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European Jazz festival’s – 2018 Round Up, part 1

It’s that time of year, summer is on the doorstep and this year is once again shaping up to be a top year for jazz festivals in Europe. The European festival scene is among the...

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Binker & Moses release new album “Alive In The East?”

Following the release of ‘Journey To The Mountain Of Forever’, semi-free jazz trailblazers Binker and Moses return with their new album ‘Alive In The East?’. The Album...

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Alan Braufman & the 1970’s New York Underground

June 29 will see the re-release of Alan Braufman’s album “Valley of Search.” Alan Braufman was one of the exponents of the 1970’s downtown NYC loft jazz...

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Marcus Miller releases new album ahead of European Tour.

Three years since the release of his last album, Afrodeezia, multi-Grammy-winning bassist Marcus Miller will release his new album “Laid Black” on Blue Note Records on...

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Grace Jones at Colours of Ostrava Festival

Featured Image by Andrea Klarin “Jazz” is how Grace Jones gently introduces and concludes the silky kind-of-jazz song “Victor Should Have Been a Jazz Musician” from her...

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Gil Evans Birthday Celebration | 60 Years Porgy & Bess

This year marks 60 years since Gill Evans and his orchestra entered the studio with Miles Davis to record their arrangements of George Gershwin’s 1935 opera “Porgy and...

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Wild Card “Life Stories” CD Review by Erminia Yardley

Rating: If anyone has not come across Wild Card’s music, then I would strongly advise you to check the band out. On their last album, “Life Stories” out now on Top End...

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Manuel Valera reaches for the star’s with new CD “The Planets”

Pianist Manuel Valera releases his new CD “The Planets” on Mavo Records this coming Friday. Born and raised in Havana, Cuba and now based in New York City, Grammy...

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Artist Manager Maria Avgoulis Interviewed by Fiona Ross

Where are all the women in Jazz? They’re here, you just don’t know about all of them. There has been an incredible amount of discussions recently about the lack of women in...

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Kekko Fornarelli “Abaton” CD Review by Erminia Yardley

Uniquely creative jazz. One of the recent albums received this year, “Abaton”, on the newly formed Italian label, Eskape (from Bari), is a work of 8 tracks, the shortest...

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Kyle Eastwood Interviewed by Fiona Ross

On May 19th, Kyle Eastwood, bassist, composer and band leader, celebrates his 50th birthday. Brought up in a showbiz family environment (Clint Eastwood is his Dad) and only...

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