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Jazz and Blues Lounge

January 12th, 2008

A Jazz Album Recommendation

When it comes to jazz festivals, there are very few who could argue with the fact that one of the most-respected, and probably the highest and biggest, is the Monterey Jazz Festival.  It is the festival that has defined jazz for 50 years now.  It’s the place where Miles and Trane and dozens of other […]

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November 17th, 2007

Checking Into the Velvet Lounge

The Velvet Lounge, as I have mentioned before, is one of the best places in all of Chicago to see jazz played live.  It is jut the quintessential jazz club.  It’s small and the stage is really just one end of the place.  The place used to be smokey before Chicago messed with the smoking […]

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October 31st, 2007

While In Vegas…

The posting from yesterday about the Las Vegas blogging event, got me wondering about what kind of jazz clubs there are in Vegas.  Given how they have entire casinos based on various themes, I am surprised they don’t have an entire casino devoted to Jazz. 
I have never been to Vegas, so I can’t say what […]

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