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Highlights In Jazz Features I Love A Piano at the Tribeca Arts Center

by Marcia Hillman
May 28, 2006

Jack Kleinsinger, Eric Reed, Cyrus Chestnut, Junior Mance, Barbara Carroll Highlights In Jazz: I Love A Piano Tribeca Arts Center New York, NY May 2006 Jack Kleinsinger devoted a recent evening's concert to the piano and three performers, with different styles, who each explored what a piano can ...

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New Orleans Jazz Fest: Guilty Pleasures in a Surreal Setting

by Sandy Ingham
May 26, 2006

New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival New Orleans, Louisiana April 28-30 & May 5-7, 2006 They said it couldn't be done. After Hurricaine Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, many doubted the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest would go on this year as it has every April and May since ...

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Jason Moran - Nasheet Waits - Lee Konitz

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 24, 2006

Monza, Teatro Villoresi, 9 Maggio 2006 Come consuetudine, la conferenza stampa di presentazione del Brianza Open Jazz Festival 2006 è stata affiancata da un concerto realizzato in collaborazione con una casa discografica. Dopo anni di ECM, quest'anno è stata la volta della Blue Note, e dunque di Jason Moran, presentatosi in trio con Nasheet Waits e ...

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Claudia Acuna Dazzles In Rochester, NY

by Jason Crane
May 24, 2006

Claudia Acuña The Lodge at Woodcliff Rochester, NY May 11, 2006 Claudia Acuña proved last night that music works best when it makes an emotional connection. Her band had all the chops that any group needs to skillfully navigate the music, but it was her ability to play on ...

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Charles Papasoff: Stoner Jazz

by Stanley Clarke Jr.
May 23, 2006

Charles Papasoff Gésu - Centre de Créativité Montreal International Jazz Festival Montreal, Canada July 6, 2005 The Gésu - Centre de Créativité is one of the most intimate venues in Montreal. It is designed in such a way that even if you were sitting in the last ...

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Hullabaloo in Hillerod: Burnin

by Anthony Shaw
May 20, 2006

Burnin' Red Ivanhoe Statsbio Cinema Hilleröd, Denmark April 22, 2006 When I stopped visiting Denmark in the mid-1970s, my reel-to-reel tapes recorded there sank deep into storage. A few chance purchases from second-hand record shops kept a small presence of Danish rock in my record collection, but I rarely ...

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Hot Harlem Swing From The Savoy Still Attracting Lindy Hoppers

by Daniel Kassell
May 20, 2006

Social Swing Dance Savoy Ballroom at Irving Plaza New York, NY March 12, 2006 Harlem's swing jazz is still the heartbeat of swing dance, a craze that originated in the 1930s taking its name from a transatlantic flyer. In the 1980s it experienced a resurgence in popularity and continues ...

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DjangoFest 2006: Day 3

by Victor Saumarez
May 20, 2006

John Jorgenson & Angelo Debarre DjangoFest 2006 Laguna Beach, CA March 10, 2006 Celebrations of the legendary guitarist Django Reinhardt, continued this year in California at Laguna Beach, March 9-12 as part of DjangoFest 2006. Packed with workshops, jam sessions, and concerts, this small town on the coast of ...

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Hugh Masekela at SOB's

by Seton Hawkins
May 19, 2006

Hugh Masekela SOB's New York City April 25, 2006 2006 is going to be the year Hugh Masekela reminds the world why he is a musical legend. Following the somewhat lackluster kwaito experiment with his 2005 Revival, Masekela opened 2006 with the excellent Hugh Masekela Presents the Chisa Years ...

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Christian McBride Band at Chicago Symphony Center

by Paul Olson
May 18, 2006

Christian McBride Band Symphony Center, Chicago May 12, 2006It couldn't be done. There was no way that bassist/bandleader Christian McBride could be as tautly, thrillingly funky in the august setting of Chicago's Symphony Hall as he was last year in New York's tiny, olfactorily dubious Tonic nightclub. I wasn't at McBride's ...