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The Bach's Beach Vision Of Jazz Heaven
Heaven for some is a baseball diamond in an Iowa cornfield. For Pete Douglas, it was a house on a beach with a jazz club in his living room, a would-be heaven also for anyone who dropped in. Douglas passed on...
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Burlington Discover Jazz Festival 2018
As the case with any festival worth attending at all, the passionate musiclover faces a challenge with Burlington Discover Jazz. Simply put, it's the choice between attending a marathon of events, thereby risking overload and over-stimulation...
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Mandla Mlangeni: Born to Be
Mandla Mlangeni has been engaged. The South African trumpeter, composer, and bandleader oversees three groups, notably the Amandla Freedom Ensemble and the Tune Recreation Committee. Additionally, his works are marked by an intense effort to...
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Atlanta Jazz Festival 2018
The Atlanta Jazz Festival prides itself on being one of the largest free jazz festivals in the United States. The 41st edition took place under a forbidding forecast of heavy rainstorms: the event announcements made a big point of...
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Bokani Dyer: African Piano
Throughout this decade, pianist, composer, and bandleader Bokani Dyer has stood as one of the most formidable and creative keyboard talents in South Africa today. Raised in a musical family--his father is the legendary saxophonist Steve Dyer...
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Love From The Sun
Jeff Denson
Outside My Window
Darrian Ford
New Standards
Kollega
EP 1
Chamber 3
Transatlantic
AddisAbabaBand
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Tony Scott
Tony Scott, a distinguished jazz clarinetist who in the 1950s helped steer his instrument out of the swing era and into the sax-infested waters of bebop. With Buddy DeFranco, Mr. Scott was considered one... read more
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Dreaming Spirits by Mark Egan
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e.s.t. live in london by Esbjorn Svensson
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Seymour Reads The... by Brad Mehldau
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Life Of by Steve Tibbetts
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Sebastiana by Ricardo Bacelar
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Still Dreaming by Joshua Redman
Story of the Day
The best show I ever attended was the Zawinul Syndicate at the Blue Note in 1997. Being the youngest kids in the room, the host put us right in front of the band. The afro-beat electric set blew the roof off the building, an unforgettable sound
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By Mick Ricereto
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