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Mike Casey – Mack The Knife

Today it’s exactly 61 years ago that Sonny Rollins released his legendary album Saxophone Colossus. Featuring 5 tracks, two of penned by Rollins himself, the album presented...

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Miles Davis Quintet | It Never Entered My Mind!

In 1955, Bob Weinstock found himself in a tough spot. He was about to lose his most revered recording artist, trumpeter Miles Davis. Weinstock was head of Prestige Records, the...

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Wayne Shorter Quartet – Live in Paris 2012.

In 2011 and 2012 the Wayne Shorter Quartet made multiple trips to Europe performing at selected venues and festivals. This concert was recorded on November 3rd 2012 at La Salle...

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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...

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What’s New, by Helen Merrill

If you were a jazz singer in the 50s, regardless of your color and gender chances were your manager and producer would have pushed you into releasing a pop album. The returns on a...

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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...

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Norah Jones, Wayne Shorter, & more headline at Gent Jazz Festival 2017

Singer Norah Jones is one of the crowd pullers at Gent Jazz Festival 2017. The festival in the Belgian town will be held from 6 to July 15th. The festival was first held in 2002....

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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...

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Celebrating Ella Fitzgerald: First Lady of Song

Happy 100th Birthday – The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, Roberta Gambarini, and Kenny Washington celebrate Ella Fitzgerald on April 27–29 in Rose...

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5 Questions to Georgia Mancio, asked by Erminia Yardley

With her new album, Songbook, due for release on 23rd April and its official launch at Ronnie Scott’s recently, vocalist and lyricist Georgia Mancio tells me about her work with...

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The Inimitable Uli Beckerhoff – Part 1

Check out our very own inhouse JazzTalk.News podcast series for 2019 with our very own knowledgeable editor In chief – Nigel J. (JazzTalk.News uses the Photo by Jason...

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