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Robert Mitchell | A Vigil For Justice, A Vigil For Peace

Jazz has always been political in challenging issues of freedom and equality. The music in itself resonates this through the freedom of improvisation and collaboration often...

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Fiona Ross ~ CD Review: Just Me (and sometimes someone else)

London jazz vocalist Fiona Ross, is at last putting herself in the limelight. As head of the British Academy of New Music for nine years she helped train the likes of Ed Sheeran,...

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Avishai Cohen ~ CD Review ~ Cross My Palm With Silver

The new cd from trumpeter Avishai Cohen is called ‘Cross My Palm With Silver’. It is the successor of the acclaimed album ‘Into The Silence’, both have...

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CD Review | Libor Šmoldas Organ Trio | Lay It Down

A slight touch of the blues, soul jazz and groove best describes the Libor Šmoldas Organ trio; it’s a contemporary jazz sound while clearly harking back to the golden era...

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CD Review | Kristin Korb – Beyond the Moon

American ex-pat bassist/ vocalist Kristin Korb released her latest CD “Beyond the Moon” in November 2016. Featuring eleven tracks, Beyond the Moon pays homage to the lyrics of...

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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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“Flow London” – EP – Tjoe Man Cheung

On my various meanderings in my beautiful London town, I found myself sitting at the bar section of the Skylon bar at the Royal Festival Hall, a group of musicians were going to...

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‘Hank Mobley in Holland’ is a nice new chapter in Dutch jazz history.

The release of a CD from the series Treasures of Dutch is not complete without an extensive historical research by the Dutch Jazz Archive. That is also the case with ‘Hank...

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CD Review | “Bomb” by Blurt

“When I grow up I want to be a jazz musician,” says the poet Milton – no, not that one (he of Paradise Lost, “Of Man’s first disobedience and the fruit...

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The Eternity of Dexter Gordon | Dexternity CD Review

At the end of February in New York, at the famous Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola, part of the Lincoln Jazz Center, renowned musicians play songs of the illustrious tenor saxophonist...

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Meddy Gerville, Tropical Rain – CD Review

Hailing from the Réunion Island, Meddy Gerville has built a strong reputation both in Europe and USA for his unique blend of latin jazz fusion and his native Maloya (one of the...

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