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Hingetown Jazz Festival 2025

Read "Hingetown Jazz Festival 2025" reviewed by John Chacona


Hingetown Jazz Festival Various venues Cleveland, OH August 30, 2025 It would surprise no one if this review of the third Hingetown Jazz Festival in Cleveland began, as such pieces often do, by noting how the festival has grown. But that would not exactly be accurate. By the most common measure of such things, the size of the audience, this year's audience looked a lot like 2024's (this writer was not at the ...

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Extended Analysis

Howie Smith / Mike Nock: Opal Dream

Read "Howie Smith / Mike Nock: Opal Dream" reviewed by Matt Marshall


Although their paths didn't cross until 1988, when they first met and performed together in Sydney, Australia, saxophonist Howie Smith and pianist Mike Nock are both important figures in the development of jazz Down Under. Nock, a native of New Zealand, returned to Australia in 1985 after working 25 years in the U.S. with the likes of tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins, reed player Yusef Lateef and the pioneering fusion band The Fourth Way, which he helped found. A ...


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