The story of jazz's birth is firmly rooted in the soil of New Orleans, but its first great migration north was on the waters of the Mississippi River. The steamer boats that worked the Big Muddy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were not merely...
Driving around Baku the brightly colored dayglow signs advertising Baku Jazz Festival 2025 catch the eye at
every turn. So do posters for COP 29, the international climate conference held in traffic-choked Baku in 2024.
Baku nestles on the western edge of the Caspian Sea.
The thirty-eighth edition of the Vilnius Jazz Festival opened with the assurance of an event that has spent decades refining both its aesthetic and its purpose. As one of Vilnius's most enduring festivals—shaped for almost four decades by producer Antanas Gustys—it continues to articulate a...
For any jazz festival to clock up 20 years is a notable achievement. But in Azerbaijan, where jazz is often met with
indifference, this landmark is of particular merit. The birth, growth and survival of Baku Jazz Festival is down to
the vision, faith and tireless...
Born Roberta Joan Anderson on November 7, 1943, child of the Canadian Prairie, Joni Mitchell showed signs of becoming an artist at a young age. In Joni Mitchell in Her Own Words, a collection of conversations recorded over the years, musician and reporter Malka Marom wondered what inspired her friend's early urge to draw and paint.
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