Home » Search Center » Results: Live Reviews

Results for "Live Reviews"

Article: Live Review

Jazzkaar 2016

by Martin Longley
May 31, 2016

Jazzkaar Tallinn, Estonia April 22-May 1, 2016 The Jazzkaar festival has been an annual event in Tallinn, Estonia, since 1990, when Soviet dominance was crumbling. Its roots lie in the original 1966 and '67 jazz festivals, before these were banned by those Russian occupiers. Surely the presence of honorary hippie ...

Article: Live Review

String Theory 2016

by Ian Patterson
May 30, 2016

String Theory 13 North Great Georges Street Dublin, Ireland May 20-21, 2016 String Theory, a two-day celebration of avant-garde guitar craft was no ordinary festival. The fact that the music was experimental, largely improvised and inherently risk-laden isn't what set this inaugural Dublin festival apart, after all it's what we've ...

Article: Live Review

Snarky Puppy at the Ogden Theater

by Geoff Anderson
May 29, 2016

Snarky Puppy Ogden Theater Denver, CO May 24, 2016 The Snarky Puppy website describes the group as a “quasi-collective." Indeed, an organization that numbers perhaps as many as three dozen doesn't really fit the traditional definition of a “band." Thirty six members? That almost sounds like an orchestra. Well, they don't ...

Article: Live Review

Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville 2016, Part 2

by Mike Chamberlain
May 27, 2016

Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville Various Venues Victoriaville, Quebec May 21-22, 2016 Part 1 | Part 2 Following a memorable--in a good way--first two days of FIMAV, Saturday's program promised more highlights, anchored by three consecutive sets of musicians performing John Zorn's Bagatelles at ...

Article: Live Review

Snarky Puppy at the Electric Factory

by Asher Wolf
May 26, 2016

Snarky Puppy The Electric Factory Live From the Lot Festival Philadelphia, PA May 21st, 2016 As I sit in this Philadelphia train station trying to decipher the ambient jazz faintly trickling from the overhead speakers I am reminded of why we need more bands ...

Article: Live Review

Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville 2016, Part 1

by Mike Chamberlain
May 24, 2016

Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville Various Venues Victoriaville, Quebec May 19-20, 2016 Part 1 | Part 2 The 32nd edition of the Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville began with a performance of new compositions by Norwegian guitarist/composer Kim Myhr with Montreal's Quatour ...

Article: Live Review

Fonterossa Day #2

by Neri Pollastri
May 20, 2016

Fonterossa Day #2 Pisa Jazz Teatro Sant'Andrea Pisa 10.04.2016 Seconda edizione della festa-concerto dedicata da Pisa Jazz a Fonterossa Records, l'etichetta indipendente creata e diretta da Silvia Bolognesi. Se lo scorso anno la giornata s'era aperta con un documentario sull'esperienza chicagoana della contrabbassista e compositrice senese, questa è stata ...

Article: Live Review

Andy Milne and Dapp Theory at SOUTH Jazz Kitchen

by Mike Jacobs
May 19, 2016

Andy Milne and Dapp Theory SOUTH Jazz Kitchen Philadelphia, PA May 11, 2016 Venues can be a boon to a jazz show, or a detriment. Seeing Andy Milne and Dapp Theory in the moderately upscale (yet warm and inviting) digs at South turned out to be a huge ...

Article: Live Review

John Greaves al Fasano Jazz

by Claudio Bonomi
May 19, 2016

John Greaves Fasano Jazz Teatro Sociale Fasano (BR) 14.05.2016 Come ha scritto una volta Aymeric Leroy, scrittore e profondo conoscitore della scena rock britannica, John Greaves è un musicista che ha trascorso la sua gioventù a suonare le composizioni ultracomplesse di gruppi come Henry Cow e National Health e ...

Article: Live Review

Allison Miller's Boom Tic Boom at the Philadelphia Art Alliance

by Asher Wolf
May 17, 2016

Allison Miller's Boom Tic Boom Philadelphia Art Alliance Ars Nova Workshop Philadelphia, PA May 13, 2016 Allison Miller's Boom Tic Boom plays jazz, but the woman herself is hardly a jazz drummer. Though she can swing and improvise like nobody's business, Miller seems equally at home with the grooves of ...