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A Tribute to Anita O

by Victor L. Schermer
June 10, 2007

Meg Clifton Mitchell and Mary Ellen Desmond Chris' Jazz Café, A Tribute to Anita O'Day Philadelphia, Pennsylvania June 2, 2007 Meg Clifton Mitchell (hereafter referred to as “Clifton," the maiden name familiar her fans) and Mary Ellen Desmond are Philadelphia-based jazz vocalists of the highest caliber. They periodically join ...

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Lura at Fiddler's Club in Bristol

by Philip Songa
June 5, 2007

Lura Fiddler's ClubBristol, UKMay 19, 2007 It was while trawling through the music store HMV that I chanced upon the latest offering from a versatile Cape Verdean-by-way of Portugal vocalist. I had not heard of Lura prior to that. When I checked out her music online, I instantly loved what I was hearing ...

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Alessandro Benvenuti & La Banda Improvvisa

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 5, 2007

Storia di un impiegato di Fabrizio De André 09.02.2007 - Campi Bisenzio, Teatro Dante L’attore e regista Alessandro Benvenuti evidentemente conservava dentro di sé una passione nascosta: fare il cantante. Le doti le aveva, mancava solo l’occasione giusta, adatta alla sua verve dissacrante e ironica. Ed ecco, a fagiolo, la Banda Improvvisa di Orio Odori, che ...

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Steve Kuhn Solo Piano at the Fazioli Salon, NYC

by Ralph A. Miriello
June 3, 2007

Steve Kuhn: Solo Piano Fazioli Salon New York City May 26, 2007 It was an almost balmy night in New York to start off this Memorial Day weekend as we strolled leisurely past Carnegie Hall and made our way to a small piano salon just down the street from ...

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27th Cape May Jazz Festival

by Ken Franckling
June 3, 2007

Cape May Jazz FestivalCape May, NJApril 20, 2007Pat Martino was the natural choice to lead the weekend's jazz guitar brigade when the 27th edition of the semi-annual Cape May Jazz Festival focused on the jazz guitar legacy with a tribute to Wes Montgomery. Guitarists featured in Cape May for the weekend included Teddy ...

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The 18th Tallinn International JazzKaar Festival

by Brandt Reiter
June 3, 2007

Tallinn International JazzKaar FestivalApril 20-28, 2007 Estonia's JazzKaar, a 9-day, 13-town celebration of jazz, has had a rough couple of years. In 2006 the festival lost its longtime central venue, the mammoth old communist party headquarters in Tallinn, scattering JazzKaar's concerts to a hodgepodge of locations around Estonia's almost too perfect, Disney-like capital ...

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Peter Brötzmann & Joe McPhee Quartet in Tel Aviv

by Eyal Hareuveni
June 2, 2007

Peter Brötzmann & Joe McPhee Quartet Levontin 7 Tel Aviv, Israel May 15, 2007 Writers tend to describe the blowing of German reed player Peter Brötzmann in terms of meteorological abnormalities. There is some truth in such metaphors, but such writers miss a much broader spectrum of articulations ...

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Bobby McFerrin in London, May 20-21

by John Eyles
June 1, 2007

Bobby McFerrin with LSO St. Luke's Community Choir Barbican Centre Residency London, England May 20-21, 2007 April in London was the hottest and driest on record. But May was something else: cool, grey and rainy. It felt like the end of a summer that wasn't. So by the ...

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Don Byron and Uri Caine in Tel Aviv

by Eyal Hareuveni
June 1, 2007

Don Byron and Uri Caine Opera House Tel Aviv, Israel Friday, April 27, 2007 The careers of composer and clarinetist Don Byron and frequent collaborator and composer, pianist Uri Caine, are exceptionally versatile. Both are gifted with an encyclopedic knowledge of many genres, past, present and ...

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Stein Brothers Quintet at Trumpets in Montclair, New Jersey

by David A. Orthmann
May 31, 2007

Stein Brothers Quintet Trumpets Jazz Club and Restaurant Montclair, New Jersey April 22, 2007 For the past few years the Stein Brothers have been refining a bebop-oriented ensemble sound in a variety of Northern New Jersey venues. Saxophonists Alex and Asher Stein are as enthusiastic in playing for a noisy ...