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Article: Live Review

Sligo Jazz Project 2018: Days 1-2

Read "Sligo Jazz Project 2018: Days 1-2" reviewed by James Fleming


Days 1-2 | Days 3-4 Sligo Jazz Project Various Venues Sligo, Ireland July 24-29, 2018 July 24, 2018 The Garavogue River flows slow and lazy through the centre of town to Sligo Harbour. Mountains stand in the distance out in Yeats country, green and rocky, overlooking the fields on ...

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Article: Album Review

Nils Landgren: Unbreakable

Read "Unbreakable" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki


The very first album released by German progressive label ACT Records (in 1994) was by the Funk Unit led by trombone master Nils Landgren, recorded Live in Stockholm that summer with Maceo Parker as special guest. Other Funk Unit releases for ACT Records include Paint It Blue (1996), the trombonist's tribute to composer/saxophonist Cannonball Adderley with ...

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Article: From the Inside Out

Sonic Styles of the Seventies

Read "Sonic Styles of the Seventies" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki


Hugo Fattoruso Hugo Fattoruso Y Bario Opa Far Out Recordings 2018 Once upon a time in Uruguay, teenage brothers Osvaldo and Hugo Fattoruso stepped out of their musical family trio to play guitar and bass for popular Latin American jazz (swing) and rock 'n' roll ensembles venturing in ...

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Article: Profile

SFJAZZ: Decades After, Five Years In

Read "SFJAZZ: Decades After, Five Years In" reviewed by Arthur R George


Five years after the San Francisco, California organization SFJAZZ created its own building, the SFJAZZ Center, it has proved a raving, even rampaging, success, unrelenting in programming, sales, education, and music production. Its number of concerts has doubled from 248 to more than 500. Its membership has increased by almost 200% to more than 14,000. It ...

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Article: Album Review

Wild Card: Life Stories

Read "Life Stories" reviewed by Jerome Wilson


When British youth started picking up on the music coming out of America in the Fifties and Sixties their tastes were widespread. While some kids loved the early rock & roll of Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly or the blues of Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf, others grabbed onto the jazz played by the likes of ...

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Article: Album Review

Nick Finzer: No Arrival

Read "No Arrival" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


To say a musician has arrived is to create the ultimate paradox. For in that notion is the suggestion of reaching the upper echelon in the art form, but also an indication of the end of a journey and the start of stagnation. With the true seeker and master musician, there is no arrival; there's merely ...

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Article: In Pictures

2018 Bergamo Jazz Festival

Read "2018 Bergamo Jazz Festival" reviewed by Luciano Rossetti


Photos from the Bergamo Jazz Festival 2018, held in Bergamo from 22 to 25 March 2018, featuring Rita Marcotulli, Logan Richardson, Claudio Fasoli, Simona Severini, Maceo Parker, Roger Rota, Louis Sclavis & Vincent Courtois, Pulsar Ensemble, Linda May Han Oh, Chucho Valdes & Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Chano Dominguez, Zach Brock & Phil Markowitz, Jeremy Pelt, Silvia Perez ...

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Article: Album Review

Peter Madsen: Never Bet The Devil Your Head

Read "Never Bet The Devil Your Head" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic


Based on pianist/composer/bandleader Peter Madsen's extensive CV: Stan Getz, Stanley Turrentine, Dewey Redman, Benny Golson, Don Cherry, Kenny Garrett, Joe Lovano, Dave Liebman, Ravi Coltrane, Maceo Parker, Bill Frisell, John Abercombie and the Mingus Big Band, it's not surprising and often brilliant that on his eighth release for Playscape, Madsen exhibits a nearly prog-rock, anything goes ...

Article: Live Review

Bergamo Jazz Festival 2018

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Bergamo Jazz Festival 2018 Varie sedi Bergamo 18-25.3.2018 Ha festeggiato la 40ma edizione --dal 18 al 25 marzo --, uno dei più longevi festival nazionali ed europei, confermando la sua centralità con un ricco e variopinto programma che ha spaziato in vari ambiti senza cedere sul versante della qualità. In ...

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Article: Live Review

Martha High & the Soul Cookers al Blue Note di Milano

Read "Martha High & the Soul Cookers al Blue Note di Milano" reviewed by Luca Muchetti


Martha High & The Soul Cookers Blue Note Milano 7.2.2018 Basta un curriculum di 30 anni alla corte di James Brown per raccontare in una riga l'elettricità di un concerto di Martha High? Secondo noi, che l'abbiamo vista sul palco del Blue Note di Milano, no. La storica corista del ...


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