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Authentic Gypsy Jazz At The Jazz Corner

by Martin McFie
March 6, 2019

Fredric Gomes The Jazz Corner Authentic Gypsy Jazz Hilton Head Island February 22-23, 2019 Gypsy Jazz or Manouche was the invention of Django Reinhardt whose sound came from old gypsy tunes played with a swing rhythm. During the inter-war years, Django heard Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington in Europe's ...

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L'integrale per pianoforte di Ligeti a Bologna

by Libero Farnè
March 6, 2019

Musica Insieme Contemporanea Oratorio di San Filippo Neri Bologna 28.2.2019 È seducente l'immagine del manifesto di MICO 2019: semplice, ma satura, allusiva, giocosa. Al centro di uno sfondo rosso è inquadrato un piccolo pianoforte-giocattolo altrettanto rosso, come quelli che fanno parte dell'armamentario di strumentini e oggetti accessori vari ...

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Byron Stripling and the Philly Pops at the Kimmel Center

by Victor L. Schermer
March 5, 2019

Byron Stripling and the Philly Pops “Uptown Nights" The Kimmel Center for Performing Arts Philadelphia, PA March 1, 2019 The Philly Pops' “Uptown Nights," as the title implies, revealed itself to be a festive show that featured the music of the 1920s through the 1940s when ...

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The Vaché Brothers Quintet At The Jazz Corner

by Martin McFie
March 5, 2019

Allan and Warren Vache' Quintet The Jazz Corner Hilton Head, SC March 1-2, 2019 Brothers, Allan Vache' and Warren Vache', brought their quintet, their dry wit and, their brotherly banter to The Jazz Corner for their annual visit. Allan played clarinet in the style and with an attack reminiscent of early ...

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Craig Taborn at Sonic Lab

by Ian Patterson
March 2, 2019

Craig Taborn Sonic Lab. Sonic Arts Research Centre Brilliant Corners Belfast, N. Ireland February 16, 2019 The launch of the seventh edition of Brilliant Corners--Belfast's only jazz festival--saw Craig Taborn make his first appearance here in nearly a decade, and his first solo gig in this city of just under ...

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Jarmo Saari Republic at G Livelab

by Anthony Shaw
March 2, 2019

Jarmo Saari Republic G Livelab Helsinki February 28, 2019 Jarmo Saari has been making music on the Nordic scene for more years than most of us care to remember. As a child he was involved in the Tapiola Choir in Espoo, the Helsinki suburb synonymous with high art of visual as ...

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Live From Brussels: Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, Sal La Rocca, Igor Gehenot, Diederniko Kummsels & Makas

by Martin Longley
March 1, 2019

Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège Bozar January 9, 2019 Much of this evening's programme featured compositions that are probably of interest to jazzers, particularly with the presence of George Gershwin and Leonard Bernstein, although Aaron Copland and Samuel Barber will doubtless have more crossover appeal than most composers. There was ...

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Documenting Jazz 2019

by Ian Patterson
February 28, 2019

Documenting Jazz Conservatory of Music and Drama TU Dublin Dublin, Ireland January 17-19, 2019 Jazz music, which has pretty much always meant different things to different people, has been comprehensively documented since its arrival in the first decades of the twentieth century. The most obvious form of ...

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Hilario Durán At Telus Centre

by Alain Londes
February 28, 2019

Hilario Durán and his Latin Jazz Big BandTelus Centre for Performance and LearningToronto, Canada February 9, 2019A “dream concert" is how Hilario Durán characterized the show featuring his Latin Jazz Big Band and the great drummer Horacio El Negro" Hernández. Cuban-born piano great Durán settled in Canada in the mid-nineties and ...

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Jamie Saft Solo Piano a Firenze

by Neri Pollastri
February 28, 2019

Jamie Saft Solo Piano Pinocchio Live Jazz Firenze 9.2.2019 Perla di un programma ricco di grandi interpreti, il concerto del multistrumentista Jamie Saft lo ha visto sul palcoscenico del Pinocchio Live Jazz di Firenze per una performance solistica nella quale ha presentato un panorama a trecentosessanta gradi della musica statunitense, che ...