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Keeping Spiritual and Psychedelic Jazz Alive

Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids, previously known as simply The Pyramids are a spiritual and psychedelic jazz collective, which originated in Ohio, in the early 70s, yet...

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Jimmy Heath: Life of a Legend

“Jazz is never ending. It’s always gonna be here. There’s always curious people and the institutions of learning are teaching jazz. It’s never ending,” says NEA...

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Jazzahead! 2017: Deadline for Showcases.

jazzahead! Is the worlds largest jazz Trade Show and Showcase festival bringing together over 900 exhibitors and 3000 professional participants each April in Bremen (Germany). In...

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Bugge Wesseltoft’s New Conception of Jazz – 2016 Edition

Bugge (pronounced ‘boogie’) came onto the jazz scene over 20 years as an eager and innovative jazz pianist, keyboardist, producer and composer from Norway. But he...

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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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