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JAZZSTAGE.NET: Monthly Archives for February 2011

Portland Jazz Festival: SF Jazz Collective interprets Stevie Wonder for first time

Happy Birthday, Dexter Gordon

Branford Marsalis touts drummer Faulkner in interview

Jazz singer Lena Horne's belongings net $316,000

Tribute to guitarist Calvin Keys

Contours - Sam Rivers' embrace of the avant-garde

Lee Morgan - The Last Session

UN Agency Honors Chucho Valdes for his new Grammy

Former Secretary of State Albright beats the drum for Chris Botti; Remembering Harold Arlen

"Strange Fruit" - Billie Holiday's ugly song

Uneven Disney jazz CD likely to frustrate fans

McCoy Tyner's Expansions: The most definitive of his Blue Note recordings

Grammy upset: Esperanza Spalding tops Bieber, Drake for coveted award; other jazz winners

George Shearing, ebullient jazz pianist, R.I.P.

Jazz history: Trumpeter and big band leader "Wingy" Manone -- Off the Cuff!

Drummer Beaver Harris: Well-rounded avant garde musician

Hot young pianist Gerald Clayton born into jazz experience

Teen phenom Tony Williams - "Spring"

History: Littlejohn's Grill - a mecca in Clemson, S.C., for black performers

Trumpeter Eddie Henderson "scandalously underexposed"

Remembering Grover Mitchell -- lead trombonist and band leader for Count Basie Orchestra

Moody-inspired fan devotes life to history of jazz

Ever-evolving Wayne Shorter refuses to rest on reputation

Pianist Geri Allen nominated for 2011 NAACP Image Award - Video Interview

Featured artist: Akua Dixon Turre -- cellist, composer

Grover Washington, Jr. -- Take Five (and more)

Newlyweds Carlos Santana, Cindy Blackman put on a show

Eugenio Arango, Cuban-born percussionist and singer known as Totico, dies at 76

Happy Birthday, Stan Getz

Guitarist Todd Clouser: From Mexico to U.S. Tour

Happy Birthday, Sonny Stitt

George Benson and Jack McDuff together - Groove and funk