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Mino Cinélu at The Presidio Theatre

by Steven Roby
September 10, 2025

Mino Cinélu Presidio Theatre Mino 4 Miles San Francisco, CA September 6, 2025 The room begins with absence--no band, no chatter--just a white gauze curtain hanging like a flag with no country. A looped rhythm creeps in from the edges, dry and sandy, like shoes on stone. Then the words ...

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Cory Henry and The Funk Apostles at Miner Auditorium

by Steven Roby
September 9, 2025

Cory Henry and The Funk Apostles Miner Auditorium San Francisco, CA September 5, 2025 SFJAZZ Center's digital director, Ross Eustis, started the evening with a brief welcome, highlighting more than 350 shows on the new season's schedule. The crowd greeted the band with the kind of enthusiasm associated with Cory Henry's ...

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Anthony Wilson Nonet At Joe Henderson Lab

by Steven Roby
September 8, 2025

Anthony Wilson Nonet Joe Henderson Lab San Francisco, CA September 4, 2025 Anthony Wilson chose a high-wire debut for his first time leading his own band at SFJAZZ: nine musicians packed onto the Joe Henderson Lab's stage--roughly 20 by 12 feet--to open the 2025-26 season. The Nonet fit like a ...

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A lezione da Jöelle Léandre: diario di un enigma

by Neri Pollastri
September 8, 2025

Classe 1951, prossima a festeggiare il mezzo secolo di carriera, la contrabbassista francese Joëlle Léandre è considerata una delle maggiori interpreti mondiali dell'improvvisazione libera, o non idiomatica, ambito nel quale opera fin dalla sua uscita dal conservatorio. Solita affiancare l'attività concertistica a quella didattica, ha volentieri accolto l'invito rivoltole da Toscana Produzione Musica e da Silvia ...

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Downtown Tacoma Blues And Jazz Festival 2025

by Geoff Anderson
September 6, 2025

Downtown Tacoma Blues and Jazz Festival Tacoma, Washington August 24, 2025 .Tacoma, Washington held its first annual Downtown Tacoma Blues and Jazz Festival on August 24, 2025, with a first-class lineup of new blues players, veterans and some in between. And it was free. For each band, the leader's name ...

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Bark Culture At Solar Myth

by Carl Medsker
September 5, 2025

Bark Culture Solar Myth Philadelphia, PAAugust 21, 2025 Midway through an extended road trip, Bark Culture returned to Solar Myth in their hometown of Philadelphia for an evening, taking the stage before a standing room only audience. Formed in 2021, Bark Culture is comprised of Brazilian ex-pat Victor Vieira--Branco on vibraphone, ...

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Michiyo Yagi At Jazztopad Festival New York

by Max Kutner
September 5, 2025

Michiyo YagiJazztopad Festival New YorkVarious Venues New York, NY June 15-16, 2025 The opportunity to attend two performances at this year's Jazztopad Festival New York was a fortunate experience. Both events featured the brilliant Michyo Yagi on koto as a special guest, visiting from Tokyo, Japan. The Jazztopad Festival has been held ...

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Hingetown Jazz Festival 2025

by John Chacona
September 4, 2025

Hingetown Jazz Festival Various venues Cleveland, OH August 30, 2025 It would surprise no one if this review of the third Hingetown Jazz Festival in Cleveland began, as such pieces often do, by noting how the festival has grown. But that would not exactly be accurate. By the most ...

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Hayley Kavanagh Quartet At Scott's Jazz Club

by Ian Patterson
September 2, 2025

Hayley Kavanagh Quartet Scott's Jazz Club Belfast, N. Ireland August 29, 2025 “Welcome to the Upper East Side." Variations on this phrase--delivered by Scott's Jazz Club co-founder Cormac O'Kane--have greeted visitors to Belfast's award- winning jazz venue every Friday night since 2020. Hard to believe that half a decade has ...

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Oscar Peterson 100 birthday celebration at Birdland

by Mark Edelman
September 2, 2025

Makoto Ozone, John Clayton, Jeff Hamilton Birdland Oscar Peterson 100th birthday New York, NY August 15, 2025 The “Maharajah of the Keyboard" as Duke Ellington dubbed Oscar Peterson--or, to his friends, simply O.P.--would have turned one hundred in August, reason enough to remember the consummate Canadian pianist at that hallowed ...