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Article: Live Review

Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival 2015

Read "Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival 2015" reviewed by R.J. DeLuke


Freihofer's Saratoga Jazz Festival 2015 Saratoga Performing Arts Center Saratoga Springs, NY June 27-28, 2015 While jazz is closely associated with horns (even though there are few instruments now employed at some point across the genre) it was a couple of guitar slingers that helped light up the skies at Freihofer's ...

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Metastasio Jazz 2015

Read "Metastasio Jazz 2015" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Metastasio Jazz Teatri Politeama, Metastasio e Fabbricone, Scuola di musica G. Verdi 29.01-17.02.2015 L'edizione del ventennale del festival pratese Metastasio Jazz ha visto come sempre un programma intenso e selezionatissimo, apertosi al Teatro Politeama il 29 gennaio con un evento speciale: il progetto che univa il quintetto di Enrico ...

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Jazzdor 2014

Read "Jazzdor 2014" reviewed by Vittorio Lo Conte


Ben ventiquattro concerti, dal 7 al 21 Novembre 2014 per la ventinovesima edizione del Jazzdor, festival tenuto a Strasburgo e dintorni, anche oltre il confine con la Gemania, come vedremo. Questa volta è stato dedicato alla figura del contrabbassista Jean Jacques Avenel, spesso protagonista. Jazzdor si è oramai consolidato come uno dei più ...

Article: Live Review

Umbria Jazz Winter 2014

Read "Umbria Jazz Winter 2014" reviewed by Libero Farnè


Umbria Jazz Winter 22 Orvieto -27.12.2014-01.01.2015 “Fabrizio Bosso, Danilo Rea, Paolo Fresu... Anat Cohen, Chris Potter, Joe Lovano... vi aspettano a Orvieto per Umbria Jazz Winter." Più o meno di questo tenore era lo spot pubblicitario trasmesso per tutto dicembre sulle stazioni radio della RAI, uno dei media partner del festival; i ...

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Article: Catching Up With

Avishai Cohen: Family Bonds and Music from the Heart

Read "Avishai Cohen: Family Bonds and Music from the Heart" reviewed by Urszula Orczyk


Avishai Cohen is a talented trumpeter, composer, band leader, co-leader and active sideman featured on over 50 records to date. Voted a Rising Star in the 2012 DownBeat Critics Poll, Cohen is also a musician with an individual sound, combining the best of traditional jazz with a modern compositional style. As a player, he demonstrates flexibility, ...

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Garana Jazz Festival 2014

Read "Garana Jazz Festival 2014" reviewed by Adriana Carcu


Garana Jazz Festival Wolf's Meadow Garana, Romania July 10-13, 2014 One of Europe's most visited festivals, taking place on a meadow over 300 ft. high in the Western Carpathians, just had its 18th anniversary. The lineup, a brand mark of the festival director, Marius Giura, combined again tradition ...

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3 Cohens: Tightrope

Read "Tightrope" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


Nei loro dischi precedenti (vedi Family) c'erano diversi momenti in cui i fratelli israeliani s'esibivano in libere improvvisazioni a tre voci. In questo nuovo lavoro questa modalità improvvisativa diventa centrale, pur innestandosi nel rispetto della tradizione che caratterizza la loro collaborazione. Il trombettista Avishai Cohen (da non confondere con l'omonimo bassista), il sassofonista Yuval ...

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Article: Album Review

3 Cohens: Tightrope

Read "Tightrope" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


It shouldn't come as a shock that the 3 Cohens stress the idea of interconnectedness in their music; soprano saxophonist Yuval Cohen, multi-reedist Anat Cohen and trumpeter Avishai Cohen are, after all, blood. With albums like One (Anzic, 2004), Braid (Anzic, 2007) and Family (Anzic, 2011), these three horn-playing siblings have made it clear that they're ...

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Bryn Roberts: Fables

Read "Fables" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Born in Canada, pianist Bryn Roberts has enjoyed a prolific career as a session artist since moving to New York City in 2001. Snuggled within a modern mainstream vibe, his persuasive compositions pay homage to melodic content, often complemented by saxophonist Seamus Blake's burly delivery and fluid lines. Nonetheless, many of these works contain quite a ...

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Article: Live Review

Burlington Discover Jazz Festival: Burlington, VT, May 31-June 9, 2013

Read "Burlington Discover Jazz Festival: Burlington, VT, May 31-June 9, 2013" reviewed by Doug Collette


Burlington Discover Jazz Festival Burlington, VT May 31-June 9, 2013Swooping into Burlington off interstate 89 through a series of uninterrupted green lights seems a good metaphor for the transitional year of Burlington, Vermont's Discover Jazz Festival.It's a tribute to departed director Brian Mital, as well as incoming director Linda Little, ...


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