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Umbria Jazz Winter #14

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 10, 2007

Orvieto - 28.12.2006/01.012007 Umbria Jazz Winter, giunta alla quattordicesima edizione, è in tutto e per tutto la versione ridotta ed invernale del mastodontico festival estivo. Inalterate e di successo sono le scelte artistiche ed organizzative che fanno sì che per una settimana Orvieto sia invasa dal jazz e dal suo pubblico, come Perugia lo è in ...

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Beethoven/Kurtag/Brahms - Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 9, 2007

Ludwig van Beethoven - Leonore n.3, Ouverture in do maggiore op. 72b György Kurtág - …concertante…op. 42 Johannes Brahms - Sinfonia n.1 in do minore op. 68 Auditorium Rai - Torino - 06.12.2006 Le difficoltà, le ombre e i dubbi che rendono accidentato e faticoso il percorso creativo (e, in senso più lato, quello dell’esistenza), e ...

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The Seventh International Oud Festival of Jerusalem

by Eyal Hareuveni
January 3, 2007

The Seventh international Oud Festival Jerusalem, Israel November 2-16, 2006 Just when the Middle East seems about to slide into one of its reptilian-macho phases, burdened with too many bloody and violent conflicts, the independent Oud Festival of Jerusalem draws an almost utopian vision for this piece of land. The Middle ...

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An Anglo/US Convergence: Harris Eisenstadt and Taylor Ho Bynum in Cambridge

by John Sharpe
January 3, 2007

Harris Eisenstadt and Taylor Ho Bynum Bateman Auditorium Cambridge, UK November 6, 2006 Collaborations between British and American musicians have a long history, but if the format of the Convergence Quartet promised nothing out of the ordinary, the same could not be said of the content. But ...

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Santa Jazzes Uptown Harlem at St. Nick's Jam

by Daniel Kassell
January 3, 2007

On Christmas-day night at St. Nick's Pub, Melvin Vines (for three years the Monday & Tuesday night bandleader, trumpeter, videographer) opened the 11 o'clock show playing a flugelhorn improv in response to news of James Brown's passing, joined by the unobtrusive comping of Chip Crawford (recently with Harold Ousley at Dizzy's, originally influenced by Donald Byrd) ...

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Bangkok Jazz Festival 2006

by Ian Patterson
January 1, 2007

Bangkok Jazz Festival Sanam Suepa December 15-17, 2006 Coming just a week after Bangkok's first-rate Jazz Royale Festival with heavyweights such as McCoy Tyner and Ahmad Jamal, the 4th Bangkok Jazz Festival ran the risk of seeming tame by comparison. However, the success of the festival was assured by an eclectic ...

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Leb i Sol: Live in Novi Sad

by Nenad Georgievski
December 31, 2006

Leb i Sol Novi Sad, Serbia November 18, 2006 There was power to spare when the band momentarily reformed for a brief tour that began in Novi Sad on the 18th of November, and the atmosphere in the full house was charged with excitement. The concert took place at Novi Sad's Spens ...

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Jazz Royale Festival Bangkok, December 9-10

by Ian Patterson
December 26, 2006

Jazz Royale Festival Suanam Suapa, Bangkok 9-10 December 2006“I'm ashamed of Thailand, Mr. Jitpleecheep confessed to me, crushing an empty beer can rather mournfully. It wasn't corruption and the as-yet-uninvestigated extra-judicial killings of two and a half thousand alleged drug dealers under the old regime of Prime minister Thaksin; ...

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The Dave Douglas Quintet at the Jazz Standard, New York, Dec. 7

by Budd Kopman
December 23, 2006

Dave Douglas QuintetThe Jazz Standard, New York CityThursday, December 7, 2006Early Show Trumpeter/cornetist Dave Douglas, one of the most prolific bandleaders in the last decade, has embraced rather than cursed technology and used his six-night run at the Jazz Standard as a means of disseminating his music to the broadest ...

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Sonny Rollins Returns to Mellon Jazz Fridays at the Kimmel Center

by Victor L. Schermer
December 20, 2006

Sonny Rollins Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Verizon Hall Philadelphia, PA December 1, 2006 Greatness in music is difficult to define, but one of its characteristics is the sustained development of a unique potential without sacrificing the essence of a specific musical syntax. If this be the case, then Sonny ...