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Open Jazz Festival - Edizione 3.2

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 23, 2012

Ivrea e Canavese, 27.03-31.03.2012 Giunto alla sua trentaduesima edizione, il festival primaverile di Ivrea cambia nome. Non più Euro Jazz, ma Open Jazz. Un cambiamento che da un lato segna una certa presa di distanza dalle idee e dalla gestione del festival delle origini (l'Euro Jazz, appunto), dall'altro una vicinanza e continuità con il festival autunnale, ...

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Joe McPhee's Survival Unit III with Evan Parker: London, England, March 23, 2012

by John Sharpe
April 22, 2012

Joe McPhee's Survival Unit III with Evan ParkerCafé OtoLondonMarch 23, 2012Over the past three years north London's Cafe Oto has built a solid, predominantly young audience for adventurous music. Part of the secret has been programming world class talent over multiple nights and pairing them with the cream of the capital's ...

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Cape Town Jazz Festival 2012

by John Kelman
April 18, 2012

Cape Town Jazz FestivalCape Town, South AfricaMarch 30-31, 2012An invite to cover the 13th annual Cape Town Jazz Festival would have been reason enough to travel over 8,000 miles to South Africa. But when the invite, from South Africa Tourism, stretched to an expansive ten-day trip--beginning in Johannesburg, continuing on to Cape Town ...

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Anoushka Shankar: New York City, NY, April 6, 2012

by Ernest Barteldes
April 15, 2012

Anoushka ShankarCity Winery New York, NY April 6, 2012Touring in support of Traveller (Deutsche Grammophon, 2012), Indian-born sitarist Anoushka Shankar kicked off the show at the Manhattan venue with a traditional raga backed by Sanjeev Shankar (shehnai) and Pirashanna Thevarajah (mridangam, ghatam, kanjira, moorsing ). The trio was then joined by ...

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Arturo Sandoval Live in Evanston with the Chicago Jazz Orchestra

by Thomas Carroll
April 14, 2012

Arturo Sandoval with the Chicago Jazz OrchestraPick-Staiger Concert HallNorthwestern University Soundings Spring FestivalEvanston, ILApril 7, 2012Trumpeter Arturo Sandoval says he's happy some people still listen to music made by musicians playing instruments. In an age when people can download songs for 99 cents without knowing who arranged the songs ...

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Melissa Stylianou Quartet: New York City, NY, April 3, 2012

by Ernest Barteldes
April 14, 2012

Melissa Stylianou Quartet Jazz Standard New York, NY April 3, 2012During the second set of Toronto-born Melissa Stylianou's CD release event for Silent Movie (Anzic, 2012) at New York's Jazz Standard, the vocalist kicked things off with a rendition of Rodgers and Hammerstein's “It Might As Well Be Spring," played at ...

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Bill Frisell and Bill Morrison: Columbus, OH, March 31, 2012

by Mark Corroto
April 13, 2012

Bill Frisell TrioThe Great FloodThurber Theater, Ohio State UniversityColumbus, OHMarch 31, 2012Sometimes you can hear a song lyric for years, but it is not until it is sung just so that it hits home. Bill Frisell's Trio presented an original soundtrack to a film by director Bill Morrison about ...

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Thailand International Jazz Conference: Bangkok, Thailand, January 27-29, 2012

by Carla Marie Rupp
April 12, 2012

4th Thailand International Jazz Conference Mahidol University College of Music, Salaya Bangkok, Thailand January 27-29, 2012The strong Jazz Studies Department at the College of Music, Mahidol University, makes it possible to host an impressive international annual jazz conference. Committee members literally plan the event throughout the year, and ...

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Tim Sparks

by AAJ Italy Staff
April 11, 2012

Six Bars Jail - Serpiolle (FI) - 06.04.2012 Notevolissimo concerto offerto da Tim Sparks al Six Bars Jail, l'"angolo dei chitarristi fingerstyle" nascosto sulle colline che attorniano Firenze. Il cinquantottenne chitarrista del North Carolina ha messo in vetrina il suo enciclopedico repertorio, la sua capacità interpretativa, ma anche la propria schietta umanità, suonando per due set, ...

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Ron Carter at 75: New York, March 27, 2012

by Bob Kenselaar
April 10, 2012

Ron Carter at 75: A Life in MusicAlice Tully HallNew York, NYMarch 27, 2012On the night of the Juilliard School's tribute to Ron Carter, electronic billboards lining 65th Street near Lincoln Center flashed bright pictures of the iconic jazz bassist. The event was a lot like the man and his music: ...