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Dan Costa is a cosmopolitan jazz/ world music pianist, composer and producer, praised for melodic sensibility (DownBeat), rare and luxurious output (All About Jazz) and profound expression (Jazziz). His music reflects his mixed cultural background as well as his fondness for the natural environment, bringing together philosophical concepts, modern jazz colours and world music rhythms. It has been featured by Rolling Stone Magazine, Sky and the BBC, among others. As an educator, Costa has been a guest lecturer at institutions such as the Royal Academy of Music, Monash University, University of New South Wales and University of Auckland

Article: Year in Review

Popular Jazz Songs: 2024

by Michael Ricci
January 2, 2025

All About Jazz tracks how often a featured song is heard, and the following represent the most popular in 2024. If you missed them the first time around, give them a listen now, and enjoy! Click the album cover to listen to the song. Dive Into The Deep Blue From: ...

Article: Live Review

Jack Kelly's Honkatonktet At Scott's Jazz Club

by Ian Patterson
April 29, 2024

Jack Kelly's Honkatonktet Scott's Jazz Club Belfast, N. Ireland April 26, 2024 Who knows what sort of music Charlie Parker would have made had he lived another thirty-five years? It is tantalizing to think that he might have ventured into country music. Parker loved country music, especially Hank Williams, drawn ...

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Song of the Day

Encaminho

June 15, 2024

Album: Beams
By Dan Costa
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Duration: 6:10

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Beams

By Dan Costa

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Beams; Acalantando; Encaminho; Sparks of Motion; Cypress; Então; Viewscape; Paw Prints; Stardial.

Article: Album Review

Dan Costa: Beams

by Craig Arthur
February 19, 2023

UK-born pianist Dan Costa plays and composes in the impressionistic tradition of Bill Evans, acoustic Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea or Marcin Wasilewski. It is a style that lends itself well to the alchemy of turning light into music, music into light. And his subject matter of choice on Beams, like that of an impressionist painter, is ...

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Iremia

By Dan Costa

Label: Dan Costa
Released: 2022
Track listing: Iremia

Article: Album Review

Dan Costa: Live in California

Read "Live in California" reviewed by Geannine Reid

by Geannine Reid
January 7, 2021

Born in London into an Italian-Portuguese family, Dan Costa studied classical piano for six years at the Académie de Musique Rainier III in the south of France, in addition to jazz studies. In 2010, he was awarded a diploma with merit at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts in the UK. His interest in Latin music ...

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