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Belgrade Jazz Festival 2014

by Nenad Georgievski
November 17, 2014

Belgrade Jazz Festival 2014 Dom Omladine, Dom Sindikata Belgrade, Serbia October 24-27, 2014 When back in 2005, the Dom Omladine Beograda decided to revive the Belgrade Jazz Festival, which was abruptly discontinued due to happenings in the Balkan's region, the organization faced with two mounting tasks--in a very short time ...

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Alessandro Lanzoni Piano Solo

by Neri Pollastri
November 17, 2014

Alessandro Lanzoni Piano Jazz al Ponte Auditorium Santo Stefano al Ponte Firenze 11.10.2014 Per la breve ma intensa serie di concerti di pianoforte solo organizzata presso la splendida location dell'auditorium di Santo Stefano al Ponte--una ex chiesa a pochi passi dal Ponte Vecchio--è andato in scena a Firenze Alessandro Lanzoni, ...

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2014 Voodoo Music and Arts Experience: The Local Heroes & The Up-And-Coming Stars of Tomorrow

by Mike Perciaccante
November 16, 2014

2014 Voodoo Music and Arts Experience New Orleans, LA October 31 -November 2, 2014 In 1974, after seeing a performance at the Harvard Square Theater, Jon Landau once wrote, “I saw rock and roll future, and its name is Bruce Springsteen. And on a night when I needed to feel ...

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Barcelona Voll-Damm Internacional Jazz Festival 2014

by Bruce Lindsay
November 13, 2014

Barcelona Voll-Damm Internacional Jazz Festival Barcelona October 31-November 6, 2014 The 46th Barcelona Voll-Damm Internacional Jazz Festival proved once again that jazz is a crucial contemporary art form--one that encourages us to think; one that engages with many, many cultures around the world; one that can create surprise; one that can ...

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Grand Union at the Hackney Empire

by Duncan Heining
November 9, 2014

Grand Union Orchestra Hackney Empire Undream'd Shores London November 2, 2014 A while ago, I started to suggest to Tony Haynes -Grand Union's artistic director -that he write an opera. I stopped mid-sentence, suddenly realising that he's been doing just that for years. Undream'd Shores is less an opera, more ...

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Anna Maria Jopek at Joe's Pub at The Public Theater

by Ernest Barteldes
November 8, 2014

Anna Maria Jopek Joe's Pub at The Public Theater November 5, 2014 New York, NY For the opening of her 2014 North American tour, Polish singer/songwriter Anna Maria Jopek concentrated on reinvented takes on her native country's folk and classical music, as featured on Polanna (Self Produced, 2011). ...

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People Band and Friends at Café Oto

by Sammy Stein
November 8, 2014

The People Band and Friends Trbute to Mel Davis Cafe Oto London, England 28th October 2014 I knew when my friend turned to ask me, halfway through the event, “This is a bit extreme isn't it?" that I had baptized him with fire. He had never been to a jazz gig ...

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Minus the Bear at the Gramercy Theatre

by Christine Connallon
November 7, 2014

Minus the Bear The Gramercy Theatre New York City October 17, 2014 A warm fall night welcomed Minus the Bear into the Gramercy Theatre in Manhattan. The five man band from Seattle earned a “Sold Out" sign on the marquee outside, on this the third show of their fall tour in ...

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Dave's Eight Track Mind

by John Ephland
November 6, 2014

Dave Stryker Crystal Run and Luna Stage Middletown, NY and West Orange, NJ November 2, 2014 It was a tale of two cities. Or two bands, to be more specific. Or two variations on a theme, to come that much closer to describing what went down on this first Sunday in ...

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Louis Moholo Moholo Quartet At The Crescent Arts Centre

by Ian Patterson
November 5, 2014

Louis Moholo-Moholo The Crescent Arts Centre Belfast October 30, 2014 Ireland has been graced by the presence of two South African musical icons in October. First, the brilliant, seventy-five-year-old trumpeter Hugh Masekela played Dublin and then a little over a week later Louis Moholo-Moholo--younger by a year--kicked up a storm ...