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David "Honeyboy" Edwards: Bringing the Delta Blues to Norwich

by Bruce Lindsay
October 9, 2009

David “Honeyboy" EdwardsNorwich Arts CentreNorwich, EnglandOctober 1, 2009 David “Honeyboy" Edwards walked slowly across the stage of the Norwich Arts Centre, settled himself into his chair at the centre of the platform as the sell-out audience's warm applause gradually subsided, strapped on an electric guitar and asked “Y'all ready for the ...

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Allan Holdsworth Trio: Gatineau, Canada

by John Kelman
October 8, 2009

Allan Holdsworth TrioMaison de la Culture de Gatineau Gatineau, Canada September 28, 2009 In a trio, changing only one member can make a tremendous difference. It's been two years since guitar legend Allan Holdsworth last performed in eastern Canada but, with an eight-city tour focused largely in the province of Quebec, it's ...

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Granularities (Lawrence Casserley - Martin Mayes - Gianni Mimmo)

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 7, 2009

Tempio Valdese - Torino - 26.09.2009 Un'occasione davvero speciale (e, purtroppo, sempre più rara) si offre all'improvvisazione libera nelle ampie navate del Tempio Valdese di Torino, che ospitano il trio Granularities, al primo concerto di un breve tour italiano. Sin dalle prime battute sono protagoniste le risonanza prodotte dal corno di Martin Mayes e dal sax ...

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Tim Garland's Lighthouse Trio in Kuala Lumpar, Malaysia

by Ian Patterson
October 7, 2009

Tim Garland's Lighthouse Trio Alexis BistroKuala Lumpar, Malaysia September 26, 2009 It took a few numbers for the wining and dining crowd at the cozy, candle-lit Alexis Bistro to realize that Tim Garland's Lighthouse Trio was something a bit special. Slowly but surely the chatter abated and ...

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MiTo Settembre Musica – La spiritualità dalla tradizione giapponese al "post-industrial"

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 6, 2009

Torino - 20-23.09.2009 “Nel gagaku non c'è un concetto di tempo come in Occidente. Certamente vi è presente un ritmo, intessuto da certi strumenti a percussione - cioè il kakko e il taiko - e dallo sho. Tuttavia i primi servono solo a ricamare l'impalpabile cortina di un intrico di suoni. (...) Il suono dello sho ...

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Guelph Jazz Festival & Colloquium 2009

by Kurt Gottschalk
October 6, 2009

Guelph Jazz Festival & ColloquiumGuelph, OntarioSeptember 9-13, 2009The Guelph Jazz Festival and Colloquium devoted itself this year to trying to unpack an idea so common that it is at once crucial and cliché: whether the practice of music-making might have world-changing implications. Through presentations on (for example) gang intervention in South Africa through ...

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Corea, Clarke and White at Toronto's Koerner Hall

by Alain Londes
October 6, 2009

Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke and Lenny WhiteKoerner HallToronto, ONSeptember 2009 Koerner Hall, the sumptuous and spiffy new concert hall at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, celebrated the second day of its grand opening festival with a sold-out jazz program to demonstrate the organizers' willingness to provide different musical genres ...

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Paolo Damiani – Danilo Rea

by AAJ Italy Staff
October 5, 2009

Una striscia di terra feconda Auditorium - Roma - 21.09.2009 Due rette parallele non s'incontrano mai. E chissà se, magari per sbaglio, un giorno una delle due curvasse un po' quante cose avrebbero da raccontarsi. Al contrario, due jazzisti formidabili come Danilo Rea e Paolo Damiani s'incontrano da tempo, e di cose da dire - tra ...

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Flemish Jazz Meeting 2009

by Martin Longley
October 5, 2009

Unaccustomed as I am to inhabiting the trade/music business function end of things, a sojourn at the Gent Jazz Festival and Jazz Middelheim in Belgium inevitably led to a swiftly-following weekend at the Flemish Jazz Meeting in the scenic city of Brugge. This is the third edition of a September band showcase that's designed to ...

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Sonny Rollins Returns to the Kimmel Center

by Victor L. Schermer
October 5, 2009

Sonny Rollins Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts Philadelphia, PA September 25, 2009Sonny Rollins has a large and enthusiastic fan base in Philadelphia so that, even in a time of economic recession, a packed house cheered on Rollins and his group as they provided a solid evening of straight ahead jazz ...