an unusual album of his AGE OF STEAM(which should be reissued!) that is mostly an effort of his at composing and arranging for a group of about ten or twelve musicians; and which has a great composition called "Maytag" dedicated to his mother's washing machine and a wonderful sound very much like one of those I remember from my own childhood very vividly; sloshing along merrily always, but which once had so terrified me once when changing cycles my father had picked me up from the floor next to it in our utility room so suddenly he'd thrown his back out and made a painful scream so that when I'd looked up at his face he'd changed momentarily into a werewolf before my eyes just as actor Carl Bentz had on the DONNA REED SHOW on television which evidently made an impression on me then as a small child.

I guess from this great and unusual for him Gerry Mulligan album; I'd thought of how much saxophones look like steam engines...there used to be often in Puget Sound in Washington state Jazz Cruises on Seattle's Virginia V steam boat; and a person could go and look at the big steam engines in the vessel's bowels the crew liked to show off, which were always shiny and polished with much brass, so very saxophone like to look at if you'd been thinking along such lines as was easy if so inclined as several great horn players were always aboard holding forth in the jams just above.

I also have been fooling around making primitive woodwind instruments, and one of which uses a plastic automotive automatic transmission fluid funnel with an alto saxophone mouthpiece which I put tone holes into the funnel so playable like a penny whistle or recorder. The tone holes were placed by tapping with my fingers as if playing, on the plastic of the funnel until I seemed to get a nice resonant sound where I'd then drill a hole and which I'd then expand to try and get an accurate pitch and good sound; but working in the very hard plastic using just old worn round chain saw files I found I didn't get a very good scale or intonation.

As a consequence I'd tried to see if there were anyway I could figure out to mathematically locate the tone holes on another funnel; and somehow by trail and error came up with a formulae which hasn't yet helped me place the tone holes, but where by I'd found that the volume of a sphere the same height as a cylinder is two thirds that of the cylinder. This was a fairly simple thing to figure out or I'd of not been able to and which seems as if feasibly a way to locate the tone holes on a conical bore...there has to be some sort of a formulae Sax used I'd guess?

What was unusual about that though, is that a couple years later watching PBS television I caught a very interesting show about the ancient Greek philosopher/scientist Archemedes who insisted on having the same formulae I discovered(which he'd also invented) inscribed on his tomb.(the show was mostly about a book of his thought lost a thousand years ago rediscovered recently that a Byzantine prayer book had been printed over the original text of; which they'd claimed if not lost for so long would've likely allowed travel to the moon about five hundred years ago!)

One of the theories of mine I've thought of which may or may not be accurate, is that the star and crescent of the Muslim flag represents a celestial body like a comet or asteroid hurling towards a collision with the earth. Since about 800 A. D. the Moslems were very scientifically advanced compared with the rest of the global society perhaps then the idea of the dangers of such a thing happening were on some of the more intelligent thinker's minds of that time and amongst that faith.

To me, and again there was a PBS television special on just such a thing, the ultimate purpose of five thousand years of technological evolution may be just such a venture, to develop the means whereby the earth can be protected from collision with other objects in space. The show on PBS about this says there is a comet which will pass within the orbits of artificial satellites going around the earth in 2012 which then will return in 2032 and depending on the earth's gravitational influence in 2012 this same comet could collide with the earth in 2032 which were that to happen would render evolution back to the level of cock roaches.

I've long now been a student of such human potential interests as yoga and macrobiotics; and thus realize how little society currently devotes to the support of much of the possibility inherent in humanity. And the idea that the technological developments of the past five thousand years have often and sometimes exclusively been driven by war is an obvious truth, which has conditioned our species and the rest of the planet to a belligerent way of being that is wholly inefficient and otherwise unnecessary, but for the development of reasonable alternatives which evidently take a good deal of time to procure and institute.

Given that we as a collective of humans can survive and transcend this current stage of our being; then I think a likely remnant of these thousands of years of technology, culminating in the golden era of the tendency during the nineteenth century, could be Adolph Sax's saxophone. If you are a serious student of the horn and the music playable by this amazing instrument, you can realize the potential of the saxophone is still greatly unexplored and fascinating to speculate about the future of. In society less driven by a combative mentality and diffidence to individual survival and enjoyment; the potential of music and musicianship as a whole would become much more central to our common experience, and greatly expanded in scope and influence socially too.

With I think the saxophone representing a level of technology which best encompasses both primitive and complex idioms with a focus between the two as they say "cosmically" aligned in a phenomenological balance between nature and the specific ergonomic realities of our species. Thus, "the center of the universe." So to speak.

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John Beasley All-Star Quartet

John — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:40:04 GMT

I am playing at the Jazz Bakery in Los Angeles Dec 4,5,6 with Buster Williams, Bennie Maupin, and Jeff Tain Watts and hope you will come an hear this terrific band.

Would love to learn more from jazz fans. Hope to meet you or chat on tribe sometime.

WHO:
Bandleader JOHN BEASLEY assembles bassist Buster Williams and multi-reedist Bennie Maupin, two original members of Herbie Hancock’s Sextet (Mwandishi and Sextant), along with drummer Jeff “Tain” Watts, who has performed on every Grammy Award winning jazz record by both Wynton and Branford Marsalis, to play music from Beasley’s 2009 GRAMMY considered latest CD Letter to Herbie, a tribute album to Herbie Hancock.

WHAT:
Beasley’s All-Star Jazz Circle brings the talent of Hancock’s creative and groundbreaking Sextet and the spirit of those indelible performances to Ronnie Scott’s with eclectic arrangements of Hancock’s tunes and a few of Beasley’s songs. New audiences will be sure to leave delighted by this series of concerts.

WHEN:
Thursday Dec 4 to Saturday Dec 5, 2008
2 shows: 8.00 and 9:30pm

WHERE:
The Jazz Bakery - 3233 Helms Ave., Los Angeles
Cost: $25 (Thur/Fri), $30 (Sat), $15 (students u/ 21 yrs)
Tickets: 310-271-9039 or http://www.jazzbakery.org/

Info: 310.200.8388, www.beasleymusic.com

Beasley, the onetime keyboardist for Freddie Hubbard and Miles Davis, reflects a variety of generational influences, incorporating the emphatic chordal clusters of Herbie Hancock, the rhythmic quirkiness of Monk and the lush intelligence of Art Tatum into a highly refined personal voice. – Los Angeles Times

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photos/video Wade Baker Jazz Collaboration, 10.29.08, Baba Budans, Cincinnati, OH

Scott — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:34:41 GMT

Video of the Wade Baker Jazz Collaboration, 10.29.08, Baba Budan's, Cincinnati, OH:
http://www.cincygroove.com/?q=node/774

Photos of the Wade Baker Jazz Collaboration, 10.29.08, Baba Budan's, Cincinnati, OH:
http://www.cincygroove.com/?q=node/773

This group is literally brand new , maybe only a few weeks old. Be sure to get out and see this group live.

Scott

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Video - Fareed Haque, 10.19.08, Cincinnati, OH

Scott — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:11:55 GMT

Video of Fareed Haque solo (from Garaj Mahal), 10.19.08, McAuley Performance Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH:

http://www.cincygroove.com/?q=node/760

Scott

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Vicki Burns Sings In October!

floragreen — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 02:35:43 GMT

Hello Everyone!
Thank you so much to those of you who tuned into my interview on KCSM on Monday. I had a wonderful time with Chris Cortez who was generous and gracious when he introduced me as the "incomparable jazz vocalist, Vicki Burns". The interview coincided with the official release of my new digital CD release, Vicki Burns Quartet "Live at Anna's Jazz Island" and I am happy to report that it is now available for download at reapandsow's store and will be on itunes, rhapsody and other outlets shortly. Please visit reapandsow and download a tune for only $.99 or the whole album for only $9.99!

http://reapandsow.downloadcentric.net/app

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Digital CD Release Party at Anna's Jazz Island!!

Please join me next Friday night, October 10th for my official release party at Anna's Jazz Island! With me will be my amazing trio consisting of: John Nichols on guitar, Sam Bevan on bass and Smith Dobson V on the drums!
Special guests will abound, including Nika Rejto on flute and Mary Ellen Donald on Arabic Tambourine!

Music is from 8-11:00pm and there will be a $14 cover at the door.

Anna's is fast becoming one of the very best places to
hear live and local jazz in the Bay Area. She serves
up tasty food and cocktails at this intimate venue
that is devoted entirely to the wonderful musicians
that perform there and to you the audience!

Anna's Jazz Island is an all ages venue and also officially the world's first Green Jazz venue, another wonderful reason to support jazz at Anna's!

Music starts at 8:00pm and there is a $14 cover.

http://www.annasjazzisland.com/calendar.html

2120 ALLSTON WAY BERKELEY CA 94704
just east of Shattuck Avenue & downtown Berkeley BART)

TELEPHONE: (510) 841-JAZZ

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Jordan's at the Claremont Hotel!

I will be returning with my trio of excellent
musicians on Sunday, October 12th!

With me will be the fantastic line up of
David Udolf on piano, John Nichols on bass and Smith Dobson V
on drums!

Please join us for dinner and dancing from
6:00-10:00pm.

Reservations recommended!

The food and staff are absolutely superb!

For more info please visit their website:

http://www.bay-area-reservations.com/claremont/

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North Beach Art Walk Sunday, October 26th 2-3:00pm

Join the Vicki Burns Trio featuring Brian Gire on guitar and Andy Woodhouse on bass at the lovely new jazz venue Lou's At the Square located on Washington Square in North Beach!

Lou's At The Square
Neighborhood: North Beach/Telegraph Hill
1570 Stockton St
San Francisco, CA 94199
(415) 989-0399

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Zingari Ristorante!!

Please join myself and Bliss Rodriguez on piano as we swing into the Halloween season on Wednesday October 29th.

Music is from 7:30-11:30pm No cover or minimum

Best Costume wins a free copy of my first CD "Siren Song!"

Zingari Ristorante is located in the Hotel Donatello on the corner of Post and Mason.

http://www.zingari.com/

Thank you one and all for your continued support!

All The Best,
Vicki Burns

http://www.myspace.com/vickiburnsjazz

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New and Improved Supersonic Jazz Show

travischaney — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 23:52:26 GMT

I've decided to change the way I do things and make my show a little
more programmatic. These are the themes for the upcoming few
weeks. (The show is still Mondays 9:00 a.m to 11:00 a.m. PST
on www.radioksoc.net )

September 29
Thrilling Threesomes: Variations of the Trio

October 6
Jack DeJohnette

October 13
Free and Trumpets

October 20
A Case of Porter (The Music of Cole Porter)

October 27
All Blues

Thanks,
Travis Chaney

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Monday Interview with Chris Cortez at KCSM Jazz 91!

floragreen — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 01:06:50 GMT

Hello Everyone!
I am very excited to report that on Monday, the 29th of September at 1:00pm I will be interviewed by Chris Cortez on KCSM Jazz 91.1! With me will be the fab guitarist John Nichols and we will be talking about the release of Vicki Burns Quartet "Live At Anna's Jazz Island!" Please tune in on your radio dial or live on the web at:

http://kcsm.org/jazz91/listen.php

In other exciting news, my new CD has had it's first review by John Gilbert of ejazz.com! He has wonderful things to say and if you go to the website soon you will catch it on the front page for awhile (scroll down). Here are some highlights!

From ejazz.com:

"Vicki Burns does indeed 'burn' on this recording. The stars were aligned
just right when she was blessed with a singing voice that was made for
the jazz idiom.

"Billies Bounce" This number gets off the ground and into orbit with
Burns and Adam Blankman scatting in unison. Burns, in scatting the
changes takes no prisoners. Everybody has a helping (as Pres would say)
on the four bar exchanges with Miss Burns leading the way with superb
ideation. This tune is the highlight of the album. The tempo is as fast
as a knife fight in a phone booth with Burns emerging as the winner.

"Honeysuckle Rose" / "Scrapple From The Apple" Now hear this, Burns is
in top form with her smokier than a speakeasy, leave no meat on the bone
interpretation of 'Honeysuckle Rose' followed by a hipper than hip
'Scrapple' that Bird himself would approve of."

John Gilbert gives Vicki Burns Quartet "live at Anna's Jazz Island" 5 stars!

http://www.ejazznews.com/

As I always I treasure your friendship and support!

With a song in my heart,
Vicki Burns

http://www.myspace.com/vickiburnsjazz

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Vicki Burns Sings in August and More News!

floragreen — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 06:32:31 GMT

Hello Everyone!
I hope you are all having a delightful summer. I have
been really busy gearing up for my live recording
release in October and am really excited to finally
share it with all of you.

Special thanks to Lou Judson for his recording
artistry and to j from reapandsow who gave me the idea
of making this a digital release. I may do a limited
run of CDs sometime in the future, but really want to
encourage all of you to download everything! It just
makes more sense ecologically and economically these
days!

I also urge all of you to check out reapandsow's
fantastic website and see the incredible variety of
musicians and musical offerings there!!

http://www.reapandsow.com/

New CD in the works!

In other recording news, I have been busy in the
studio with the amazing Cesar Cancino on piano and
arranging, Fred Randolph on bass and Bob Blankenship
on drums. So far we have recorded three beautiful
songs, "The Very Thought of You", "Love Me or Leave
Me" and "Easy Living" This will be a very romantic
recording (with some sweet, kinky twists!) and I can't
wait until I can share it with you :) We are hoping
for a release date sometime early next year(2009).

Cesar has been amusing me with hilarious tales of
being on the road with Joan Baez...

Little Saigon!

I will be returning to this delightful gem of a venue
on* this Friday, August 8th. Please join me for the
finest Vietnamese cuisine and some sweet, hot jazz by
the Vicki Burns Duo with the John Nichols
on guitar!

The Music is from 5-9:00pm with no cover but believe
me you will want to make dinner reservations, the food
is simply fantastic! Here is a recent review:

http://www.judysbook.com/members/bellagreen/posts/2006/12/496132/

Jordan's at the Claremont Hotel!

I will be returning with my trio of excellent
musicians on Sunday, August 10th!

With me will be the fantastic line up of
David Udolf on piano, John Nichols on bass and Pete
Riso on drums!

Please join us for dinner and dancing from
6:00-10:00pm.

Reservations recommended!
The food and staff are absolutely superb!

For more info please visit their website:

http://www.bay-area-reservations.com/claremont/

**** Please Hold the Date, Friday October 10th at
Anna's
Jazz Island!****

Digital CD release party of "Vicki Burns Quartet Live
at Anna's Jazz Island!"

Please join me as I celebrate my live recording
project
with the same stellar trio that recorded with me in
February of 2007 and this past May!!: John
Nichols on guitar, Sam Bevan on bass and Smith Dobson
V on drums!!

Anna's is fast becoming one of the very best places to
hear live and local jazz in the Bay Area. She serves
up tasty food and cocktails at this intimate venue
that is devoted entirely to the wonderful musicians
that perform there and to you the audience!

Music starts at 8:00pm and there is a $10 cover.

http://www.annasjazzisland.com/calendar.html

Zingari Ristorante

I will be returning to this lovely lounge located in
the heart of Union Square. Join me for two
Fridays, August 15th and 29th with the legendary Bliss
Rodriguez on piano!

Zingari Ristorante has delicious Italian Cuisine
and a warm, charming atmosphere. Music is from
8:00pm-Midnight.

Hope to see you there!!

Zingari Ristorante is located inside the Donatello
Hotel located at the corner of Post and Mason.

Please call 415-885-8850 for reservations.

www.zingari.com

As always, I treasure your friendship and value your
support!

All The Best,
Vicki Burns

http://www.myspace.com/vickiburnsjazz

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Special Sun Ra Episode

travischaney — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:01:09 GMT

On my internet radio show, THE SUPERSONIC JAZZ SHOW, this morning
I'll be doing a special two-hour show devoted exclusively to the music and
words of Sun Ra. It starts at 9:00 (PST).

www.radioksoc.net

If you aren't able to listen in live, the show will be archived within the next
week.

Thanks,
Travis Chaney

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photos - Fareed Haque Group, 7.19.2008, Tabfest, Mendon, OH

Scott — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:17:16 GMT

Here is a link to photos I took of the Fareed Haque Group, 7.19.2008, Tabfest, Mendon, OH:

http://www.cincygroove.com/?q=node/401

Scott

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Photos of Charlie Hunter Trio, 7.19.2008, Tabfest, Mendon, OH

Scott — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:38:36 GMT

Photos of Charlie Hunter Trio, 7.19.2008, Tabfest, Mendon, OH:

http://www.cincygroove.com/?q=node/397

Scott

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Dave LeFevbre Group at Anna's Jazz Island on Wednesday

John — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 01:35:55 GMT

Dave is a Bay Area stalwart - an outstanding musician, composer, and arranger for many Jazz groups. He's bringing his quartet to Anna's on Wednesday, July 23rd for an 8 pm show. All ages are welcome. Cover is $12.

The group is:
Dave Le Febvre saxophones and EWI
Murray Low piano
Dan Feiszli bass
Curt Moore drums

Great, easy fun on a Wednesday night, in a cool, easy-to-get to Berkeley location! For a parking map and other information please go to http://www.annasjazzisland.com/. See you there!

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Check out this Jazz documentary!

ftmob — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 04:44:41 GMT

Hi everyone

I'm on the team behind "From the Mouthpiece on Back", a feature-length documentary about courage, hope, optimism, love, respect, some wind and water – and the kick-ass brassy jazz band, TBC Brass Band, from New Orleans.

Questlove from The Roots appears in the movie, and award-winning actress Kerry Washington narrates.

We've screened the movie in four film festivals so far this year and have had great reviews ("terrific," "inspiring," "incredible"). We plan to self-distribute the DVD exclusively via our website in August 2008.

Our goal is to reach as wide an audience as possible to inspire others with TBC's story, to help TBC enhance its opportunities for success post-Katrina, and to donate a portion of any profits to help rebuild the great city of New Orleans (by sponsoring the "FTMOB Team Home" at Make It Right charity and by helping the Silence Is Violence charity and TBC itself). (We also hope to get out of debt for making the movie.)

It'd be great if you checked out website (www.ftmob.com), MySpace paqe (http://www.myspace.com/fromthemouthpieceonback) or Facebook group (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=17200066692)

Let us know what you think by posting on our MySpace page or shoot us an email at ftmobmovie@gmail.com

Thanks!

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Jazz in the Valley: 25-27 July

bugwitch — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 03:28:19 GMT

http://www.jazzinthevalley.com/index.html

In Ellensburg, WA

I haven't been before, but am looking forward to it.

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Ernestine in trouble......

gratephil — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:22:14 GMT

Ernestine Anderson is now in the same 'club' as many on the west coast---a mortgage gone south on her is leaving this Seattle legend 75K away from keeping her home. I know many of us don't like to think how our finely attired heroes are often getting by on a tiny social security check...but that's reality..and Ernestine has meant a great deal to the music. Any of you with a few extra in residuals and play money lying around who love this Lady and her legacy...well..."Now's The Time".

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Marilyn Scott

sarah — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:21:45 GMT

I'm a huge jazz fan, and tend to be more so during the summer; something about summertime and jazz I guess.
Last night I got my copy of Marilyn Scott's new cd "Every Time We Say Goodbye". She does arrangements of the classic standards like, "Autumn In New York" and "The Way to San Jose" that are of impeccable musicianship. To me, the emotional depth that carries through her voice sets her apart from most vocalists. It's my favorite jazz cd right now, and I highly recommend it. http://www.myspace.com/marilynscottmusic

Happy summer!

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Commemorating the life of George T. Butler Jr.

tony — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:40:38 GMT

Butler was an influence to Jazz. I created a tribute in his name so that we can remember his life and contributions to a great genre of music.

http://respectance.com/George_T_Butler

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Colin Stetson in SF THIS Tuesday

David — Mon, 05 May 2008 09:37:47 GMT

Tuesday, May 6, 2008, 8:00pm, $10 to $15 sliding scale
COLIN STETSON
DARREN JOHNSTON
SCOTT AMENDOLA
At the Climate Theater
285 9th Street @ Folsom, San Francisco

COLIN STETSON
He is THE jazz player to watch out for. Colin has a unique sax voice. His work has been featured on the David Letterman Show, in sessions and on tour with Tom Waits, Sinead O'Connor, Burning Spear and Medeski, Martin, and Wood, Anthony Braxton and "TV On The Radio". He is currently touring with the band, ARCADE FIRE, playing clarinet, bass clarinet, french horn, cornet and bass saxophone. Web: http://www.colinstetson.com Some YouTubes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5SH7JFv2yo With Transmission: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ1d6-iSq2w

Quote: "Michigan native Colin Stetson is like the Roger Federer of avant-garde instrumental music. While the Swiss tennis player has changed the way we think of tennis, Stetson is redefining the possibilities of woodwind and brass instruments. Equally at home on the flute, French horn, clarinet, and saxophone, Stetson's musical innovations bring to mind the work of Fred Frith, Henry Kaiser and John Zorn. "

Joining Colin will be Darran Johnston and Scott Amendola.

About Scott Amendola (from the NY Times): "The drummer Scott Amendola could fairly be described as a jazz musician with an investment in the imperatives of groove. He seems to come by his eclecticism naturally: when rock, bebop and Afrobeat take turns surfacing in his music, they do so in a way that feels loose and unforced. " Web: http://www.scottamendola.com

About Darren Johnston: "As a performer, Johnston has performed, and/or recorded with such innovative musicians and composers as guitarist Fred Frith, clarinetist Don Byron, bassist Marcus Shelby, bassist Herbie Lewis, the ROVA Saxophone Quartet, clarinetist Ben Goldberg, and others. He was recently listed last June by Downbeat Magazine as one of “25 Trumpeters of the Future.” Web: http://www.darrenjohnstonmusic.com

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Rosey's New Album

sarah — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:21:08 GMT

One of my jazz faves is Rosey, who's song "Love" was featured in Bridget Jones's Diary. I was on iTunes Jazz today and read a feature about her new album "Luckiest Girl" which is out today. She's so amazing....

Here's the info if anyone's interested: http://www.quango.com/ecards/rosey

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Looking for some music for performing

bugwitch — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 08:24:46 GMT

Hey all, I just joined (love all sorts of music) and am in need of some good music for dancing to. I belly dance and enjoy mixing up what I dance to. I'm not a professional, but will be dancing in a Nursing Home and would like to throw in some music that might be familiar to some of the residents. I have a Duke Ellington tune (mooch) along with my other more "traditional" (notice quotes) belly dance music. I personally love Bessie Smith and Ella Fitzgerald.

Ok, what I'm looking for is slower with a stronger (easy to "feel") beat. I like dancing to all sorts of music, but I like to be able to have a good feel for the rhythm. If you have any names or links that would be great. Thanks.

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Vicki Burns Sings In April!

floragreen — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:36:04 GMT

Hello dear friends and fans,
Spring has truly arrived and finds me busily buzzing
like a little bee with lots of exciting projects a
bloom! Please check out these fine venues this month
and support live music in the bay area!

Fresh Cuts Cabaret:

On April 11th I will be joined by several fine singers
and a stellar trio has we explore a new chapter in the
Great American Song Book! Ken Muir and I will both be
featuring original music in this show called Fresh
Cuts Cabaret!

For location and ticket info please visit our website:

For more information, please visit our website:

http://www.freshcutscabaret.com

Zingari Ristorante!

I will be returning to this lovely lounge located in
the heart of Union Square. Join me for two Wednesdays,
April 2nd and April 16th with the fabulous Jeff
Massanari on guitar!

Zingari Ristorante has delicious Italian Cuisine ansd
a charming atmosphere. Music is from 7:30-11:30pm.
Hope to see you there!!

Zingari Ristorante is located inside the Donatello
Hotel located at the corner of Post and Mason.

Please call 415-885-8850 for reservations.

www.zingari.com

Little Saigon!

I will be returning to this delightful gem of a venue
on Friday, April 4th. Please join me for the
finest Vietnamese cuisine and some sweet, hot jazz by
the Vicki Burns Duo with the fabulous Jeff Massanari
on guitar!

The Music is from 5-9:00pm with no cover but believe
me you will want to make dinner reservations, the food
is simply fantastic! Here is a recent review:

http://www.judysbook.com/members/bellagreen/posts/2006/12/496132/

The Flytrap!

I'll be at the Flytrap on these dates in April:
Saturday the 5th and Friday the 25th with the fabulous
Ken Muir on piano. On Friday the 18th, I will be
singing with the great Alan
Steger!

Please come out to hear some great music and
have some of the finest cuisine in the City! Music is
from 6:30-10:30pm.

FlyTrap Restaurant
606 Folsom St.
San Francisco, CA 94107

Cross Street: between 2nd and 3rd

Web Site: flytraprestaurant.com
Email Address: reservation@flytraprestaurant.com
Phone Number: (415) 243-0580

Jordan's at the Claremont Hotel!

I will be returning with my trio of excellent
musicians on Sunday, April 13th!

With me will be the fantastic line up of
David Udolf on piano, John Nichols on bass and Smith
Dobson V on drums.

Please join us for dinner and dancing from
6:00-10:00pm.

Reservations recommended!

The food and staff are absolutely superb!

For more info please visit their website:

http://www.bay-area-reservations.com/claremont/

**** Please Hold the Date, Friday May 16th at Anna's
Jazz Island!****

Please join me as I finish my live recording project
with the same stellar trio that I had last year: John
Nichols on guitar, Sam Bevan on bass and Smith Dobson
V on drums!!

As always, I treasure your friendship and value your
support!

All The Best,
Vicki Burns

http://www.myspace.com/vickiburnsjazz

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!Jazz Musicians 4 Youth Suicide Prevention!

MEREProject — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:06:40 GMT

Calling Instrumental/Jazz Vocalists, Music Makers and Music Lovers! Let's make a change!

http://www.themereproject.org/no2suicide

Raising awareness and funding for youth suicide prevention, The MÈRE Project Charitable Trust is developing “Simply Jobim”, a very original collection of 18 of the most beautiful songs by Antonio Carlos Jobim, the George Gershwin of Brasil. We are inviting Music Makers and Music Lovers from all over the U.S. and it's territories to join us in the production of Simply Jobim by contributing audio or MIDI instrumental tracks to the project, (effectively recorded live), or simply by making a nominal contribution of $5 USD and participating as a Project Member. ~ Come, join us in this creative journey of producing hope and a particular support for the children of America.

"Yesterday is a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But, today well lived makes
every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well, therefore, to this day."
Sanskrit Proverb

"Vision with action can change the world."
Joel Barker

http://www.themereproject.org/no2suicide
!Uniting Musicians (& Music Lovers) 4 Youth Suicide Prevention!

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My jazz show on SOU's college station KSOC

travischaney — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:10:26 GMT

Travis Chaney's Supersonic Jazz Hour
Friday nights at 7:00 PST
http://www.sou.edu/su/KSOC/

I play mostly modernistic, free, avant-garde stuff.

(Schedule will change with the new quarter beginning next month.)

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Vicki Burns Sings In March!

floragreen — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:09:35 GMT

Hi Everyone!

Lots of very exciting news to share with you this
month! First, check out some new mixes of me and my
terrific band at Anna's Jazz Island last year on my
myspace page! Special thanks to the wonderful Lou
Judson who made it possible...Some plans are in the
works to finish the project at Anna's and I will be
sure to keep you informed!

http://www.myspace.com/vickiburnsjazz

*New Recording Project!*

I will also be going into the studio in the next
couple of months to record a brand new project with
the acclaimed Cesar Cancino (who has worked or
appeared with Joan Baez, Thelma Houston, Maria
Muldaur, Mercedes Sosa among other vocal luminaries!)
that I am very excited about! More info as it
unfolds...

Also, please save the date: April 11th at the Thick
Theater in San Francisco for "Fresh Cuts Cabaret"!
This will be a wonderful evening of all original music
and will feature music and lyrics written by ken Muir,
myself and other wonderful vocalists and composers.
More details to follow!

Here are some great venues to catch me and the Bay
Area's finest instrumentalists this month!

The Flytrap!

I'll be at the Flytrap on these dates in March:
Friday the 7th and Saturday the 22nd with the fabulous
Ken Muir on piano. On Friday the 14th I will be
singing with the great Alan Steger!

**Don't forget that tonight, the 29th of February I
will be at the Flytrap with the wonderful David Udolf
on piano!**

Please come out to hear some great music and
have some of the finest cuisine in the City! Music is
from 6:30-10:30pm.

FlyTrap Restaurant
606 Folsom St.
San Francisco, CA 94107

Cross Street: between 2nd and 3rd

Web Site: flytraprestaurant.com
Email Address: reservation@flytraprestaurant.com
Phone Number: (415) 243-0580

Jordan's at the Claremont Hotel!

I will be returning with my trio of excellent
musicians on Sunday, March 9th!

With me will be the fantastic line up of
Ken Muir on piano, John Nichols on bass and Smith
Dobson V on drums.

Please join us for dinner and dancing from
6:00-10:00pm.

Reservations recommended!

The food and staff are absolutely superb!

For more info please visit their website:

http://www.bay-area-reservations.com/claremont/

Bistro Yoffi!

On Saturday, March 8th I will be returning to a
favorite venue to for us to perform, Bistro Yoffi!
With me will be the stellar trio of: Mark Holzinger on
guitar, John Wiitala on bass and Bob Blankenship on
drums!

Music is from 8:00pm to 12:00 Midnight!

The food, atmosphere and outstanding staff make Bistro
Yoffi one of the most delightful spots in the City to
enjoy live music!

http://www.bistroyoffi.com/info.html

As always, I treasure your friendship and value your
support!

All The Best,
Vicki Burns

http://www.vickiburns.com

http://www.myspace.com/vickiburnsjazz

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Booking NOW: Music Box Series @ Climate Theater

David — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 22:58:45 GMT

If I haven't gotten to you yet, here's the scoop:

I'm curator for a Tuesday night music series at the Climate Theater, 9th and Folsom in SF. It's a 50-seat acoustic space, great for unamplified music at a reasonable time of night (8-11pm).

If you're interested in this venue, let me know and also point me to music samples.

The place has a stage fitting about 8 people, so it's also good for mixed media performances, puppet shows, all kinds of things.

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Tune in tomorrow to "Jazz On The Bay!"

floragreen — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:10:00 GMT

Don't miss!

Melanie's O'Reilly's
"Jazz on the Bay",
RTE Radio 1
next Thursday Feb.7th @ 1.03pm (Californian time)

Week 6 : "Women of Jazz in the Bay Area"

To round up the current series, Celtic-Jazz singer
Melanie O'Reilly takes a trip to Downtown San
Francisco, Berkeley and Oakland to talk to the women
of jazz in the Bay Area.
She hears their fascinating stories and their music
and learns how women instrumentalists, vocalists, and
entrepeuneurs of jazz clubs, conservertoires, and
public libraries, increasingly play a vital and
important role in this unique jazz community.

features Anna De Leon, Frankye Kelly, Vicki Burns,
Faye Carol, Denise Perrier, Tammy Hall, and other
guests.

This series continues to be Critics Choice and Pick of
the Day , by the Irish Times , the RTE Guide.and "The
Sunday Independent".

~ Get it online live streaming by going to :
http://www.rte.ie/radio1 /jazzonthebay/
then go to the right hand side of the page and click
on "Listen Live"

~ If you miss it, you can still get it on the archive!
Just click on: http://www.rte.ie/radio1
/jazzonthebay/1103526.html

~If you enjoy any of the programs, let RTE know by
emailing them at: musicradio@rte.ie

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Vicki Burns Sings In February!

floragreen — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 22:38:47 GMT

Dear Friends and Fans,
There are some very exciting things for me coming up
this month and I want you to know all about them...

Jazz On The Bay!

First of all, I will be featured in a wonderful show
to be broadcast on Radio Ireland next Thursday the 7th
of February! The show is presented and hosted by
Melanie O'Reilly a truly delightful Celtic singer from
Ireland who is based in Berkeley and a visiting
scholar at UC Berkeley. Her show is entitled "Jazz On
The Bay" and this segment will feature Women jazz
musicians from the Bay area. I feel honored to be a
part of it! My segment of the show will include a cut
from my performance last year at Anna's Jazz Island
that some of you may remember was a big hit:
"Polkadots and Moonbeams!" More information to follow
including how to listen on line!

Talk Show Live!

My adventures in radio continue with a special guest
appearance on San Francisco's newest and most original
podcast radio show, "Talk Show Live!" I will be
singing some "Not Exactly Valentine's Day" songs with
the wonderful Cafe Americain, led by Ned Boynton on
guitar! Here is the information reprinted from their
newsletter:

Join us on February 11 for our "Not Exactly Valentines
Day" Show ! Some people love it, some people hate it.
February 11 is not exactly Valentine's Day, so we've
got a show for you that's both sweet and sour,
featuring:

*Writer/performer/local favorite BETH LISICK, fresh
off the road from her book tour for her latest entry
on the New York Times best-seller list, Helping Me
Help Myself. If you've listened to the radio at all in
the last month, you've already heard Beth talk about
her year of experimenting with self-help gurus and
programs. But we haven't heard anyone ask her how she
morphed from SF slam poetry bad girl into NPR media
darling. We're going to try to find out more --and
we've also convinced Beth to perform a number for us
(maybe one of the greatest hits from her previous
band, The Beth Lisick Ordeal).

* Charles Chocolates founder CHUCK SIEGEL, a man who
loves his work, which he summarizes as "making people
happy." The rest of the world has to settle for
watching Chuck share his super-premium, handmade
gourmet chocolate with Martha Stewart on her February
5 TV show, but the Willy Wonka of the Bay Area will be
bringing our audience not exactly Valentine's Day
samples. And if we get our way, Chuck will tell us if
the real reason he's so happy is because it's true
that "chocolate is the new sex". . .

*Musical guest, jazz singer VICKI BURNS, who's been
performing her soulful and romantic take on jazz
standards in the Bay Area since 1989. Vicki's promised
some appropriate musical commentary on Valentine's
Day. If you haven't had the opportunity to hear her
perform at Enrico's, Cosmopolitan, Flytrap, Downtown,
the Claremont or any of the other top jazz venues
where Vicki appears, you are in for a treat.

Vicki will be performing with the TSL house band, CAFE
AMERICAIN. Our audience favorite gypsy-jazz combo will
be on before, during and after the show

*Plus, a special not-exactly Valentine's Day
performance by our host, KURT BODDEN.

So be our Not Exactly Valentine's Day date -- or bring
your own!

Reserve your table in advance by buying online
Our best tables get reserved by advance ticket buyers
before the show. That's especially true now that we're
serving dinner and snacks --along with the usual
drinks-- downstairs in the club. Caffe Macaroni Sciue
Sciue has two menus for our audience: a special
prix-fixe deal (offered between 7-8 only) and an ala
carte light supper menu (including pizza and
sandwiches) available all night. You can also buy a
bottle of wine or prosecco for your table rather than
individual drinks --just ask your waitress.

While we will always try to hold enough tickets at the
door for walk-ins, your best bet is to order tickets
online through the website by February 10 and get a
priority reserved table at the show (we'll hold it
until 7:45 pm). Come on down when the doors open at 7
pm to mingle and relax over dinner during Cafe
Americain's pre-show set. If last time was any
indication, the party is going to start early -- and
go late -- from now on!

Logistical Details

* Doors open at 7:00. Come early to grab your table,
relax over a drink or dinner, and enjoy the band's
opening set.

* The interview part of the show runs from 8:00 to
9:20.

* After the show, hang out with us at the after-party
until 10 or so. The bar stays open, the band keeps
playing, and we all get to meet one another. We'll
have a drawing for free tickets and other goodies. . .
and maybe surprise guests!

Location

The Purple Onion, located at 140 Columbus Avenue in
North Beach, is one of San Francisco's most celebrated
venues, a hub of music and comedy during the Beat era.
Lenny Bruce, Woody Allen, Jonathan Winters, and the
Smothers Brothers all performed at this intimate
cellar club. Phyllis Diller and the Kingston Trio
began their careers here. There's on-street parking
and three parking garages within sight of the club.

************************************************

Here are the other great venues where I will be
performing this month! I hope to see you soon!

Little Saigon!

I will be returning to this delightful gem of a venue
on Friday, February 8th. Please join me for the
finest Vietnamese cuisine and some sweet, hot jazz by
the Vicki Burns Duo with the fabulous Jeff Massanari
on guitar!

The Music is from 5-9:00pm with no cover but believe
me you will want to make dinner reservations, the food
is simply fantastic! Here is a recent review:

http://www.judysbook.com/members/bellagreen/posts/2006/12/496132/

The Flytrap!

I'll be at the Flytrap on these dates in February:
Saturday the 2nd the fabulous Ken Muir on piano. On
Friday the 15th I will be singing with the great Alan
Steger and on Friday the 29th with the marvelous David
Udolf on piano!

Please come out to hear some great music and
have some of the finest cuisine in the City! Music is
from 6:30-10:30pm.

FlyTrap Restaurant
606 Folsom St.
San Francisco, CA 94107

Cross Street: between 2nd and 3rd

Web Site: flytraprestaurant.com
Email Address: reservation@flytraprestaurant.com
Phone Number: (415) 243-0580

Jordan's at the Claremont Hotel!

I will be returning with my trio of excellent
musicians on Sunday, February 10th!

With me will be the fantastic line up of
David Udolf on piano, John Nichols on bass and Smith
Dobson V on drums.

Please join us for dinner and dancing from
6:00-10:00pm.

Reservations recommended!

The food and staff are absolutely superb!

For more info please visit their website:

http://www.bay-area-reservations.com/claremont/

Romance your Valentine at Bistro Yoffi!!

February, on the 14th I will be returning to Bistro
Yoffi for our annual Valentine's day celebration! With
me will be the stellar trio of: Bob Brumbaloe on
guitar, Sam Bevan on bass and Smith Dobson on drums!

This celebration always sells out so please make your
reservations early!

The food, atmosphere and outstanding staff make Bistro
Yoffi one of the most delightful spots in the City to
enjoy live music!

http://www.bistroyoffi.com/info.html

As always, I treasure your friendship and value your
support!

All The Best,
Vicki Burns

http://www.vickiburns.com

http://www.myspace.com/vickiburnsjazz

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Oscar Peterson R. I. P.

I-Storm — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 23:18:51 GMT

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/25/arts/25peterson.html

December 25, 2007
Oscar Peterson, 82, Jazz’s Piano Virtuoso, Dies

By RICHARD SEVERO
Oscar Peterson, whose dazzling piano playing made him one of the most popular jazz artists in history, died on Sunday night at his home in Mississauga, Ontario, outside Toronto. He was 82.

The cause was kidney failure, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reported. Mr. Peterson had performed publicly for a time even after a stroke he suffered in 1993 compromised movement in his left hand.

Mr. Peterson was one of the greatest virtuosos in jazz, with a piano technique that was always meticulous and ornate and sometimes overwhelming. But rather than expand the boundaries of jazz, he used his gifts in the service of moderation and reliability, gratifying his devoted audiences whether he was playing in a trio or solo or accompanying some of the most famous names of jazz. His technical accomplishments were always evident, almost transparently so. Even at his peak, there was very little tension in his playing.

One of the most prolific major stars in jazz history, he amassed an enormous discography. From the 1950s until his death, he released sometimes four or five albums a year, toured Europe and Japan frequently and became a big draw at jazz festivals.

Norman Granz, his influential manager and producer, helped Mr. Peterson realize that success, setting loose a flow of records on his own Verve and Pablo labels and establishing Mr. Peterson as a favorite in his touring Jazz at the Philharmonic concerts in the 1940s and ’50s.

Mr. Peterson won eight Grammy awards, as well as almost every possible honor in the jazz world. He played alongside giants like Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Charlie Parker, Roy Eldridge, Nat King Cole, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie and Ella Fitzgerald.

Duke Ellington referred to him as “maharajah of the keyboard.” Basie said, “Oscar Peterson plays the best ivory box I’ve ever heard.” The pianist and conductor André Previn called Mr. Peterson “the best” among jazz pianists.

In a review of a performance in 1987, Stephen Holden, writing in The New York Times, said, “Mr. Peterson’s rock-solid sense of swing, grounded in Count Basie, is balanced by a delicacy of tone and fleetness of touch that make his extended runs seem to almost disappear into the sky.” He added, “His amazing speed was matched by an equally amazing sense of thematic invention.”

But many critics found Mr. Peterson more derivative than original, especially early in his career. Some even suggested that his fantastic technique lacked coherence and was almost too much for some listeners to compute.

Billy Taylor, a fellow pianist and a jazz historian, said he thought that while Mr. Peterson was a “remarkable musician,” his “phenomenal facility sometimes gets in the way of people’s listening.”

Whitney Balliett, the jazz critic of The New Yorker, wrote in 1966 that Mr. Peterson’s playing “continues to be a pudding made of the leavings of Art Tatum, Nat Cole and Teddy Wilson.”

The critical ambivalence was typified in 1973 in a review of a Peterson performance by John S. Wilson of The Times. Mr. Wilson wrote: “For the last 20 years, Oscar Peterson has been one of the most dazzling exponents of the flying fingers school of piano playing. His performances have tended to be beautifully executed displays of technique but woefully weak on emotional projection.”

The complaints evoked those heard in the 1940s about the great concert violinist Jascha Heifetz, who was occasionally accused of being so technically brilliant that one could not find his or the composer’s heart and soul in the music he played.

The jazz critic Gene Lees defended Mr. Peterson as “a summational artist.”

“So was Mozart. So was Bach,” Mr. Lees wrote in his biography of Mr. Peterson, “The Will to Swing” (1990). “Bach and Mozart were both dealing with known vocabularies and an accepted body of aesthetic principles.” He noted that just as Bach used material that he first heard in Vivaldi, “Oscar uses a curious spinning figure that he got from Dizzy Gillespie.”

Oscar Emmanuel Peterson was born in the poor St. Antoine district of Montreal on Aug. 15, 1925, one of five children of Daniel Peterson, a West Indian immigrant, and the former Olivia John, whom Daniel had met in Montreal. Daniel Peterson, who worked as a sleeping-car porter on the Canadian Pacific Railway, had taught himself how to play the organ before he landed in Halifax, N.S., in 1917. Mr. Peterson’s mother, who also had roots in the Caribbean, encouraged Oscar to study music.

As a boy, Oscar began to learn the trumpet as well as the piano. At 7, he contracted tuberculosis and was hospitalized for 13 months. Fearing the strain the trumpet might put on his son’s lungs, Daniel Peterson persuaded him to concentrate on piano. He studied first with Lou Hooper, then with Paul (Alexander) de Marky, a Hungarian who had also given lessons to Oscar’s older sister, Daisy.

By his own account, Oscar believed he had become quite accomplished by age 14. Then he heard a recording by Art Tatum.

“I gave up the piano for two solid months,” Mr. Peterson later recalled, and had “crying fits at night” because he thought nobody else could ever be as good as Tatum.

The same year, however, he won an amateur competition sponsored by the CBC, prompting him to drop out of Montreal High School so he could spend all his time playing the piano.

By 1942, Oscar Peterson was known in Canada as the “Brown Bomber of Boogie-Woogie,” an allusion to the nickname of the boxer Joe Louis and also to Mr. Peterson’s physical stature — 6-foot-3 and 250 pounds.

Mr. Peterson became the only black member of the Johnny Holmes Orchestra, which toured Canada and the United States. In parts of the United States, he discovered that he, like other blacks, would not be served in the same hotels and restaurants as the white musicians. Many times they would bring food out to him as he sat in the band’s bus, he recalled.

For a time, Mr. Peterson was so identified with popular dance boogie-woogie that he was denied wider recognition as a serious jazz musician. In 1947, Mr. Granz, the jazz impresario, was on his way to Montreal’s airport in a taxi when he heard a live broadcast of Mr. Peterson playing at a local lounge. He ordered the driver to turn the taxi around and take him to the lounge. There he persuaded Mr. Peterson to move away from boogie-woogie.

Mr. Peterson eventually became a mainstay of the Jazz at the Philharmonic series, which Mr. Granz created in the 1940s. In 1949 Mr. Peterson made his debut at Carnegie Hall, becoming a sensation. A year later he won the Down Beat magazine readers’ poll for best jazz pianist for the first time. He would go on to win it more than a dozen times, the last in 1972.

Over the years his albums sold well, and he recorded with Billie Holiday, Fred Astaire, Benny Carter, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Roy Eldridge, Lester Young, Stan Getz, Buddy DeFranco and many others. He also occasionally sang.

Among his more notable long-playing recordings were the so-called Song Books of Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Duke Ellington, Jerome Kern, Richard Rodgers, Harry Warren, Harold Arlen and Jimmy McHugh.

His format of choice was the trio. Perhaps his most famous threesome, which lasted from 1953 to 1958, was with the guitarist Herb Ellis and the bassist Ray Brown.

Though best known as an interpreter of other people’s work, Mr. Peterson cultivated a second identity as a composer. In 1964 he recorded “The Canadiana Suite,” an extended work written for his home country; he later wrote “African Suite” and “A Royal Wedding Suite,” for the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer.

Mr. Granz’s Verve and Pablo labels released most of Mr. Peterson’s work, but he also recorded for the MPS and Telarc labels, among others.

Mr. Peterson was frequently invited to perform for heads of state, including Queen Elizabeth II and President Richard M. Nixon. In 2005 he became the first living person other than a reigning monarch to obtain a commemorative stamp in Canada, where streets, squares, concert halls and schools are named after him.

Mr. Peterson’s autobiography, “A Jazz Odyssey: The Life of Oscar Peterson,” was published in 2002 by Continuum.

According to the CBC, Mr. Peterson was married four times. He had a daughter, Celine, with his fourth wife, Kelly. He also had six children from his first and third marriages: Lyn, Sharon, Gay, Oscar Jr., Norman and Joel.

Mr. Peterson continued playing after his stroke in 1993 because, as he told The Chicago Tribune, “I think I have a closeness with the instrument that I’ve treasured over the years.” Before long he was back on tour and recording, among other albums, “Side by Side” with Itzhak Perlman, having learned to do more playing with his right hand. As he told Down Beat in 1997: “When I sit down to the piano, I don’t want any scuffling. I want it to be a love affair.”

Ben Ratliff contributed reporting.

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Vicki Burns Sings This Weekend!

floragreen — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 23:20:58 GMT

The Flytrap!

I'll be at the Flytrap tonight, Friday January 11th
with the wonderful Alan Steger!!

Please come out to hear some great music and
have some of the finest cuisine in the City! Music is
from 6:30-10:30pm.

FlyTrap Restaurant
606 Folsom St.
San Francisco, CA 94107

Cross Street: between 2nd and 3rd

Web Site: flytraprestaurant.com
Email Address: reservation@flytraprestaurant.com
Phone Number: (415) 243-0580

Jordan's at the Claremont Hotel!

I will be returning with my trio of excellent
musicians on Sunday, January 13th!

With me will be the absolutely stellar line up of
David Udolf on piano, John Nichols on bass and Smith
Dobson V on drums.

Please join us for dinner and dancing from
6:00-10:00pm.

Reservations recommended!

The food and staff are absolutely superb!

For more info please visit their website:

http://www.bay-area-reservations.com/claremont/

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new jazz music!!

djtbird — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:57:36 GMT

here's a link to some youtube videos that you might find interesting:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=TQwydDmrFME&feature=related

christian prommer (truby trio/fauna flash) has a new project that is jazz interpretations of dance club classics. it's jazz, not dance music...

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Vicki Burns Sings In December!

floragreen — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:16:54 GMT

Dear Friends and fans,
I hope that the holiday season brings great joy and
comfort to you and your loved ones! Please join me at
one of these terrific venues for some holiday cheer
and celebrate the light as it returns.

Just a reminder that I will be at a new venue this
weekend in the East Bay and hope to see some friends
from across the Bay...

Joe's Of Lafayette!

Please join me on Friday, November 30th from 7-10pm
with the marvelous Ken Muir on piano!

Joe's is a sparkling gem of a venue and I am excited
to be performing there! For more info check their
funky website:

http://www.joesoflafayette.com/

Caffe Trieste in Sausalito!

I will be returning to this delightfully funky and
intimate venue with the wonderful Jeff Massanari on
Sunday, the 2nd of December from 7:00-10:00pm. The
food and staff are terrific and the local folks are
really warm and friendly! I may have some special
guests sit in as well...

Music is from 7-10:00pm No cover, but delicious food
and beverages to enjoy!

Please see their website for more info:

http://www.sausalitotrieste.com/

Jordan's at the Claremont Hotel!

I will be returning with my trio of excellent
musicians on Sunday December 9th!

With me will be the absolutely stellar line up of
David Udolf on piano, John Nichols on bass and Smith
Dobson V on drums.

Please join us for dinner and dancing from
6:00-10:00pm.

Reservations recommended!

The food and staff are absolutely superb!

For more info please visit their website:

http://www.bay-area-reservations.com/claremont/

The Orinda House!

Also, I am excited to be at a new venue on Saturday
December 15th, the Orinda House!

I am the special guest of the Bob Belanski(drums) trio
featuring Andy Woodhouse on bass and John Seppala on
piano.

Music and dancing from 7:30-11:00pm. Delicious food,
tasty drinks and wonderful ambiance!

Please check out their website for more info:

http://orindahouse.com/

The Flytrap!

I'll be at the Flytrap on these dates in December:
Friday the 14th with the wonderful Lee Bloom on piano
and Saturday the 22nd with the fabulous David Udolf!

Please come out to hear some great music and
have some of the finest cuisine in the City! Music is
from 6:30-10:30pm.

FlyTrap Restaurant
606 Folsom St.
San Francisco, CA 94107

Cross Street: between 2nd and 3rd

Web Site: flytraprestaurant.com
Email Address: reservation@flytraprestaurant.com
Phone Number: (415) 243-0580

As always, I treasure your friendship and value your
support!

All The Best,
Vicki Burns

http://www.vickiburns.com

http://www.myspace.com/vickiburnsjazz

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Vicki Burns Sings In November!

floragreen — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:14:25 GMT

Hello Dear Friends and Fans,
I hope that this little note finds you well and happy
and keeping warm as the weather gets colder! Come join
me at one of the wonderful venues and enjoy some
terrific music and a cup of cheer.

Little Saigon!

I'll be at this great new venue in Concord on Friday
the 2nd of November with the fab Jeff Massanari on
guitar! Music is from 5-9:00pm with no cover. You will
want to check out their menu and reviews, this place
is already becoming very popular in Concord! For more
info
or to book a reservation, please give them a call:

Little Saigon

785 Oak Grove Road Concord, CA 94518

(925) 827-1900

In the meantime, check out this great review:

http://www.judysbook.com/members/bellagreen/posts/2006/12/496132/

The Flytrap!

I'll be at the Flytrap on these dates in November:
Fridays the 9th and the 17th with the marvelous Ken
Muir on piano!

Please come out to hear some great music and
have some of the finest cuisine in the City! Music is
from 6:30-10:30pm.

FlyTrap Restaurant
606 Folsom St.
San Francisco, CA 94107

Cross Street: between 2nd and 3rd

Web Site: flytraprestaurant.com
Email Address: reservation@flytraprestaurant.com
Phone Number: (415) 243-0580

Jordan's at the Claremont Hotel!

Thanks to a wonderful turnout on my birthday and to
great reviews by the staff and customers, I will be
performing at the Claremont once a month, so mark your
calendars for the second Sunday starting this month on
November 11th!

With me will be the absolutely stellar line up of
David Udolf on piano, John Nichols on bass and Smith
Dobson V on drums. These fine musicians will be my
choice for house band on the second Sunday, so if you
missed them for my birthday bash, be sure you catch
them on the 11th!

Please join us for dinner and dancing from
6:00-9:00pm.

Reservations recommended!

The food and staff are absolutely superb!

For more info please visit their website:

http://www.bay-area-reservations.com/claremont/

Cafe Trieste in Sausalito!

I will be returning to this delightfully funky and
intimate venue with the wonderful Jeff Massanari on
Sunday, the 25th of November from 7:00-10:00pm. The
food and staff are terrific and the local folks are
really warm and friendly! I may have some special
guests sit in as well...

Music is from 7-10:00pm No cover, but delicious food
and beverages to enjoy!

Please see their website for more info:

http://www.sausalitotrieste.com/

Joe's Of Lafayette!

Please join me on Friday, November 30th from 7-10pm
with the marvelous Ken Muir on piano!

Joe's is a sparkling gem of a venue and I am excited
to be performing there! For more info check their
funky website:

http://www.joesoflafayette.com/

As always, I treasure your friendship and value your
support!

All The Best,
Vicki Burns

http://www.vickiburns.com

http://www.myspace.com/vickiburnsjazz

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Vicki Burns Sings In September!

floragreen — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 19:16:34 GMT

Hello dear friends and fans,
As we swing into fall, I hope to see you at one of
these great venues. A special thank you to all of you
who came to support my "birthday weekend" at one of my
gigs. A most wonderful time was had by all!

The Flytrap!

I'll be at the Flytrap on these dates in September:
Saturday the 1st and Friday the 28th with the
marvelous Ken Muir on piano. On Saturday the 8th, I
will be accompanied by Mike Klein and on Saturday the
15th I will be accompanied by the acclaimed Frank
Martin on piano!

Please come out to hear some great music and
have some of the finest cuisine in the City! Music is
from 6:30-10:30pm.

FlyTrap Restaurant
606 Folsom St.
San Francisco, CA 94107

Cross Street: between 2nd and 3rd

Web Site: flytraprestaurant.com
Email Address: reservation@flytraprestaurant.com
Phone Number: (415) 243-0580

Joplin's Restaurant!

Please come out and have some tasty brunch at a new
venue for me, Joplin's in San Leandro! I will be there
on Sunday, September 9th accompanied by the great John
Nichols on guitar.

Joplin's is named for the wonderful fore father of
jazz, Scott Joplin who was the great granduncle of
Joyce Grant the owner and a very fine vocalist
herself!

Please see their website for more info:

http://joplinsrestaurant.com/index.html

Music is from 2-5:30pm.

Free with brunch which is a delicious all you can eat
buffet!

Cafe Trieste!

I am happy to say I'll be returning to Marin to
perform as this lovely venue! I'll be at Cafe Trieste
on Sunday, September 30th with the wonderful Jeff
Massanari on guitar!

Music is from 7-10:00pm No cover, but delicious food
and beverages to enjoy!

Please see their website for more info:

http://www.sausalitotrieste.com/

Once again a big "Thank You" to all for your continued
support!

All The Best,
Vicki Burns

http://www.vickiburns.com

http://www.myspace.com/vickiburnsjazz

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R.I.P. Max Roach

plastic-hero — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:56:59 GMT

One of the first drummers that played bebop died last night in Manhattan (1924). Roach played with almost everyone including Parkers Savoy session (1945).

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Soil & Pimp Sessions

plastic-hero — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 21:45:21 GMT

Anyone allready listened to the Japanese band Soil & Pimp sessions? Brrrr pumpin powerjazz, bringing energy into this summer that doesn't want to start.

http://www.jvcmusic.co.jp/soilpimp/eng/index_eng.html

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Hollywood and Highland in Los Angeles

Elatedfire — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:27:07 GMT

Went to this last Tuesday and the music was awesome. It's a great setup... music is in the courtyard, you can buy a cheese/crackers/fruit and 2 wine tickets "meal" for $10 and get your parking validated. ......... extra wine tickets are $3 each...

http://www.jazzandblues.org/features/2007/hhJazz07/

Tuesday Evenings June 5 - September 4 7-9pm
...
Didn't see this posted already, sorry if repeat...

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Vicki Burns Sings In August!

floragreen — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 04:54:44 GMT

Dear Friends and Fans,

First of all, I am so excited to be returning to the
fabulous newly opened Enrico's!! The new owner,
Christina Deeb has created a gorgeous, warm look and
feel while keeping a real sense of continuity with
Enrico's history.

Also, I have performances at the Flytrap in San
Francisco, the Agenda Lounge in San Jose and Jordan's
at the Claremont in Berkeley (with special shows on my
birthday weekend!), so please stop by one of these
great venues to see me!

Enrico's!

Please come join me and Max Perkoff on piano
as we swing into a new era at Enrico's on Wednesday
night, August 1st. Music is from 7-11:00pm!

Enrico's is located at 504 Broadway at Kearny,San
Francisco, CA 94133

General Information and Reservations: 415-982-6223

The Flytrap!

I'll be at the Flytrap on these dates in August:
Friday, the 3rd with the great Alan Steger on piano,
Fridays the 17th and 24th the marvelous Ken Muir
returns to accompany me and on Saturday the 11th of
August, the wonderful David Udolf will be there!

Please come out to hear some great music and
have some of the finest cuisine in the City! Music is
from 6:30-10:30pm.

FlyTrap Restaurant
606 Folsom St.
San Francisco, CA 94107

Cross Street: between 2nd and 3rd

Web Site: flytraprestaurant.com
Email Address: reservation@flytraprestaurant.com
Phone Number: (415) 243-0580

The Agenda Lounge!

I am very excited to be performing at a new venue for
me in San Jose, the Agenda Lounge. Please tell your
friends in the San Jose area to come out and here some
great music on Saturday the 25th of August! With me
will be the wonderful John Nichols on guitar and the
the superb Aaron Germain on bass! Music is from
7:30-9:45pm

Please visit their website for more details:

http://www.agendalounge.com/agendalounge.html

Jordan's at the Claremont in Berkeley!

***August 26th, Sunday from 6-10:00pm***

Come help me celebrate my birthday! As some of you
might remember, last year I celebrated my birthday
with a rockin' jazz party at Enrico's. This year, the
party will be at the Claremont Hotel in Berkeley and I
invite all of you to join me at the wonderful, elegant
spot for music, dancing and a whole lot of fun! In
addition to my fabulous trio, I will have a variety
of special musical guests throughout the evening.

Please join me for dinner and dancing at one of the
most beautiful venues in the Bay Area! I will have
some fantastic musicians with me: David Udolf on
piano, John Nichols on bass and the wonderful Smith
Dobson on drums!

The food and staff are absolutely superb!

For more info please visit their website:

http://www.bay-area-reservations.com/claremont/

Once again a big "Thank You" to all for your continued
support!

All The Best,
Vicki Burns

http://www.vickiburns.com

http://www.myspace.com/vickiburnsjazz

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Steve Getz - Son Of Stan

Jack — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 03:27:43 GMT

Hey all...
I have the pleasure of interviewing Steve Getz tomorrow morning during my show "Generation X Y JaZz" at www.eastvillageradio.com We'll be chatting while listening to as much of the many eras of Stan Getz music as two hours can provide. Tune in from 10 am -12 noon EST. And if you miss the show live, you'll have all week to listen to its archive by going to

http://www.eastvillageradio.com/modules.php?name=evrshow&showid=4

and clicking on "Listen to the most recent show here".

I hope it goes off well and people dig what we do.
---Jack B.

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Jazz guitar players

Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:52:29 GMT

I play guitar and I was just wondering if anybody could suggest some good albums.
My favorite guitarist would probably been Jim Hall. I really like "undercurrent" with Bill Evans. Should I pick up "intermodulation"?
I got this version of Lenny Breau playing "ebony queen" off Kazzaa. Does anybody know where I could get a recording of this. This version is much more sinister sounding than the "five o'cklock bells" version.
I'm currently listening to Joe Pass, Jim Hall, Wes Mongomery, and Lenny Breau. I can't really get into Pat Metheny or Charlie Christian. Who else is good? What's the best Django album?

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Free Jazz performances

Elatedfire — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 16:12:19 GMT

Sorry if this has been posted about before, but I only recently found out that there are free jazz performances in Los Angeles. Anyone been to one of these before?

http://grandperformances.org/

GRAND PERFORMANCES OVERVIEW:
Grand Performances presents free performing arts that reflect the best of global culture and inspire community among the diverse peoples of Los Angeles.
Grand Performances (GP) is Southern California's largest presenter of free performing arts programs and a landmark nonprofit arts institution established with a primary focus on bringing together the diverse peoples of Los Angeles, in unique settings, for concerts celebrating the cultural contributions of our community's peoples.
Based at California Plaza in Downtown Los Angeles' new financial district, Grand Performances was created as part of an initiative developed by the City's Community Redevelopment Agency to insure that artists and other citizens of Los Angeles who had not been able to participate fully in the cultural life of the community would have access to a "world class" venue and program. The City wanted this program centered in the one part of Los Angeles that belongs to all communities and that is the recognized center of government, business and culture.

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Vicki Burns Sings In July!

floragreen — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 02:53:38 GMT

Dear Friends and Fans,

A Happy sparkling Fourth of July to you all! Please
come out to see some fine jazz this month at one of
these great venues.

The Flytrap!

I'll be at the Flytrap on these dates in July:
Saturday the 7th with Mike Klein on piano, Fridays the
13th and 20th with Alan Steger and Saturday the 28th
with pianist TBA.

Please come out to hear some great music and
have some of the finest cuisine in the City! Music is
from 6:30-10:30pm.

FlyTrap Restaurant
606 Folsom St.
San Francisco, CA 94107

Cross Street: between 2nd and 3rd

Web Site: flytraprestaurant.com
Email Address: reservation@flytraprestaurant.com
Phone Number: (415) 243-0580

The Agenda Lounge!

I am very excited to be performing at a new venue for
me in San Jose, the Agenda Lounge. Please tell your
friends in the San Jose area to come out and here some
great music on Friday the 27th of July! With me will
be the wonderful John Nichols on guitar and the the
superb Aaron Germain on bass! Music is from
7:30-9:45pm

Please visit their website for more details:

http://www.agendalounge.com/agendalounge.html

Once again a big "Thank You" to all for your continued
support!

All The Best,
Vicki Burns

http://www.vickiburns.com

http://www.myspace.com/vickiburnsjazz

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jazz musicians generous with .mp3's

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 21:05:32 GMT

After reading Greg Osby's Q+A thread on AAJ (http://forums.allaboutjazz.com/showthread.php?t=10032) I checked out his website and saw that he has been very generous with providing "bootleg" .mp3's of his live performances. Thanks Greg! He mentioned this was something he started doing after working with Phil Lesh. This made me happy because I'm a deadhead as well as a music student majoring in jazz performance. I've enjoyed the music I've downloaded and of course plan to support him by buying his CDs and seeing him live when I get the chance.

Are there any other jazz musicians out there who are similarly generous with full-length free .mp3 downloads on their sites? If you find any please post links here!

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new episode - manouche

Canyella — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 00:05:39 GMT

Let me introduce you to my podcast - this week's episode is smoky dimly lit underground bar...check it out. Not strictly manouche but the manouche is in there. :)

http://canyella.podmatic.com

lots of love
Canyella

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Vicki Burns Sings In May!

floragreen — Wed, 02 May 2007 22:47:17 GMT

Hello Everyone! I hope all of you are having a
blooming, prosperous and joy filled Spring! I am
excited to report that the legendary Bud Spangler has
signed on to work with me on my new CD project and
that the equally well known and respected Scott Yanow
will be writing my liner notes! I will keep you all
informed as things progress...Also, I am thrilled to
be returning to these fine venues this month:

The Flytrap!

Come and experience one of the most romantic spots in
the City! The food is superb and Irina, the lovely and
charming owner will make you feel as if you are an
honored guest in her home. Add the elegance of a grand
piano expertly played by the finest pianists in town
and Voila! Extreme romance...

I'll be at the Flytrap Restaurant on Fridays, the 4th
and 11th and Saturday the 19th I'll be there with the
Marvelous Ken Muir! Joining me on Friday the 25th will
be the Awesome David Udolf on piano!
Music is from 6:30-10:30pm.

Reservations are recommended.

Here is their info:

FlyTrap Restaurant
606 Folsom St. San Francisco, CA 94107

Cross Street: between 2nd and 3rd

Web Site: flytraprestaurant.com
Email Address: reservation@flytraprestaurant.com

Bistro Yoffi!!

On Thursday, May 31st The Vicki Burns Quartet will be
returning to Bistro Yoffi!

With me will be the fab guitar god, John Nichols, Andy
Woodhouse on the bass and Smith Dobson V on the drums.
We will be performing only the most romantic tunes in
the Great American Songbook! Music will be from
7:30-11:30pm.

Bistro Yoffi 2231 Chestnut Street (between Scott and
Pierce)

Bistro Yoffi is an Oasis of Delight nestled in the
heart of the Marina District of San Francisco.
The food is wonderful and their staff is too!
Please call for reservations: 415-885-5133

Or visit their website for more info:

http://bistroyoffi.com/

Thank You All For Your Support!

All The Best,
Vicki Burns

http://www.vickiburns.com/
www.myspace.com/vickiburnsjazz

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Anyone know a Jazz Guitarist in PAris?

Juliet — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:20:11 GMT

Hi ~
I Being a jazz singer here in LA, I'm going to be in Paris in June. Have a couple dates at some nice restaurant/bars that only pay with a meal, drinks and tips from the audience. The dates are June 19th and 20th.

Hoping to find a cool guitar player who loves to play and who would like some one new to play with. (I have clear charts for all the standards and originals I do!)

Also just signing with a new small label in the Netherlands, so there could be more opportunity for bigger gigs in the near future!

Thanks so much!

Bisous,
Juliet

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Andrew Hill

Sun, 08 Apr 2007 10:17:09 GMT

I have really been enjoying Andrew Hill's "passing ships", expecially track 4. I was just wondering if anybody had any comments on this album. I generally don't like listening to anything more than a quartet but I like these arangements and the quirky songwriting. As I am not really part of any jazz "scene", I would be interested in advice on any albums that would be along the same lines.

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Watch out for Devin Phillips

holotropic — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 22:32:42 GMT

and his funk project (tonight at the Goodfoot Lounge) will inspire you and probably make you dance. isn't that the best of both worlds?

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big bands?

george — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 08:28:28 GMT

recommendations for big bands? of course their's ellington, basie et al, but how about newer folks. i've listened to pete peterson big band but not too familiar with others.

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Missing "Sonny Side Up"

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 14:17:32 GMT

I sometimes think this is my favorite jazz album of all time. Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins, Sonny Stitt, Ray Bryant (piano), Tommy Bryant (bass) and Charlie Persip (drums).

This is NOT a record review! I'm away from my main music collection these days and I find myself missing this record more than any other. ("Kind Of Blue" and a home-made collection of Blossom Dearie performances are high on the list.) This is one of the classics I suspect most people here have heard of, and a good many own. What sets this record apart for me is the high spirits (-Diz's vocal on "Sonny Side" is classic), the inventiveness, the extended jamming, and the attention to groove. (Was there ever a better version of "After Hours" than this one?) The guys had fun, blew like mad, but kept the groove strong and the listener not only amazed but entertained. It's impossible to feel bad listening to this record!

What are your favorite jazz albums? Not necessarily the ones that top critics polls but the records you play most often, the ones you just wear out? This is one of mine.
Tunes: Sunny Side of the Street * The Eternal Triangle * After Hours * I Know That You Know*

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jazz-friendly itunes feature

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 23:12:10 GMT

I've just discovered and put to use a good new feature of the latest version of itunes. It's the new "album artist" category, and seems to be made for jazz fans. Before, albums like "Johne Coltrane and Kenny Burrell" presented a problem. Is it a Kenny Burrell album or John Coltrane album? If I wanted to do a smart playlist/search for EVERYTHING of Kenny Burrell, this album wouldn't come up if I had it under filed under Coltrane as the "artist". Now I can list KB under "Album artist" and using boolean searches on a smart playlist, can easily come up with a playlist which includes this. This is also especially useful for artists who did a majority of their recordings under other people's names, as sidemen. Ron Carter for instance. This has made it easier to find and listen to recordings of my favorite musicians that would otherwise have been easily overlooked. Hope this makes sense, I just wanted to give a heads up to you jazz listeners out there.

Now they just need to add a feature that allows for MULTIPLE album artists. What to do with a supergroup album like "Kind of Blue?"

peace
Brian

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memorization tips?

george — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 04:12:54 GMT

Starting to hit the woodshed to expand my jazz vocal repertoire and wondering if anyone has any special tips for memorizing lyrics. I have a few that I already use. One that I have just figured out is to avoid trying to sing songs that I am only vaguely familiar with until I go over the lyrics and know exactly what they are to avoid committing to habit the wrong lyric that then has to be unlearned before proceeding. Another is to speak the lyric, then gradually speeding this up and then doing the same thing with a loud noise in the background to provide a distraction. Anyone have any other tips?

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Sound equipment for listening on the computer??

shakti411 — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:30:02 GMT

I bought a Creative Soundworks subwoofer and two small speakers for about $80--one set for home and one set for my office. I've been very happy with the awesome sound they put out. Twice, one of the speakers gave out and I simply took it to the Creative store downtown and they replaced it for me. They had very good customer service. But the store has closed now. I don't know whether Creative is going out of business or what. Now one of my speakers has gone out again. (I've had the set for close to 10 years). Waaahhh. I don't have a stereo.

I've been looking at replacement systems on amazon.com. I see that for less than $175, I can get a surround sound system with more speakers. Logitech seems to be a popular one, or one that amazon is featuring. Are they reputable in the sound arena? I've never heard of them or seen them in stores when considering sound systems (not that I shop around much). It appears that I'd have to buy an external sound card to handle the power of the bass, if I understand it correctly. I'm not capable of installing an internal sound card. The technical language that goes along with these items on amazon is beyond me--I'm having trouble figuring out just what I'd be buying.

Does anyone have any suggestions? Can you describe what you're using in layman's terms as to what might be a good system for under $150 or $175 at the most? Remember, I'm talking about a sound system for a computer. I'd appreciate any advice you can give me!

Cheers,
Lynne

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Vicki Burns Sings In February!

floragreen — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 08:42:26 GMT

Hi Everyone!
I am really excited about this upcoming month as I will be returning to some of my favorite venues in the Bay Area and exploring a great new venue, Cafe Trieste in Sausalito!!

The biggest news by far though is that next Friday, February 2nd I will be returning to Anna's Jazz Island in Berkeley AND I will be recording live that evening with a truly awesome trio with special guests!!

With me will be The amazing John Nichols on Guitar, the great Sam Bevan on Bass and the fab Smith Dobson on Drums! Special guests include my friends the fabulous flautist, Nika Rejto and the Mistress of Middle Eastern Rhythm, Mary Ellen Donald!!It is also Smith's birthday so there is one more reason to come out and celebrate! Please come out to support this special event and please tell your friends! Music starts at 8:00pm and there is a minimum cover of $10. Anna's now has a delicious menu and serves up terrific cocktails....

http://www.annasjazzisland.com/

Bistro Yoffi!!

On Valentine's Day February 14th, I will be returning to a favorite venue, Bistro Yoffi! This has become an annual event for me and my great band and last year it SOLD OUT, so please place your reservations early!!

With me will be the wonderful Rick Vandervier on guitar , Andy Woodhouse on the bass and Smith Dobson V on the drums. We will be performing only the most romantic tunes in the Great American Songbook! Music will be from 7-11:00 pm this evening.

Bistro Yoffi 2231 Chestnut Street (between Scott and Pierce)

Bistro Yoffi is an Oasis of Delight nestled in the
heart of the Marina District of San Francisco.
The food is wonderful and their staff is too!
Please call for reservations: 415-885-5133

Or visit their website for more info:

http://bistroyoffi.com/

Cafe Trieste!!

I am very excited to be performing in a new venue for me, Cafe Trieste in Sausalito! I'll be there on Saturday, February 10th. With me will be a favorite accompanist, the fab Jeff Massanari on guitar! Music is from 7:30-10:30pm

Please check their website for details:

http://www.sausalitotrieste.com/

The Flytrap!!

Come and experience one of the most romantic spots in
the City! The food is superb and Irina, the lovely and
charming owner will make you feel as if you are an
honored guest in her home. Add the elegance of a grand
piano expertly played by the finest pianists in town
and Voila! Extreme romance...

I'll be at the Flytrap Restaurant on Saturday, the 3rd with Delightful Mike Klein on piano I'll also be there on Friday the 9th with the Marvelous Ken Muir and again on Friday the 23rd with the Awesome David Udolf!

Music is from 6:30-10:30pm.
Reservations are recommended.

Here is their info:

FlyTrap Restaurant
606 Folsom St. San Francisco, CA 94107

Cross Street: between 2nd and 3rd

Web Site: flytraprestaurant.com
Email Address: reservation@flytraprestaurant.com
Phone Number: (415) 243-0580

Just to remind you: I will be at the Flytrap tonight, January 26th with David Udolf on piano. Please stop by for great food and fancy cocktails...Music starts at 6:30pm!!

As always, I thank each of you for your wonderful support!!

All The Best,

Vicki Burns

http://www.vickiburns.com/
www.myspace.com/vickiburnsjazz

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New Orleans Jazz Festival

Lauren — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 19:06:48 GMT

Hi,

Has anyone checked out this famous jazz festival? If so, any thoughts, advice (cheaper places to stay, money, getting around, cool places to see)?

I am also look for other jazz lovers to check it out on either weekend.

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New Classes Starting at Blue Bear School of Music! Winter Quarter starts 1/09/07!

floragreen — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 21:30:11 GMT

Hello, Fellow singers and students of song!

I am very happy to say I'll be offering 4 classes at
Blue Bear School of Music for the Winter Quarter
starting 1/09/07!!

Classes on Tuesdays are: Musicianship Skills for
Singers at 7-8:00pm and Intermediate Voice from
8-9:30pm and on Thursdays: Singing For People who
Can't Sing from 7-8:00pm and Beginning Jazz Vocals
from 8:00-9:30pm. Note: there will be a showcase performance for Beginning Jazz Vocals which will include a performance with a well known and experienced accompanist. The Fall Quarter featured the singers with the wonderful Ken Muir!

For singing technique I will be teaching the Bel Canto
method which is based on a Classical singing technique but adapted
for Pop and Jazz vocals.

This method is tried and true and has produced wonderful singers for over 500 years!

For the musicianship and jazz vocals classes, I'll be
drawing on over 30 years of performance and extensive
education (including that most venerable of
institutions, the "School of Hard Knocks").

Please join me as we explore the many facets of vocal
expression that can be discovered within the
foundation of a well grounded vocal technique!

Vicki Burns has a BA in Classical Performance from the
University of New Hampshire and an MA in Improvised
Music Studies From San Jose State University. At UNH,
she studied for 4 years with Dr. Henry Wing an Oberlin
Conservatory Graduate and professional Counter Tenor,
who specialized in Renaissance Madrigals.

She has also studied with Roy Rogasin founder of the
Portsmouth Academy of Performing Arts, Portsmouth, NH.
And with Mark Murphy, Allan Harris and Sheila Jordan
in New York, NY., Roberta Davis at "Jazz in July",
Amherst MA., Kitty Margolis and Rebbeca Parris in San Francisco
and Barry Harris at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.

Currently, Vicki performs at many venues throughout
the Bay Area including The Plush Room,
The Flytap, Anna's Jazz Island, Bistro Yoffi,
The Larkspur Cafe Theatre, Cafe Trieste and Downtown.

Private lessons with Vicki are also available at Blue Bear.

Please check the Blue Bear site for details:

http://bluebearmusic.org/programs/group_classes.html

All The Best,
Vicki Burns

http://www.myspace.com/vickiburnsjazz

http://www.vickiburns.com

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New Keith Jarrett Tribe

Sat, 20 May 2006 04:38:55 GMT

i was shocked that there was no keith tribe so... i created one. It's open so feel free to join and start up discussions.

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Public Offerings...mp3 Downloads..this one from Montreal Jazz Pianist Geoff Lapp

lorraine — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 01:05:37 GMT

Hi all.....I thought to start a new topic and at the same time give the url for the web site download

http://www.geofflapp.com

The song is called 'Zack In the Box' 6.21 min
http://www.geofflapp.com/music/audiofiles/08-zackinthebox-Lapp.mp3

Discription :
funky original with a mock-stealthy, Mancini-meets-Horace Silver theme.

Hope you enjoy it!
Lorraine Craig

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new unheard album critique tribe.

100thMonk — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 07:02:12 GMT

http://tribes.tribe.net/unheardalbumcritique

come by and review your fave rare, live or unheard vintage albums. tell us what it is that makes them great.

hopefully we can all get exposed to something wonderful and unusual sometime soon.

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tickets for Eliane Elias at the Great American Music Hall tonight

Tue, 21 Nov 2006 01:27:29 GMT

I won a pair of tickets for her performance tonight, but sadly can't make it.
If you'd like to go ....send me an email and the tickets are yous.

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Looking for Jazz Musicians for SF Shows

David — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 22:38:15 GMT

I'm planning a regular show a couple times a month or more, featuring local jazz bands. Not much pay, but also not much effort, either. I'm looking for unusual performers who stretch the boundaries of jazz. Please point me to your MP3s, web pages, YouTube and MySpace pages. Thanks. More later.

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This is OOOld School but you gotta be in awe of what used to be done...

Jack — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 20:24:55 GMT

Cab Calloway with some amzing tap dancers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8yGGtVKrD8

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This Weekend with Vicki Burns...

floragreen — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 20:56:36 GMT

The Flytrap!

Come and experience one of the most romantic spots in the City! The food is superb and Irina, the lovely and charming owner will make you feel as if you are an honored guest in her home. Add the elegance of a grand piano expertly played by the finest pianists in town and Voila! Extreme romance...

I'll be at the Flytrap Restaurant on Friday the 27th, with the delightful Lee Bloom on piano!

Music is from 6:30-10:30pm.
Reservations are recommended.

Here is their info:

FlyTrap Restaurant
606 Folsom St.
San Francisco, CA 94107

Cross Street: between 2nd and 3rd

Web Site: flytraprestaurant.com
reservation@flytraprestaurant.com
Phone Number: (415) 243-0580

Enrico's!

On Saturday, October 28th
The Vicki Burns Quartet returns to Enrico's!

On this night, I'll be joined by the fab guitar god, John Nichols with Andy Woodhouse on Bass and local drumming legend, Paul Van Wageningen! Music is from 8-12 Midnite.

Please join us at this legendary North Beach Jazz Club and restaurant. Enrico's features fabulous Italian cuisine, great drinks and a truly Bohemian atmosphere.

Enrico's is located at: 504 Broadway at Kearny, San Francisco, CA 94133

General Information and Reservations: 415-982-6223

For more information please visit their website:

http://www.enricossidewalkcafe.com/

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Lincoln Zephr commercial

Mikia — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 18:36:53 GMT

Can anyone tell me the name of the jazz song in the Lincoln Zephyr commercial. It's the commercial with the family riding through a neighborhood in Harlem, and at the end they pull up to a classic lincoln with Melvin Van Peebles inside. The poem "Dream Variation", by Langston Hughes is being recited. I really love this song, please respond if you know it. Here is a link to see the commercial. Thanks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3MCBFj8aeQ&search=Sweetback

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who remembers the 60s?

djtbird — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 17:36:34 GMT

i was having a discussion w/someone over drinks the other day and we were disagreeing about the popularity of jazz in the 60s. i contended that it was on par with the other "black music" of the time (i.e., blues and r&b/soul) in terms of who (and how many) listened in the black community and the other person said that it was more "connoisseur" music (my word, not his.)

how does your memory hold up on that issue?

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Come Play With us at Silver Gate Club this Sunday!

Noah — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 22:42:54 GMT

Hey there.

For all the other lists, I'm just sending out this show announcement - Sunday, 9-midnight, Tres Gone playing an extended free improv at Someday Lounge.

But, since this is the first installment of our ongoing open free improv night, and I want all the great players in town to come play with us every Sunday that they are able; I'm inviting the many spectacular improvisors on the Jazz Music tribe to come and play. Bring an instrument, throw down for however long you want, and contribute to the birth of this scene.

And now, the regular announcement as it will be seen by the general populace:

SUNDAY 10/15:
The Silver Gate Club
A jazz club for the 21st century, offering hours of uninterrupted
improvisation from the underground's most inventive players, each
Sunday like church. Featuring a rotating core group of players,
with an open invitation to the entire Club – look for your invite
in the mail, all you free thinkers. Our first band of guiding
voices will be Tres Gone, a trio of two guitarists and a drummer
with ties to Portland's great improv houses (Smegma, Rasbliutto,
36 Invisibles, Pan-Zen, etc.) and a monastic fixation on the
unfolding moment.
9pm-1am
$5

Tres Gone-
The spontaneous interaction between Tres Gone and the audience brings the listener to the edge of a creative discovery, often presented with a choice of focusing on one artist, or absorbing the collective ensemble.
Mike Mahaffay - Drums
Mike Mahaffay's artistic resume began as a percussionist with the Portland Youth Philharmonic, followed by the Oregon Symphony. From there, he expanded to V.P. of Free Life Communications and played alongside Dave Liebman, Badal Roy and Armen Halburien. He was the drummer on the U.S. tour of Jesus Christ Superstar, and the Open Eye Theater. Throughout his extensive career, Mike has performed in the cities of New York, Baltimore, Cleveland, Athens, Paris and Seattle, to name a few.
Scott Steele - Guitar
Scott Steele studied music at Los Angeles Valley College, Mt. Hood Community College, and studied guitar with Max Rees. He has played with drummer Mel Brown, organist George Mitchell, Paulette Davis, and guitarist Dan Perz. He also accompanied the 50's Doo Wop group, the Diamonds. In addition, Scott has played with Liquid Blues, Boogie Country, The Dukes of Juke, Catch 22, Brainiac Five, Kings on Straw Mats, and The Gone Orchestra. He has lead his own groups The Upsetters, and The Scott Steele Band.
Eric Hausmann - Guitar Synth, Chapman Stick
Eric Hausmann has played guitar, Chapman Stick, trumpet, drums and cello with The Gone Orchestra, The Lions of Batucada, Kings on Straw Mats, Brainwarmer, Spilling Static Orchestra, Ancient Chinese Secret, Locust Pudding and Amscray Amok. He also runs his own record company (Spilling Audio) which produces his solo and collaborative CD releases. Additionally, Eric produces short films and plans to release a compilation DVD of his video work early next year.

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Dig my gig

Jack — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 00:10:30 GMT

My name is Jack Blackfelt and I am a vintage jazz disc jockey for internet radio station www.eastvillageradio.com I spin jazz and pop vocals from the 20s to the 60s 10am-12noon EST every Sunday morning. An archive is for each show is available right after broadcast, so you have all week to hear it and not get up early if you don't wanna.
If you're in Manhattan, stroll on by 1st Avenue and 1st street during my show'shours and say hello...it's a storefront studio station.
Cheers, Jack B.

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Gadjo Project Sextet @ Catalyst Cocktails 6:30-8:30pm FRIDAY OCT. 6th NO COVER!!!!!

minorswing — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 22:43:45 GMT

312 Harriet Street (at Bryant)
San Francisco, CA

www.catalystcocktails.com
www.gadjoproject.com

Here's tonight's lineup:

Erik Jekabson - trumpet
Dan Heffez - tenor saxophone
Justin Cheung - guitar
Eric Vogler - upright bass
Chris Bjorkbom - drums

with:

Kate Pittard - vocals & alto saxophone

Catalyst Cocktails:
Full Kitchen / Full Bar / Absolutely No Cover Charge
www.catalystcocktails.com

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Ray Obiedo with Mambo Caribe and Faye Carol at Yoshi's-OreMi Mentoring Program Benefit

Arlynne — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 01:19:59 GMT

WHAT Break the Cycle of Prison, Give Our Children Vision- World-class music meets delectable dishes for a critical cause
WHEN Saturday, October 14th, 2006 12:30-3:30 PM
WHO A benefit for the OreMi Mentoring Program of Family Support Services of the Bay Area
Featuring Latin Jazz Sensation RAY OBIEDO & Mambo Caribe and the dynamic Miss FAYE CAROL with the San Francisco Medicine Ball Band.
WHERE Yoshi’s at Jack London Square
510 Embarcadero West,Oakland, CA 94607 http://www.yoshis.com/frame_directions.html

TICKETS: Tickets start at $100 includes lunch, live music, and an auction. Prizes include: “Lunch with Barbara Lee at Bay Wolf!” and “Private Dinner for Ten by Boulevard Restaurant Chef Pam Mazzola.” Made possible in part by Kaiser Permanente, Port of Oakland, Casey Family Programs and the Kazan McClain Foundation.
Tickets are available online at www.fssba-oak.org or call (510) 834-2443

ALARMING FACTS THAT YOU CAN HELP CHANGE:
Did you know that a child with a parent in prison is seven times more likely to become incarcerated than his peers? On any given day, there are over 200,000 children in California who are at-risk. Mentoring makes a difference! And YOU can Help make a difference!

The OreMi Mentoring Program provides one-to-one intensive mentoring services for children in Alameda County with a parent in state or federal prison. Visit www.fssba-oak.org for more information about the OreMi Mentoring Program.

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New Classes Starting at Blue Bear 9/26/06!

floragreen — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 07:06:08 GMT

Hello, Fellow singers and students of song!

I am very happy to say I'll be teaching 4 classes at
Blue Bear School Of Music for the Fall Quarter
starting 9/26/06.

Classes on Tuesdays are: Musicianship Skills for
Singers at 7-8:00pm and Intermediate Voice from
8-9:30pm and on Thursdays, Singing For People who
Can't Sing from 7-8:00pm and Beginning Jazz Vocals
from 8:30-10:00pm.

For singing technique I will be teaching the Bel Canto
method which is based on Classical singing but adapted
for Pop and Jazz vocals. This method is tried and true
and has produced wonderful singers for over 500 years!

For the musicianship and jazz vocals classes, I'll be
drawing on over 30 years of performance and extensive
education (including that most venerable of
institutions, the "School of Hard Knocks").

Please join me as we explore the many facets of vocal
expression that can be discovered within the
foundation of a well grounded vocal techinique!

Vicki Burns has a BA in Classical Performance from the
University of New Hampshire and an MA in Improvised
Music Studies From San Jose State University. At UNH,
she studied for 4 years with Dr. Henry Wing an Oberlin
Conservatory Graduate and professional Counter Tenor,
who specialized in Renaissance Madrigals.

She has also studied with Roy Rogasin founder of the
Portsmouth Academy of Performing Arts, Portsmouth, NH.
And with Mark Murphy, Allan Harris and Sheila Jordan
in New York, NY., Roberta Davis at "Jazz in July",
Amherst MA., Kitty Margolis and Rebbeca Parris in San
Francisco and Barry Harris at Dartmouth College,
Hanover, NH.

Currently, Vicki performs at many venues throughout
the Bay Area including The Plush Room, Enrico's, the
Flytap, the Cosmopolitan, Anna's Jazz Island, Bistro
Yoffi, The Larkspur Cafe Theatre, Soluna and Downtown.

Private lessons with Vicki are also available at Blue
Bear.

Please check the Blue Bear site for details:

http://bluebearmusic.org/programs/group_classes.html

All The Best,
Vicki Burns

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R.I.P. Dewey Redman

I-Storm — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 09:57:31 GMT

Sadly, another great has left us.

R.I.P. Dewey Redman

:-(

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Rufus Harley, Jr. - RIP

revo101 — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 08:03:32 GMT

Rufus Harley, Jr. (b. near Raleigh, North Carolina, May 20, 1936; d. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 31, 2006) was an American jazz musician of mixed Cherokee and African ancestry, known primarily as the first jazz musician to adopt the Scottish great Highland bagpipe as his primary instrument.

Although born near Raleigh, North Carolina, at an early age Harley moved with his mother to a poor neighborhood in North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Although he began playing saxophone, trumpet, oboe, and flute, Harley became inspired to learn the bagpipe after seeing the Black Watch perform in John F. Kennedy's funeral procession in November 1963. Then a maintenance worker for the Philadelphia's housing authority, Harley began searching for a set. Failing to find one in his home city, a friend alerted him to a set in a Jewish-operated New York pawn shop. He purchased the instrument for US$120, quickly adapting it to the idioms of jazz, blues, and funk.[1] His teacher was Dennis Sandole (1913-2000), a jazz guitarist who also taught bagpipes to several other Philadelphia jazz musicians.[2] On several occasions, when a neighbor called the police to complain about Harley's practicing in his apartment, he would quickly put away his bagpipes and feign ignorance, asking the officers, "Do I look like I'm Irish or Scottish to you?"[3]

Harley made his bagpipe performance debut in 1964. From 1965 to 1970 he released several recordings as leader on the Atlantic label, also recording as a sideman with Herbie Mann, Sonny Stitt, and Sonny Rollins in the 1960s and 1970s. He later recorded with Laurie Anderson (appearing on her 1982 album Big Science) and The Roots (on their 1995 album Do You Want More?!!!??!). In addition to bagpipes, on these albums he also occasionally plays tenor saxophone or electric soprano saxophone.

Harley often wore Scottish garb, including a kilt, in conjunction with a Viking-style horned helmet. After seeing him perform on television, a Scottish family gave him his tartan, the McLeod tartan, which he wore for the rest of his life.[4] His bagpipe technique was somewhat unorthodox in that he placed the drones over his right shoulder rather than his left. He favored the key of B-flat minor.

Harley lived for most of his life in the Germantown neighborhood of Northwest Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and frequently gave presentations in Philadelphia-area public schools. During his frequent overseas performance tours, he carried and distributed miniature replicas of the Liberty Bell, the symbol of his hometown, as well as American flags and copies of the U.S. Constitution. He died at Philadelphia's Albert Einstein Medical Center on July 31, 2006 of prostate cancer.[5] He is survived by 16 children and 15 grandchildren. One of his sons, Messiah Patton Harley, also of Philadelphia, is a trumpeter who often performed with his father.

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Miguel ‘Angá’ Díaz - RIP

revo101 — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 07:48:50 GMT

I am shocked and saddened to about the death of the great Cuban conga player Miguel ‘Angá’ Díaz who died unexpectedly at his home in Barcelona on 9th August 2006, he was 45. I saw him play in London on 15th April 2006, and was blown away by his virtuosity and range of style.

With his explosive soloing and inventive five conga patterns, Angá’ was widely regarded as one of the world’s great congueros. He was committed to the development of the conga drum, breaking down traditional percussion barriers to perform traditional latin rhythms, jazz, jungle and hip-hop, whilst retaining his distinctly Cuban roots.

Angá began playing prodigiously early, performing and recording professionally whilst still at college. He made his name as part of the pioneering Latin jazz group Irakere and it was with them he perfected his five drum technique. Emerging in the mid-nineties as an independent musician Angá was free to diversify and pursue a variety of different projects - from the experimental jazz of Steve Coleman and Roy Hargrove, to hip hop with Orishas, to his tours with Omar Sosa, and numerous side projects with musicians from all over the globe, Angá’s musical journey was a personal quest to explore and create new sounds and rhythmic fusions.

More than just a performer, Angá further demonstrated his commitment to the development of his instrument by teaching master classes at various schools and universities across North America and Europe. Angá produced a tuition video in 2000 which explained many of his techniques and his philosophy behind playing, it won Percussion Video of the Year from Drum Magazine. Angá would continue to teach on a regular basis and built up a network of students from his base outside of Barcelona.

Angá’s first project with World Circuit was the hugely influential Afro Cuban All Stars album recorded in 1996 which showcased the depth and vitality within Cuban music. Angá became an integral part of World Circuit’s extended Buena Vista family adding his trademark sound to albums from Rubén González, Ibrahim Ferrer, Omara Portuondo, Guajiro Mirabal, and the second Afro Cuban All Stars record. Angá’s own musical vision would emerge with the release of the album ‘Cachaíto’ an inspired union of Afro-Cuban jazz, reggae, hip hop and funk which he recorded with the Cuban bass legend Cachaíto López. Building from the foundations laid by Cachaíto’s record, and incorporating elements of his own Santeria religion, Angá would finally fulfil his dream in 2005 with the release of his critically acclaimed album ‘Echu Mingua’, an exciting fusion of styles blended together the ‘Cuban way’ and is a fitting testament to the career of one of the great musical innovators.

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Radio

Wed, 02 Aug 2006 19:24:07 GMT

http://www.upstartradio.com/Internet%20Radio%20Broadcast.html

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Weird

lil' miss sassy pants — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 11:04:17 GMT

I'm a American living in Spain now for 2 years. I thought that the hope of Spanish ethnic jazz was impossible until I meet a new friend.

She is Catalan (from catalunya Spain) and her music is in English that will put a chill past your bone to you soul. I hope you guys can find her on the web.

Her name : Angela Suarez
Band : Jazz a Mataró

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New Tribe Member.I like Lisa Lisa Ekdahl

frish — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 09:13:43 GMT

Have you heard of Lisa Ekdahl?A beautiful sound jazz singer, sweet and warm.
"When did you leaven heaven?"

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Original Tracks Needed For Music Video

susanholland — Thu, 18 May 2006 17:28:53 GMT

Lotus Born Productions is seeking original tracks for a music video. There will be no cost to the artist. Shooting is primarily in and around San Francisco, but we can work with out-of-area artists.

If you are interested please contact susan@lotusbornproductions.com.

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Sherman Ferguson Lives

Noah — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 22:55:03 GMT

Greatest drummer on the L.A. jazz scene, and I just found out he died recently. I love you, Mr. Ferguson.

5000. - N.

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noone mentioned it but........

DP is on Facebook....you won't find me h — Sun, 09 Apr 2006 16:50:54 GMT

Jackie McLean died last week......a great alto player....one of my faves..........

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Jackie McClean - RIP

Chris — Tue, 02 May 2006 20:18:58 GMT

I'm a little late on this, but Jackie McClean died a couple of weeks ago, aged 73 (I think). I'm not very knowledgable on his music, but "Cool Struttin" is one of my all time favourites. He also left a lasting legacy in Jazz music education, among many other things. He was one of the last living legends who played with Charlie Parker (and just about every other great from that era and beyond). Fortunately there is a lot of archived material with interviews, etc. They did a Terry Gross "Fresh Air" interview replay from a few years back the week he died.

Chris

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What artist did you add to your collection this week?

bakari — Sun, 31 Jul 2005 04:21:57 GMT

I just added Freddie Hubbard's album "Red Clay" to my mix last night. The last time I heard this cut was back in high school which has been over twenty years ago. I just can't enough of how the cut "Red Clay" builds up and soaks you in. Plus, I just like long tunes like this one.

I'm wondering who else comes close to Hubbard's style?

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Great but Obscure Records

inspectorblank — Sun, 08 Feb 2004 19:14:55 GMT

I pinched this from the All About Jazz web site (allaboutjazz.com.)

"Ask for the best 10 or 100 albums of all time and you'll get the usual suspects: "Kind of Blue," "Saxophone Colossus," Armstrong's "Hot Fives and Sevens", "Jazz at Massey Hall," etc. Without a doubt, these albums have earned their acclaim... But what about the great, less well-known, even obscure albums? Don't we all have favorite albums that don't ever seem to make the top 100 -- yet always find their way to our turntables? Let's share our discoveries... "

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SF Open Jazz Jam Tuesdays 10pm @Catalyst Cocktails

Mon, 17 Apr 2006 23:14:39 GMT

Ben Adams Presents:

Open Jam Session
Sit ins welcome, bring your instrument.
Tuesday nights 10:00 pm - 1:45 am
No Cover

Catalyst Cocktails
312 Harriet Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
415.621.1722
www.catalystcocktails.com

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Chick Corea

Eric — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 02:40:31 GMT

Hey group,
I've been listening to Chick Corea's newest record, "The Ultimate Adventure."
It's a great record with many wonderful musicians, great compositions and arrangements too.
-Eric

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Jazz Appreciation Month on KJAZZ

LiteraryMasturbator — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 19:11:36 GMT

http://www.kkjz.org/home/kkjz_news/pages/JAM06.shtml

Tune in to Kjazz Mondays in April, starting on the 10th, for our Jazz Appreciation Month specials!

Coming up:

Monday, April 10th 6-7pm: High School Jazz Fest Pre-show
Join Kjazz host Helen Borgers as she plays music from the jazz stars of tomorrow! She’ll spotlight the music of the schools selected to participate in the First Annual Kjazz High School Jazz Fest, taking place at the Luckman Performing Arts Center Saturday, April 15th.

Monday, April 17th 6-7pm: Jazz at Lincoln Center One Family of Jazz
Host Ed Bradley takes you to the first performance ever at the newly reconstructed quarters for Jazz at Lincoln Center the first theater complex designed for the sound of jazz. Tune in for unforgettable music from Jazz at Lincoln Center Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis joined by a-list jazz performers, including Ellis Marsalis, Branford Marsalis, Marcus Roberts, Tony Bennett and many others.

Monday, April 24th 6-8:30pm: Jazz at Lincoln Center Central Avenue Breakdown
Jazz at Lincoln Center turns their focus to the jazz history of Los Angeles with Central Avenue Breakdown! Local Jazz Hero, Gerald Wilson takes center stage, along with Plas Johnson, Ted Nash and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis.

Also this month, join Kjazz host Kellen Yamanaka for a pair of artist profiles on Jeremy Pelt and Chris Potter - tune in Thursday April 20th and Thursday April 27th at 6:35 AM and PM to hear these original features with exclusive interviews and album highlights.

Kjazz is proud to take part in Jazz Appreciation month, continually drawing public attention to the extraordinary history of jazz and its importance in American heritage.

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Enrico's, vickiburns.com, itunes and more!

floragreen — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 21:56:32 GMT

Hi Everyone,
There's been a flurry of activity in my life lately
and I wanted to share some exiting news!

First of all, I can't wait to sing at Enrico's
tomorrow night. I'll have a terrific band with me and
maybe some surprise guests...Please join me at this
wonderful venue, a legendary spot for jazz in San
Francisco!

On Monday, April 3rd, The Vicki Burns Quartet returns
to Enrico's!

Enrico's features fabulous Italian cuisine, great
drinks and a truly Bohemian atmosphere.

With me will be the awesome Jeff Massanari on guitar,
Bass Ace, Devin Hoff and the wonderful Smith Dobson on
drums! Music is from 7-11pm.

Enrico's is located at: 504 Broadway at Kearny,
San Francisco, CA 94133

General Information and Reservations: 415-982-6223

For more information please visit their website:

http://www.enricossidewalkcafe.com/

Next, I'm thrilled to announce my new website:
vickiburns.com!!! A huge thank you goes to webmaster,
Thomas Eugene for creating a beautiful space for me on
the internet!

www.vickiburns.com

Check out Thomas Eugene's work at:

http://www.onesmallroom.net/

And, thanks to the hard work of j, from reap and sow,
I am now on itunes! Those of you who want to download
"Siren Song" can officially do so! Many thanks, j!!

Check out j's work here:

http://reapandsow.com/

Finally, I have another new site to share. This one's
on myspace, featuring news, performances and great
pics from the Jazz Divas concert:

http://www.myspace.com/vickiburnsjazz

Thanks to all of my wonderful friends, fans and great
muscial collaborators for making it all possible!

All The Best,
Vicki Burns

www.vickiburns.com

http://www.myspace.com/vickiburnsjazz

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Vicki Burns Sings In April!

floragreen — Tue, 28 Mar 2006 01:41:51 GMT

Hello Everyone,
A special thank you to those who braved the storm last
week to come to our *sold out* Jazz Divas concert! By
all accounts, it was a smashing success...I'll post
more info as it comes through!

This month, please join me and some of the finest jazz
musicians in town at these great Bay Area venues!

Enrico's!

On Monday, April 3rd, The Vicki Burns Quartet returns
to Enrico's!

Please join us at this legendary North Beach Jazz Club
and restaurant. Enrico's features fabulous Italian
cuisine, great drinks and a truly Bohemian atmosphere.
With me will be the awesome Jeff Massanari on guitar,
Bass Ace, Devon Hoff and the wonderful Smith Dobson on
drums! Music is from 7-11pm.

Enrico's is located at: 504 Broadway at Kearny,
San Francisco, CA 94133

General Information and Reservations: 415-982-6223

For more information please visit their website:

http://www.enricossidewalkcafe.com/

The Flytrap!

Come and experience one of the most romantic spots in
the City! The food is superb and Irina,the lovely and
charming owner will make you feel as if you are a
guest in her home. Add the elegance of a grand piano
expertly played by the finest pianists in town and
Voila! Extreme romance...

I'll be at the Flytrap Restaurant on Fridays, April
7th, 14th, 21st and 28th. Mike Klein will be on piano
for the 14th. David Udolf will accompany me on the
21st and the 28th and Ken Muir will accompany me on
the 7th.

I'll also be performing on Saturdays, the 8th and
22nd with David Udolf on piano for the 8th and Ken
Muir on the 22nd! Music is from 6:30-10:30pm.
Reservations are recommended.

Here is their info:

FlyTrap Restaurant
606 Folsom St.
San Francisco, CA 94107

Cross Street: between 2nd and 3rd

Web Site: flytraprestaurant.com
Email Address: reservation@flytraprestaurant.com
Phone Number: (415) 243-0580

The Cosmopolitan!

On Saturdays the 1st, 15th and 29th of April, I'll be
back at another of my favorite venues, the
Cosmopolitan. On the 1st I'll be accompanied by
acclaimed pianist, Alan Steger! On the 15th I'll be
joined by the "Dapper Tapper of the Keys" Gary Neuman.
With me on the 29th will be the elegant and expressive
Ken Muir on piano.

Please note: the music will now be from 7-11pm.

The Cosmopolitan features wonderful food, creative and
tasty cocktails and a terrific staff. It is located at
121 Spear Street between Mission and Howard. Please
call: 415-543-4001 for reservations. Or visit their
website:

http://www.thecosmopolitancafe.com/

Once again a big "Thank You" to all for your continued
support!

All The Best,
Vicki Burns

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/vickiburns

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Red Garland

Jeremy — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 08:36:46 GMT

I've been listening to Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet and Red Garland's piano playing is blowing me away, especially on "If I Were A Bell" and "I Could Write A Book". His light, rippling touch and I'll follow him anywhere.

I don't get the same piano experience with Cookin', Round About Midnight (except "Bye, Bye Blackbird"), or Milestones. I haven't heard his other albums with Miles or with anyone else.

Can anyone recommend other albums with Red Garland that have the similar piano feel as "Relaxin'? What about other piano players with a similar sound? Thanks.

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Hiromi (jazz pianist)

inkvision — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 22:30:16 GMT

Saw Hiromi's jazz trio last night at Yoshi's - I thoroughly recommend seeing her next chance you get... amazing performance...

http://www.hiromimusic.com/

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Jazz Divas Concert , March 24th 2006!

floragreen — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 22:51:44 GMT

Hello Everyone,
Hope your Spring is Hoppin'! I wasnted you all to know
about a wonderful concert I'm going to be a part of
with 2 other fantastic singers and an amazing backing
trio!

The Larkspur Cafe Theater presents:

The Jazz Divas in Concert!

When: March 24th, 8:00pm

Who: Vicki Burns, Gina Catania and Daria light up the
stage with smouldering jazz, saucy blues and smokin'
latin jazz. Backed by the awesome ensemble of: Kit
Walker on piano, Sam Bevan on Bass and Alan Hall on
drums.

For more info visit the Larkspur Cafe Theatre's
website:

http://www.larkspurcafetheatre.com/html/marchshows.htm

Why: to benefit a great cause, breast cancer
research!!
conatact the Marin Breast Cancer Watch on their
website for more details about their organization!

http://www.breastcancerwatch.org/events.html

From our press release:

Doors open at 7:00 PM with an elegant reception for
Hosts and Sponsors of the event followed by the
concert at 8:00 PM. Space is limited so become a host
or sponsor today by calling the Marin Breast Cancer
Watch at 415-507-1949. Hosts will be recognized in
event promotion materials and by Marin Breast Cancer
Watch. Host sponsorship levels are Divine Diva Host
$250 donation and Luscious Diva Host $125 donation.
For more information on the event and the Divas, visit
www.breastcancerwatch.org.

Hope to see you there for this fabulous show for truly
important cause!

All The Best,
Vicki Burns

________________________________________________

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French jazz singers?

Wed, 07 Dec 2005 23:44:45 GMT

I was listening to my local jazz station while commuting last night and there was a jazz song sung in french. I really want to know who this was. Does anyone know of any french jazz singers? I am thinking it was older stuff.

Cheers

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Coming to NYC

peedub — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 18:49:11 GMT

Hello, New York peeps. Check it out, my girlfriend and I are coming to New York on 2/16-2/19 for a rare, stateside appearance of the jazz/funk group Incognito. We are looking for any one with a nice room to rent for the duration of our stay. We'd be departing Sunday afternoon. If anyone has the accommodations to take us in, we'd be happy to talk about what would be reasonable for you. We are both students and aren't looking for anything special just a room with a nice bed and a nice bathroom. If anyone has the inclination to reply, please let me know or contact me via message. Peace.

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Lou Rawls

Sat, 07 Jan 2006 00:48:39 GMT

I think he's more R&B/Soul than straight jazz, but I think it's appropriate to remember his life and career here. He branched out into jazz standards and adapted many songs of his day.

Additionally, he could scat sing better than many jazz-only singers, his story-telling skills are remarkable, and he had an incredible range for a man with such a deep voice.

This is my last post in this tribe -- I've handed moderatorship over to Frisbee Girl, who will be an excellent leader, I'm sure. I should be officially unsubscribed from Tribe this weekend, but you can read my blog at www.gaudypatter.com

Cheers.

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Free Live Jazz-Age Event tonight in SF - Dec. 8

inkvision — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 08:53:02 GMT

FIRST Crooners and Songbirds Live Event Dec. 8th

WHAT:
Crooners & Songbirds Night of Ukulele, featuring Rick Quisol, The Dimestore Dandy, Kelly McCubbin and Megan Lynch.

WHEN:
December 8th @ 8 pm

WHERE:
Wilde Oscar's
1900 Folsom @ 15th St.,
San Francisco
415.621.7145, FREE

Rick Quisol, The Dimestore Dandy
www.angelfire.com/jazz/friskyfrolics/

Megan Lynch, The Lacking in Vaudeville Sobriquette
www.myspace.com/meganlynch

Kelly McCubbin, The Uke Apocalypse
www.ukeapocalypse.com

Come enjoy the piquant plunkings of the "jumping flea" (that's the ukulele to those of you with the bowl haircuts) as our trio of troubadours trill songs conceived in the crib of the 20th century.

***************************
This will be the first installment of what will hopefully be a monthly cabaret focusing on vocal jazz, blues and popular music from the '20s and '30s (the atavists of us might even throw in something from the teens). Fans of Tin Pan Alley, The Great White Way and Storyville should beat a path to Wilde Oscar's door and let them know how you like your bread buttered! More Crooners & Songbirds!

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