Articles by Fringes of Jazz

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Wolf—Future Perfect, 7. Sgt. Pepper

by Blue Note Portal
November 7, 2026

1970--New York Dinner at their favorite Italian spot down the avenue had been a triumph, if slightly bewildering for their host. Wolfgang had ordered the osso buco in flawless, florid 18th-century Tuscan--addressing the bewildered native Neapolitan owner as if he were a court dignitary in 1770s Milan. By the time the owner realized he was being serenaded in the Italian of Goldoni plays and papal courts, he had beamed, poured extra wine, and refused to let them pay for dessert. ...

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Darren Frate Group

by Daniel Peck
October 9, 2026

Darren Frate's music has been described as world music, jazz and jazz fusion woven together by bass driven grooves and improvisation. Darren leads and has the unique ability to perform not just in his own style but to effectively emulate other bassist styles as well.Joined by Nate Yingling on piano and keyboards, Steve Kortyka on saxophone, and Kyle Rowland on percussion and from a September 27th, 2025 performance, Daniel Peck is your host for the Darren Frate Group... ...

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Punkt Festival 2026

by Nenad Georgievski
September 23, 2026

Punkt FestivalTeateret/KunstsiloKristiansand, Norway September 3-5, 2026 Kristiansand does not announce itself the way a festival city usually does. The southern Norwegian port sits low along a coastline of pale granite and pine, its old town a grid of white wooden houses running down to Fiskebrygga, a fishing-harbor district where cruise ships dock a short walk from the quay. Just across the water, the wooded hill of Odderøya--once a naval base, now laced with ...

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The Beatles—Future Perfect, Part 14

by Blue Note Portal
September 12, 2026

Chapters 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14Year 1969--Captured Magic Xap and Julian were relieved by the arrival of Ray, who had used his connections to ensure that local deputies kept a close eye on the rental homes during their routine rounds. Things finally felt normal again, and the days began to whiz by; the creativity was off ...

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The Beatles—Future Perfect, Part 13

by Blue Note Portal
September 11, 2026

Chapters 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 Year 1969--Two Riders Ray had been driving cabs since he came back from Korea, and in that time he'd developed a sense that never wasted words on him. He didn't call it a gift. He called it paying attention, which was free and most people didn't bother with it.

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The Beatles—Future Perfect, Part 11

by Blue Note Portal
September 9, 2026

Chapters 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14Year 1969--The Morning After Morning over Lake Tahoe arrived as if nothing had happened. The lake was still that impossible cobalt blue, the pines still motionless in the cold, high air, the far Sierra ridgelines still cut sharp against a pale gold sky. But inside House B, the mood had altered ...

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The Beatles—Future Perfect, Part 8

by Blue Note Portal
September 6, 2026

Chapters 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 Lifting the Veil The second night at the Teatro Municipal Baltazar Dias began the way the first had ended--with the sense that the room itself was listening. Three hundred people filled the horseshoe of red velvet boxes, close enough that George could see individual faces catching the light ...

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The Beatles—Future Perfect, Part 7

by Blue Note Portal
September 5, 2026

Chapters 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 Intimate Immersion By the spring of 1969, the Apollo had ceased to be merely a theater in Harlem. It had become a point of origin. The film--Apollo: Future Perfect--opened to excited audiences around the globe. George Lucas's cameras had caught magic discovering itself in real time--the raw, triumphant ...

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The Beatles—Future Perfect, Part 4

by Blue Note Portal
September 2, 2026

Chapters 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14Tuff Gong London In the weeks leading up to London, Xap had executed his strategy with pure managerial brilliance. From their new studio in Kingston, he had shipped two separate white-label test pressings directly to the pirate radio ship MV Caroline, idling in the North Sea.Single A was a ...

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The Beatles—Future Perfect, Part 3

by Blue Note Portal
September 1, 2026

Chapters 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 The Beat Goes On--Year 2092 The intense glare of the live broadcast had faded hours ago, leaving the control room bathed in the amber glow of background standby. Outside the high-altitude windows of 2092, solar arrays silently tracked the Sun, keeping the CCE's baseline status idling. A week had ...