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20 Jul Telluride Jazz Celebration Guest of Honor: Toshiko Akiyoshi

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[click “Play” to listen to Toshiko Akiyoshi’s conversation with Susan] The 34th annual Telluride Jazz Celebration welcomes Guest of Honor, award-winnning (Downbeat polls, Grammy nominations, etc.) arranger-pianist-bandleader Toshiko Akiyoshi. Manchurian born Akiyoshi began her piano training at  the age of seven. Her career as a...

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08 Jun PortaJane makes a pit stop at the 2009 Telluride Jazz Festival

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by Eileen Burns Ladies, we all know that when it comes to portable bathrooms, yuck, we  really don't want to use them, but most of us have had to at one point or another.  And lets face it,  although we strive for equality, we are not...

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05 Jun Telluride Jazz Celebration: Guest of honor, Bill Frisell

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[click "Play" button to hear Susan's interview with Bill Frisell] 2009 Telluride Jazz Celebration, June 5-7 No doubt about it. Telluride Jazz Celebration impresario Paul Machado is really good at his job. His choice of Bill Frisell as the 2009 Guest of Honor was inspired,...

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05 Jun Telluride Jazz Celebration: vocalist Lizz Wright

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[click "Play" button to hear Susan talk with Lizz Wright] Chanteuse/songwriter Lizz Wright was only 25 when she first visited town, a guest of the 29th annual Telluride Jazz Celebration. At the time, the soulful young charmer was already brushing shoulders with song stylists such...

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04 Jun Paul Machado on Telluride Jazz Celebration #33

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[click "Play" button to hear Susan's conversation with Paul Machado] Paul Machado took over the helm of the Telluride Jazz Celebration in 1991 reconfiguring the event with aplomb and extending the venue to include local clubs and the Mountain Village. The depth and breadth of...

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03 Jun Telluride Jazz Celebration: Ozomatli

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[click "Play" button to hear Ozomatli's Ulises Bella] Telluride Jazz Celebration's impresario Paul Machado programs for cultural diversity, including everything from mainstream to mariachi. This year, booking one act alone, he could have covered all his bases. Ozomatli plays a notorious mash of hip hop...

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02 Jun Telluride Jazz Celebration: Christian Scott, trumpet

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[click "Play" button to hear Susan's interview with Christian Scott] At the 33rd annual Telluride Jazz Celebration, audiences get to come face to face with the future of the genre: young trumpeter Christian Scott. The past is a given. At the turn of the 20th...

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01 Jun Telluride Jazz Celebration: Karl Denson returns

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31 May Telluride Jazz Celebration: Guitarist Jimmy Herring

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[Click "Play" button to hear Susan's conversation with Jimmy Herring] Telluride Jazz, May 5-7. Sideman out front: Jimmy Herring He has been the legend behind the legends, a musician's musician, but the 33rd annual Telluride Jazz Celebration, June 5 – June 7, will set the...

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02 Feb The 2009 Telluride Jazz Celebration announces line-up

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 Since 1977, the San Juan Mountains have been the site of an annual cultural event produced by the Telluride Society for Jazz. The Telluride Jazz Celebration combines performances on outdoor stages in during the day with theater and club shows at night: the best of...

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