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Kenny Barron

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Kenny Barron's unmatched ability to mesmerize audiences with his elegant playing, sensitive melodies and infectious rhythms is what inspired "The Los Angeles Times" to name him "one of the top jazz pianists in the world" and "Jazz Weekly" to call him "The most lyrical piano player of our time." Philadelphia is the birthplace of many great musicians, including one of the undisputed masters of the jazz piano: Kenny Barron. Kenny was born in 1943 and while a teenager, started playing professionally with Mel Melvin's orchestra. This local band also featured Barron's brother Bill, the late tenor saxophonist

Album

On Fire: Live from the Blue Morocco

Label: Resonance Records
Released: 2025
Track listing:
CD 1:

Crisis; Up Jumped Spring; Echoes of Blue; True Colors/Breaking Point.

CD 2:

Bye Bye Blackbird; Summertime; Breaking Point.

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Article: Album Review

The Birdland Big Band: Storybook: The Music of Mark Miller

Read "Storybook: The Music of Mark Miller" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Storybook, the third recording by the New York City-based Birdland Big Band, is subtitled “the music of Mark Miller" and is designed to showcase compositions and arrangements by that multi-talented artist who doubles (triples) as the band's lead trombonist. Miller wrote or co-wrote half of the album's 10 colorful and impressive numbers (11 if one counts ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Honoring Mutual Mentorship for Musicians on the occasion of their festival October 4th, 2025 at Roulette in Brooklyn

Read "Honoring Mutual Mentorship for Musicians on the occasion of their festival October 4th, 2025 at Roulette in Brooklyn" reviewed by Hobart Taylor


Honoring Mutual Mentorship for Musicians on the occasion of their festival October 4th, 2025 at Roulette Intermedium in Brooklyn, New York, featuring Sara Serpa, Kenny Barron, Jen Shyu, Yuhan Su, Immanuel Wilkins and many more... Playlist Host Speaks 00:00 Jen Shyu “Lament for Breonna Taylor" from Zero Grasses: Ritual for the Loses (Pi Records) ...

Article: Interview

Linda May Han Oh: Jazz e innovazione

Read "Linda May Han Oh: Jazz e innovazione" reviewed by Frank Housh


Linda May Han Oh è una delle artiste più innovative ed affermate della scena jazz di oggi, con collaborazioni che vanno da Dave Douglas a Vijay Iyer e Pat Metheny. L'ultimo album, Strange Heavens (Biophilia Records), vede la partecipazione di Ambrose Akinmusire e Tyshawn Sorey, già presenti in Honey from a Winter Stone di Akinmusire.

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Article: The Jazz Life

A Farewell to Madrid's Café Central

Read "A Farewell to Madrid's Café Central" reviewed by Artur Moral


It happened to Chicago with The London House and The Velvet Lounge; it happened to San Francisco with the Black Hawk Club and the Keystone Corner; and, of course, it happened to New York City with Cafe Society, Sweet Basil, Village Gate and Jazz Standard. It has also happened in many other places and cities around ...

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Article: Live Review

2025 Detroit Jazz Festival: All Free, All Jazz

Read "2025 Detroit Jazz Festival: All Free, All Jazz" reviewed by Paul Rauch


2025 Detroit Jazz Festival Hart Plaza & Cadillac Square Detroit, MI August 28-September 1, 2025 There is a story Detroit Jazz Festival President and Artistic Director Chris Collins loves to tell about an intimate conversation he had with Gretchen Valade. Valade had rescued the festival from the brink of financial demise ...

Article: Live Review

Dieci giorni di concerti alla Casa del Jazz: Summertime 2025

Read "Dieci giorni di concerti alla Casa del Jazz: Summertime 2025" reviewed by Mario Calvitti


Summertime 2025 Casa del Jazz Roma 13-21 luglio 2025 Per festeggiare i 20 anni dalla sua inaugurazione come uno dei più importanti spazi per il jazz a Roma, il programma di concerti estivi alla Casa del Jazz, denominato quest'anno Summertime 2025, è stato particolarmente ricco, allungandosi su oltre due mesi ...

Article: Live Review

Serravalle Jazz 2025

Read "Serravalle Jazz 2025" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Serravalle Jazz 2025 Rocca di Castruccio Serravalle Pistoiese 24-27 agosto 2025 Articolata su quattro giornate, dal 24 al 27 agosto, la ventiquattresima edizione di Serravalle Jazz aveva in programma spettacoli di altissimo livello, alternando proposte adatte ai più diversi palati, accanto a presentazioni di libri e incontri tematici.

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Article: Rising Stars

Introducing Guitarist Ely Perlman

Read "Introducing Guitarist Ely Perlman" reviewed by Sanford Josephson


After graduating from Israel's Thelma Yellin High School for the Performing Arts about four years ago, guitarist Ely Perlman came to the United States to attend Boston's Berklee College of Music. The summer before school started, he went to the Jazz Aspen Snowmass Academy, a music education program in Aspen, CO, directed by bassist Christian McBride. ...


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