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Elio Villafranca: Five Islands & A Revolt
The setting was Systems Two, a well-known, state-of-the-art recording studio in Brooklyn. The sessions, occurring over five days in May (7-11) 2017, were set up to record Cuban pianist/composer...
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SFJAZZ: Decades After, Five Years In
Five years after the San Francisco, California organization SFJAZZ created its own building, the SFJAZZ Center, it has proved a raving, even rampaging, success, unrelenting in programming...
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Michael Leonhart: Surfing on an Orchestral Wave
If one were to find an answer to the age-old "nature or nurture" debate, s/he would have to look no further than The Painted Lady Suite [Sunnyside Records]. Listening to the stunning debut album by the...
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Istanbul Jazz Festival 2018
A leisurely stroll through the crowded streets of Istanbul offers many delights, Turkish or otherwise. The maze guides you through nested teahouses, majestic ottoman palaces, monumental sahns adjoining mosques...
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Meet Davis Wilson
Jeopardy contestant, amateur pianist, dance teacher, actor, sailor, postal worker, our July Super Fan has lived all over the place and done it all. Now based in St. Paul, Minnesota, he met "zillions of artists" as keeper of the flame at the...
Reviews
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Beverley Beirne
Jazz Just Wants To...
Adi Meyerson
Where We Stand
Nick Biello
Vagabond Soul
Don Cherry
Home Boy, Sister Out
John Coltrane
Both Directions at...
Rich Halley 3
The Literature
Rodrigo Amado
A History Of Nothing
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Turbamulta
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Mike Lorenz
Speak Between
Roman Miroshnichenko
Ascension
Jay Hoggard
A Walk Thru The...
Orpheus
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Jay Danley
Clean Water And A Bag...
LehCats
Soul Cha Cha
Sam Pilnick
Pure Imagination
Alchemy Sound Project
Adventures in Time and...
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Steve Lacy
Steve Lacy, one of the greatest soprano saxophonists of all time and a New England Conservatory faculty member since fall 2002, died Friday [June 4th, 2004] at New England Baptist Hospital. The jazz master... read more
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Encontros - Orquestra... by Antonio Adolfo
Story of the Day
I love jazz because it eliminates distractions from everyday life and it SOUNDS good. I was first exposed to jazz by hearing a Clifford Brown record at the age of 12.
By James E Scalise
Member since: 2009
This Week
- From the Inside Out Sonic Styles of the Seventies
- Live Reviews Brian Charette Trio with Ed Cherry at The Turning Point Cafe
- Mixcloud Omer Avital Qantar
- Live Reviews Jamie Cullum and Joss Stone at Stuttgart Jazz Open 2018
- Multiple Reviews Two Contrasting Releases From Bertrand Denzler
- Catching Up With Elio Villafranca: Five Islands & A Revolt
- Interviews Making The John Coltrane Jazz Festival in High Point
