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Live Music & Shows. Top 50 Jazz Albums for the Week of 10 October 2011 [JazzWeek] ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composer Awards Sponsored by the Gibson Foundation: Deadline December 1st! Welcome to Guyana Jazz Festival 2012! Live Music & Shows. Marc Jordan - Almost Blue. Charlie parker loves me by Marc Jordan on Spotify. KJazz 88.1 FM. Professional Birdwatchers Land in Guyana Once Again.

Toucan photograph taken in Guyana by Bill Thompson, III GEORGETOWN, GUYANA – Hopping back into the truck – covered with a fine red dust from the Iwokrama roadway – Steve Banner is positively giddy.

Professional Birdwatchers Land in Guyana Once Again

The Iwokrama Forest towers above him on both sides and he is sweating generously. The sweat is partially due to the jarring difference between England’s late-winter chill and Guyana’s tropical heat, but it is also a result of running up and down a jungle road with seven other grown adults carrying 35 pounds of cameras, scopes, and binoculars on their backs. “This is amazing, “ Mr. Banner exclaims. The group is not part of some rainforest endurance race, but is the seventh tourism product familiarization (fam) trip organized by the Guyana Sustainable Tourism Initiative (GSTI), a joint project of the Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA) and the United States Agency for International Development / Guyana Trade and Investment Support (USAID/GTIS) project.

Guyana Birding: Birdwatching Tours in South America’s Last Frontier. Lonesome Town by Marc Jordan on Spotify. Explore Guyana. WBGO Jazz 88.3FM. Original Jazz Classics Remasters from Concord - Technorati Music. Sounds like a stock brokerage firm – or a legal firm: Blakey, Fitzgerald, Getz, Monk, Peterson, & Tjader.

Original Jazz Classics Remasters from Concord - Technorati Music

If you’re interested in jazz stock or advice in the field of jazz, this group certainly had the talent, skill and experience to have represented you well. They did fine for themselves and stand tall as giants in their field. It would be a surprise if several of these names were not included on just about anyone’s list of the top ten greats in jazz. On March 15, 2011, Concord Records released four new titles in their continuing series of Original Jazz Classics Remastered.

These four CD’s hit the street on the first anniversary of this project by Concord. Each of the four discs includes several bonus tracks: some are alternate takes and some are previously unreleased material. An added bonus for listeners is the appearance of other jazz legends in the groups along with the headliners. Continued on the next page. J To The A by Aziza on Spotify. La Costa by Aziza on Spotify. Blue Note New York Performance Schedule. Ten years ago, Linda Williams, best known in music circles for her five-and-a-half years playing and conducting for Natalie Cole, had an epiphany: it was time for a change - time for a new name, a new direction, and a new life.

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Aziza - the performer, the composer/lyricist, the complete artist - was born. The name comes from The Book of African Names, but the music and the lyrics come straight from the heart. The name Aziza means “beloved and powerful," and the songwriting means that a brand new career has begun and is flourishing for this lady of many talents. After her Hollywood period, in which she composed the melody for Miss Cole’s “La Costa," a contemporary standard, then wrote and recorded City Living, her debut album on Clive Davis’s Arista Records, Aziza turned to the daunting task of raising her son Brandon.

A hopeless romantic, Aziza, in song after song, reflects on the trials and tribulations of modern romance and dating. Aziza will now blaze her own trail. Aziza is a winner. Live Music & Shows. AZIZA - www.azizasdontapologize.com. Jazz Festivals.