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New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival: A Photo Essay

by Joel A. Siegel
May 25, 2008

The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival is the grandest of all American music festivals. Each year I attend, and am rejuvenated by the always amazing array of musical talent. The music of New Orleans is anchored by the great New Orleans musical families, such as Barbarin, Lastie, Boutte, Harrison, French, Marsalis, and Batiste. The accompanying ...

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Taylor Eigsti Quartet at Scullers, Boston

by Michael Epstein
May 24, 2008

Taylor Eigsti QuartetScullersBoston, MassachusettsMay 14, 2008 From recent recordings with John Scofield, Joshua Redman, Peter Bernstein, Christian McBride, Lewis Nash, James Genus, Billy Kilson, the Brubeck Brothers, and the Czech National Orchestra, 23-year-old Taylor Eigsti has already established himself as a brilliant composer and jazz pianist. At such a young age, ...

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Burton Greene and Laurence Cook Duo at Studio 234

by Lyn Horton
May 24, 2008

Burton Greene and Laurence Cook Studio 234 Cambridge, MA April 26, 2008 It was chilly for late April in New England. It had not rained for a while. And in a salon-type event, a small room filled with a motley grouping of chairs awaited an audience for a ...

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Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks at Club Cache, NYC

by Daniel Kassell
May 24, 2008

Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks Club Cache at Sofia's Restaurant, Edison Hotel (downstairs) New York City May 5, 2008 Sofia's Restaurant, Club Cache at 221 W. 46th Street, NYC last saw music of this ilk--improvised jazz instrumentalists favoring the swing-jazz rhythms of the 1920s and 1930s--so many years ago in ...

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A Jazz Explosion at the Musician's Union, Local 47, Los Angeles, CA

by Kim Vinson
May 23, 2008

Bruce Babad Quartet / Ramon Banda Quintet / Billy Valentine Quartet / Azar Lawrence QuartetLocal 47, Musicians' UnionLos Angeles, CAMay 4, 2008 The dues were paid, and honor and homage were made to the true art form in L.A. on this day. The event was “A Jazz Explosion," hosted ...

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The Bowfire Group: Strings On Fire

by Greg Henry Waters
May 23, 2008

The Bowfire GroupBeacon TheaterNew York CityApril 24, 2008 My first impression of the group was that this was certainly a different and very original presentation. The performance also featured a plethora of music and dance styles--Irish (Celtic and bluegrass music) jigs, jazz dance, classical music, rock, Broadway presentations and, at ...

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Festival International Musique Actuelle Victoriaville: Day 1 - May 15, 2008

by John Kelman
May 22, 2008

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5Jean Derome / John Zorn Festival International Musique Actuelle Victoriaville Victoriaville, Quebec, Canada May 15, 2008Festival International Musique Actuelle Victoriaville, held in May each year in the rather unlikely location of Victoriaville, Canada, has built a ...

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Festival International Musique Actuelle Victoriaville: Day 3 - May 17, 2008

by John Kelman
May 22, 2008

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 Houle, Smulovitz, Gagnon & Griffiths / Baumann & Ziegler / Spunk Festival International Musique Actuelle Victoriaville Victoriaville, Quebec, Canada May 16, 2008 Perhaps the most malleable of musical instruments is the human voice. With the ...

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Festival International Musique Actuelle Victoriaville: Day 4 - May 18, 2008

by John Kelman
May 22, 2008

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 Nick Didkovsky / Gunda Gottschalk and Xu Fengxia / Roscoe Mitchell & The Note FactoryFestival International Musique Actuelle VictoriavilleVictoriaville, Quebec, CanadaMay 18, 2008 Introducing Day Four of Festival International Musique Actuelle Victoriaville, FIMAV ...

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Festival International Musique Actuelle Victoriaville: Day 5 - May 19, 2008

by John Kelman
May 22, 2008

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 Elliott Sharp, Art Bears SongbookFestival International Musique Actuelle VictoriavilleVictoriaville, Quebec, CanadaMay 19, 2008 Programming milestone years for any festival is a challenge, but even more so than most for Festival International Musique ...