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A fine tribute to Brazilian jazz
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
To fully appreciate the rich place that Brazilian jazz holds today among the world's music forms, you have to go back to its roots in the late 1950s and the 1960s. So that's what a top-notch quintet did on Sunday, February 12 on Longboat Key, across the bay from Sarasota FL. The event, co-sponsored by the Jazz Club of Sarasota and Longboat Key's Temple Beth Israel, musically transformed the temple into an acoustically superb jazz room for the afternoon, one ...
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The fine art of solo jazz piano
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
Either as a snowbird or a full-time resident, pianist-composer-arranger Dick Hyman has lived 30 miles up the road in Venice for a few years longer than the Charlotte County Jazz Society has existed. The stars aligned on Monday, February 13, for Hyman to make his first CCJS appearance in Port Charlotte. It was long overdue. And it was also the first solo piano concert that the society has presented in its 27 seasons. Sitting center stage at the Cultural Center ...
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Washington D.C.'s Premiere All-Woman Jazz Orchestra Shannon Gunn And The Bullettes To Perform At Republic Restoratives As Part Of The 2017 Washington Women In Jazz Festival
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Jazz Beyond Borders
Shannon Gunn and the Bullettes, the premiere all-women jazz orchestra in the Washington, D.C., area will perform for the 2017 Washington Women in Jazz Festival at Republic Restoratives Distillery and Craft Cocktail Bar on Thursday, March 2 from 7:00 p.m.–10:30 p.m. Republic Restoratives is the largest female-owned crowd-funded distillery in the world, and the March 2 concert in Ivy City marks the first time a big band will make use of the beautiful industrial distillery space in the back room. ...
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Jazz saxophonists dig the Great American Songbook - and much more
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
Saxophonists Peter and Will Anderson are steeped in the jazz and Great American Songbook classics, but their material is never fenced in by that repertoire. Such was the case on Friday, February 10 when they performed at a South County Jazz Club matinee concert with guitarist Felix Lemerle. The twin brothers brought an arsenal of instruments, with Peter (the older by 10 minutes) playing tenor sax and clarinet, and Will (the taller by 1 1/2 inches), playing alto sax, clarinet ...
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The Lead Sheet: Twin Cities Live Jazz, February 10-16
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JazzINK by Andrea Canter
Warmer weather, hotter music, maybe spring is not that far off after all!. And we'll have some smoldering jazz in the metro this week, a slow burn til it all explodes at O'Shaughnessy Thursday night when Maria Schneider and Orchestra make a long-overdue return to the Twin Cities to perform her Grammy-winning “Thompson Fields." Not that we will be jazz-starved til then! Big Gigs This Week Friday, February 10. It might be difficult to stay in your seat at Orchestra ...
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Jazz this week: Bruce Barth, Erin Bode, Victor Goines, Lynne Fiddmont, and more
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
With some relatively mild weather in the forecast and a nice variety of performances happening over the next several days, the weekend leading up to Valentine's Day should be a good time for jazz lovers in St. Louis. Let's go to the highlights... Wednesday, February 8 Pianist Bruce Barth returns for the first of two nights at Jazz at the Bistro, leading a trio with bassist Dave Baron and St. Louis' own Montez Coleman on drums. Barth is a jazz ...
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Elsa Nilsson CD Release Party at Rockwood Music Hall on March 26 - Video Premiere on February 18 - Exclusively On All About Jazz!
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
New Video Premiere February 18. Exclusively at All About Jazz! “I feel it is my responsibility as an artist to be open, vulnerable and honest—in hopes of creating a space that allows the listener to do the same."—Elsa Nilsson February 18, 2017- New Video Premiere: “Someone for Something" off of Elsa Nilsson's new album Salt Wind is a composition depicting the sensation of New York City's ability to derail thoughts. A recurring idea is interspersed between a long flowing melody ...
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Swinging with Gates is quite a jazz journey
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
Giacomo Gates' jazz vocals mastery is rooted deep in the scat and vocalese traditions, then blended with his engaging ability to put songs in context and good humor. He has carved out his own special niche among jazz vocalists. His career included construction work on railroads and the Alaska Pipeline among many other things before diving into jazz full time around 1990. He drew mightily from the Jon Hendricks and Oscar Brown Jr. songbooks but also brought in some Eddie ...
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