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Stevie Wonder at Pepsi Center

by Geoff Anderson
March 25, 2015

Stevie Wonder Pepsi Center Denver, CO March 17, 2015 Is there anybody that doesn't like Stevie Wonder? Go ahead, I dare you, tell me how you don't like Stevie Wonder. Then go chase those kids off your lawn. For the legion of Stevie Wonder fans, it's fortunate that he ...

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Cassandra Wilson at Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts

by Patricia Myers
March 25, 2015

Cassandra Wilson: “Coming Forth by Day, A Celebration of Billie Holiday" Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts Scottsdale, Arizona February 21, 2015 Vocalist Cassandra Wilson delivered a modern homage in honor of the anniversary of Billie Holiday's 100th birthday. Her performance neither replicated the late singer's sound nor did it adhere ...

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Viktoria Mullova Ensemble al Teatro Manzoni di Milano

by Paolo Peviani
March 24, 2015

Aperitivo in Concerto Teatro Manzoni Milano 15.03.2015 L'edizione 2014-2015 di Aperitivo in Concerto ha dedicato ampio spazio al Brasile ed alla sua immensa tradizione musicale, che è stata affrontata -com'è nello spirito della rassegna -da varie angolazioni. Il concerto conclusivo di questa stagione è stato ...

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Iiro Rantala at Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane

by Ian Patterson
March 22, 2015

Iiro Rantala Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane Dublin March 8, 2015 There's a commonly held belief that anything that is free can't be worth a damn. Not so. Luckily, thanks to Dublin City Council, the Arts Council of Ireland and Improvised Music Company, spring in the Irish capital welcomes not ...

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ZZ Top with special guests the Ben Miller Band at the NYCB Theatre at Westbury

by Mike Perciaccante
March 21, 2015

ZZ Top with special guests the Ben Miller Band NYCB Theatre at Westbury Westbury, NY March 15, 2015 Forty-plus years is a long time for anything. For a rock band it's an eternity. For ZZ Top, the Little Ol' Band From Texas, the past forty-some-odd years have been ...

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Jeff Sipe Trio at Independent Public Alehouse

by Mark Sullivan
March 20, 2015

Jeff Sipe Trio Featuring Mike Seal And Taylor Lee Independent Public Alehouse Greenville, SC March 5, 2015 The Jeff Sipe Trio began their set with a surprising cover version of Weather Report's “Black Market." Not a tune that could be easily rearranged for a guitar/bass/drums trio, but they made it ...

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Live From Birmingham: Amy Roberts, Richard Exall, Bruce Coates, John Edwards, Mark Sanders, GoGo Penguin & Mammal Hands

by Martin Longley
March 18, 2015

The Amy Roberts/Richard Exall Jazz Band Solihull British Legion March 8, 2015 Shockingly, this regular club at Solihull British Legion, so accustomed to traditional New Orleans trotters, had booked a band that specialises in jazz from a slightly later time period. Precedents already existed, though, and the regulars have ...

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Aleatoric and Imperial Quartet in Helsinki

by Anthony Shaw
March 17, 2015

Aleatoric and Imperial Quartet Kanneltalo Helsinki, Finland March 12, 2015 For anyone who has come to jazz, as I, via the cross-national recombinations that pop up regularly throughout the European continent this combined gathering of Finnish, French and Belgian musicians on the same bill in Helsinki was nothing less than a ...

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Tim Berne & Snakeoil feat. Sentieri Selvaggi Ensemble al Teatro Manzoni di Milano

by Vincenzo Roggero
March 17, 2015

Aperitivo in Concerto Teatro Manzoni Milano 08.03.2015 L'evento è di quelli da sottolineare più volte sull'agenda con la biro rossa. Ossia l'incontro tra Snakeoil di Tim Berne (formazione di vertice insieme a poche altre--l'ottetto di Steve Lehman, gli organici di Henry Threadgill, il quintetto di Steve ...

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The Young Sounds of Arizona at Phoenix Center for the Arts

by Patricia Myers
March 17, 2015

The Young Sounds of Arizona at Phoenix Center for the Arts Spring Concert Phoenix, Arizona March 5, 2015 The two youth jazz bands of Young Sounds of Arizona performed a satisfying concert of cohesive section work and talented soloists before a near-capacity audience that came to hear teenage musicians who attend ...