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Hot Tuna, Lebanon Opera House

by Doug Collette
July 5, 2014

Hot Tuna Lebanon Opera House Lebanon, New Hampshire June 17, 2014 Bassist Jack Casady almost stole the show during his seventh (8th?) appearance in New Hampshire with long-time friend and musical compadre guitarist Jorma Kaukonen. And that's not to disparage the latter, whose delicate precise picking (except for a few moments ...

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Don Felder, Styx & Foreigner at the Nikon at Jones Beach Theater

by Mike Perciaccante
July 5, 2014

Don Felder, Styx and Foreigner Nikon at Jones Beach Theater Soundtrack of Summer Tour Wantagh, NY June 28, 2014 On a pleasant early summer Saturday evening, the Nikon at Jones Beach Theater was transformed into a time machine as Styx and Foreigner double-headlined (on this tour the two bands ...

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Pittsburgh JazzLive International Festival 2014

by C. Andrew Hovan
July 4, 2014

Pittsburgh JazzLive International Festival 2014 Cultural District Pittsburgh, PA June 20-22, 2014 With its modest beginnings back in 2011, the Pittsburgh JazzLive International Festival had nothing but an uphill battle in terms of sustaining a free jazz festival. It took a billion dollar endowment to keep North America's largest free ...

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Amos Lee at Celebrate Brooklyn

by Ernest Barteldes
July 3, 2014

Amos Lee Celebrate Brooklyn, Prospect Park Brooklyn, NY June 20, 2014 After a high energy opening set by Brooklyn-based Lake Street Dive, Philadelphia native and singer/songwriter Amos Lee took to the stage with a five-piece band that included two multi-instrumentalists who took turns on guitars, horns and mandolins. ...

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Uri Caine Solo al Teatro Goldoni di Firenze

by Neri Pollastri
July 3, 2014

Musicus Concentus Teatro Goldoni Firenze 28.5.2014 Sono passati ben tredici anni dalla pubblicazione di Solitaire e dalle prime apparizioni in Italia di Uri Caine in solo piano, ma da allora l'artista statunitense non ha mai smesso di confrontarsi con la tastiera, tanto da aver appena fatto uscire un nuovo ...

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TD Ottawa Jazz Festival 2014, Days 7-9

by John Kelman
July 2, 2014

Days 1-2 | Days 4-6 | Days 7-9 Anat Fort / Susanna Torben Waldorff Wah Wah / Norma WInstone Partisans TD Ottawa Jazz Festival Ottawa, Canada June 20-July 1, 2014 For the last three days in Ottawa before heading to Montréal for five days of the Festival ...

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Live From Birmingham: Tom Harrison, Tad Newton, Wynton Marsalis & Monocled Man

by Martin Longley
July 1, 2014

Tom Harrison The Bartons Arms June 6, 2014 Some of Tom Harrison's band sidemen are more familiar to seasoned UK jazz fans than the leader himself, but the London saxophonist's film music project will doubtless contribute to improving his own profile. It's the kind of conceptual set-up that is ...

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Bari in Jazz - X Edizione

by Luigi Sforza
July 1, 2014

A dieci anni di distanza dalla prima edizione, il festival Bari in Jazz ancora non riesce a trovare una precisa fisionomia. Le dimissioni del suo ultimo direttore artistico, Gianluca Petrella, presentate subito dopo l'ultimo concerto in cartellone, chiariscono in parte la situazione in cui versa la rassegna del capoluogo pugliese. Per molti versi era ...

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TD Ottawa Jazz Festival 2014, Days 4-6

by John Kelman
June 30, 2014

Days 1-2 | Days 4-6 | Days 7- 9 Tedeschi Trucks Band Bill Frisell Guitar in the Space Age! Julian Lage & Nels Cline / Bill Frisell Go West TD Ottawa Jazz Festival Ottawa, Canada June 20-July 1, 2014 While not necessarily an intentional decision, the ...

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Angelique Kidjo at Nourse Auditorium, San Francisco

by Harry S. Pariser
June 30, 2014

Angelique Kidjo California Institute of Integral Studies Nourse Theater June 21, 2014 “I believe that any feeling of xenophobia and fear comes from ignorance. Often people think that when you are not like them, you are different and therefore you are a threat. It is not true. I think that the ...