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  • Thanks to restaurants/caterers for supporting our Spring Membership Drive

    May 15, 2012. Posted by Kien Lac.

    Add new comment | Filed under: Volunteers

    Thanks to Bakeries/Restaurants/Caters for supporting our Spring Membership Drive by donating food and refreshments for the volunteers during our long hours...

    Thanks

    NEW JERSEY

    BRAGMAN’S RESTAURANT & DELICATESSEN - NEWARK

    CHATEAU OF SPAIN - NEWARK

    COMMERCE FOOD COURT – NEWARK

    CASA di PIZZA- UNION

    HOBBY’S DELICATESSAN & RESTAURANT - NEWARK

    M.S.S DISTRIBUTORS – NORTH ARLINGTON

    OLDE SOUL CHEESECAKES - PLAINFIELD

    ROBERT’S PIZZA - NEWARK

    SANDY SASSO - OAKLAND

    SUPREME BAKERY – WEST ORANGE

    THE WOOD PIT - MONTCLAIR

    NEW YORK

    BLACK COW COFFED – CROTON-ON-THE-HASTINGS

    BARRY’S BEST CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES - BROOKLYN

    JAZZ BROWNIES - MANHATTAN

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  • Tedeschi-Trucks Band Live at NJPAC

    May 14, 2012. Posted by Tim Wilkins.

    Add new comment | Filed under: concerts, Live Music, njpac

    The Tedeschi Trucks Band, co-led by wife and husband Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks, performed live at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) in Newark, New Jersey on October 21, 2011. A two-CD set of recent live recordings by the group, Everybody's Talkin', will be released by Sony Masterworks on May 22.

    Click here to hear our broadcast of this performance, which will also be heard at 88.3 FM on Michael Bourne's Blues Hour at 3 p.m. today. To hear Michael's interview with Susan and Derek about their NJPAC performance, click here. Enjoy!

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  • Miles Davis & Gil Evans: Still Ahead on JazzSet .. a 20th anniversary special

    May 11, 2012. Posted by Becca Pulliam.

    Add new comment | Filed under: JazzSet, terence blanchard

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    MUST HEAR radio is coming Sunday, May 13, at 6pm and Wednesday, May 16, at 6:30 .. in Surround Sound ..

    TUNE IN for highlights from Porgy and Bess and Sketches of Spain .. a performance of the original Gil Evans (1912-1988) arrangements. The scores were discovered a few years ago in a storage unit near Philadelphia, according to Evans's son Miles.

    “You could hear, with clarity, the astonishing detail of Evans's writing," wrote critic Richard Scheinen of the San Jose Mercury News.

    Terence Blanchard is the trumpet soloist, in the wake of the original, Miles Davis. Vince Mendoza conducts the Still Ahead Orchestra at the 54th Monterey Jazz Festival, which is helping to make this extraordinary hour available on JazzSet.

    The Sunday night broadcast falls on the one hundredth anniversary of Gil Evans's birth.

    Photo By Craig Lovell, thanks to Monterey Jazz Festival

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