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Article: In Pictures

2024 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival

by Mark Robbins
May 24, 2024

The first thing a first time attendee to the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival learns is that no matter how much planning is put into creating a schedule so no favorite acts are missed is impossible. The festival, celebrating its 54th birthday, runs the last weekend of April and the first weekend of May. Historically ...

Article: Club Profile

Budapest Jazz Club

by Sammy Stein
May 16, 2024

The Budapest Jazz Club is a vibrant, colorful place where people meet to eat, drink, and enjoy good music. On the map, what appears to be a narrow lane, turns out in reality to be a wide bustling public walkway, and about halfway along, the small sign for the jazz club sits over a large entrance, ...

News: Event

2024 NEA Jazz Masters Honored At Free Events

April 13, 2024

Washington, DC—The National Endowment for the Arts, in collaboration with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, will celebrate the 2024 NEA Jazz Masters at a series of public events April 11-13, 2024, in Washington, DC, culminating in a free tribute concert on Saturday, April 13. The 2024 NEA Jazz Masters tribute concert will ...

Article: Live Review

Artemis at Finney Chapel

by C. Andrew Hovan
March 22, 2024

Artemis Finney Chapel Artist Recital Series Oberlin, OH March 13, 2024 Much like society in general, women in the jazz arena have historically had a hard road to travel in a space that is clearly dominated by males. In recent years, the pendulum has thankfully shifted towards acknowledging the talents ...

Article: In Pictures

David Ambrosio's Civil Disobedience at The Roads Bistro

by Mark Robbins
February 27, 2024

The Roads Bistro--a new restaurant / listening room--has recently opened in Virginia Beach, VA. Located in a strip mall across the street from the Tidewater Community College, one would be surprised to learn it's the current home of some of the best food and best jazz in the area. Owner, Michael Baldwin, has defied the odds ...

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Article: Opinion

When is a Jazz Festival (Not) a Jazz Festival?

by John Kelman
February 17, 2024

This article was first published at All About Jazz on May 20, 2011. It's becoming almost pandemic for jazz festivals around the world to be challenged for deciding to broaden their programming into areas either peripherally related to jazz... or, in some cases, away from jazz entirely. Festivals like the near-iconic Montreux Jazz Festival, ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Christine Jensen, Sonny Clark, Nina Simone and Others

by Jerome Wilson
February 7, 2024

This episode, as usual, goes all over the jazz landscape with current names like Christine Jensen and Marius Neset as well as classic figures of the past such as Sonny Clark and Nina Simone. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry ...

Article: Album Review

Mike De Souza: Chrysalis

Read "Chrysalis" reviewed by Neil Duggan

by Neil Duggan
January 29, 2024

For many musicians, the silver-lining of enforced isolation during the pandemic was the time to write and refine new compositions. The event enabled guitarist Mike De Souza to explore concepts for the six tracks that make up his second album, Chrysalis. This follows on from his debut, Slow Burn (Self-produced, 2019). Added impetus came from forming ...

Album

All One

By Ben Wendel

Label: Edition Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: I Loves You Porgy; Wanderers; Throughout; Speak Joy; Tenderly; In Anima.

Article: Multiple Reviews

Jakob Dreyer: Songs, Hymns And Ballads Vol. 1 and Vol. 2

by Dave Linn
November 22, 2023

German-born bassist Jakob Dreyer grew up interested in many diverse music styles. He says, “As a little child I had a thing for national anthems, church hymns, and traditional songs with simple melodies that I could remember and sing." He began playing classical piano at a young age but also enjoyed playing the pop music he ...