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Detroit Jazz Festival 2018
Detroit Jazz Festival
Downtown Detroit
Detroit, Michigan
August 31-September 3, 2018
Over the course of its 39 year history, the largest free jazz festival in North America has seen its shares of up and downs. It once swelled to a five-day event starting on the Thursday evening before Labor Day and ...
The New Album From Mario Costa And A Dip Into The Archive
On this show new cutting edge jazz together with classic and contemporary sounds from the archives.
The featured album is the latest release on Clean Feed from Portuguese drummer Mario Costa playing live at the 26th Festival de Jazz na Praca da Erva, in Viana do Castelo, Portugal, in July 2017, along with French ...
Newport Jazz Festival 2018: Part 2-2
Part 1 | Part 2
Newport Jazz Festival
Fort Adams State Park
Newport, RI
August 5, 2018
From the first spongy thwack that bounced off the conga drum, a sticky humidity clung about Narragansett peninsula while the sounds of Herlin Riley's New York Havana Connection oozed from the ...
Headliners and Rising Stars at the 2018 Montreal International Jazz Festival
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
This year marked one of the best and most well-balanced indoor (paid indoor events) and (free) outdoor lineups at the Festival International de Jazz de Montreal (FIJM). The strength of the lineup stretched across genres and also maintained a consistency over the course of ...
2018 Hope College Jazz Organ Summit
2018 Hope College Jazz Organ Summit featuring Tony Monaco, Gerard Gibbs, and Dr. Lonnie Smith
Hope College
Holland, Michigan
March 9-11, 2018
Back in the fall of 2016, a small liberal arts college on the banks of Lake Michigan decided to serve as the epicenter of activity aimed at gaining more ...
Vijay Iyer at SFJAZZ
Vijay Iyer
SFJAZZ
San Francisco, CA
January 18, 19, 21, 2018
Vijay Iyer told a San Francisco audience at Herbst Theater that it is amazingly difficult to tour in the United States, by way of explaining why he did not perform in his former hometown more often. But, ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: James Carter
All About Jazz is celebrating James Carter's birthday today!
Sometimes it takes an extraordinary talent to inspire an unprecedented piece of music. For Puerto Rican-born composer Roberto Sierra, the epiphany struck in the midst of a tenor saxophone solo by James Carter, who was appearing as the featured soloist with legendary soprano Kathleen Battle. Long ...
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Culture Clubs: A History of the U.S. Jazz Clubs, Part III: Kansas City, Philadelphia, Los Angeles & Beyond
Beyond the Hubs
While jny: New Orleans, jny: Chicago, jny: Kansas City and jny: New York City were the incubators of modern jazz, they were by no means the only locations with an appetite for live music. Jazz artists whose point of origin could not sustain multiple venues ventured to locations near and far ...
Saturday at the Monterey Jazz Festival
Friday | Saturday | Sunday
Saturday at the Monterey Jazz Festival featured excellent performances by some of the lesser known artists, fine concerts by headliners and a great after-hour jam sessions. It was another splendid day with much great music. My day at the fest started out mid-afternoon with a fine performance by accomplished trumpeter ...
Culture Clubs: A History of the U.S. Jazz Clubs, Part I: New Orleans and Chicago
Marching bands, ragtime music, and the blues, were all well-entrenched and spreading up the Mississippi River Valley from New Orleans at the beginning of the twentieth century. Dixieland was the popular music staple and with the all-white Original Dixieland Jass Band recording the first jazz side, “Livery Stable Blues," in 1917, an original musical language was ...
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La Fenice by Keith Jarrett
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The Heart Intact by Wataru Uchida
Story of the Day
There is a freedom and a sense of exhilaration in Jazz that is not found in any other music. Jazz is about finding freedom and a personal voice within a structure, and that is what appeals to me most
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By Wajdi Cherif
Member since: 2004
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