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ST. LOUIS: Richard E. Beckman Plumbing supply store owner, musician (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Richard E. Beckman, a plumbing supply store owner who played saxophone in several big bands, died Thursday (Aug. 28, 2008) at a Springfield, Ill., hospital. He was 77 and lived in Highland.

Paquito D'Rivera Condemn the Arrest of Punk Rocker Gorki Aguila (All About Jazz)
Grammy Award-winning composer, saxophone and clarinet player Paquito D'Rivera has joined Bloggers United for Cuban Liberty in condemning Monday's arrest of dissident punk rocker Gorki Aguila by Cuban authorities.

Joe Orrach has always had fancy footwork (San Francisco Chronicle)
Joe knows boxing. Joe knows ballet. Joe knows tap dancing. Joe knows the saxophone. Joe knows showbiz. But it wasn't until recently that Joe Orrach really got to know himself. "I always knew that I wanted to be an entertainer. Yeah, I know it may sound a...

Tenderloin stars in Nine by Nilsson (San Francisco Chronicle)
Approaching Rob Nilsson's house in the North Berkeley flats, one can be forgiven for assuming that the saxophone filling the night air, joining the whistles of trains just a block away, is being played by the man himself. Nilsson, a longtime independent...

Big Weeds (All About Jazz)
Big Weeds could well herald the return of the big, bad saxophone. Its protagonist, Cory Weeds, blazes his masterful way through a monstrous set, alternating on tenor and alto. And in one fell swoop, Weeds joins the ranks of the instrument's great storytellers.

Best Bets: Aug. 31, 2008 (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
The Le Boeuf Brothers Quintet Twin brothers and local champions Remy Le Boeuf saxophone and Pascal Le Boeuf piano/keyboards honed their jazz skills at Kuumbwa and have been performing there since grade school.

Cleo Laine, John Dankworth coming to Rrazz Room (San Francisco Chronicle)
Now that we're in the era of Big British Voices - Amy Winehouse and her ilk - it's a good opportunity to take stock of one of the original Big British Voices, namely Cleo Laine. Conveniently, the 80-year-old star is performing in San Francisco at the Rrazz...

Our own namesake band: Denver & the Mile High Orchestra (Denver Post)
This city now has a namesake pop band to do it proud ? Denver & the Mile High Orchestra.

Brass band captures the soul of New Orleans (The Toledo Blade)
The Dirty Dozen Brass Band has a rather lofty goal, according to Kevin Harris. ?We?re trying to please everyone in the world.? Harris, who plays tenor saxophone, is a founding member of the famed New Orleans group, which is marking its 32nd year of high-energy music with traditional marching-band roots. The Dozen, who will headline the Saturday entertainment at the Black Swamp Arts Festival in ...

A tale of two saxmen (The Times of Northwest Indiana)
One saxophone colossus opens the 30th Chicago Jazz Festival on Thursday. A second closes the nation's largest free jazzfest on Sunday.