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NYC Jazz Holiday on a Budget

by Elliott Simon
August 7, 2006

The NYC jazz landscape is expansive in both scope and talent. It can at the same time be daunting and expensive to the person trying to naively experience it. Recently, I had a five day jazz holiday in the Big Apple and decided to see if I could hit four shows that would somehow capture a ...

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Clusone Jazz 2006 – XXVI Edizione

by AAJ Italy Staff
August 7, 2006

24 giugno - 30 luglio 2006 Da sempre, Clusone Jazz è sinonimo di festival attento a musicisti fuori dagli schemi, che propone nomi nuovi e distanti dal giro dei cosiddetti soliti noti. Nell'edizione 2006, questo 'pensiero divergente' è stato ulteriormente enfatizzato, proponendo un cartellone ricco di nomi poco conosciuti ma non per questo poco interessanti. Gli ...

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The Mishras at Folklife

by Jack Gold-Molina
August 6, 2006

The Mishras Northwest Folklife Festival McCaw Hall Seattle, WA May 27, 2006 The music began with master sitarist Pandit Shivnath Mishra and his son, Deobrat Mishra, in a sitar duet. They played a traditional classical Indian raga that built slowly with father and son playing off of ...

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Bojan Z at Le Meridien Angkor, Siem Reap, Cambodia

by Ian Patterson
August 5, 2006

Bojan Z Le Meridien Angkor Siem Reap, Cambodia June 25, 2006From the opening “Algerique , with its joyous, dancing rhythms, to the encore, an exquisite, meditative version of Bowie's “Ashes to Ashes , Bojan Z demonstrated why he was the juror's choice for European Jazz Artist of the year ...

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Caramoor Jazz Festival 2006: Day 1

by R.J. DeLuke
August 5, 2006

Caramoor Jazz Festival Katonah, NY July 29, 2006 The atmosphere at the Caramoor Jazz Festival in its wonderful facility nestled in Katonah, NY, is special. Laid back; not hectic. And the groups that artistic director Joe Lovano has been putting together, along with producer Jim Luce, are also special. They present some ...

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Joanna Pascale Quintet at Loews Hotel in Philadelphia

by Victor L. Schermer
August 5, 2006

Joanna Pascale Loews Hotel Philadelphia, PA August 2006 It isn't often one gets to hear a top of the line jazz vocalist at a hotel cocktail lounge and restaurant (the great Mabel Mercer comes to mind as one of those rarities), but we've lucked out. Joanna Pascale, one of the ...

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Kingston Jazz Festival 2006

by Matthew Miller
August 5, 2006

For those willing to don galoshes and carry an umbrella, the 2nd annual Kingston Jazz Festival had a great deal to offer fans young and old. The sleepy river town, situated at the foot of the Catskills, played host to an all-star jazz lineup over the course of a soggy June weekend and drew a respectable ...

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Copenhagen Jazz Festival 2006

by AAJ Staff
August 3, 2006

The Copenhagen Jazz Festival does not just span the city, it takes it over. From venues large to small with jazz starting at 10:30am and going into late night, the jazz festival convincingly makes the Danish capital New York-like for ten days with its overwhelming concert schedule. And much like New York city, it wasn't too ...

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Enore Zaffiri & Jonathan Prager/Motus

by AAJ Italy Staff
August 2, 2006

The Lemon Party Limone Fonderie Teatrali - Moncalieri - 19.07.06 In un tardo e afoso pomeriggio domenicale il Traffic Festival, in collaborazione con l’etichetta milanese Die Schachtel , offre un’occasione d’ascolto decisamente impedibile per gli appassionati di sperimentazione sonora. Ben quattro concerti acusmatici avvolgono il pubblico nello spazio un tempo occupato dalla fonderia Limone, recentemente recuperato ...

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Monk's Casino

by AAJ Italy Staff
August 1, 2006

La Palma - Roma - 18.07.2006 Approda anche a Roma lo spettacolo costruito dal pianista Alexander von Schlippenbach, con la partecipazione di Axel Dorner alla tromba, Rudi Mahall al clarinetto basso, Jan Roder al contrabbasso e Uli Jenessen alla batteria, sulla riproposizione dell'opera omnia di Monk in un solo concerto. In realtà, come nella prima italiana ...