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Joe Sanders’ Parallels, on Tour in Europe

Small jazz groups with two saxophonists are a rare treat, and this is what you get with Joe Sanders’s “Parallels” featuring Logan Richardson, Seamus Blake, and Gregory...

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Led by the Stars, Marquis Hill

Soul jazz and Spiritual Jazz are subgenres in jazz since the 1950s: for soul jazz it passes from Ray Charles to Jimmy Smith or Gary Bartz, who in particular also crosses over into...

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‘Mr. Beautiful’ – George Cables with a Quartet on Tour

George Cables has been active as a post-bop jazz pianist playing with some of the best musicians of his generation, and a number of significant jazz forebearers, since the early...

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Tigran Hamasyan: Forging Armenian Folk Music & Jazz

The far-eastern edge of Europe gets scant attention when it comes to jazz, though there a few exceptions. This is the case of Tigran Hamasyan, who was born in Armenia (in 1987),...

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Nubya Garcia Moves On

Saxophonist Nubya Garcia has represented the new sounds and look of the London jazz scene for the past five years. And one could bet that her niche in the scene is bound to become...

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Branford Marsalis – A Little of This, A Little of That

Saxophonist Branford Marsalis (born 1960) is from New Orleans of the Marsalis clan. He is the younger brother of jazz trumpeter Wynton, and elder brother of jazz trombonist...

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Piano Focus at Dobršská brána Music Festival 2024

The piano is the focus of this year’s Dobršská brána International Music Festival, with European artists or groups from at least seven countries represented in a weekend of...

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Inspired by the Sun – Butcher Brown on tour

Butcher Brown identifies as a jazz quintet, but the inspirations or influences of this group extend to hip-hop, rhythm & blues, and cosmic-funk and rock; they are a healthy...

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Jazz Highlights at Colours of Ostrava fest, Czech Republic

The Colours of Ostrava Festival is a multi-genre internationally-oriented four-day musical event in the Czech Republic always with a few notable jazz artists, but this year the...

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Gretchen Parlato & Lionel Loueke as a Duo Extraordinaire

Vocalist Gretchen Parlato and guitarist Lionel Loueke made their recording as a duo “Lean In” (Edition Records) in 2021, but like almost any other recording of that time, they...

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Danilo Perez – A Latin-American Jazz Ambassador

Among Danilo Perez’s most significant words of advice came from the iconic jazz trumpeter extraordinaire Dizzy Gillespie, when Dizzy instructed Danilo to learn about his...

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