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Acoustic Ladyland at Norwich Arts Centre

by Bruce Lindsay
October 4, 2009

Acoustic LadylandNorwich Arts CentreNorwich, U.K.September 24, 2009 Acoustic Ladyland took to the darkened Arts Centre stage, and the crowd began to cheer and whistle. Pete Wareham, tenor saxophonist, bandleader and composer, peered through his sunglasses and beckoned the audience towards the stage. The crowd, mostly younger than the musicians, dutifully ...

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2009 Detroit Jazz Festival

by Wilbur MacKenzie
October 3, 2009

Detroit Jazz FestivalDetroit, MISeptember 4-7, 2009A short distance from Hitsville USA, where Berry Gordy created the Motown sound, shaping the history of American music and culture, and the Diego Rivera Court, where the artist's murals pay tribute to the workers whose hands made the auto industry a reality, sits Hart Plaza, Detroit's waterfront ...

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The Freddie Hubbard Tribute Band at the Indianapolis Jazz Festival

by AAJ Staff
October 2, 2009

The Freddie Hubbard Tribute BandIndianapolis Jazz FestivalIndianapolis, IndianaSept 25, 2009When losing a trumpeter of such sterling agility, originality and influence as Freddie Hubbard, it's only natural to pay tribute to his passing. So it was at the Madame Walker Theater in Indianapolis on September 25th under the direction of jazz educator ...

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52nd Monterey Jazz Festival Presents Best of Old and New

by Larry Taylor
October 1, 2009

52nd Annual Monterey Jazz FestivalMonterey FairgroundsMonterey, CaliforniaSeptember 18-20, 2009 Three Generations of Pianists, a celebration of piano jazz, spotlighting a family of greats from Jason Moran through Dave Brubeck, highlighted the 2009 Monterey Jazz Festival at Monterey County Fairgrounds in Northern California. And surprisingly, celebrated folk legend Pete Seeger got ...

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Helsinki Jazz Festival Moves to the Islands

by Anthony Shaw
October 1, 2009

Viapori Jazz Suomenlinna Islands, Helsinki, Finland August 26-29, 2009 In 1855 the British Navy did their very best to obliterate this fortress of seven linked islands just off the entrance to the harbor of Helsinki. The two-day bombardment is said to have sent almost 200 tons of iron raining down ...

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MiTo Settembre Musica - Maratona Jazz

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 30, 2009

Teatro Smeraldo - Milano - 20.09.2009 Metà Settembre, a Milano è tempo di maratona. Alla sua terza edizione, il festival MiTo, manifestazione incentrata sulla musica classica ma aperta anche ad altre realtà, conferma la sua giornata consacrata al jazz. La sua maratona. Quattro concerti. Una giornata bulimica. Un'autentica abbuffata, in una città che a volte dà ...

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MiTo Settembre Musica - Il Giappone oggi, da Toshio Hosokawa a Keiji Haino

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 29, 2009

Torino-Milano 03.09.2009/24.09.2009 Pur in tempi di crisi, il festival MiTo non getta la spugna, ma continua a proporre, sull'asse Torino-Milano, proposte in cui lo spessore culturale si unisce a un innegabile fascino. Protagonista della sezione “contemporanea" della terza edizione di MiTo Settembre Musica è il compositore giapponese Toshio Hosokawa, nato a Hiroshima nel 1955. Si tratta ...

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Hugues Dufourt - Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 28, 2009

Antiphysis, per flauto e ensemble The Watery Star, per ensemble L'origine du monde, per pianoforte e ensemble Les chardons d'après Van Gogh, concerto per viola e ensemble Festival MiTo Settembre Musica - Piccolo Regio Giacomo Puccini - Torino - 9.9.2009 Corsi e ricorsi storici si presentano alla terza edizione della rassegna MiTo. Hugues Dufourt, ospite negli ...

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Jazz Middelheim 2009

by Martin Longley
September 28, 2009

Jazz Middelheim 2009Park Den BrandtAntwerpenBelgium The Jazz Middelheim festival is nearing its fortieth anniversary, but it's a weekender that hasn't relinquished a fondness for adventure. Nuzzling up against its stellar bookings are acts, Belgian and otherwise, who seek to jolt the expectations of many audience members. The entertaining middle way ...

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The Joshua Redman Trio

by AAJ Staff
September 28, 2009

Joshua Redman TrioIndianpolis Jazz FestivalIndianapolis, IndianaSeptember 19, 2009 By the inner compass one finds one's direction, and Joshua Redman didn't fail to find his on the first night of the Indianapolis Jazz Festival at Clowes Memorial Hall. With Gregory Hutchinson on drums and Matt Penman on bass, they played a few classic covers, ...