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Oddarrang/Girls In Airports at Belfast Festival 2013

by Ian Patterson
October 29, 2013

Oddarrang/Girls In Airports Elmwood Hall Belfast Festival Belfast, N. Ireland October 23, 2013 Over the course of fifty one years the Belfast Festival has programmed an ocean of outstanding music, from the guitar-spangled blues of Jimi Hendrix and the epic ragas of sitarist Ravi Shankar to the classical artistry of ...

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Colin Stetson - Solo

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 28, 2013

Parco della Musica - Roma - 16.10.2013 La pratica di suonare in solitudine rappresenta il banco di prova ultimo per un musicista, che a fronte della maggiore libertà è costretto a esporsi direttamente sostenendo col suo solo strumento tutto il peso della costruzione musicale. Questo è ancor più vero nella dimensione live, a meno di ricorrere ...

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Branford Marsalis Quartet at Max Fisher Music Center

by Steve Bryant
October 27, 2013

Branford Marsalis Quartet Max Fisher Music Center Detroit, MI October 11, 2013 The Branford Marsalis Quartet is arguably the best small unit working in jazz these days, as proven by the performance of the BMQ in Detroit. This concert was the opening event for the superb jazz ...

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Orrin Evans and the Captain Black Big Band at Dizzy's Club Coca Cola

by Keith Henry Brown
October 26, 2013

Orrin Evans and the Captain Black Big Band Dizzy's Club Coca Cola New York, NY October 6, 2013 Though the band leader/pianist /composer Sun Ra spoke of being part of an “Angel Race" from Saturn, his music, as avant-garde as it could sometimes be, was for the large ...

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Ian Anderson at the NYCB Theatre at Westbury

by Mike Perciaccante
October 26, 2013

Ian Anderson NYCB Theatre At Westbury Westbury, New York October 8, 2013 Ian Anderson is a Scottish singer-songwriter who rose to fame as the flute-playing lead singer of the progressive British rock band Jethro Tull. Throughout its career, Jethro Tull released some of the rock era's most beloved albums, including: Benefit ...

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PianOrquestra at Belfast Festival 2013

by Ian Patterson
October 23, 2013

PianOrquestra Sonic Arts Research Centre Belfast Festival Belfast, N. Ireland October 20, 2013 Composer John Cage would have been like a little kid in a sweetie shop; a serious little kid perhaps, but one at play nonetheless, because the Sonic Arts Research Centre of the Queens University Belfast is ...

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Nathan Hook's Mobiustrip at Somethin' Jazz Club

by Daniel Lehner
October 18, 2013

Nathan Hook's Mobiustrip Somethin' Jazz Club New York, NY Tenor saxophonist Nathan Hook's Mobiustrip opened their set at Somethin Jazz Club in Midtown East, NYC with a tune called “You Probably Thought This Would Be Fun," and it was appropriate. This is not to say that Hook's music was unenjoyable or ...

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Tierney Sutton at Jazz Standard

by Ernest Barteldes
October 17, 2013

Tierney Sutton With Special guest Peter Erskine Jazz Standard New York, NY October 10, 2013 As Tierney Sutton began the first set of her four-night residence at New York's Jazz Standard in celebration of the release of her Joni Mitchell project After Blue (BFM Jazz, 2013), ...

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Bottom’s Up: John Clayton, Rodney Whitaker, Victor Wooten at the Mesa Arts Center

by Patricia Myers
October 15, 2013

Bottom's Up: John Clayton, Rodney Whitaker, Victor Wooten Mesa Arts Center Mesa, AZ September 27, 2013 West Coast bassist John Clayton created a trio called “Bottom's Up" with fellow bassists Rodney Whitaker and Victor Wooten for a 90-minute concert that showcased their collective and individual talent. An audience opting to attend ...

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Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, and Jack DeJohnette at Zellerbach Hall

by Mark Corroto
October 14, 2013

Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, and Jack DeJohnette Zellerbach Hall Berkeley, CA October 4, 2013 Day three of the United States government shut-down, and the public wasn't buying the official announcement that the giant sequoias in the Yosemite National Park “weren't available for viewing, today." Really? Those magnificent trees that have stood ...