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The Cookers at Nighttown

by C. Andrew Hovan
February 16, 2017

The Cookers Nighttown Cleveland, Ohio February 8, 2017 The jazz business is a fickle mistress. Few things stay the same and what's here today isn't always there tomorrow. As such, the norm for many decades has been for leaders to assemble groups of different sizes and varieties for recordings purposes and ...

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Monty Alexander Trio at Longwood Gardens

by Geno Thackara
February 15, 2017

Monty Alexander Trio The Ballroom at Longwood Gardens Kennett Square, PA February 11, 2017 It's generally a good sign for any show if the players onstage are smiling and laughing more than anyone else in the room. If there's been one main constant to Monty Alexander's music over his 59-year career, ...

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Joëlle Léandre alla chiesa Saint-Eustache di Parigi

by Francesca Odilia Bellino
February 15, 2017

Joëlle Léandre Chiesa di Saint-Eustache Joëlle Léandre sur les routes. 40 ans de tribulations Parigi 28.11.2016 1976-2016. Joëlle Léandre fissa due coordinate storiche per celebrare la sua prima permanenza negli Stati Uniti (Buffalo), i successivi quarant'anni sulle strade del jazz, e il suo punto d'arrivo ideale, a casa, finalmente ...

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Omer Avital Quintet al Teatro Manzoni di Milano

by Paolo Peviani
February 14, 2017

Omer Avital Quintet Aperitivo in Concerto Teatro Manzoni Milano 05.02.2017 Dopo qualche anno di assenza, torna a Milano il contrabbassista Omer Avital, tra i maggiori esponenti di quella scena musicale israeliana -con forte presenza/residenza a New York -che negli ultimi anni si sta rivelando tra le più attive ed interessanti ...

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Kronos Festival 2017

by Harry S. Pariser
February 12, 2017

Kronos Quartet SFJAZZ Kronos Festival 2017 San Francisco, CA February 4-6, 2017 “I'd started playing string quartets when I was 12, and one day when I was 14, I was gazing at a map of the world and suddenly realized that all the quartet music I'd ever heard--Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, ...

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Erik Friedlander's Oscalypso al Carambolage di Bolzano

by Giuseppe Segala
February 10, 2017

Erik Friedlander's Oscalypso Piccolo Teatro Carambolage Bolzano 06.02.2017 Eleganza, precisione, arrangiamenti che coniugano intricati contrappunti a trasparenti unisoni, attenzione ai contrasti dinamici e agli impasti timbrici. Senso dell'esplorazione e della sorpresa. Sembrerebbe la descrizione dell'approccio musicale cameristico tipico di quello che è stato collocato sotto la definizione di Cool Jazz. Quella ...

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The Wood Brothers at Higher Ground

by Doug Collette
February 10, 2017

The Wood Brothers Higher Ground Ballroom South Burlington, Vermont February 6, 2017 In the decade plus they've played together, the Wood Brothers have made a habit of coming to Vermont virtually every year and their near-sell-out appearance in the ballroom of Higher Ground was almost exactly twelve months since their last ...

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Erik Friedlander At National Concert Hall, Dublin

by Ian Patterson
February 8, 2017

Erik Friedlander Kevin Barry Room, National Concert Hall Dublin, Ireland February 4, 2017 The sense of privilege was inescapable. To be one of a small number of people present at an intimate performance of music so beautiful felt like a royal invitation. Cellist Erik Friedlander was born the year ...

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Roscoe Mitchell Sextet al Teatro Manzoni di Milano

by Vincenzo Roggero
February 7, 2017

Roscoe Mitchell Sextet plays Coltrane Aperitivo in Concerto Teatro Manzoni Milano 29.01.2017 Il “Roscoe Mitchell Sextet plays Coltrane" è un progetto ideato da Aperitivo in Concerto per celebrare la figura di John Coltrane nel cinquantesimo anniversario della morte. Dubbi e sospetti si insinuano tra i fans incalliti del leggendario ...

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Los Lobos at The Barre Opera House

by Doug Collette
February 4, 2017

Los Lobos Barre Opera House Barre, Vermont January 28, 2017 Without playing virtually any of their best known material-no “La Bamba" or “How Will the Wolf Survive?"-Los Lobos thoroughly charmed and eventually won the hearts (and minds no doubt) of a Vermont crowd January 28. This even after a “Wanna get ...