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Sam Blakeslee Large Group at BLU Jazz+

by John Chacona
January 12, 2025

Sam Blakeslee Large Group BLU Jazz+ Akron, OH December 20, 2024 In December, flowers bloomed in northeast Ohio, but climate change had nothing to do with it. The sudden blossoming was the work of Sam Blakeslee who returned to his home state to celebrate the holidays with family and friends, 18 ...

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Umbria Jazz Winter 2024

by Libero Farnè
January 6, 2025

Umbria Jazz Winter 2024 Orvieto, varie sedi 28 dicembre 2024--1° gennaio 2025 Come avviene ormai da 31 anni, Umbria Jazz Winter si svolge nel raccolto, accogliente e suggestivo centro storico di Orvieto nel clima festoso di fine anno, distribuendo i concerti in sedi storiche di grande prestigio. La serata inaugurale si è ...

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David Ostwald's Louis Armstrong Eternity Band at Birdland

by Mark Edelman
January 4, 2025

David Ostwald's Louis Armstrong Eternity Band Birdland Theater New York, NY December 24, 2024 Christmas came a day early in the cozy confines of downstairs' Birdland Theater on 44th Street just west of 8th Avenue. The holiday-bedecked elves in David Ostwald's Louis Armstrong Eternity Band provided the kind of Yuletide cheer ...

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Cantini-Maccianti Quartet al Pinocchio di Ferenze

by Neri Pollastri
December 30, 2024

Francesco Maccianti--Stefano “Cocco" Cantini Quartet Pinocchio Live Jazz Firenze 14 dicembre 2024 Ultima data prima della pausa per le festività e tutto esaurito al Pinocchio Live Jazz di Firenze, per un appuntamento a suo modo “classico," ma che da un po' di tempo mancava sul palco del jazz club: il quartetto ...

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Résonances at Toulouse Lautrec Jazz Club

by John Eyles
December 27, 2024

Résonances Toulouse Lautrec Jazz Club London December 16, 2024 The very first Résonances took place at London's Vortex Jazz Club in 2017. Then, as now, the event was curated by the French-born visual artist and poet Aurélie Freoua who has become a regular conductor at the monthly performances by the London Improvisers ...

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Nduduzo Makhathini at the Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society

by Roy Strassman
December 21, 2024

Nduduzo Makhathini Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society Half Moon Bay, California November 3, 2024 As the waves gently lapped upon the shore beneath the setting sun on a lovely early November Sunday in Half Moon Bay, San Francisco, pianist, composer, bandleader and healer Nduduzo Makhathini and his trio took the stage ...

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John Pizzarelli at Blues Alley

by Mark Edelman
December 19, 2024

John Pizzarelli Blues AlleyWashington, DC December 8, 2024 When you're part of a jazz dynasty--son of guitar-great Bucky Pizzarelli, husband of chanteuse Jessica Molaskey--it's only natural that you'd ring in the holiday season for us peasants with a Christmas carol or two. John Pizzarelli warmed up the crowd at DC's ...

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Amber Iman At 92NY

by Paul Reynolds
December 18, 2024

Amber Iman 92NY Rebel With A Cause: The Artistry and Activism of Nina Simone New York City December 9, 2024 Nina Simone blazed a trail as an often-political jazz singer at a time when women entertainers--especially Black ones--were discouraged from highlighting racial injustice and other unpleasant truths in their work. ...

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Alla Boara's Italian Christmas at Trinity Cathedral

by John Chacona
December 17, 2024

Alla Boara Trinity Cathedral Cleveland, OH December 6, 2024 Here in North America most of our Christmas traditions have origins in northern Europe. So the notion of an Italian Christmas might be hard to visualize. Santa filling stockings while eating biscotti and gulping down an espresso then merrily riding off on ...

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George Cables e Bill Stewart al Camera Jazz & Music Club di Bologna

by Libero Farnè
December 16, 2024

George Cables Quartet; Bill Stewart Trio Camera Jazz & Music Club Bologna 27 novembre e 13 dicembre 2024 Davvero atipico e sbilanciato il modo con cui è stato concepito il calendario del Bologna Jazz Festival 2024, che abbiamo già recensito nella sua parte preponderante. Per quanto riguarda la sua durata, il ...