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Thelonious Monk Festival – New York, June 1 – 4

Monk. The single word conjures up images of the impassioned expression of this great American art form we call “jazz.” This June, Jazz at Lincoln Center presents a majestic...

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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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Pablo Ziegler | Jazz Tango

Jazz Tango is the latest marvelous album by Latin GRAMMY Award winning composer, arranger, and virtuoso pianist Pablo Ziegler, who is the world’s foremost practitioner and...

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“Warriors of Jazz”

Sometimes we are lucky enough to witness performances that are just great and perfect and need not too much “commentary”, but just listening. On a particular recent...

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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...

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Paola Vera – How to survive jazzahead!

So 2017 I decided, was going to be my year of self- promotion. Like many artists I have always struggled with the idea of selling myself. From a young age, I have used music as...

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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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“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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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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See you @ jazzahead!

After taking over the role of Editor in Chief for Jazz in Europe.com it has always been my intention to travel to jazzahead! and meet the many people face to face that I have...

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