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Brisbane International Jazz Festival 2015

by Ian Patterson
June 23, 2015

Brisbane International Jazz Festival Various locations Brisbane, Australia June 3-8, 2015 Celebrating its third edition, the Brisbane International Jazz Festival may be one of Australia's youngest jazz festivals but the state of Queensland is no stranger to jazz. The non-profit organisation Jazz Queensland has been curating concerts, developing audiences and working ...

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Just Because: Evans, Konitz, NHØP & Dawson

June 15, 2015

In the fall of 1965 pianist Bill Evans, alto saxophonist Lee Konitz, bassist Niels Henning Ørsted Pedersen and drummer Alan Dawson toured parts of Western Europe. It was both a time of Cold War tension and a time when jazz enjoyed popularity in every part of the continent. In countries behind the Iron Curtain, jazz devotees ...

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Scottish Bassist And Composer Euan Burton Releases "Too Much Love" The Deluxe Edition With Two Previously Unreleased Bonus Tracks

June 13, 2015

Whirlwind Recordings announces the release of the Too Much Love – Deluxe Edition album from Euan Burton & Occurrences. Too Much Love was released in November of 2014 to critical acclaim and the new Deluxe Edition contains an additional two bonus tracks that were previously unreleased. It’s available as a digital album only on the Whirlwind ...

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Jakob Bro, Lee Konitz, Bill Frisell, Thomas Morgan at DR Koncerthuset Copenhagen

by Henning Bolte
May 23, 2015

Jakob Bro, Lee Konitz, Bill Frisell and Thomas Morgan DR Koncerthuset (Danish Broadcasting Corporation) Balladeering tour Copenhagen, DenmarkMay 15, 2015 In Copenhagen on May 15th, at the new concert hall of the Danish Broadcasting Corporation: acclaimed Danish film director Jørgen Leth welcomed an audience of 800 spectators to announce the ...

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Jakob Bro, Lee Konitz, Bill Frisell and Thomas Morgan at Musikhuset Aarhus

by Jakob Baekgaard
May 17, 2015

Jakob Bro, Lee Konitz, Bill Frisell and Thomas Morgan Musikhuset Aarhus Aarhus, Denmark May 9, 2015 Great music gives great expectations. When it was announced that Danish guitarist Jakob Bro was going on tour with the core of players responsible for the musical magic on his trilogy: Balladeering (Loveland Records, ...

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Sal Mosca: Holland, 1992

May 14, 2015

Out today is a superb two-CD set of previously unreleased live solo recordings by pianist Sal Mosca at the Bimhuis in Amsterdam on November 14, 1992. The recordings on Sal Mosca: The Talk of the Town (Sunnyside) come from the Mosca estate, and the sound is superb. The two CDs feature all jazz standards, like Ghost ...

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Jakob Bro, Lee Konitz, Bill Frisell and Thomas Morgan at Mengi

by Ian Patterson
May 13, 2015

Jakob Bro, Lee Konitz, Bill Frisell, Thomas Morgan Mengi Reykjavík, Iceland May 8, 2015 (2nd show) “I've been waiting for this moment for a long time," said guitarist Jakob Bro to the small, tightly packed audience at Mengi, a vibrant new arts space in downtown Reykjavik. This tour--which besides ...

Article: Album Review

Mike Fletcher Trio: Vuelta

by Bruce Lindsay
May 9, 2015

Vuelta is the debut release from the Mike Fletcher Trio, a band with a strong emphasis on improvisations based on Fletcher's melodies. The result is an accessible collection of tunes that draw on the creativity and technical skills of all three players.The trio is based in Birmingham, the major city of the English midlands. ...

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Allison Neale: I Wished on the Moon

Read "I Wished on the Moon" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
May 4, 2015

There was a time, roughly half a century ago, when West Coast jazz was seen as the hippest music on the planet, its leading lights known and praised far and wide for espousing a brand of “cool jazz" that stood in stark contrast to its more heated East Coast counterpart. Much like any other trend, the ...

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Take Five With John Raymond

by AAJ Staff
April 16, 2015

Meet John Raymond: John Raymond has been making a name for himself as one of the most promising, up-and-coming jazz musicians in New York. Originally from Minneapolis, MN, John performs regularly with musicians such as Billy Hart, Orrin Evans, Linda Oh, Ethan Iverson and Gilad Hekselman among others. He has recently been a featured ...