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Thursday, 04 November 2021

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AroundNH: Christmas is back at the Fells but Santa Express is stranded in Lincoln

Union Leader 04 Nov 2021

GOFFSTOWN — The Aardvark Jazz Orchestra, led by founder/director Mark Harvey, will make its debut at the Dana Center-Koonz Theatre with “A Duke Ellington Celebration” at 7.30 p.m ... in 1988, which was performed by the Duke Ellington Orchestra under the direction of Mercer Ellington.

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Crooked Tree Arts Center to host jazz quintet performance Friday

Petoskey News-Review 04 Nov 2021

PETOSKEY — Jazz will fill the air of a downtown Petoskey venue as a Detroit-area quintet performs standards from the likes of Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, and Frank Sinatra ... "This is going to be a great show for the jazz lover," said arts center event coordinator Andi Symonds ... The Friday, Nov ... Tickets will also be available at the door ... .

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Kelly Strayhorn Theater festival showcases local dance legend Kyle Abraham

Pittsburgh Tribune Review 04 Nov 2021

Renowned dancer and choreographer Kyle Abraham is returning to his hometown for Kelly Strayhorn Theater’s My People ... 10-13 ... Born in 1915, Strayhorn was a jazz musician and composer known for his longtime association with Duke Ellington and his enduring jazz standards like “Take the ‘A’ Train”and “Lush Life.”.

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In Briefs: New Town plans fall clean-up, FBC Marshall to celebrate 175th

The Marshall News Messenger 04 Nov 2021

Send briefs to newsmessenger@marshallnewsmessenger.com. Briefs are printed free of charge, as space allows ... 6 ... 6 from 8.30 to 11.30 a.m ... 8 ... 12 ... The ETBU Jazz Band, under the direction of Professor of Music Douglas Lockard, will feature great jazz and rock standards by Duke Ellington, Stan Kenton, Cole Porter, Van Morrison, Ray Charles, and Bruno Mars ... 17.

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AFM: Yaniv Raz on Directing Emus and John Cleese for ‘The Great Emu War’

The Hollywood Reporter 04 Nov 2021

Show additional share options ... It started as a joke ... As soon as I said John Cleese was involved in this film, he said “what do you need”? What we want to do is take 1930s-era swing and big band sounds — Glenn Miller, Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington — and doing remixes and reinterpretations for the soundtrack.

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The Showbuzz: Blues an appropriate song at ICT

Press Telegram 03 Nov 2021

“Blues” is directed by Ebony Rep producing artistic director Wren T. Brown ... Mann as “The Man in the Saloon” — reveal their inner struggles through famous and relatively obscure songs by a litany of folks including Bessie Smith, Duke Ellington, Johnny Mercer ... Mann’s character giving us insight into who these people are ... 7 ... Seaside Way ... .

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Exhibition marks 55 years of US-S'pore ties

Straits Times 02 Nov 2021

There are other pictures of visits by political leaders as well as musical and sporting stars such as the Harlem Globetrotters exhibition basketball team and jazz icon Duke Ellington, plus the opening of institutions such as the Singapore American School in 1956.

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CNY Jazz Central presents 20th century jazz expatriate Ricky Ford in rare appearance

The Post-Standard 02 Nov 2021

Updated. Nov. 02, 2021, 11.12 a.m. Published. Nov ... After replacing Paul Gonsalves in the Duke Ellington Orchestra at the invitation of Mercer Ellington, he went on to work with historic jazz figures including Charles Mingus, Lionel Hampton, Yusef Lateef, Sonny Stitt, McCoy Tyner, Freddie Hubbard, and many others on both sides of the Atlantic ... If You Go.

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55 pictures tell story of 55 years of diplomatic relations between US and S'pore

Straits Times 02 Nov 2021

The showcase, titled ... The video of Mr Lee speaking can be found in a link on the website ... There are other pictures of visits by political leaders as well as musical and sporting stars such as the Harlem Globetrotters exhibition basketball team and jazz icon Duke Ellington, plus the opening of institutions like the Singapore American School in 1956 ... �.

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Jonny Greenwood’s film scores – ranked!

NME 02 Nov 2021

With new biopic Spencer hitting cinemas this week (November 5), we rank Greenwood’s greatest film scores… 9 ... 8 ... 7 ... 6 ... 5 ... 4 ... Greenwood’s second collaboration with director Paul Thomas Anderson takes him back to the early ’50s for a spacious, lilting dreamscape that swims through Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Olivier Messiaen and Claude Debussy ... 3.

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Headliner Spotlight

Atlantic City 02 Nov 2021

RAY SCHWEIBERT ... 8.30 p.m ... 5 ... Created in collaboration with the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, the multimedia show captures the sights and sounds of Harlem when legendary artists such as Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Langston Hughes and Billie Holiday helped put the Apollo Theater, the Cotton Club, and other Harlem clubs on the map of American culture.

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Pat Martino: In the Moment

All About Jazz 02 Nov 2021

In memory of Pat Martino who passed on November 1, 2021. This article was first published at All About Jazz on January 12, 2018. Legendary guitarist Pat Martino is devoted to living in the Here and Now! -coincidentally the title of his autobiography (DaCapo, 2011) ... AAJ ... b.1975 ... In my own mind, I'm thinking a lot about Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington.

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Greensboro's Clarence Avant inducted into Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

News & Record 01 Nov 2021

NANCY MCLAUGHLIN. Clarence Avant, waiting to board a private jet to his induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, has another story to tell ... Sen ... His stories go as far back as a young Duke Ellington and Barbra Streisand to Jay-Z. “He would always say to Jackie — ‘Are you still with him?’ Clarence Avant said of his friendship with Ellington ... .

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Pasquale Grasso: Pasquale Plays Duke review – boggling brilliance from the guitar virtuoso

The Observer 31 Oct 2021

When you hear what sounds like two guitars playing together and then discover there’s only one, you can be pretty sure it’s in the hands of Pasquale Grasso ... Now here’s something for the rest of us, a whole album of Duke Ellington tunes ... .

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Greensboro's Clarence Avant inducted into Hall of Fame

Winston-Salem Journal 31 Oct 2021

nancy.mclaughlin. Clarence Avant, waiting to board a private jet to his induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, has another story to tell ... Sen ... His stories go as far back as a young Duke Ellington and Barbra Streisand to Jay-Z. “He would always say to Jackie — ‘Are you still with him?’ “ Clarence Avant said of his friendship with Ellington ... .