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George Wein -The Life of a Legend

George Wein is a living legend. The jazz impresario is the “father of jazz festivals” having launched the Newport Jazz Festival in 1954. This October 3rd, George Wein...

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Pimping the jazz fantastic…

Soil & Pimp Sessions @ Ronnie Scott’s (1st night) Line up: Shacho (agitator, spirit), Tabu Zombie (trumpet), Takeshi Kurihara (sax), Josei (piano), Akita Goldman (bass)...

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Jazz Goes to Town in Hradec Kralove, East Bohemia

Jazz Goes to Town is an international music festival in Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic, about an hour by bus or train, northeast of Prague. This year will be the 22nd edition of...

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Monty Alexander & Friends: Sinatra at 100

A chance encounter with the great American music legend Frank Sinatra and a young pianist named Monty Alexander straight from Jamaica working a gig at a nightclub – opened the...

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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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Nils Petter Molvaer—a true jazz explorer from the North

The term “future jazz” went out of fashion over a decade ago, but the evolution of progressive jazz and improvisation and experimentation with electronic technology has...

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Kenny Garrett Interview

Kenny Garrett is a Grammy Award-winning American post-bop jazz saxophonist and flautist. He cut his youthful musical teeth while playing with the Duke Ellington Orchestra and...

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Swing in Breda

Jan Learbuch, musician becomes festival producer for the Ninth edition of Swing Festival Breda on the 23rd of October 2016 Jan Learbuch is one of those people in the Netherlands...

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John Scofield ponders

Scott Thompson spoke with John Scofield during the Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Muddy Waters Celebration. Scott asked John a number of questions, and this is what John had to say:...

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Magnus Öström – Has Landed Safely

Magnus Öström and his band will be touring Europe to promote their third release “Parachute” (2016, Diesel Music), since he first embarked on a solo career, as a composer in...

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Binker & Moses interview – The super London duo!

Sunday 3rd July @ The Love Supreme Festival – The Artists area On the last day of the Love Supreme Festival, I popped to the Artists area to sit on a bench outside, sun...

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