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The clouds of war were gathering over Europe in 1937, when Milcho Leviev was born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. His journey to jazz fame had begun and he recalls it thusly: "During W.W.II Bulgaria was, for the most part, a fascist country, on the German side. My father was Jewish, but the Bulgarian Jews didn't go to the gas chambers, they were saved, like the Danish Jews. When the war ended I was 7. I experienced some bombing of my town at the end of the war; Hitler ordered Bulgaria to declare war on the USA! It was proper at that time for middle class family kids, war or no war, to have music lessons, so my brother started first

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Letter To America

By Milcho Leviev

Label: Jazz-plus
Released: 2026
Track listing: Quiet March; Odessa Bulgarische; Bad Weather; Blue Butterfly; On This Lonely Road; Monday Morning; When Are You Gonna Stop Swinging?; Remembrances Of Tomorrow; Autumn Sun; Jumping Old Men; Slav Blues; A Letter To America.:

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Milcho Leviev: Letter To America

Read "Letter To America" reviewed by Nenad Georgievski

by Nenad Georgievski
September 13, 2026

Milcho Leviev's Letter to America (reissued on vinyl from his final 2015 solo piano studio recording, on Perfect Records, originally titled Quiet March) distills a lifetime of defiance, cinematic grandeur, and cross-cultural mastery into its rawest, most intimate essence. Comprising a selection of movie soundtrack themes written over the span of 40 years, the album captures the ...

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Geneva 1980

By Art Pepper

Label: Omnivore Recordings
Released: 2025
Track listing: Ophelia; Mambo Koyama; Patricia; Miss Who; I'll Remember April; Blues For Blanche; Valse Triste; Make A List (Make A Wish); Goodbye; Blues For Les.

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An Afternoon in Norway: The Kongsberg Concert

By Art Pepper

Label: Elemental Music
Released: 2025
Track listing: Y.I.Blues (aka Untitled); The Trip; Make A List, Make A Wish; Patricia; Caravan; Blues For Blanche; Straight Life.

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An Afternoon in Norway: The Kongsberg Concert

By Art Pepper

Label: Elemental Music
Released: 2025
Track listing: Y.I. Blues (aka Untitled); The Trip; Make a List, Make a Wish; Patricia; Caravan; Blues for Blanche; Straight Life.

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Art Pepper: An Afternoon in Norway: The Kongsberg Concert

Read "An Afternoon in Norway: The Kongsberg Concert" reviewed by Jack Kenny

by Jack Kenny
June 1, 2025

This album is not just music; it is a glimpse into one of the most compelling stories in Art Pepper's musical history from the impossibly handsome alto saxophonist with Stan Kenton's orchestra to a drug-fueled inmate in San Quentin, culminating in a glorious renaissance. The sheer logistics surrounding this album are impressive. Consider this ...

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Art Pepper: Geneva 1980

Read "Geneva 1980" reviewed by Jack Kenny

by Jack Kenny
April 16, 2025

"Do not go gentle into the good night," Dylan Thomas wrote that; Art Pepper did it. He did not go gentle. He raged with his horn across continents: Asia, Europe, the Americas. There was gentleness too at times. He raged against his own wasted times. It all fuelled his playing and he was able to deliver ...

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European Jazz Conference 2022

by Francesco Martinelli
October 18, 2022

European Jazz Conference 2022 Toplo Centrala Sofia, Bulgaria September 22-25, 2022 More than 300 professionals, representing 180 member organizations from 38 countries, came together in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, for the eighth annual European Jazz Conference. The event is organized by the Europe Jazz Network, an organization founded in 1987 ...

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May 2022: Music In The Air

by C. Michael Bailey
May 16, 2022

Mark Christian MIller Music In The Air Sliding Jazz Door 2022 Southern California has an embarrassment of jazz vocal riches, of which Mark Christian Miller is a considerable part. A welcome fixture in the Los Angeles area, Miller has released two previous recordings in 2004's Dreamer With A Penney (Sliding Glass ...