All About Jazz
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All About Jazz covers the world of jazz music, with interviews of top musicians and bands, albums reviews, free music, videos, photos, and news. Jazz Near You is a free concert discovery platform that promotes jazz events (including jam sessions & tours), facilitates ticket sales and builds audiences in 300+ cities worldwide.
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1w ago
By Thomas Conrad | Live Review It is possible that, of all the major cities of Europe, the least understood in the Western world is Belgrade, Serbia. In the 1990's, when the wars in the former Yugoslavia were raging, Serbia was a major topic in the world news media ..read more
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From Flock to Shepherd: The Evolution of the Drummer-Led Ensemble in Jazz By Jon Sheckler | Jazz in Long Form On November 15th, 2017 at 8:30pm, the Jazz Standard in New York City had a line around the block ..read more
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1w ago
Jenny Scheinman Brings the Experience of Awe By Dean Nardi | Interview Play your violin for us like that wild, joyful hippie girl. You who look as if you might have come from the steppes of Russia instead of the Lost Coast, a remote region of northern California prone to earthquakes and mudslides ..read more
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3w ago
Remembering Quincy Jones: Music Is Like Water By Ian Patterson | Big Band in the Sky Quincy Jones, a giant of popular music culture in the 20th and 21st centuries, died in Los Angeles on Sunday, November 3, He was 91 ..read more
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Ben Sidran: It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing State By Dean Nardi | Interview Beyond Ben Sidran's appreciable talents as an accomplished composer and performer in jazz, blues, ragtime and several other styles, he is also a highly proficient producer, an author, podcaster, radio and television host and a historian ..read more
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Frank van Berkel: 50 Years of Bimhuis Jazz By Nenad Georgievski | Interview The Bimhuis, Amsterdam's renowned jazz venue, is celebrating its 50th anniversary this October. The club will host a month-long program packed with over 50 concerts, exhibitions, and special events to mark five decades of its profound influence on the jazz scene in the Netherlands and beyond ..read more
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A Brief Guide To Lebanese Jazz By Ian Patterson | Profile Lebanon is known for many things—its lush valleys, a fertile coastal plain and a 170 km-long mountain range carpeted with cedar, oak and pine. Beirut, Tripoli, Sidon, Tyre, Byblos and Baalbek—its cities' names resonate with history's vibrations. These are cities that have borne more history than most ..read more
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Xavier Lecouturier: Focus in Constant Motion By Paul Rauch | Profile In many ways, Seattle-based 26 year old drummer and composer Xavier Lecouturier typifies the plight of brilliant young jazz musicians on the horizon in the twenty-first century. While the talent pool in jazz music has never been more prodigious ..read more
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By Patrick Burnette | Highly Opinionated Raise your hands, jazz fans, if you've been thinking about jazz legend Sonny Rollins during the last few months. After all, the great man is still with us at age 94. Reaching such an age is an accomplishment for anybody, but a miraculous feat for an ..read more
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At Monterey Jazz Festival 67, Jazz Gospel According to a New Head By Josef Woodard | Live Review Getting a semblance of a summarizing angle on a densely-programmed jazz festival, which the 67th Monterey Jazz Festival most certainly was, can be tricky business. The equation gets more complex with a festival geared towards covering many genre ..read more