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Sam Newsome & Lucian Ban: The Romanian-American Jazz Suite at the Jazz Standard, NYC

by Budd Kopman
July 22, 2008

Sam Newsome & Lucian Ban--The Romanian-American Jazz Suite at the Jazz StandardThe Jazz StandardNew York City, New YorkJuly 1, 2008 The genesis of The Romanian-American Jazz Suite goes back to 2004 when pianist Lucian Ban, whose roots are Romanian and American soprano saxophonist Sam Newsome received the CEC Artslink Award, ...

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Vision Festival 2008: Day 3

by John Sharpe
July 20, 2008

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 Oliver Lake New Quintet Project James Spaulding Swing Expressions Bluiett's Bio-ElectricEnsemble of Possibilities 13th Annual Vision Festival Clemente Soto Velez, New York City June 12, 2008 ...

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Vision Festival 2008: Day 2

by John Sharpe
July 19, 2008

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 Kidd Jordan, Dave Burrell, Hamiet Bluiett, Maynard Chatters, Billy Bang, William Parker, Hamid Drake, Joel Futterman, Clyde Kerr, Gerald Cleaver, Fred Anderson 13th Annual Vision Festival Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, New York City ...

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Kongsberg Jazzfestival: Music from the Hall of the Mountain King

by Anthony Shaw
July 18, 2008

Kongsberg Jazz Festival Norway July 2-5, 2008 Ever since David Lindley's The Sweet Sunny North reached distant shores in the early 1990s, Norway has been on many musical radar screens. Maybe it is impossible to think of the country without the fjords and the fells, so let's get them done and dusted. ...

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Vision Festival 2008: Day 1

by John Sharpe
July 18, 2008

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 Opening Invocation Taylor Ho Bynum Dave Douglas The Nu Band Mark Dresser & Denman Maroney 13th Annual Vision Festival Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, New York City

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Freihofer Jazz Fest: Return to Forever and More

by R.J. DeLuke
July 17, 2008

One thing seems certain at the annual Freihofer Jazz festival in Saratoga Springs, New York, each summer. Regardless of the quality of the lineup--too much pop or smooth incursion for some, too much straight-ahead jazz for others, not enough blues representation--there is always a degree of great music. There are always very good bands on the ...

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The Israel Festival, Jerusalem 2008 - Bill Frisell, Nils Wogram, Marcin Wasilewski, Anat Fort

by Eyal Hareuveni
July 14, 2008

The Israel Festival International Jazz Festival Jerusalem, Israel June 15-17, 2008 This year's scheduling of the programs for the Israel Jazz Festival was promising. The grouping of the Bill Frisell Quartet, Nils Wogram's Root 70, Marcin Wasilewski Trio and Anat Fort Trio performances in three successive days enabled festival-goers to examine ...

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Stevie Wonder at Fiddlers Green in Denver

by Geoff Anderson
July 14, 2008

Stevie Wonder Fiddlers Green Denver, Colorado July 1, 2008 How can you not like Stevie Wonder? The guy just gushes happiness and joy. He smiles all the time; and his music amplifies that demeanor. Tuesday night's show, outside at Fiddlers Green, made everybody smile. He concentrated mostly on his fertile ...

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David Schnitter at The Turning Point Cafe

by David A. Orthmann
July 13, 2008

David Schnitter The Turning Point Cafe Piermont, New York June 2, 2008 David Schnitter ended a bracing, sixty-minute set at The Turning Point Cafe with a quote from “Auld Lang Syne." This brief digression was a jocular reminder that, for a jazz musician, “times gone by" aren't as important ...

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Billy Hart Quintet at The Rubin Museum of Art

by Richard Ryan
July 13, 2008

The Billy Hart Academy featuring Theo Croker The Rubin Museum of Art / JVC Jazz Festival New York, New York June 20, 2008 The Billy Hart Academy's outstanding show, on a Friday evening at New York's Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art as part of the 2008 JVC Jazz Festival, ...