tag:www.artsjournal.com,2008-02-19:/jazzbeyondjazz//24 2009-11-20T15:10:32Z an Arts Journal Blog Movable Type 4.31-en http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.gifJazzBeyondJazzhttp://feedburner.google.comSubscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with My AOLSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with PageflakesHoward Mandel's Urban Improvisation/ an ArtsJournal Blog tag:www.artsjournal.com,2009:/jazzbeyondjazz//24.23332 2009-11-20T13:44:46Z 2009-11-20T15:10:32Z Jazz beyond Jazz http://www.artsjournal.com/jazzbeyondjazz/ Far out improv, high concept contemporary composition, new jazz scholarship and "cut loose" music from Guadeloupe flood Lowest Manhattan (all the way to Staten Island) this weekend. The folks who bring us the Vision Festival stage 28 hours of multidisciplinary improvisation starting tonight...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. 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Are...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/JazzBeyondJazz?a=t-ozfiEBOXI:uyCXyOIdHcc:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/JazzBeyondJazz?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JazzBeyondJazz/~4/t-ozfiEBOXI" height="1" width="1"/> http://www.artsjournal.com/jazzbeyondjazz/2009/11/performance_night_of_beyond-ja.html tag:www.artsjournal.com,2009:/jazzbeyondjazz//24.23224 2009-11-13T18:51:01Z 2009-11-14T20:12:16Z Jazz beyond Jazz http://www.artsjournal.com/jazzbeyondjazz/ Winners of this blog's first Blues Lyric Contest are suitably troubled -- and all get Wynton Marsalis and Willie Nelson Play the Music of Ray Charles DVDS to ease their weary minds. All have expressed regrets they can't get to  Jazz at...<br/> <br/> [[ This is a content summary only. 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