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NQ Jazz partners with The Stoller Hall & The Yard for 2021 concert season.

Live jazz makes a triumphant return to Manchester with new venues and concert series for socially-distanced audiences featuring some of the biggest names in live jazz alongside...

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Sunnyside releases previously unreleased Mingus recordings.

The great bassist and composer Charles Mingus had his diehard supporters and detractors. His explosive intermingling of devil may care attitude, imposing character and aggressive...

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CD Review: Przemysław Strączek: Fig Tree

“Fig free” is the sixth album by the Polish guitarist Przemyslaw Straczek who has already notched up a remarkable touring history crossing the continents of Europe, Asia and...

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Resonance release their latest gem “Bill Evans Live at Ronnie Scott’s”

Today Resonance Records released the CD and Digital editions of their latest gem “Bill Evans Live at Ronnie Scott’s”, the label’s third collection featuring...

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Fay Claassen featured in LOVE of E.A.R.s streaming series.

Tomorrow night (4 December) at 8:30pm (CET) the second edition of the “For the LOVE of E.A.R.s” streaming series goes live. In this edition Dutch vocalist Fay Claassen...

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Tim Garland launches “Winter Encounters” with Norma Winstone

This December, Tim Garland launches his “Winter Encounters” – a series of unique trio performances, beautifully filmed and streamed from Oak Gable Studio. Each 45-minute...

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“Holly Room” by Somi & The Frankfurt Radio Big Band.

New York based vocalist Somi was invited in May 2019 by the Frankfurt Radio Big Band as special guest for a radio broadcast from Frankfurt’s Alte Oper. The material...

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Janis Siegel and Lauren Kinhan concoct a savory vocal gumbo.

Since the outbreak of Covid at the beginning of the year there have been a plethora of online streaming programs popping up on platforms. Some good, some great and some not...

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Scottish National Jazz Orchestra to live-stream anniversary concert.

The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary with a specially curated concert, live-streamed from Perth Concert Hall, on Saturday 5th December....

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Forgotten Jazz Orchestras: Billy Eckstine

In the years between 1939 and 1945, three different but somewhat related styles of music grew out of swing: rhythm and blues, spearheaded by Louis Jordan, the early-1940s Lionel...

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William Ellis: Rebirth of the Film.

It’s clear that over the last few years that there has been a trend in the music business to claw back some of the warmth and nostalgia of the analogue world. This among...

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