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	<description>Chet Williamson's Jazz History Blog</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>JS37: 16 bars with photographer Nubar Alexanian</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Ornette Coleman once told me: ‘Every living thing has something inside of it that does not want to die. Find out what this is and play that.” - Nubar Alexanian  
In the introduction to his book Where Music Comes From, photographer Nubar Alexanian writes: “I’m not sure if you’re born with a musical ear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JS36: Georgia on our minds</title>
		<link>http://jazzhistorydatabase.com/blog-chet/?p=43</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 20:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[She was born Freda Lipschitz in Worcester on August 17, 1919, and before dying in New York City at 87 on December 9, 2006, the singer would try on a closet full of names before wearing Georgia Gibbs to fame.  
She is largely remembered as a white singer who, because of her skin color, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JS35: The Black Elks on Chandler</title>
		<link>http://jazzhistorydatabase.com/blog-chet/?p=42</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Independent Benevolent Protective Order of the Quinsigamond Elks #173 is best known as the Black Elks. Back late 1960s and early ‘70s, the first Elks Club was on Summer Street. By the ‘80s, the order set up shop at 200 Chandler Street on the corner of Bellevue Street. Like its predecessor, the Black Elks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JS34: The Swinging Sheppard Brothers</title>
		<link>http://jazzhistorydatabase.com/blog-chet/?p=41</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 19:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Harry Sheppard tells this great little story about how Harvey used to wake him up in the middle of the night and carry him into downtown Worcester to hear some of the all-time great jazz artists jam. Harvey is Harry&#8217;s older brother. He&#8217;s 88. The kid&#8217;s just celebrated his 80th on April 1 – no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JS33 Six string singer Jim Skinger</title>
		<link>http://jazzhistorydatabase.com/blog-chet/?p=40</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 22:33:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the bio notes on his web page, guitarist Jim Skinger says, “It seems there was never a time when I wasn&#8217;t strumming a guitar, playing the piano or practicing the accordion, but it was the guitar that held the most fascination for me.” 
Sixty years later, the guitar continues to captivate him and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>J32: Monk in our sphere</title>
		<link>http://jazzhistorydatabase.com/blog-chet/?p=39</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s been rumored for years among local jazz fans that the late-great jazz pianist flipped one of his many hats here in town. It was actually in Grafton. In 1964 TIME magazine under the headline: Thelonious Monk: “Pretty Butterfly,” reported that, “In Boston Thelonious Monk once wandered around the airport until the police picked him [...]]]></description>
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		<title>J31: Lament for Otis Ferguson</title>
		<link>http://jazzhistorydatabase.com/blog-chet/?p=38</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 05:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his book, Changing the World: Clark University&#8217;s Pioneering People, 1887-2000, President Emeritus Richard P. Traina chose a remarkable list of important figures who had been affiliated with the school during that time. Among those to make the cut include such recognizable heroes as “Rocket Man” Robert Goddard and lesser knowns like the great writer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>J30: Local songwriters, part IV, Henry A. Sullivan</title>
		<link>http://jazzhistorydatabase.com/blog-chet/?p=37</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Mar 2008 20:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I received an email from Frank Callahan, director of planning and giving at Worcester Academy. He informed me that he had run across a “write up” on Henry A. Sullivan, the author of “I May Be Wrong, But I Think You Are Wonderful,” a jazz standard recorded by Miles Davis, Stan Getz, Coleman [...]]]></description>
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		<title>J29: Barbara Carroll on June in Worcester</title>
		<link>http://jazzhistorydatabase.com/blog-chet/?p=36</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his monumental memoir, Notes from a Battered Grand: Fifty Years of Music, from Honky-tonk to High Society, author Don Asher dedicates all of Chapter One to his first encounter with the legendary Worcester-born pianist, Jaki Byard. In Chapter Two he turns his attention to yet another great local pianist, Barbara Carroll. 
Here’s his riff: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>J28: Outcat Paul Murphy as a young pup</title>
		<link>http://jazzhistorydatabase.com/blog-chet/?p=35</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 23:14:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his long and storied professional career, drummer Paul Murphy has performed and recorded with many of the most famous free-jazz musicians in world. A smattering of those in the extensive roster includes such notable outcats as Hamiet Bluiett, Edward ‘Kidd’ Jordan, Karen Borca, Raphe Malik, William Parker, Ran Blake, Joel Futterman, Larry Willis and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>J27: Juggernaut man Frankie Capp in Worcester</title>
		<link>http://jazzhistorydatabase.com/blog-chet/?p=34</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 18:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In May of 2001, I had the good fortune to interview the great drummer Frankie Capp. I was working on a profile for Worcester Magazine. Invariably – especially writing to fill a 700-word feature well &#8212; not all of the conversation will be directly used. I recently found a transcription of the interview. Given the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>J26: Circe, the enchantress of Franklin Street</title>
		<link>http://jazzhistorydatabase.com/blog-chet/?p=33</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 02:35:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With grief for their slain companions mixed with joy at their own escape, they pursued their way till they arrived at the Aegean isle, where Circe dwelt, the daughter of the sun. – From Homer’s romantic poem Odyssey
This is another installment about local jazz clubs. This one is on Circe’s, the short-lived, but historic club [...]]]></description>
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		<title>J25: Local songwriters, part III, Cole Porter found his voice at Worcester Academy</title>
		<link>http://jazzhistorydatabase.com/blog-chet/?p=32</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2007 23:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[He is the songwriter&#8217;s songwriter, a genius, who is considered one of the first great American composers of popular song to seamlessly combine his words to his music. As Sammy Cahn once said: “When I met Cole Porter for the first time in my life, it was one of the great thrills for me because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>J24: Local songwriters, part II,  Joe Goodwin and John Redmond</title>
		<link>http://jazzhistorydatabase.com/blog-chet/?p=31</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 04:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here again is a take on area tunesmiths, who, although could never be called jazz writers, found many an improvising artist covering their songs. 
Joe Goodwin is the author of “When You&#8217;re Smiling,” one of Louis Armstrong&#8217;s earliest and most endearing hits. Goodwin was born in Worcester on June 6, 1889. He died in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>J23: The Tin Pan Alley Tobias Brothers</title>
		<link>http://jazzhistorydatabase.com/blog-chet/?p=30</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 02:40:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Tobias brothers were known as &#8220;The Esquires of Tin Pan Alley.&#8221; By no means could you call them jazz songwriters, but collectively their material has been covered by the likes of Bing Crosby, Jimmy Dorsey, Nat Cole, Ella Fitzgerald and Lou Rawls. 
The Tobias name is remembered for penning such tunes as “Sweet and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>J22: Bobby Dukoff was born here</title>
		<link>http://jazzhistorydatabase.com/blog-chet/?p=29</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:31:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All the jazz history books list him as being born in Worcester, but there’s very little information available about that. Most, like Leonard Feather’s bible, The Jazz Encyclopedia, typically mention him like this: 1918 Robert &#8220;Bobby&#8221; Dukoff, tenor sax, b: Worcester, MA, USA. - raised in Sioux City, IA, USA. 
Now, the question is how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>J21: “Giant Steps” at the Kitty Kat with Jackie Stevens</title>
		<link>http://jazzhistorydatabase.com/blog-chet/?p=28</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 17:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having a guy of his stature play the session was like having a major leaguer in our midst giving us a sneak preview as to what it was like to be in the Show. Though he only spent two short years playing in town, his presence to this day, remains indelible.  
Sometime in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>J20: Memories of young Donny Fagerquist</title>
		<link>http://jazzhistorydatabase.com/blog-chet/?p=26</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2007 23:56:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In writing the Jazz Worcester Real Book, I had the good fortune to meet not only the players featured in the book, but many of their family members. In some cases I had to rely on their assistance to help bring to life the memory of the artists and loved ones who had passed on. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>J19: Boots and the Fox</title>
		<link>http://jazzhistorydatabase.com/blog-chet/?p=27</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 03:28:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The reel to reel tape had been sitting in Richie Camuso&#8217;s dresser drawers for more than 40 years. For local jazz fans, the rediscovery of the Boots Mussulli Quartet live at the Fox Lounge is something akin to the finding of a long lost performance of Charlie Parker. It&#8217;s that significant. 
First of all, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>J18: Nat Simpkins recalls the Hottentotte</title>
		<link>http://jazzhistorydatabase.com/blog-chet/?p=24</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 00:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is another installment of musicians recalling the long lost clubs of yesteryear. In 1978, Reggie Walley opened his second club, The Hottentotte, at 8 Austin St. It was named after an African tribe of the same name. Much like the Kitty Kat, the new club played host to the jam session. The house band [...]]]></description>
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		<title>J17: The unreleased Howie Jefferson session</title>
		<link>http://jazzhistorydatabase.com/blog-chet/?p=23</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 16:19:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his 18 years at Long View Farm recording studios in North Brookfield, MA, owner and founder Gil Markle amassed a recorded library of music that has become literally the sound of the generation. Between the years of 1973 and 1991, he hosted such seminal artists and acts as Aerosmith, the J. Geils Band, Arlo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>J16: The rediscovered radio days of Dol Brissette</title>
		<link>http://jazzhistorydatabase.com/blog-chet/?p=22</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2007 18:47:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A trumpeting brass section enters with great fanfare. After four bars they stop on count and an announcer&#8217;s voice bellows: “SYNCOPATION FOR THE NATION.” The orchestra then skates into its theme song. A couple of bars into it, the disembodied voice returns confidently to proclaim: “From deep in the heart of New England, that&#8217;s Worcester, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>J15: Tending jazz at the Kitty Kat</title>
		<link>http://jazzhistorydatabase.com/blog-chet/?p=21</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2007 03:08:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As mentioned in installment five, when I first started writing The Jazz Worcester Real Book, I had hoped to include a collection of interviews with musicians talking about some of the places they had played. Unfortunately, with profiles of 100 people and just as many accompanying published compositions, I simply ran out of room. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>J14: Worcester&#8217;s Lil&#8217; Darlin&#8217; Wendell Culley</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2007 02:31:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some time just before he died in 1988, I had the good fortune to interview trumpeter Elwood “Barney” Price. In addition to being a fine player, consummate professional, exciting entertainer, he was quite the storyteller. In our conversation, he told me this cool little story about how, at 13, he had received his first trumpet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>J13: Worcester/West Coast connection of Bill Tannebring</title>
		<link>http://jazzhistorydatabase.com/blog-chet/?p=20</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2007 17:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the Worcester Telegram &#38; Gazette&#8217;s Website there is a new feature called Gone but not forgotten, in which you can submit your memories of growing up in the area. One recent submission was by pianist Bill Tannebring who reminisced about playing music in town back in the early 1960s with Howie Jefferson, Barney Price [...]]]></description>
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		<title>J12: I remember Al Arsenault - April 6, 1938 — May 15, 2007</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2007 17:13:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Williamson Chet</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[He was a sweet man with a smoky voice who died on Tuesday night after a long battle with emphysema. Al was an institution on the local music scene. He was known as the &#8220;Jimmy Smith of Worcester.&#8221; In his more than 50 years of playing, he brought joy to countless people and mentored many, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>J11: Good morning Irene, part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2007 00:19:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Williamson Chet</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In part one I mentioned that jazz radio host David Brent Johnson presented a show called “Ghosts of Yesterday: Billie Holiday and the Two Irenes (a Jazz Mystery)” that dealt with the confusion about Irene Higginbotham and Irene Kitchings-Wilson. You can find the program archived on line. 
After playing the music of both Irenes, he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>J10: Good morning Irene, part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2007 00:02:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Williamson Chet</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Her songs have been covered by the likes of Nat Cole, Anita O&#8217;Day and Louie Armstrong. She is the author of “Good Morning Heartache,” one of the most emotionally searing ballads in all of jazz. She was a close personal friend to Billie Holiday. The jazz history books have her born in Worcester on June [...]]]></description>
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		<title>J09: Tristano time, intuition and feeling</title>
		<link>http://jazzhistorydatabase.com/blog-chet/?p=15</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 00:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Williamson Chet</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In his opening remarks at the Lennie Tristano Symposium on Sunday, April 15, at WPI&#8217;s Alden Hall, Jazz Studies Director Rich Falco joked about the weather. He mentioned that the other symposiums were held in February and also impacted by the winter. “So we decided to move it to April,” he said, waiting a beat [...]]]></description>
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		<title>J08: Jaki Byard and the indestructible aluminum baby</title>
		<link>http://jazzhistorydatabase.com/blog-chet/?p=14</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2007 16:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Williamson Chet</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday, April 19, at 8 p.m. the New England Conservatory (NEC) Orchestra, under the direction of jazz department chair Ken Schaphorst, will present a free concert of the music of the late Jaki Byard. See related story at: NEC Website.
Byard was quite possibly one of the most famous musicians to come out of Worcester [...]]]></description>
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		<title>J07: Connie&#8217;s requiem for Lennie</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2007 23:27:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Williamson Chet</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday, April 15, from 2 to 6 p.m. the music division of WPI will present the Lennie Tristano Symposium, a celebration of the life and music of one the most enigmatic figures in jazz. The symposium was inspired by the publication of the new biography Lennie Tristano: His Life in Music written by WPI [...]]]></description>
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		<title>J06: The jazz ambassadors</title>
		<link>http://jazzhistorydatabase.com/blog-chet/?p=12</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2007 04:42:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Williamson Chet</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Every other year for the past 20 years students in the jazz ensembles at WPI have been traveling abroad sounding the world on America&#8217;s music. The troupes are led by jazz studies director Rich Falco, founder of the program who, in addition to teaching classes at the college, conducts the large stage band and small [...]]]></description>
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		<title>J05: Elks on Summer Street</title>
		<link>http://jazzhistorydatabase.com/blog-chet/?p=11</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2007 22:32:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Williamson Chet</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When I first began the writing of The Jazz Worcester Real Book, I wanted to include a collection of interviews with musicians talking about some of the places where they had performed. After talking with Roscoe Blunt about the Saxtrum Club, Emil Haddad about the El Morocco, Bunny Price on the Kitty Kat, Ken Vangel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>J04: Swan&#8217;s song</title>
		<link>http://jazzhistorydatabase.com/blog-chet/?p=10</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2007 23:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Williamson Chet</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[For years I had heard that the author of the great standard, “When Your Lover Has Gone,” was from around here. His name was Einar Swan. The fakebooks list him as E.A. Swan. That was the only information I had. I filed it away under: Someday, I&#8217;d like to find out more about this guy. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>J03: Metacomet meets Ataxia</title>
		<link>http://jazzhistorydatabase.com/blog-chet/?p=9</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2007 01:49:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Williamson Chet</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Eight years ago, guitarist Jay Tyer was diagnosed with a rare degenerative neurological disease called Ataxia. Since that time, his life has drastically changed. He has lost his job and virtually all of his students. His driving is limited. His sleeping patterns are all messed up, and though he still plays the guitar, his approach [...]]]></description>
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		<title>J02: The Latin Jazz Beat</title>
		<link>http://jazzhistorydatabase.com/blog-chet/?p=7</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2007 00:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Williamson Chet</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I had a chance to sit in on Jaime Flores&#8217; exciting new show, “The Latin Jazz Beat,” heard every Friday from 7 to 11 p.m. on radio station WICN 90.5 FM.  The program, “takes you on a wild ride through the intoxicating sounds of Latin jazz,” as the hype reads. “Dance and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>J01: Opening chorus</title>
		<link>http://jazzhistorydatabase.com/blog-chet/?p=6</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Feb 2007 03:27:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Williamson Chet</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the opening chorus to what I hope will be a weekly session on what&#8217;s happening in the way of jazz in Worcester. The students at WPI studying with Rich Falco are to thank or to blame for such instigation. Together they are about to launch The New England Jazz History Database, an active and [...]]]></description>
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