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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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Soaring Higher Than Ever Before – Lakecia Benjamin on “Phoenix”

Lakecia Benjamin’s fourth studio album “Phoenix” was released in January, 2023 on Whirlwind Recordings. This one is the most ambitious yet with special guests (the late)...

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Erik Truffaz, rollin’: Review & On Tour

Erik Truffaz’s “rollin’” refers to the call of a film director, when it is time to get the camera’s going. So the opening track is taken from a snippet, just a melody by...

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A Shift to the Violin at this year’s Dobršská brána Festival

The violin is the centerpiece of this year’s Dobršská brána International Music Festival, with artists from Europe and the Americas represented in a weekend of first-rate...

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