News from allaboutjazz.com | August 23, 2002

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AUGUST GREETINGS FROM ALL ABOUT JAZZ

Visit our monthly welcome page, the quickest way to discover the latest happenings and noteworthy updates at All About Jazz.

This month we'd like to draw special attention to our summer festival coverage. Reports from the Montreal International Jazz Festival, the JVC Newport Jazz Festival, the Istanbul International Jazz Festival, and a handful more...

DAILY JAZZ NEWS AND CD REVIEWS!

The AAJ News section is more active than ever -- we're posting several news items a day. The six most recent news items appear on the home page and the rest are archived on the Monthly Jazz News page.

We're also posting daily CD reviews till the 25th of each month. Be sure to bookmark our Daily CD Review page if you're a frequent visitor.

VIDEOS AND GALLERY

We've posted two new videos of Branford Marsalis and McCoy Tyner at the Monterey Jazz Festival.

It was a banner month for the AAJ fine arts gallery -- four new photo exhibits including: Jazz Expressions by Joe Smith, Jazz Impressions in Belgium by Jacky Lepage, Photonality by Tom Priemon, and the Vancouver International Jazz Festival by Josephine Ochej.

OPINIONS & EDITORIALS

Several personal reflections on jazz this month, including Nathan Gold's The Place Of Jazz In America's Music Industry, Brent Wheeler's Simple Thoughts on Jazz and Popular Songs, Warren L. Oree's The State of Jazz Education, and Misha V. Stefanuk's Language and a Voice for the 21 Century. Click here for more opinions and editorials...

WOMEN & SONG

Read Patricia Barber: Complete; Not Complacent by R.J. DeLuke; CD reviews of Karrin Allyson's IN BLUE by C. Michael Bailey and Roger Crane, plus Mat Bahl's Truth, Tradition & Karrin Allyson and Starting Over with Dee Dee Bridgewater; and Marshall Bowden examines June Christy's Something Cool.

AAJ IN PRINT: FROM PHILLY TO NEW YORK

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