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			<title><![CDATA[Donald Byrd dies at 80; jazz trumpeter was a funk-fusion experimenter]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-02-12 06:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Jazz trumpeter and band leader Donald Byrd, whose clean, elegant phrasing made his reputation in the 1950s and '60s before he began experimenting in the '70s and '80s with jazz-funk-R&B fusions on discs such as "Black Byrd" and "Thank You ... for F.U.M.L....]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Donald Byrd dies at 80; jazz musician and educator]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-02-11 15:16:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Jazz musician Donald Byrd, a leading hard-bop trumpeter of the 1950s who collaborated on dozens of albums with top artists of his time and later enjoyed commercial success with hit jazz-funk fusion records such as "Black Byrd," has died. He was 80. 

He...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jazz pianist John Beasley to have January residency at Blue Whale]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-12-24 10:06:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The story may be apocryphal, but according to legend (i.e. Wikipedia) the jazz pianist John Beasley put together his first drum kit at age 2, using kitchen pots and pans. History does not record the title of the debut tune that Beasley performed on his...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Review: A fascinating education in 'The Jazz Standards']]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-07-22 00:00:00</pubDate>
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The Jazz Standards
A Guide to the Repertoire

Ted Gioia
Oxford University Press: 528 pp., $39.95
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I like jazz but I don't know much about it. Or perhaps I should say that I know what I like. Duke Ellington,...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[<small>IMAGE: Uncommon Scents </small>Note Worthy]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-06-01 16:39:47</pubDate>
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The Jazz Standards
A Guide to the Repertoire

Ted Gioia
Oxford University Press: 528 pp., $39.95
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I like jazz but I don't know much about it. Or perhaps I should say that I know what I like. Duke Ellington,...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jazz review: Jason Moran at the Hammer Museum]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2011-12-16 16:32:58</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[--------------------


The Jazz Standards
A Guide to the Repertoire

Ted Gioia
Oxford University Press: 528 pp., $39.95
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I like jazz but I don't know much about it. Or perhaps I should say that I know what I like. Duke Ellington,...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Jazz review: Kurt Rosenwinkel at the Musicians Institute]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-02-26 16:32:20</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[--------------------


The Jazz Standards
A Guide to the Repertoire

Ted Gioia
Oxford University Press: 528 pp., $39.95
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I like jazz but I don't know much about it. Or perhaps I should say that I know what I like. Duke Ellington,...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Influences: Singer-songwriter Stew]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-03-07 16:32:36</pubDate>
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The Jazz Standards
A Guide to the Repertoire

Ted Gioia
Oxford University Press: 528 pp., $39.95
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I like jazz but I don't know much about it. Or perhaps I should say that I know what I like. Duke Ellington,...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA['Chico & Rita': A sexy animated film for grown-ups]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-03-08 16:39:38</pubDate>
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The Jazz Standards
A Guide to the Repertoire

Ted Gioia
Oxford University Press: 528 pp., $39.95
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I like jazz but I don't know much about it. Or perhaps I should say that I know what I like. Duke Ellington,...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Paul Motian dies at 80; jazz drummer and composer]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2011-11-24 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Paul Motian, an influential and much-admired jazz drummer who first gained renown in the late 1950s as part of the Bill Evans Trio and later became a composer and the leader of his own groups, has died. He was 80.

Motian died Tuesday at Mount Sinai...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Ambrose Akinmusire plays it his way]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2011-06-05 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Even if you haven't yet heard of Ambrose Akinmusire, you might think you know what his lauded new album "When the Heart Emerges Glistening" sounds like. Jazz &#8212; particularly jazz trumpet &#8212; is a loaded business, one in which swaths of...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Saxophonist Miguel Zenon mines the Puerto Rican songbook]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2011-11-18 16:33:06</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Even if you haven't yet heard of Ambrose Akinmusire, you might think you know what his lauded new album "When the Heart Emerges Glistening" sounds like. Jazz &#8212; particularly jazz trumpet &#8212; is a loaded business, one in which swaths of...]]></description>
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