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Ottawa Jazz Fest 2008 Adds Acts
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Dan Lalande
The 2008 TD Canada Trust Ottawa International Jazz Festival rounds out its line-up with the addition of four more mainstage names more...
Bio of Jazz Singer, Jimmy Scott
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Chris Eales
Singer who has performed and recorded with the greatest artists in Jazz, and attracted a worldwide audience for his unique and soulful interpretations of classic songs. more...
Bio of Chet Baker, a Jazz Legend
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Chris Eales
Chet Baker was a star in the 1950's but drug addiction threatened to ruin his career. He found redemption in his later years and is much remembered and loved to this day. more...
Jeff Healey had a library of vinyl, and sometimes what he had just bought at a flea market for a song turned out to be another collector's dream melody. more...
2008 Ottawa Jazz Fest Leaks Acts
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Dan Lalande
The early line-up for Ottawa's 2008 Jazz Festival constitutes a chronology of the music, from the bayous of Louisiana to the River of Herbie Hancock. more...
20 years ago The Jeff Healey Band scored a deal with Arista Records, making music history. Smokin' blues or vintage jazz: Jeff Healey always did things his own way. more...
Richard Galliano - Accordionist
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Steve Newman
For many years the accordion was little more than a cliche of Paris street life. But in Richard Galliano's hands it swings as hard as any Hammond Organ. more...
The Jazz and Heritage Festival returns to its pre-Katrina format with a lineup that is called the best in 39 years. It starts April 25 at the Fair Grounds Race Course. more...
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Steve Newman
On the evening of October12th, 1962, the jazz composer Charles Mingus assembled together a group of America's finest jazz musicians to record a concert. more...
Don Rendell and Ian Carr Quintet
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Steve Newman
Some of the finest modern jazz to come out of Britain in the 60s was created by tenor saxophonist Don Rendell and trumpeter Ian Carr - jazz that is still vibrant today. more...
Jazz Genius Oscar Peterson Dies
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Steve Newman
With Oscar Peterson's death (the man Duke Ellington called the 'Maharajah of the keyboard') on the 23rd December 2007, Canada, and the jazz world, mourns. more...
Oscar Emmanuel Peterson 1925-2007
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Frances Spiegel
A brief look at the life of Oscar Peterson, who received 7 Grammys, the IMC UNESCO Music Award, and the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame Founders Award. more...
Review of Odessa-Havana in Ottawa
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Dan Lalande
Klezmer and conga came together at Ottawa, Canada's Dominion-Chalmers United Church in the form of the latest musical kick of versatile trumpet master Dave Buchbinder more...
By:
Dan Lalande
Klezmer king Dave Buchbinder and Cuban pianist Hilario Duran to meet under the aegis of the Ottawa Jazz Festival Nov. 26 more...
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