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(6/19/09)

Greeting Jazz Friends!

Thanks for listening and thanks for your kind e-mails. They really help keep me going! We are regularly adding fresh tracks so there should be plenty new to hear. I've been digging a lot of classics from Verve and its associated labels lately, so I've been passing it onto you: Sarah Vaughan, Gerry Mulligan, rare Helen Merrill with Stan Getz and others. Hope you dig it as well! We've also got some tracks from the brand new Joey DeFrancesco disc, which is a tribute to the great Horace Silver. Believe me, it cooks. Finally, we're playing cuts from the final disc from David Fathead Newman. Fathead still had plenty to say and it is beautiful and poignant.

Blue Note Records, one of the greatest of all jazz record labels, turns 70 in '09. To honor Blue Note, we will be adding additional Blue Note tracks to the regular playlists and we've added three hour programs on Wednesday and Friday, featuring music from the Blue Note catalog.

This year also marks the 50th Anniversary of the release of three seminal jazz recordings: "Mingus Ah-Um", Trane's "Giant Steps" (recorded in '59, released in early '60) and the one that towers above them all, "Kind of Blue". In honor of these legendary works, we have added these albums to the playlist, in their entirety (except alternate takes), where they will remain through most of the year. I hope that you'll enjoy listening to them

I've given in to the temptation and started to Twitter! If enjoy reading some fresh tweets, please follow me at www.twitter.com/curtjazz

Our web site is up and running at curtscafejazz.com. Please stop by as we will be adding fresh content and reviews over there and perhaps soon, some tracks from out of print albums and CDs.

Again, if you'd like to hear the Cafe without commercial interruption, won't you consider a Live365 Preferred Membership? It's relatively inexpensive, you'll be able to listen to your favorite jazz, without commercials and it will help us to defray the rising costs of broadcasting that have been brought on by recent Federal legislation. To sign up, just click the green banner above this space. Either way, I thank you for listening. As always, your e-mails are appreciated, so please keep them coming.

I pray that your day and your year is happy, healthy, Blessed and filled with great jazz!

Yours in jazz,

Curt

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