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Cecil’s Big Band with Mike Lee: West Orange, NJ, February 20, 2012

by Bob Kenselaar
March 8, 2012

Cecil's Big Band with Mike LeeCecil's Jazz ClubWest Orange, New JerseyFebruary 20, 2012A completely packed crowd at Cecil's Jazz Club on a Monday night--not a common scene--but this was the beginning of the club's final week of operation and the final show for Cecil's Big Band. Led by tenor saxophonist Mike ...

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Remember Shakti: Ramallah, Palestinian Territories, February 14, 2012

by Ian Patterson
March 7, 2012

Remember ShaktiRamallah Cultural Palace Ramallah, Palestinian Territories February 14, 2012 Who believed at the end of Remember Shakti's 2006 tour--and nine years after a twenty-year hiatus--that the legendary band would get together once again, half a dozen years later? With all the members so impossibly busy with their respective music-making, ...

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Dave Morgan & Friends: Kirtland, OH, February 24, 2012

by Matt Marshall
March 7, 2012

Dave Morgan & Friends40th Annual Lakeland Jazz FestivalKirtland, OHFebruary 24, 2012On the opening night of the 40th Annual Lakeland Jazz Festival, bassist Dave Morgan gathered a host of friends and treated Northeast Ohioans to a rare performance of his The Way of the Sly Man (Being Time, 2010). The piece, based ...

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Festival PRO-SISMA

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 6, 2012

Area Sismica - Forlì - 24-25.2.2012 Le due serate del “festival pro sisma," come il nome può far intuire, sono nate dall'amicizia e dalla stima di un gruppo di musicisti di prim'ordine per il locale romagnolo che, nonostante l'abitudine ad essere continuamente alle prese con finanze magre, mai come quest'anno ha rischiato di dover chiudere i ...

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Wadada Leo Smith Golden Quartet

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 1, 2012

Metastasio Jazz Teatro Metastasio - Prato - 13.02.2012 Unica data italiana al festival Metastasio Jazz di Prato per il Golden Quartet di Wadada Leo Smith, settantenne compositore e trombettista cresciuto nell'AACM e oggi attivo e creativo come non mai. Il Golden Quartet è un ensemble di grandi individualità, che Wadada dirige alla vecchia maniera, accentrando su ...

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Rob Mazurek e São Paulo Underground a Bolzano

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 27, 2012

Piccolo Teatro Carambolage - Bolzano - 20.02.2012 La stagione musicale al Piccolo Teatro Carambolage di Bolzano riserva spesso sorprese di grande pregio, in un luogo dove la musica è fruibile in modo ideale, a stretto contatto con i musicisti. Il trio brasiliano del trombettista Rob Mazurek, São Paulo Underground, sulla scena del Piccolo Teatro lo scorso ...

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The 11th Annual Jazz Cruise: January 29-February 5, 2012

by Larry Taylor
February 25, 2012

Tributes to saxophonist Benny Golson and pianist Oscar Peterson highlighted the 11th annual Jazz Cruise, January 29 to February 5, 2012. As well, stellar performances were turned in by an assemblage of over 80 musicians, onboard for the Holland America cruise of the Caribbean. The spacious Westerdam ship was christened in 2004 and is one of ...

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Dida Pelled Trio: Aquebogue, NY, February 12, 2012

by Dan Bilawsky
February 24, 2012

Dida Pelled TrioLong Island WinterfestPalmer VineyardsAquebogue, NYFebruary 12, 2012Long Island's East End is world renowned for it's wine country and high-end lifestyle, but few visitors ever choose to experience either one during the winter. While the wine cognoscenti have come throughout the year, the general public usually waited for ...

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Festival di Cultura e di Musica Jazz - XV Edizione

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 22, 2012

Spazio Officina - Chiasso (CH) - 05-11.02.2012 “Conosci Johnny Staccato?". Questo curioso interrogativo era il sottotitolo, il manifesto programmatico della XV Edizione del Festval di Cultura e Musica Jazz di Chiasso. Per chi non lo conoscesse, Johnny Staccato era un pianista jazz, investigatore a tempo perso, protagonista di una serie di telefilm diretti da John Cassavetes. ...

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Franco D'Andrea Three

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 20, 2012

Pinocchio Live Jazz - Firenze - 04.01.2012 In una serata freddissima che penalizza l'affluenza del pubblico, di scena sul palco del Pinocchio di Firenze una delle due formazioni stabili con le quali il pianista Franco D'Andrea porta avanti la sua ricerca musicale, tutt'altro che frenato dai settant'anni compiuti lo scorso anno: il trio con i fiati ...