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Wayne Shorter Celebration With Herbie Hancock and Terence Blanchard at SFJAZZ Center

by Harry S. Pariser
January 18, 2019

Wayne Shorter Trio and GuestsSFJAZZ Center San Francisco, CA January 3, 2019 Wayne Shorter could not be there but his trio made it. When illness prevented Shorter from making a four-night stand at SFJAZZ, organizers turned the dates into a celebration of his music. There are few better choices ...

Article: SoCal Jazz

Marcus Miller: America's AmBASSadoor

by Jim Worsley
October 22, 2018

Marcus Miller is most often described as a jazz, funk, soul, fusion, and R&B bassist. As much as that is accurate, it is a description that falls well short of the mark. Miller is a high-end musical sponge who manages to incorporate today's cultures and rhythms into his compositions, layered within the framework of sound he ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

What Is Jazz? Vol.1 with Jimmy Mac

by Mr Lob
October 6, 2018

What is Jazz? Is it freedom, is it tradition, is it alive, does it continue to evolve and thrive or is it an art form stuck in time? I cannot answer any of these questions or even really tell you what Jazz is. I can tell you how it makes me feel, where it takes me ...

Article: Live Review

North Sea Jazz 2018

by Phillip Woolever
September 3, 2018

North Sea Jazz Rotterdam, Netherlands July 13-15, 2018 Amidst the cornucopia of summertime festivals, there sits a juggernaut. That's North Sea Jazz, where a dozen performance spaces named after rivers around the world offer a sound garden of global delights. The full-tilt feast flows gloriously during the second full weekend of July ...

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Molde International Jazz Festival 2018

by Luca Vitali
August 31, 2018

Moldejazz Festival Molde, Norway July 16-21, 2018 The Moldejazz festival is the second oldest in Europe--it was started in 1961, just one year behind Ljubljana, in 1960--and is still the most important one in Norway. It was here that Keith Jarrett and Jan Garbarek took their first steps in creating ...

Article: SoCal Jazz

Herbie Hancock: Quintessential Quintet Live

by Jim Worsley
March 15, 2018

It was a thunderous, sprawling, and intoxicatingly brilliant performance. And that was just the first fifteen minutes of Herbie Hancock's extraordinary concert Wednesday night, March 7, at the Balboa Theater in downtown San Diego, presented by the La Jolla Music Society. Before introducing his exceptionally talented bandmates, Hancock jokingly told the crowd that he, ...

Article: Live Review

Herbie Hancock at the Gaillard Center Music Hall

by Rob Rosenblum
October 23, 2017

Herbie Hancock Quartet Galliard Music Hall Charleston, SC October 18, 2017 Keyboardist and jazz legend, Herbie Hancock sat down at his synthesizer and immediately filled the Galliard Center Music Hall in Charleston, South Carolina on October 18th with a carpet of electronic sound, setting the stage for a panoply of ever ...

Article: In Pictures

Friday Night at the Monterey Jazz Festival

by Dave Kaufman
September 28, 2017

Friday | Saturday | SundayThe Monterey Jazz Festival celebrated its 60th anniversary and has been witness to some of the greatest concerts in jazz history as reflected in many stellar live recordings from the festival. This was my first trip to this much heralded event. The festival is held on the Fair Grounds and ...

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60th Monterey Jazz Festival

by Roberto Cifarelli
September 26, 2017

The Monterey Jazz Festival marked its 60th edition with an impressive programme, featuring 500 artists and over 130 concerts spread over eight stages during the third weekend of September. The stellar line up of musicians that graced the Monterey County Fairgrounds included Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Jimmy Heath, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Brad Mehldau & ...

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Alfa Jazz Fest 2017

by Thomas Conrad
July 11, 2017

Alfa Jazz Fest 2017 Lviv, Ukraine June 23-27, 2017 Jazz festivals are different in Europe. There are more of them, and they are crucial to the economic viability, social solidarity and creative evolution of the jazz art form. Many European towns that host their own annual jazz events seem like ...