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Sullivan Fortner Trio at Blues Alley

by Robert Bellafiore
Sullivan Fortner Trio Blues Alley Washington, DC January 14, 2025 There are two sides to pianist Sullivan Fortner's playing, at least. There's Fortner the neo-traditionalist, bringing stride piano into the 21st century and taking more inspiration from old giants like Willie “The Lion" Smith and James P. Johnson than, say, Bill ...
Behind the Voice

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Send One Your Love; Come Talk to Me; Growing Trade; Sometimes It Snows in April; Everlong; The Heart of the
Matter; Why Can't It Wait Till Morning; Human Nature; You Are.
Embracing Dawn

Label: Mack Avenue Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Good Morning Heartache; Divergent Journeys; Ain't That the Same; Thought Bubbles I (Can We Talk?);
Serenade of an Angel; MMC; Thought Bubbles II (Do Not Disturb); Braises de Requiem I (The Embers
Requiem, Mov. I); Embracing Dawn.
To the Surface

Label: Rhythm 'n' Flow Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Parachute; New Season Blues; Moving On; L.B.F; To the Surface; Yasorey; Vision; I Fall In Love Too Easily;
Sketches; The Lookout.
Suite For Africa

Label: Amfi Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Dancing Clouds; Suite for Africa Part 1: Spirit Africa, Spirit Liberia; Suite for Africa Part 2: Fifteen as
One; Suite for Africa Part 3: Forgotten Children; Faith, Is Her Name; Worldwide; Rain River; Paper
Kites.
Belgrade Jazz Festival 2024

by Thomas Conrad
Belgrade Jazz Festival 2024 Dom Omladine Beograda, MTS Dvorana Belgrade, Serbia October 24-28, 2024 It is possible that, of all the major cities of Europe, the least understood in the Western world is Belgrade, Serbia. In the 1990's, when the wars in the former Yugoslavia were raging, Serbia was a major ...
45th Annual Tri-C JazzFest

by C. Andrew Hovan
45th Annual Tri-C JazzFest Playhouse Square Cleveland, Ohio June 20-22, 2024 It has become somewhat of a reoccurring quip on social media to lament that so many so-called jazz festivals have booked acts that stray far from the jazz genre to keep these events afloat financially. Cleveland's Tri-C JazzFest has certainly ...
Amina Figarova & Matsiko World Orphan Choir: Suite For Africa

by Dan McClenaghan
Happenstance played a hand in two of pianist Amina Figarova's finest recordings. The first time around it was September Suite (Munich Records, 2005). Though based in the Netherlands at the time, Figarova was staying in New York City when the planes flew into the World Trade Center buildings on September 11th, 2001. The music for the ...
Clarence Penn: Behind the Voice

by Dan Bilawsky
Drummer Clarence Penn, a serious force on the scene for more than three decades, has worked with a who's who of vocalists--Betty Carter, Kandace Springs, Luciana Souza, Kate McGarry, Nellie McKay, Claudia Acuña, Paula Cole, Melissa Walker and Nneena Freelon, to name just a few. He knows more than a thing or two about history and ...