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Black Is the Color of My True Love’s Hair, by Nina Simone

Nina Simone is one of the best interpreters in popular music. She wrote over 40 songs, including some of her best such as Mississippi Goddam and Four Women. However throughout her...

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Mads Mathias | A Modern Day Crooner

This summer Danish Singer and Saxophonist Mads Mathias returns to the UK for a number of performances including a BBC Prom appearance. Mads is already somewhat of a star in his...

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Three Views of a Secret, a portrait of Jaco Pastorius

Joe Zawinul was not an easy man to impress, even if you were Jaco Pastorius. On a flight to Japan in 1981, when the rough mixes for what would become his second solo album Word of...

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Jazz Middelheim 2017 offers Antwerp sixteen top concerts including Van Morrison

The 36th edition of Jazz Middelheim will be held from 3rd through 6th August this year. The festival in the Belgium town Antwerp has a promising program with sixteen top concerts...

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Gloria’s Step~Bill Evans Trio

One of the most important qualities you seek in a Jazz record is the interplay between the musicians, a kind if musical intimacy that survived the transition from the live visual...

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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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Rob van Bavel and son Sebastiaan keep on exploring jazz

Rob van Bavel (1965) and his son Sebastiaan (1991) are gifted pianists. Considered as premiere jazz sons of the Netherlands. Both of them also have a penchant for classical...

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Ahmad Jamal – One of A Kind

As one of the major architects of modern jazz piano, he has a gift for melody, broad and open harmonic palette, and astonishing rhythmic drive. “I’ve been around a long, long...

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Paul Jost | Re-imagining Bruce Springsteen

Paul Jost is a prolific arranger and composer. As the front man for The Jost Project, which is dedicated to bringing new audiences to jazz by creating innovative arrangements of...

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Ola Onabulé | Podcast Interview

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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Chuck Israels | 80 years and going strong.

Bassist Chuck Israels celebrates his 80th birthday today. With this in mind, I believe it’s a good moment to take a look at back at the extraordinary career of one of Jazz...

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