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Live From Chicago: Matthew Skoller, Dengue Fever & Christian Scott

by Martin Longley
September 20, 2015

Matthew Skoller Buddy Guy's Legends September 6, 2015 Perhaps the B.B. King Blues Club in NYC was modelled on Buddy Guy's Chicago joint, which opened way back in 1989. It certainly has a similar feel and concept, although Buddy's is more intimate than B.B.'s and noticeably more devoted to ...

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2015 Detroit Jazz Festival

by C. Andrew Hovan
September 19, 2015

Detroit Jazz Festival Hart Plaza Detroit, Michigan September 4-7, 2015 As the world's largest free jazz festival, Detroit's annual Labor Day offering provides a rewarding, but daunting task for anyone set to hunker down in the Motor City all Labor Day weekend. This year about 60 performances were in the offing ...

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Duane Eubanks Quintet at Blues Alley

by Steve Bryant
September 19, 2015

Duane Eubanks Blues Alley Washington, DC July 15, 2015 Duane Eubanks has been fighting to establish a noteworthy identity as a jazz trumpeter for years. One, he's had to dwell in the shadow of his more well-known brothers, Duane and Robin, as well as hustling in the often rough-and-tumble New York ...

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Punkt Festival 2015

by Henning Bolte
September 17, 2015

Punkt Festival Kristiansand, Norway September, 3-5, 2015 Kristiansand, home of the Annual Punkt Festival for the past decade, is a municipality situated on the southernmost point of Norway on the Skagerrak strait. It has a population of 86,000 (the greater urban area 155,000) and is the county capital of Vest-Agder.

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Philadelphia United Jazz Festival 2015

by Victor L. Schermer
September 17, 2015

Philadelphia United Jazz Festival Broad and South Street Philadelphia, PA September 14, 2015 If this review reads more like an op-ed piece than a detailed concert review, circumstances made it happen that way and enthusiasm created it. On the run, after grabbing a cannoli and a double espresso in the ...

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Terry Klinefelter Instrumental and Vocal Ensemble: Philadelphia Songbook Vol. 2

by Victor L. Schermer
September 14, 2015

Terry Klinefelter Instrumental and Vocal Ensemble Philadelphia Songbook Vol.2 American Philosophical Society Philadelphia, PA September 10, 2015 At the outset of a busy weekend of jazz events in Philadelphia, this concert directed by versatile pianist- composer-arranger Terry Klinefelter was an amalgam of two musical genres: straight-ahead mainstream jazz and rhythm-and-blues, ...

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Linda Tillery at Freight and Salvage

by Walter Atkins
September 13, 2015

Linda Tillery Freight and Salvage Coffee House Birthday Celebration Berkeley CA September 4, 2015 Seasoned San Francisco Bay Area vocalist Linda Tillery assembled a fine lineup of local musicians, including some decades old friends and a recent new one, to help celebrate her birthday and musical life. Tillery presented a ...

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Commander Cody and His West Coast Airmen at Baur's, Denver

by Geoff Anderson
September 12, 2015

Commander Cody and His West Coast Airmen Baur's Denver, CO September 2, 2015 Commander Cody has been in the boogie business for nearly 50 years now. Trends have come and gone; white wall tires, disco, Paris Hilton, rap music (still waiting for some of those to go), but the Commander continues ...

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The J. Geils Band at the Paramount

by Mike Perciaccante
September 12, 2015

The J. Geils Band with special guest Ian Hunter & the Rant Band the Paramount Huntington, NY August 30, 2015 The J. Geils Band came to prominence first in the early 1970s with its R&B-influenced blues rock sound and then again in the 1980s when it shifted its ...

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Ai Confini tra Sardegna e Jazz - XXX Edizione

by Paolo Peviani
September 11, 2015

Sant'Anna Arresi, 01-06.09.2015 Bentornato Butch A Sant'Anna Arresi, Butch Morris era di casa. In occasione della XXX Edizione, il festival Ai Confini tra Sardegna e Jazz gli ha reso giustamente e doverosamente omaggio costruendo una programmazione completamente incentrata sulla sua figura. C'era la Nublu Orchestra (Kenny Wollesen, ...