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Mantova Jazz Festival 2023

Read "Mantova Jazz Festival 2023" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


Mantova Jazz Festival Mantova, vari luoghi 13.10-10.11.2023 Giunto alla 43ma edizione, il jazz festival di Mantova continua a dimostrarsi attento agli sviluppi del jazz contemporaneo con programmi autorevolmente attrattivi, che presentano il meglio del panorama internazionale senza dimenticare i talenti locali. L'idea di fondo che ha guidato ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

New music from El Trio, Mauricio Farfan, Erik Escobar and Michael Pipoquinha

Read "New music from El Trio, Mauricio Farfan, Erik Escobar and Michael Pipoquinha" reviewed by Len Davis


Some Latin and Brazilian sounds from El Trio, Mauricio Farfan, Erik Escobar and Michael Pipoquinha. More from the new one from Mohini Dey, then we tour Europe with music from Nils Landgren, the late Esbjorn Svensson, Nguyen Le, Jack Kochan and bassist Per Mathisen.Playlist El Trio “3 For Africa" from 3 For Africa (Challenge) ...

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Article: Album Review

Benjamín Gísli Trio: Line of Thought

Read "Line of Thought" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic


More often than any are willing to confess, it is a pundit's easy way out to compliment and praise an artist by saying that they are reminiscent of some legend and that this legend inspired the artist etc, etc. It looks good for both the reviewer and subject, and serves to make the reviewer sound smart ...

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Article: Album Review

Tingvall Trio: Birds

Read "Birds" reviewed by Neil Duggan


There seems to be a strong desire to place music into a defined category: swamp blues, emo rap, indie-folk etc. Sometimes this can be useful, but occasionally an artist comes along who can blur those boundaries and be successful in many areas. One example would be Ludovico Einaudi, who has opened up classical music to many, ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Jazz with Esbjorn Svensson, Damian Erskine, John Scofield and Steve Khan

Read "Jazz with Esbjorn Svensson, Damian Erskine, John Scofield and Steve Khan" reviewed by Len Davis


A jazzy start to the program this week with music from the late Esbjorn Svensson, Damian Erskine, the late Michael Brecker, John Scofield, Yellowjackets and Steve Khan. Playlist Esbjorn Svensson “Dodge The Dodo" from Esbjorn Svensson Trio (ACT Music) 00:00 Damian Erskine “Within Sight" from Within Sight (Nontek) 09:51 Michael Brecker “Night Jessamine" from ...

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Article: Interview

The Ditties: Finding Freedom in Swing

Read "The Ditties: Finding Freedom in Swing" reviewed by Matthew Vasiliauskas


When asked what interested her about the jazz art form, Nina Simone responded, “I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about. But jazz is dedicated to freedom, and that is far more important." Typically, what drives an artist's ambition, is the desire to hold mastery over ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Soft and Hard

Read "Soft and Hard" reviewed by Patrick Burnette


We spend a lot of time on this show exploring what you might call, if you were a lapsed academic with pomposity issues, the accessibility spectrum. Some jazz is pretty easy to get--and some just ain't pretty. In this show, we travel quite a way across the spectrum listening to coffee-house ready (but good) jazz and ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Esbjorn Svensson

Jazz Musician of the Day: Esbjorn Svensson

All About Jazz is celebrating Esbjorn Svensson's birthday today! e.s.t. is a phenomenon: A jazz trio, which sees itself as a pop band that plays jazz, which broke with the tradition of leader and sidemen in favor of equality within its members, which not only plays jazz- venues but also venues usually reserved for rock bands, ...

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Article: Liner Notes

Espen Berg Trio: Free To Play

Read "Espen Berg Trio: Free To Play" reviewed by Chris May


If you ask a jazz fan to name the greatest piano-trio albums ever made, the probability is that their top twenty choices will include most, if not all, of the following: Erroll Garner's Concert By The Sea (Columbia, 1955), Ahmad Jamal's But Not For Me (Argo, 1958), Bill Evans's Sunday At The Village Vanguard (Riverside, 1961), ...

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Label: ACT Music
Released: 2022
Track listing: Alpha; Beta; Gamma; Delta; Epsilon; Zeta; Eta; Theta; Iota.


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