Expecting Jazz to be good, and then keep improving
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Hi, Mr. Curmudgeon here. First night of the season, the Jazz pound the Lakers into Jell-O and what do I do? Call me a party pooper.
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Al Jefferson and the Minnesota Timberwolves believe they're headed for better days. Beating the Phoenix Suns Â again Â is surely a decent sign of progress.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - Singer Al Jarreau begs to differ  when his label says his new album is his first jazz release in  27 years.
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A jazz musician finds inspiration and instruction from an unlikely source: prison.
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When country superstar Kenny  Chesney was approached about producing a new album for Willie  Nelson, he was initially underwhelmed.
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The Utah Jazz were really getting energized by the approach of their scheduled trip to Moscow to play CSKA, Andrei Kirilenko&#39;s former team, in an NBA preseason opener on Oct. 8. &quot;This whole adventure of going
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They haven't hit the way they can, or pitched the way they should, or executed fundamentals the way good teams are expected to in October.
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Though the album has its moments, it's not entirely enticing.
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Solid results, good expectations..
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These are strange days to follow the Celtics as emotions and optimism fluctuate quarter to quarter.
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A secret of Keith JarrettÂs triumph last year at Carnegie Hall sounds like a punch line: practice.
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Prairie View A&M Universityâs band offers a vernacular musical form that is not aiming at commercial success.
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Jazz is one of the great  instrumental genres, but in 2007, albums recorded by singers,  or featuring impressive lineups of guest vocalists, commanded  the charts.
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Overall, the album just doles out routine fare.
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Ornette Coleman is a jazz musician for whom the ideas are as important as the notes.
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Kenny G, regent of the smoothiverse, tries to conquer another realm at Jazz at Lincoln Center.
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Jazz artists are the latest to act as ambassadors of American culture.