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Festival Flash | Jazz Middelheim 2014, Day 3&4

Text Peter Beije | photo’s Eddy Westveer Day Three In the morning at the rehearsal and sound check, it became clear that this would be an exceptional tribute to Toots...

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Edinburgh venue The Outhouse wins Herald Angel award

By: ROB ADAMS Edinburgh venue The Outhouse has won a Herald Angel award at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The Outhouse, which is home to the weekly Playtime series of...

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Festival Flash | Jazz Middelheim 2014, Day 1&2

Text Peter Beije | photo’s Eddy Westveer Jazz Middelheim in Antwerp attracted 19,000 visitors during the four days. That number is in line with previous years. The...

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Umbria Jazz Festival 2014

By THOMAS CONRAD | Source All About Jazz There are many jazz festivals held in beautiful places. There are many festivals that run for 10 or more days and consistently offer...

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Fusion collective Fat-Suit hit the road in Europe

Scottish fifteen-piece fusion collective Fat-Suit have announced their first European tour, beginning later this month. The band, which formed last year and has been likened to...

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Kora Band Signs to ‘Whirlwind Recordings’ For Release of New Cities in Spring 2015

The Kora Band integrates the uniquely entrancing timbre of the kora, a traditional 21-string harp from West Africa, into a jazz context, bringing together two musical traditions...

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Tommaso Starace: Italian Short Stories (2014)

By: BRUCE LINDSAY, | Source : All About Jazz Some musicians appear to conjure their tunes from thin air, others work with raw material furnished by the great composers, still...

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Blue Note Records Launches New Blue Note 75 App For IPad

Source | All About Jazz Blue Note Records proudly presents the Blue Note 75 app – a ground-breaking new app available exclusively for iPad that celebrates the 75th Anniversary...

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The Music Never Dies

Aficionados of jazz and blues have come to learn how these musical art forms, born in 20th century America, were responsible not just for the term ‘rock n’ roll,’ but also...

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Day of mourning in the Netherlands

Today we posted the following status update to our Facebook page. Please share this post as a sign of respect to the victims of Malaysian flight MH17. It was almost one week ago...

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Festival Flashes | Gent Jazz 2014 | Day One

By PETER BEIJE | Gent Jazz 2014: seven days music Peter Beije continues his summer Festival Flashes series with a quick rap up of day one at the Gent Jazz Festival. Keep an eye...

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