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As the title to this post indicates, this post will be the last listings from City Newspaper at this (blog) location. Should be happening in the next few days (I’m waiting for the url to resolve so I can launch). Sorry about the delay, but I was over at Frontier Field last night catching Bob Dylan. Without further delay:
Mike Melito dropped me a line about a gig at The Clarissa Room this next Friday, September 1st, from 9:30pm to 12:30am. No cover. In addition to Mike on drums, the band includes Bob Sneider on guitar, Phil Flanigan on bass and Mike Dubaniewicz, who plays in Maynard Ferguson’s band, on alto saxophone. I’ve added Mike’s website to the local musician links (sorry, Mike…).
Here are the Rochester area jazz listings for the next 7 days, courtesy of the City newspaper. Keeping watching here; I hope to launch the “new Jazz@Rochester” before Dylan plays Frontier Field. Still deciding on tickets to that (yep, I don’t listen ONLY to jazz). Some new names on the scene this week. Well, here they are:
Blue Note Records has announced that it will make available cell phone ring tones of classic jazz riffs from its legendary label names like Miles Davis, Chet Baker, Thelonious Monk, Horace Silver (and the list goes on). Check the article on Allaboutjazz.com here, or a page from Blue Note’s site here (they’re pretty much the same article, but Allaboutjazz.com has already archived it so the address is less likely to change). The “Best of the Blue Tones” ringtones are portions of the actual tracks, not cheesy remakes that sound like a Casiotone keyboard from the 80s. Blue Note is working with a variety of carriers worldwide to make them available, so watch for them at your favorite ringtone location.
I just recently joined the ranks of us downtrodden masses on the cell network. One of the first things I did was download a jazz ringtone—the first few lines from Coltrane’s Giant Steps. The problem is I just don’t want to answer the phone until he’s done . . . (I know, you’re all saying “that’s a problem?”)
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