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Gent Jazz Festival 2014 - Part Two: Jazz Peripherals

by Martin Longley
August 14, 2014

Gent Jazz Festival De Bijloke Gent, Belgium July 17-19, 2014 The second weekend of this festival is traditionally devoted to musics that lurk outside of the jazz sphere, but resonating in sympathy with the core. Of course, there were a few stray acts from the mainline, just ...

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Lonnie Liston Smith, Roy Hargrove at New Morning

by Patricia Myers
August 13, 2014

Lonnie Liston Smith, Roy Hargrove New Morning Paris, France July 23, August 1, 2014 Among the nightly summer concerts staged at New Morning in Paris was a double dose of electronic funk and neo-soul sounds by multi-keyboardist Lonnie Liston Smith and trumpeter Roy Hargrove. Each played to capacity audiences on humid ...

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Otis Brown III + Revive Big Band at Central Park Summerstage

by Ernest Barteldes
August 11, 2014

Otis Brown III + Revive Big Band Blue Note Records 75th Anniversary at Central Park Summerstage August 3, 2014 New York, NY On an evening dedicated to the 75th anniversary of Blue Note Records (now a subsidiary of Universal Music), drummer Otis Brown III began the proceedings by ...

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Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2014

by Henning Bolte
August 10, 2014

Copenhagen Jazz Festival Copenhagen July, 8-10, 2014 The ten-day Copenhagen Jazz Festival, with its 1,200 concerts, is maybe the largest of its kind in Europe. This number of concerts is the consequence of a unique concept. The core of the festival, with some international headliners, is a relatively small scale ...

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Clusone Jazz - 34a Edizione

by Paolo Peviani
August 8, 2014

20.06-03.08.2014 Trentaquattresima edizione di Clusone Jazz, la prima del dopo Livio Testa. Ideatore e storico direttore artistico del festival che al termine della scorsa edizione, in modo inatteso ma non troppo, ha deciso di lasciare l'incarico. Il testimone della direzione del festival è stato raccolto da Gaetano Bordogna, persona appassionata ...

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Newport Jazz Festival 2014, Day 2

by Timothy J. O'Keefe
August 8, 2014

Newport Jazz FestivalFort Adams State Park Newport, RI Saturday, August 2, 2014 From the first crushing strike against the drums, Brian Blade's heavy hand and swirling rolls captivated the audience attending a rainy installment of the Newport Jazz Festival. Blade led his Fellowship Band through “Stoner Hill," a dour, gray ...

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Gavin Bryars Ensemble At Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival 2014

by Ian Patterson
August 8, 2014

Gavin Bryars Ensemble St. Michael's Church Enniskillen N. Ireland August 1, 2014 That an anonymous homeless man, singing quietly to himself on a London street in 1971, should inspire a standing ovation and a well of emotions among the audience in St. Michael's Church forty three years later says much ...

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Newport Jazz Festival 2014

by Timothy J. O'Keefe
August 7, 2014

Newport Jazz FestivalFort Adams State Park Newport, RI Friday, August 1, 2014 The saxophone reed squealed, as David Sanchez tastefully demonstrated mastery of jazz, but with dark clouds looming on the horizon, music wasn't the only thing on the minds of the patrons at the 60th Newport Jazz Festival presented ...

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Gent Jazz Festival 2014 - Part One: Hardcore Jazz

by Martin Longley
August 7, 2014

Gent Jazz Festival Bijloke Gent, Belgium July 10-13, 2014 The two weekends of this year's Gent Jazz Festival were characterised by their extreme differences in weather. The first half, traditionally concentrating on jazz in its naked state, was buffeted by persistent rainfall and chilly temperatures. The second ...

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Diane Monroe Quartet at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts

by Victor L. Schermer
August 7, 2014

Diane Monroe Quartet Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts “Spiritual Strivings" Exhibition and Concert Philadelphia, PA August 2, 2014 In the tradition of the Paris salons, art and music go together, and some of the best jazz in the Philadelphia area today can be heard at art museums, taking up ...