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Pure Music: Zakir Hussain & Shivkumar Sharma in Paris

by David Miller
January 8, 2010

Zakir Hussain & Shivkumar SharmaSalle PleyelParis, FranceDecember 12, 2009Indian classical music is all about moods and feelings. It would be possible to describe an otherworldly interplay between Zakir Hussain and Shivkumar Sharma bordering on telepathy. Or to call attention to the sheer virtuosity with which these two extraordinary musicians played, and ...

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Monkadelphia at Chris' Jazz Cafe

by Victor L. Schermer
January 8, 2010

MonkadelphiaChris' Jazz CaféPhiladelphiaJanuary 2, 2010 This reviewer decided to kick off the New Year jazz season by going to hear Monkadelphia at Chris' Jazz Café. Recently, he has been immersed in Robin D.G. Kelley's excellent new biography, Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original (Free Press, 2009); he ...

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Joe McPhee at Cafe Oto, London

by John Sharpe
January 8, 2010

Joe McPhee Cafe Oto London, England December 11, 2009 When the eerie vocalized wail first manifested itself, the audience was left looking for the source. But it quickly became apparent that, even though his facial expression didn't betray the burden, saxophonist Joe McPhee was generating the noise at ...

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Roma Jazz Festival 2009

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 8, 2010

Auditorium Parco della Musica - Roma, - Novembre 2009 Il filo conduttore dell'edizione 2009 del festival Jazz di Roma era rappresentato dalle Jazz Labels, con serate tematiche dedicate all'abbinamento tra i musicisti e le etichette discografiche che rendono disponibili le loro opere presso un pubblico più vasto, alcune delle quali hanno visto la partecipazione di più ...

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The Piano Hour Series - Fabrizio Puglisi e Anthony Coleman

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 7, 2010

Sala Vanni - Firenze - 20.11.2009 L'ultimo dei quattro appuntamenti della seconda edizione di The Piano Hour Series, organizzata da Musicus Concentus, ha visto di scena due pianisti di estrazione jazzistica, ma anche dediti a più vasti orizzonti musicali come Fabrizio Puglisi e Anthony Coleman. Puglisi ha messo pienamente in mostra il proprio eclettismo nel corso ...

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The Rebirth of Real Jazz in Richmond

by Ken Hohman
January 7, 2010

I'm seated at The Camel restaurant on a cool Sunday evening. As my taste buds soak up the malty taste of our fair city's own Legend Brown, my ears soak up the intoxicating sounds of two saxophones, alto and tenor, intertwining and advancing across a melodic line that has more turns than Riverside Drive along the ...

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Niu's 1st International Bangkok Jazz Festival, Dec. 11-12, 2009

by Ian Patterson
January 5, 2010

Niu's 1st International Bangkok Jazz Festival Baan Silom, Bangkok.

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Zavalloni-de Holanda e Fresu-Towner a Passaggi di confine 2009

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 4, 2010

ITC Teatro - San Lazzaro di Savena - 6,16.12.2009 Folgorati sulla via di Damasco! Come definire diversamente l'innamoramento di tanti jazzisti italiani per la musica brasiliana? Da Gabriele Mirabassi a Stefano Bollani, fino a Cristina Zavalloni, ognuno di loro sovrappone questa acquisizione ad una formazione personale e a propensioni che, oltre al jazz, includono la musica ...

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Playing for Change at the Keswick Theatre, Glenside, PA

by Wade Luquet
January 3, 2010

Playing for ChangeKeswick TheatreGlenside, Pennsylvania October 27, 2009 It is not a word that should be used lightly. However, when your video has been viewed twenty million times on YouTube, you might have enough credibility to be considered a phenomenon. Playing for Change began as a concept, developed into a video, and morphed ...

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Silje Nergaard and Wolfgang Haffner, Dusseldorf, Germany

by Phillip Woolever
January 2, 2010

Silje Nergaard / Wolfgang Haffner Trio Tonhalle Dusseldorf, Germany December 18, 2009 Various forms of music do indeed have a peak season, and the inspired, sentimentally crisp coupling of groups led by Norway's singer/songwriter Silje Nergaard and German drummer Wolfgang Haffner provided a near perfect backdrop for this region's ...