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Jazz @ Prague Proms 2017

This year’s summer music festival Prague Proms has two jazz highlights for the opening weekend. This prestigious music festival ranges in genres from film scores, classics, and...

The Donny McCaslin Group – Honour David Bowie

For their upcoming appearance at the Colours of Ostrava Festival, set in its apocalyptic ruins, yet surreal environs in an industrial region of northeast Czech Republic, the Donny...

Carla Bley, Steve Swallow & Andy Sheppard |EU tour dates…

Carla Bley is a highly regarded jazz composer and pianist and her trio with bassist Steve Swallow and tenor saxophonist Andy Sheppard is a first-rate unit. She began playing with...

Hard to Categorize The Necks | EU tour dates for early May 2017

For a group that plays astoundingly powerful and expansive music, The Necks are one of the most inexplicable groups on the contemporary music scene, and this is partly due to...

Avishai Cohen (the trumpeter) Best With Fine Wine & Tour Dates

Avishai Cohen, from Tel Aviv and now based in New York City, has been praised as one of the best new jazz trumpeters by polls and critics, and he is compared to Miles Davis for...

Honoring Abbey Lincoln – a Woman of Love & Protest

April 23, Sunday—Hebden Bridge Town Hall, West Yorkshire, UK April 24, Monday—International Festival of Jazz Piano, Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic. – The American...

David Helbock Trio | Tapping into Austrian Soul Jazz | Review & Tour Dates

American jazz composers and particularly the pianists have not been shy to take inspiration from Classical music over the years, since the time of Duke Ellington, and Art Tatum....

Oran Etkin Trio at Jazz Dock, Mladi Ladi Jazz Festival, Prague, Czech Republic

Mladi Ladi Jazz Festival presents a nation-wide tour (in the Czech Republic) of Oran Etkin’s various projects: Timbalooloo concerts for kids, Gathering Light concerts and a...

Master Musicians of Joujouka led by Bachir Attar | European Tour April 2017

What does Ornette Coleman. The funk-master electric bassist of jazz and world music groove, Bill Laswell, Brian Jones, and  the Rolling Stones’ have in common…the...

Logan Richardson | On Blue Note | Late March EU Tour Dates

Blue Note is one of the most important jazz labels for their recordings in the 1960s and 70s. Vintage post-bop, soul jazz, funky groove, modern and experimental to post-modern,...

Hazmat Modine – A Weird American Post-Modern Blues & World Music Fusion Experience

Greil Marcus’s brilliant book “Weird America” was written to explore the secret roots of Bob Dylan’s music—obscure ballads and folk legends, which usually led to...