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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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Keyon Harrold, On a Small Mission for Peace

Keyon Harrold came to the wider attention of the jazz scene by his appearance in the Miles Davis biopic “Miles Ahead” (2015) directed by and starring Don Cheadle. Harrold...

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Nduduzo Makhathini Trio – South African Afro-Jazz

Pianist and composer Nduduzo Makhathini, from South Africa, tours Europe with a special trio on the heels of two successful album recordings on Blue Note Records, over the past...

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Two Presidents – Jam Session ’94

On January 11, 1994 the US President Bill Clinton was recorded live at the Reduta Jazz Club in Prague, playing sax with Czech jazz players. The recording of this concert was later...

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Vrátislav Brabenec & Friends Taking Off the Gloves

An at-heart avant-garde-jazz saxophonist of the Czech scene is hardly recognized as a jazz musician, though he started off playing in jazz groups in the 1960s. Still, he is not...

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Truly Jazz Royalty – Ron Carter

Contra-bassist Ron Carter is best known for his years with Miles Davis throughout the 1960s, when Miles put together his “second great quintet,” which included Wayne Shorter...

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Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson – It Takes Two to Tango

With or without vocals, there are no other instruments but the piano and the guitar, which musicians can perform solo for hours to enraptured audiences, whether classical, jazz or...

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