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Festival D'Essouira Gnaoua Musiques Du Monde

by Willard Jenkins
July 29, 2006

"When I first heard Gnaoua music I heard Jimmy Blanton in the sound of the hajhouj, I heard the blues... I heard the black church..." The words of jazz master Randy Weston ring true with each encounter of the free Gnaoua Festival in Essaouira, Morocco. Essaouira is a picturesque fishing town of 70,000 inhabitants on the ...

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White Night Music Marathon Shines in Tel Aviv

by Arthur Vered
July 28, 2006

Tel Aviv's White Night Music Marathon Enav Cultural Center Tel Aviv June 29, 2006 For the second year running the Tel Aviv all-night jazz marathon had seen the Enav Hall packed to refuse with jazz lovers of all ages, who proved to be of no less resilience than the musicians ...

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Tatsuya Yoshida vs. Slava Ganelin and Albert Beger

by Eyal Hareuveni
July 28, 2006

Tatsuya Yoshida Hed Club Tel Aviv, Israel June 25, 2006 “You can not survive playing like Yoshida for long," Israeli saxophonist Albert Beger told me while watching the first few minutes of Japanese drummer Tatsuya Yoshida's solo concert, “Ruins Alone." But Yoshida, the founder of the seminal avant duo ...

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Euro-Jazz Scores at Toronto Jazz Festival

by Jerry D'Souza
July 27, 2006

In it's 20th year, the jazz festival in Toronto shed the word “downtown and so gave itself a wider parameter, and deservingly so. To be sure, almost all of the action of the TD Canada Trust Toronto Jazz festival was confined to the downtown core, but that is where the festival finds its larger audience. The ...

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Toronto Jazz Festival 2006

by Alain Londes
July 27, 2006

Toronto just celebrated the 20th edition of its main jazz festival. Just a few months ago, this festival won the “Jazz Festival of the year award at Canada's National Jazz Awards. Part of the reason has to be the ability of organizers to attract key artists for a jazz festival as opposed to a music festival ...

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theSuiteUnraveling at 55Bar

by Budd Kopman
July 26, 2006

theSuiteUnraveling55Bar55 Christopher StreetGreenwich Village, NYCJuly 12, 2006 theSuiteUnraveling, Lily Maase's current New York group, played the early show at 55Bar to a good crowd. The gig started late because Maase's guitar decided to buzz uncontrollably, and she ran uptown, returning with an Ibanez in a cardboard box. It ...

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Vinicius Cantuaria

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 26, 2006

Piazzetta della Collegiata - Verucchio - 20.07.2006 Ci era già capitato di paragonare Vinicius Cantuaria, in occasione di un suo concerto ravennate con Arto Lindsay di alcuni anni fa, ad una boccata di aria fresca che rivitalizza certa musica pop con ambizioni fortemente artistiche (per leggere quella recensione clicca qui). Ebbene, nel bellissimo concerto di Verucchio ...

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Keith Jarrett alla Fenice

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 25, 2006

Teatro La Fenice - Venezia - 19.07.2006 Cenno scostante in direzione del pubblico. Un guizzo del corpo. Le mani che scattano ad artigliare la tastiera. Keith Jarrett apre il suo concerto al Gran Teatro La Fenice col piglio di chi sottintende ‘oh sì… vi stupirò’. Prima di capire se il pianista abbia poi mantenuto o meno ...

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McCoy Tyner Trio in Tune With One Another

by Paul Ryan
July 25, 2006

McCoy Tyner Trio 2006 Jazz Winnipeg Festival Manitoba Theatre Center June 22, 2006 McCoy Tyner brought his trio to town and they did not disappoint an enthusiastic Winnipeg crowd. Along with bassist Charnett Moffett and drummer Eric Kamau Gravatt, Tyner showed why he is still one of the best ...

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Rochester International Jazz Festival Comes Of Age: A Report on the 5th RIJF

by Robert Iannapollo
July 25, 2006

5th Rochester International Jazz Festival Rochester, NY June 9-17, 2006 With its fifth edition, the Rochester International Jazz Festival has come of age. With attendance up 20% over the previous year, the event has become a boon to local businesses and an event of civic pride, one that the city can get ...