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Inventionis Mater al Teatro del Cestello di Firenze

by Neri Pollastri
September 29, 2016

Inventionis Mater Teatro del Cestello Firenze 20.09.2016 Quella di Frank Zappa, è ben noto, è una musica programmaticamente “trasversale" e inetichettabile: radicata nel rock, innervata dal jazz, strutturalmente classico-contemporanea, iconoclasta come il pop più informale, eccetera eccetera. E proprio per questo è stata ripresa, riletta, talvolta ricreata dai musicisti più diversi, ...

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Live From Birmingham: Eleanor Friedberger, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Weaves & Cavern Of Anti-Matter

by Martin Longley
September 29, 2016

Eleanor Friedberger Academy 3 September 6, 2016 She's on tour, all the way from upstate New York (economically hounded out of Brooklyn only recently), and surely slightly disappointed by the meagre turn-out in the Academy's smallest room. How many here? Perhaps somewhere between 20 and 30, but all looking like ...

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Redwood City Salsa Festival 2016

by Walter Atkins
September 29, 2016

Downtown Redwood City Redwood City Salsa Festival Redwood City, CA September 24, 2016 The 9th annual Redwood City Salsa Festival held at the downtown civic center was packed with families, friends, and salsa music lovers from all over the San Francisco Bay Area. High temperatures approaching 100 degrees at the RCSF ...

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2016 Hope College Jazz Organ Summit

by C. Andrew Hovan
September 28, 2016

Jazz Organ Summit Hope College Holland, Michigan September 9-10, 2016 Located in Western Michigan along the banks of Lakes Michigan and Macatawa, the small college town of Holland is not the type of place you might imagine for a gathering of musicians, students and jazz organ aficionados. Nonetheless, this quaint spot ...

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The Billy Hart Quartet at the 21c Museum Hotel

by Joseph Boselovic
September 28, 2016

The Billy Hart Quartet The 21c Museum Hotel Durham, NC September 26, 2016 Nearing the end of their first set at the 21c Museum Hotel in downtown Durham, Billy Hart stepped out from behind his set and looked out into the crowd. When he plays the drums, Hart's face often looks ...

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Monterey Jazz Festival 2016

by Josef Woodard
September 26, 2016

Monterey Jazz Festival Monterey, CA September 16-18, 2016 In its 59th annual edition, the Monterey Jazz Festival once again delivered on its promise to bring a stylistic plethora and pageantry--with nods to more abstract or daring fare--to the Monterey County Fairgrounds. Among the marquee bragging rights: an impressive new commissioned ...

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Jon Cleary at The Ardmore Music Hall

by Mike Jacobs
September 25, 2016

Jon Cleary The Ardmore Music Hall September 2, 2016 Jon Cleary's albums are chock full of indisputable funk steeped in New Orleans tradition, fine musicianship and stylized songwriting but the real mojo is in seeing him and his Absolute Monster Gentlemen live. His album Mo Hippa Live captures this electricity ...

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ZZ Top with special guests Gov't Mule at the Nikon at Jones Beach Theater

by Mike Perciaccante
September 24, 2016

ZZ Top with special guests Gov't Mule Nikon at Jones Beach Theater Wantagh, NY September 9, 2016 ZZ Top, known as the Little Ol' Band From Texas, has for the past forty-some-odd years been bringing its own special brand of rock 'n' roll with a boogie woogie, southern, ...

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George Benson at Denver Botanic Gardens

by Geoff Anderson
September 21, 2016

George Benson Botanic Gardens Denver, CO August 31, 2016 NEWS FLASH: George Benson's gone pop! OK, maybe that one's about 40 years late. I even knew that at the time it happened, having purchased the Breezin' album (Warner Brothers, 1976) when it first came out. But, over the years, through careful ...

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Ai Confini Tra Sardegna e Jazz - XXXI Edizione

by Paolo Peviani
September 21, 2016

Sant'Anna Arresi (CI) 01-10.09.2016 Per questa trentunesima edizione, il festival Ai Confini Tra Sardegna e Jazz ha messo al centro del proprio programma la figura di Frank Zappa. Trattandosi di una manifestazione prevalentemente dedicata all'improvvisazione radicale, la rivisitazione del repertorio zappiano non poteva (non doveva!) limitarsi all'agiografia, al tributo, alla riproposizione ...