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Jazz Town | Ramsey Lewis will shine on KC - Kansas City Star


Kansas City Star
Jazz Town | Ramsey Lewis will shine on KC
Kansas City Star
Pianist Ramsey Lewis has been making irresistible grooves for upward of 50 years — first in a simple but powerful piano-bass-drums trio that churned out hits like “Wade in the Water” and “The In Crowd,” and later with plugged-in keyboards in a funky ...

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To Revive A Jazz City, A Philadelphia Musician Stages A Festival - NPR (blog)

To Revive A Jazz City, A Philadelphia Musician Stages A Festival
NPR (blog)
In fact, Chris' Jazz Cafe was the only venue with an acoustic piano. The Roland digital keyboard at Milkboy wasn't ideal, but the Fender Rhodes at Fergie's Pub lent a warm and enveloping modernism to bands led by tenor saxophonist Dahi Divine, bassist ...

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Live: Esperanza Spalding, just enough - The Independent Weekly


The Independent Weekly
Live: Esperanza Spalding, just enough
The Independent Weekly
They then launched into a Maceo-esque instrumental before Spalding emerged from the shadows of backstage, a sunburst-colored Fender Jazz bass horizontally strapped across her slight frame. It looked to weigh only a few pick-ups less than she.

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Guitar guru at forefront of style - Stockton Record

Guitar guru at forefront of style
Stockton Record
By Tony Sauro George Cole, the guy who taught Billie Joe Armstrong to play guitar, now is schooling listeners in the six-string gypsy-jazz charms of Django Reinhardt. Armstrong, of course, subsequently achieved multi-platinum riches and recognition in ...

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Percussionist Candido Camero Highlights Tribute To Jackie McLean - Hartford Courant

Percussionist Candido Camero Highlights Tribute To Jackie McLean
Hartford Courant
On May 17 (McLean's birthdate), the festival continues with a free screening of the classic, 1994 jazz documentary, "A Great Day in Harlem," an Academy Award-nominated film, at 6 pm at Hartford's Real Art Ways, 56 Arbor St. On May 18, the festival ...

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I sing the jazz electric III (Geoffrey Keezer/Joe Locke CD reviewed) - Ottawa Citizen (blog)

I sing the jazz electric III (Geoffrey Keezer/Joe Locke CD reviewed)
Ottawa Citizen (blog)
Keezer, on Fender Rhodes and Omnisphere as well as a bright, punchy piano, Bassist Mike Pope and drummer Terreon Gully play with the jaw-dropping exuberance and precision, especially on Locke's disc-opening title track, and on Keezer's extravagant, ...

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The New Orleans Jazz Fest transformed by The Bingo! Show - NOLA.com


NOLA.com
The New Orleans Jazz Fest transformed by The Bingo! Show
NOLA.com
In fact, the Gentilly Stage outdoor acoustics were sharp and clear from the show's moody opening cello strains provided by Helen Gillet to the final Fender crescendo. The first quarter of the show seemed to have more guitar, bass and drum drive and ...

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Jethro Tull gets thicker on "Brick 2" - Chicago Tribune

Jethro Tull gets thicker on "Brick 2"
Chicago Tribune
A: "No, in terms of instrumentation I deliberately wanted to stay with the instruments that were then, and are now, the archetypal ones of rock - the Les Paul guitar, which is like a Stradivarius, the Fender Jazz bass, the Hammond organ, the flute.

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Wine and music – or vice versa? - Sonoma Valley Sun


Sonoma Valley Sun
Wine and music – or vice versa?
Sonoma Valley Sun
His mother was a jazz singer who also played bass with the San Francisco Symphony. But the music doesn't stop with Rich — his wife Joan and all four of their children play music. Joan is proficient on piano as is daughter Jacquelyn, who is more in ...

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Fender adds to revamped Pawn Shop Series - miPRO

Fender adds to revamped Pawn Shop Series
miPRO
by Adam Savage The Pawn Shop Jaguarillo (pictured) is a fresh take on the Jaguar design, with a HSS configuration in which all three pickups – two standard Stratocaster single-coils and an Atomic humbucking bridge pickup – are angled for enhanced bass ...

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