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Live From Birmingham: Jeff Beck, The Magic Band & Kid Congo Powers

by Martin Longley
May 29, 2014

Jeff Beck Symphony Hall May 20, 2014 When guitarist Jeff Beck's quartet took to the stage, they were sounding as brain-pulping as Nine Inch Nails, pushing out an edifice of industrial funk groove. With his freshly-dyed dark locks and black glam matador outfit, Beck didn't exactly look like he ...

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Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville 2014

by Mike Chamberlain
May 28, 2014

Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville Victoriaville, Quebec, Canada May 15-19, 2014 Victoriaville, Quebec is a town of some 40,000 two hours east of Montreal, a regional center known for the sober pursuits of dairy and wood production. For the past three decades (beginning in 1983), the town has also hosted ...

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Boz Scaggs at the Paramount

by Mike Perciaccante
May 27, 2014

Boz Scaggs The Paramount Huntington, NY May 13, 2014 Boz Scaggs has been producing his own brand of R&B-flavored rock 'n' roll for almost fifty years. Though he recorded an album in 1965 called Boz (Polydor Records), his career didn't take off until he became a member of the original bluesier ...

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Ricardo Herz Trio/Phisqa at BelloBar

by Ian Patterson
May 26, 2014

Ricardo Herz Trio/Phisqa BelloBar Dublin, Ireland May 21 2014 It was a happy case of serendipity. The square in front of BelloBar was buzzing with vocal chants, clapping, percussion and the twangy rhythmic drive of three berimbau, urging on the dancers in their strange ballet that was part mime, part cutting ...

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Norfolk And Norwich Festival 2014

by Bruce Lindsay
May 25, 2014

Norfolk And Norwich Festival Norwich, UK May 9-25, 2014 From a refurbished high street bank, to a 15th century church, via a Georgian trading hall and a 100-year-old travelling mirror tent, the 2014 Norfolk and Norwich Festival's jazz program covered a range of venues that offered plenty of history, quirkiness and ...

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Melissa Morgan Quartet at the Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society

by Bill Leikam
May 25, 2014

Melissa Morgan Quartet Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society Half Moon Bay, Ca. May 11, 2014As is often customary, vocalist Melissa Morgan did not immediately appear on stage while her trio of Los Angeles based musicians, pianist Sam Hirsh,bassist Katie Thiroux, and Matt Witek on drums, opened the show with an old ...

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Little Barrie at Santos Party House

by Mike Perciaccante
May 25, 2014

Little Barrie Santos Party House New York, NY May 8, 2014 Little Barrie is a British blues-based power trio formed in Nottingham in 1999. Its music is an amalgamation of blues, psychedelia, garage rock, pop, soul, funk and good old fashioned rock 'n' roll with a bit of a jamband mentality. ...

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Mai Jazz 2014

by John Kelman
May 24, 2014

Mai Jazz 2014 Stavanger, Norway May 6-11, 2014 After visiting Norway as often as four or five times annually, a first trip to the country in early May is surprisingly late for a first visit of the year. The last time visiting the west coast city of Stavanger was in 2008, part ...

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Drew Gress 7 Black Butterflies

by Neri Pollastri
May 22, 2014

Pinocchio Live Jazz Firenze 18.04.2014 Quasi a conclusione della eccellente stagione 2013-2014, in un giorno atipico per la programmazione ordinaria--il venerdì--si è esibito sul palco del Pinocchio Live Jazz un autentico supergruppo: il quintetto “7 Black Butterflies" di Drew Gress, con Tim Berne al sax contralto, Ralph Alessi alla tromba, ...

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Visual & Visionary Jazz a Vicenza

by Libero Farnè
May 21, 2014

Vicenza Jazz 2014 Vari luoghi 14-16.05.2014 La recensione di tre serate di Vicenza Jazz 2014, durato dal 9 al 17 maggio, può essere sufficiente per individuarne la filosofia. Sotto il titolo “Visual & Visionary Jazz--Sull'Arka di Sun Ra, tra vecchie e nuove avanguardie," che ha funzionato come pretesto, come indirizzo indicativo, la ...