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Count Basie Theatre Announces First-Ever Basie Summer Jazz Fest
DAVE KOZ + LARRY GRAHAM, HERBIE HANCOCK, SNARKY PUPPY, CHICK COREA ELEKTRIC BAND with BELA FLECK AND THE FLECKTONES SPONSORED BY PATRIZIA’S OF RED BANK, MONMOUTH COUNTY BOARD OF CHOSEN FREEHOLDERS AND THE ASBURY PARK PRESS The historic Count Basie Theatre, the state’s top-selling performing arts center and the namesake of jazz great William “Count” Basie, ...
Nicolas Kummert: La Diversité
by Roger Farbey
Belgian saxophonist Nicolas Kummert has been influenced by African music since a two month stay in Senegal at the age of 17, where he collaborated with musicians from that country and later from Benin, Mali, Kenya, Sao Tomé, Morocco and Tunisia. He met award-winning Blue Note guitarist Lionel Loueke during a recording session for Beninese singer ...
2016: The Year in Jazz
by Ken Franckling
The year 2016 bubbled with events and initiatives to strengthen jazz's place in American and world culture, as well as a variety of venue openings, closings and cancellations. Jazz hit the silver screen in many ways throughout the year, and International Jazz Day continued to thrive--complete with a major all-star concert at the White House. Pop ...
Proposte pluridirezionali al Bologna Jazz Festival
by Libero Farnè
Bologna Jazz Festival Bologna, Modena e Ferrara, varie sedi 27.10-20.11.2016 Oltre a costituire il logo del festival e a illustrare i programmi di sala, le immagini di Gianluigi Toccafondo, virate in bianco, nero e arancione, hanno invaso alcune parti della città, dagli autobus ai pilastri dei portici di Via Indipendenza. ...
Jazz&Wine Of Peace Festival 2016
by Neri Pollastri
Jazz&Wine of Peace Festival 2016 Teatro Comunale di Cormons e varie sedi tra Collio e Slovenia Cormons, Collio, Brda 23-30.10.2016 A un passo dal ventennale, il festival Jazz&Wine Of Peace di Cormons (ma ormai la rassegna è ampiamente disseminata nel territorio circostante la cittadina, con varie puntate oltreconfine) ha attestato la ...
Belgrade Jazz Festival 2016
by Thomas Conrad
2016 Belgrade Jazz Festival Belgrade, Serbia October 26-October 30, 2016 Because of the wars in the former Yugoslavia, the Belgrade Jazz Festival, like most good things in the Balkans, went dark for 15 years after 1990. When it started up again in 2005, it was small. By 2008, it was big enough ...
JazzMI
by Paolo Peviani
JazzMI Milano 05-06.11.2016 Milano torna ad avere un festival Jazz. E già questa, di per sé, è una buona notizia. Non abbiamo mai fatto parte della schiera di quelli che “a Milano non succede mai niente", nostalgici di un passato che chissà se era davvero così ...
Enjoy Jazz 2016
by John Kelman
2016 Enjoy Jazz Festival Heidelberg, Mannheim & Ludwigshafen, Germany October 24-November 1, 2016 Returning to Heidelberg and the Enjoy Jazz Festival after a three-year absence is still more than a bit like returning to a second home. Not just the same hotel (the ever-charming Hollander Hof, along the Neckar River by an ...
Aziza: Aziza
by Dan Bilawsky
How do you define Aziza? Is it a collective-minded outfit? A supergroup? An offshoot or variant on previous gatherings? An archetype for musical synergy? A nod-in-name to African mythology and spiritual discovery? Yes, it's all of that. But why not avoid the traps and trappings involved with classification and just cut to the chase: Aziza is ...
Dave Holland, Chris Potter, Lionel Loueke, Eric Harland: Aziza
by Angelo Leonardi
Se dovessi scegliere il brano per me più elettrizzante dal disco di questo super gruppo non esiterei a consigliare l'ultimo: “Sleepless Night," un concentrato di energia ritmico/percussiva al calor bianco, esaltata dal lungo confronto tra il tenore di Chris Potter e la chitarra (in questo caso distorta) di Lionel Loueke. È comunque vero ...
