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  • Dee Dee on Leno

    July 26, 2010. Posted by Becca Pulliam.

    Add new comment | Filed under: Jazz Alive, JazzSet

    Photo by Mark Higoshino

    Word from out west sez that this Wednesday, 7/28, JazzSet host Dee Dee Bridgewater will sit in for the entire hour with the Rickey Minor Big Band (the house band) on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. I'll bet she sings music from her current CD of songs from the Billie Holiday book, Dee Dee style. The lucky people in the live audience will get more than the TV audience.

    Sounds like fun!

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  • JazzSet host's daughter, China Moses, brings her mother onstage

    July 18, 2010. Posted by Becca Pulliam.

    Add new comment | Filed under: China Moses, dee dee bridgewater, Jazz a Vienne, Jazz Alive, JazzSet, Video

    How is your French?

    Earlier this month on Facebook, Dee Dee Bridgewater posted this video -- a news piece about an attractive vocalist coming to Jazz a Vienne in France. The reporter begins by noting that the singer looks familiar, and there's a reason. china

    At the conclusion of the piece, China Moses and her mother are onstage, in action -- China in the foreground, DDB at her side. China's current album is a tribute to Dinah Washington. Her pianist is Raphael Lemonnier. Their label is Blue Note in Europe. China's website has more.

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  • Piano notes

    June 10, 2010. Posted by Becca Pulliam.

    Add new comment | Filed under: Great Live Moments, Jazz Alive, Jazz Community, JazzSet, Masters

    10 06 10 Queen to MarianNote #1: On June 8, the Queen's official birthday, at a reception at Her Majesty's Consul General's Residence (near the UN), the Queen (not present) bestowed the honour of Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire upon Margaret Marian McPartland, who was present and seated under a good-sized Andy Warhol portrait of the Queen. Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz was noted in the presentation.

    Note #2: Sunday June13 at 6pm and Wednesday June 16 at 6:30 in a broadcast premiere on JazzSet, pianist Edward Simon - now a Guggenheim Fellow and member of the SF JAZZ Collective - presents his piece Sorrows and Triumphs . The performance by the septet Afinidad comes from the Walton Arts Center in Fayetteville, AR. David Binney is co-leader. The entire concert is really neat! Mystical and musical.

    David Binney at Afinidad rehearsal in Fayetteville
    David Binney at Afinidad rehearsal in Fayetteville

    The web extra piece at jazzset.npr.org is Simon's "Impossible Dream." Here's an excerpt with Gretchen Parlato vocals, Adam Rogers guitar, Scott Colley bass, Antonio Sanchez drums, Rogerio Boccato pc.

    Scott Colley
    Scott Colley

    Sorrows and Triumphs was created with support from Chamber Music America’s New Works: Creation & Presentation Program, funded generously through the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

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