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The 2010 West Oak Lane Jazz Festival: How Jazz Helped Change a Community

by Wade Luquet
June 30, 2010

Can jazz revitalize an urban neighborhood? In the northwest Philadelphia neighborhood of West Oak Lane it certainly has played a large part. For the seventh year, the neighborhood residents, along with the Ogontz Avenue Revitalization Corporation (OARC) and the office of State Representative Dwight Evans, have joined together, closing the main avenue for a weekend and ...

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Burlington Vermont Discover Jazz Festival 2010: In Service to the Community

by Doug Collette
June 29, 2010

Discover Jazz Festival 2010 Burlington, Vermont June 4-June 13, 2010 The symmetry of the graphic design for the poster announcing the 2010 Burlington Discover Jazz Festival is emblematic of the balance attained in this year's lineup. More thoroughly traditional than in years past, the event nevertheless could not help but produce a ...

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Ottawa Jazz Festival 2010: Days 1-3, June 24-26, 2010

by John Kelman
June 28, 2010

Days 1-3 | Days 4-6 | Days 7-9 | Days 10-11 Mikko Innanen & InnkvisitioEtienne Charles and Folklore / Bill Frisell's Beautiful DreamersBill Frisell 858 Quartet TD Ottawa International Jazz Festival Ottawa, Ontario, Canada June 24-26, 2010 Back in April 2010, when the TD Ottawa International ...

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Assaf Kehati, Billy Hart, & Noam Weisenberg: Trio Music

by David Lighton
June 27, 2010

Assaf Kehati Trio featuring Billy Hart Twins Jazz Washington, D.C. June 5, 2010 In recent years, the guitar trio--with bass and drums--has reached mythic status. Once an obscure instrumentation, the setting has been elevated to new heights by young guitarists seeking the kind of interplay for which the piano ...

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Bobby Watson at the Saville Theater, San Diego, CA

by Robert Bush
June 27, 2010

Bobby Watson Quartet Saville Theater (San Diego City College) San Diego, CA May 11, 2010 Currently based in Kansas City, where he teaches at the University of Missouri/ Conservatory of Music, Bobby Watson has a long, storied career. He attended music school in Miami in the 1970's, where ...

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Mary McBride at Housing Works, June 16 2010

by Ernest Barteldes
June 26, 2010

Mary McBride Housing Works June 16, 2010 New York, NY On her New York stop of the promotional tour for her new release The Way Home, soul-folk singer-songwriter Mary McBride hit the stage of lower Manhattan's Housing Works backed by a solid power trio that at once made you ...

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Christian Scott Quintet, Live at the Saville Theater, San Diego, CA

by Robert Bush
June 26, 2010

Christian Scott Quintet Saville Theater (San Diego City College) San Diego, CA April 13, 2010 I believe it was the English writer/contrarian George Bernard Shaw who first coined the phrase: “Youth is wasted on the young." Anybody buying into that cliché was soon set straight--provided they were fortunate enough to ...

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Mary Lou Williams Festival 2010

by Franz A. Matzner
June 24, 2010

Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz FestivalKennedy CenterWashington, DCMay 20-22, 2010 In celebration of the 100th anniversary of her birth, this year's Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Festival was dedicated to the music of its namesake. This focus lent the festival's 15th year at the Kennedy ...

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Chick Corea and the Freedom Band at Denver's Botanic Gardens

by Geoff Anderson
June 24, 2010

Chick Corea and the Freedom BandBotanic GardensDenver, COJune 14, 2010The last couple times Chick Corea came through Denver, he was highly electrified. The summer before last, he performed with the reunion tour of Return to Forever. Last summer, he came through with The 5 Peace Band featuring John McLaughlin. Both of ...

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Elifantree at Birdland, Helsinki

by Anthony Shaw
June 24, 2010

Elifantree Birdland Helsinki, Finland June 16, 2010 Birdland is the latest jazz venue to open in Helsinki, and as one can expect from a location that is as central as it is conventional, the fare is typically close to the middle of the road. However, in an attempt to woo ...