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Linley Hamilton: Strings Attached
Nearly all recordings are labours of love. Passion and a huge amount of work are the essential ingredients. Some recordings in particular, however, mark the realization of a life-long dream. For Northern Irish trumpeter, BBC jazz broadcaster and university lecturer...
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Big Ears Festival 2018
Knoxville's Big Ears Festival has traditionally kicked things off with a big piece by a high-visibility headliner. This year was to have featured a live performance of guitarist Nels Cline's Lovers project, an ambitious re-imagination of romantic "mood music" which was to be performed with the...
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A Day at AAJ
One of the main benefits of being the Dean of American Jazz Humorists©, besides a free Orange Julius whenever I want one (at participating locations) and 2-for-1 Redbox rentals, is my unfettered access to the inner workings of the entire Jazz universe...
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The Cry of Jay Rodriguez
On an unseasonably warm February evening I set out from Brooklyn to catch the multi-instrumentalist Jay Rodriguez's band at Le Poisson Rouge. While walking from the West 4th Street subway station to the venue on Bleecker Street I recalled taking this exact route over 30 years ago to play a...
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Camille Bertault: Unity in Diversity
On her striking new album, Pas de géant, Camille Bertault confirms all the qualities that her debut release, En Vie, had showcased three years ago. For her sophomore release, the French singer doubles down with an...
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Bassist/Composer Avishai Cohen, born April 20, 1970 in Israel, a musician who has been called a “jazz visionary of global proportions” by DownBeat, and was declared one of the 100 Most Influential... read more
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I love jazz because it's helped me to escape to new worlds and new experiences. I was first exposed to jazz while I was very young. I was born in 1964 and I remember jazz being the background music for so many TV programs I used to watch
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This Week
- Mixcloud Minimalist Jazz & An Interview With Caroline Davis
- Profiles A Vintage Year For Jessica Felix And The Healdsburg Jazz Festival
- Live Reviews Tallinn Music Week 2018
- Interviews Linley Hamilton: Strings Attached
- Take Five With... Take Five with Mark Haskins
- Live Reviews James Blood Ulmer and the Thing at Bochum Art Museum
- The Jazz Life Intermission Riff: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Cat
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Minimalist Jazz & An Interview With Caroline DavisSOURCE: Mondo Jazz
