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Live From Old York: Mark Lockheart, King Courgette, La Mer Trio & YO1 Festival

by Martin Longley
May 19, 2014

Mark Lockheart's Ellington In Anticipation The National Centre For Early Music April 25, 2014 The music of Duke Ellington might represent an oft-traversed path across the jazz firmament, but the English saxophonist and composer Mark Lockheart can justify such persistent attentions. During the last decade, this tenor man has ...

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All Star Tribute to Ralph MacDonald at Holy Cross College

by Nigel Campbell
May 17, 2014

Etienne Charles with his All Star Band Jazz on D Hill Holy Cross College Arima, Trinidad May 11, 2014 On a picturesque plateau above the town of Arima overlooking the distant Caroni plains on the island of Trinidad, the Holy Cross College Alumni produced a jazz event ...

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Moody Blues at the NYCB Theatre At Westbury

by Mike Perciaccante
May 17, 2014

Moody Blues NYCB Theatre in Westbury Westbury, NY May 7, 2014 The Moody Blues is an English rock band that was among the first groups to fuse rock and pop with classical music. The band's 1967 album Days of Future Passed (Derem Records, 1967) is considered by many to be the ...

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Dublin Jazz Book Launch at BelloBar

by Ian Patterson
May 16, 2014

Dublin Jazz Book Launch BelloBar Dublin, Ireland May 11, 2014 They came out in good numbers to celebrate the launch of the Dublin Jazz Book at the BelloBar in the funky Portobello neighborhood of Dublin. The success of the evening went beyond numbers though, for the publishing of the DJB--essentially a ...

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Bray Jazz Festival 2014

by Ian Patterson
May 15, 2014

Bray Jazz festival Various venues Bray, County Wicklow Ireland May 2-4, 2014 It was an auspicious day. Fifteen years ago to the very day George Jacob introduced the first gig in the history of Bray Jazz Festival. The BJF has survived and prospered, growing from a small, largely national ...

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Ron Carter Golden Striker Trio at Jazzfest Gronau 2014

by Phillip Woolever
May 15, 2014

Ron Carter Golden Striker Trio Evangelist Stadtkirche Jazzfest Gronau Gronau, Germany April 27, 2014 Ron Carter resumed his casual, “guy with the microphone" demeanor as bandleader for this afternoon's “church meeting," but brought a confident intensity to this conspicuously jazz conscious German community on the Netherlands border. A ...

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Beale Street Music Festival 2014

by C. Michael Bailey
May 14, 2014

Beale Street Music FestivalMemphis in May International Festival Tom Lee Park Memphis, Tennessee May 2-4, 2014 For most of us, even those born and raised here and rooted to the soil like one of Faulkner's oaks, the South no longer exists. In fact, nearer to the truth, it has ...

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Stefano Bollani e Antonello Salis al Ravenna Jazz Festival

by Libero Farnè
May 14, 2014

Teatro Alighieri Ravenna 09.05.14 Occasione rara, da non mancare, quella di ascoltare Stefano Bollani e Antonello Salis in duo: il loro sodalizio, non ancora logorato dalla routine, e le loro prorompenti personalità già in partenza promettevano scintille. I motivi di interesse nel concerto ospitato da Ravenna Jazz 2014 erano svariati: il confronto ...

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Dialoghi: jazz per due 2014

by Luca Casarotti
May 13, 2014

Ex chiesa di S. Maria Gualtieri--Sala Politeama Pavia 18.03-10.04.2014 È stata all'insegna dell'ibridazione tra fiati ed elettronica, questa XVI edizione della rassegna Dialoghi: Jazz per due, che si è tenuta a Pavia dal 18 marzo al 10 aprile scorsi. Consueta la location: l'ex chiesa di S. Maria Gualtieri, ...

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Pat DiNizio At Page One

by Mike Perciaccante
May 10, 2014

Pat DiNizio Page One Glen Cove, NY April 27, 2014 Pat DiNizio achieved public recognition as the lead singer and principal songwriter of the Carteret, NJ-based the Smithereens. The band achieved success by writing and playing catchy 1960s-influenced power pop. The group gained its first taste of success when its song ...