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The Felice Brothers at EAT X NE Festival

by Doug Collette
October 5, 2014

The Felice Brothers Oakledge Park EAT X NE Festival Burlington, Vermont September 20, 2014 When Burlington last saw the Felice Brothers in September of 2013, they were about to steal the show at the Grand Point North Festival at Burlington, Vermont's Waterfront Park with a single song that brought ...

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The Cookers at SFJazz

by Harry S. Pariser
October 4, 2014

The Cookers SF Jazz San Francisco, California September 26, 2014 When the legendary late jazz trumpeter Freddie Hubbard joined with saxophonist Lee Morgan and other musicians to perform at Brooklyn's Club La Marchal in April 1975, they produced The Night of the Cookers (Blue Note, 1965), one of history's classic ...

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Punkt Festival 2014

by Henning Bolte
October 3, 2014

Punkt Festival Kristiansand, Norway September, 4-6, 2014 Kristiansand, home of the Annual Punkt Festival for the past decade, is a municipality situated on the southernmost point of Norway at the Skagerrag 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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4th Brda Contemporary Music Festival

by Neri Pollastri
October 2, 2014

Fesstival di Musica Creativa e Improvvisata Šmartno, Slovenia 11-13.9.2014 È giunto alla quarta edizione il Brda Contemporary Music Festival, piccola quanto preziosa rassegna di “musica creativa e improvvisata" organizzata a Šmartno, nella regione slovena di Brda, da Zlatko Kaucic, percussionista, compositore, didatta e operatore culturale ricco di passione e idee. Il festival, ...

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Live From Birmingham: The Pedigree Jazz Band, Tony Bennett, The Fat Chops Big Band

by Martin Longley
September 30, 2014

The Pedigree Jazz Band Solihull British Legion September 7, 2014 It's a curious sensation when tributes are paid to revivals of revivals. Down the decades since the original jazz repertoire was established in the 1920s, '30s, and even earlier, there have been a multitude of responses, counter-responses, exhumations and ...

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Monterey Jazz Festival 2014

by Josef Woodard
September 27, 2014

Monterey Jazz Festival Monterey County Fairgrounds Monterey, CA September 19-21, 2014 Working the Numbers, and Young People Going Deep Numbers worked in mysterious, seemingly synchronistic ways at this year's Monterey Jazz Festival, which celebrated its 57th anniversary year partly by also respectfully toasting the 75th anniversary of the ...

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Outbeat Jazz Festival 2014

by Victor L. Schermer
September 26, 2014

Outbeat Jazz Festival Philadelphia, PA September 18-21, 2014 The Outbeat Jazz Festival, touted as “America's First Queer Jazz Festival," where the “Q-word" has become an “in" word, proved to be an innovative event that brought the public's attention to the important role of gay (LGBT) jazz musicians and composers. A series ...

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Kit Downes/Cormac O'Brien Band at McHughs

by Ian Patterson
September 25, 2014

Kit Downes/Cormac O'Brien Band McHughs Belfast, N. Ireland September 13, 2014 Dating back to 1711, McHughs bar and restaurant is the oldest surviving building in Belfast. As such, McHughs underground cellar, which played host to the Kit Downes/Cormac O'Brien Band seemed like an appropriate venue for a jazz gig. For like ...

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Abraham's Cafe at Theatre No 99

by Hrayr Attarian
September 25, 2014

Abraham's Cafe Theatre No 99 Tallinn, Estonia September 19th 2014 The popular repertory theater Theatre No99 on the edge of Tallinn's charming medieval old town becomes a musical showcase on certain Friday nights. On September 19th, the featured artist was the innovative sextet, Abraham's Cafe whose debut album Journey to ...

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Festival MiTo SettembreMusica

by Paolo Peviani
September 24, 2014

Teatro Franco Parenti / Teatro Manzoni Milano, 04-21.09.2014 Il programma jazzistico di MiTo 2014 presentava due concerti particolarmente intriganti. Avishai Cohen with Strings al Teatro Franco Parenti, e The Master Musicians of Jajouka in compagnia di Bill Laswell & Material al Teatro Manzoni. Filo conduttore di entrambi i concerti ...