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The “OASIS” project is a collaboration between the French harpist Isabelle Olivier and the famous American guitarist and composer Rez Abbasi, born in Pakistan. The combination of harp ...

Jimmy Smith: I pulled out all the stops, I could find: Video

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- 08/12/2019

ARTISTS VIDEOS

08.12. – Happy Birthday !!! Jimmy Smith, byname of James Oscar Smith, (born Dec. 8, 1928, Norristown, Pa., U.S.—found dead Feb. 8, 2005, Scottsdale, Ariz.), American musician who ...

Interview with Ingi Bjarni: My older compositions used to be a bit more intellectual: Video

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- 07/12/2019

Jazz interview with jazz pianist and composer Ingi Bjarni. An interview by email in writing. JazzBluesNews.com: – When you improvise, you know where you’re going. It’s a matter ...

CD review: Buddy Rich – Just in Time: The Final Recording 2019: Videos, CD cover

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- 07/12/2019

INTERVIEWS VIDEOS Woman in Jazz & Blues

There are few sounds in jazz as thrilling as a big band in full flight. And a big band led by Buddy Rich promises to send the listener’s ...

Hagan Blues Festival, announces that the business will be closed down: Photos, Video

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- 07/12/2019

BLUES FESTIVALS VIDEOS

A long-standing and too many welcome live offer at Klevjerhagan in Sande is now history. Hagan Music Festival, formerly known as the Hagan Blues Festival, announces that the ...

Interview with Kim Nazarian: Music has the power to heal and celebrate life! Video

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- 06/12/2019

Jazz interview with jazz singer and songwriter Kim Nazarian of New York Voices. An interview by email in writing. JazzBluesNews.com: – When you improvise, you know where you’re ...

CD review: Eric Alexander – Eric Alexander with Strings 2019: Video, CD cover

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- 06/12/2019

Eric Alexander‘s prowess on the tenor saxophone, his unimpeachable virtuosity and technical skill, is obvious to anyone who has paid attention to his fluent and stirring work over ...

Soulful and versatile saxophonist Buddy Terry, one of newark’s Jazz elders, has died at 78: Videos, Photos

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- 06/12/2019

Buddy Terry, a saxophonist who worked in a broad array of styles and situations — making his most enduring contribution in the realm of soul jazz, and on ...

Interview with Paul Austerlitz: If I feel that I’ve reached a point … Video

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- 04/12/2019

Jazz interview with jazz ethnomusicologist and bass clarinetist Paul Austerlitz. An interview by email in writing. JazzBluesNews.com: – When you improvise, you know where you’re going. It’s a ...

CD review: Leszek Możdżer – Ikar. Legenda Mietka Kosza 2019: Videos, CD cover

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- 04/12/2019

ARTISTS VIDEOS Woman in Jazz & Blues

“Icarus. Legend Mietek Kosza ”is a film biography of an outstanding jazz pianist and composer. Mieczysław Kosz (February 10, 1944 – May 31, 1973) was a graduate of ...

Eleanor Collins, Canada’s first lady of jazz, turns 100: Photos, Video

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- 04/12/2019

At 100 years of age, Canadian jazz icon Eleanor Collins has one mantra — just take it one day at a time. “That’s the thing that my mother ...

Interview with Tom Pierson: Then art will present you with another, higher pinnacle… Video

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- 03/12/2019

Jazz interview with jazz pianist and composer Tom Pierson. An interview by email in writing. JazzBluesNews.com: – When you improvise, you know where you’re going. It’s a matter ...

CD review: Ioan Streba – Balkans Jazz (Gypsy Blues) 2019: Video, CD cover

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- 03/12/2019

IOAN STREBA – Album “BALKANS JAZZ” Ethnic Gipsy Blues Label Plaza Mayor Company Ltd Distribution Sergent Major Company Ltd – The Orchard IOAN STREBA, Romanian musician who has ...

Chick Corea & Spanish Heart Band – Flamenco – at Jazz à Vienne 2019: Live full concert video

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- 03/12/2019

FESTIVALS VIDEOS

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Interview with Wide Mouth Mason: I Wanna Go With The Blues: Video, Photos

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- 01/12/2019

BLUES INTERVIEWS VIDEOS

Interview with Canadian duo of Wide Mouth Mason: Their new album returning to blues roots, with heavy lap steel and songs about travelling, reinvention and transition. How has ...

CD review: Gato Barbieri – En Vivo En Argentina 1991 – 2019: Video, CD cover

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- 01/12/2019

CONCERTS NEWS VIDEOS Woman in Jazz & Blues

Regardless of his subsequent and future transgressions, Gato Barbieri deserves a lifetime’s worth of slack for his work between 1965 and ’75. The Argentine tenor saxophonist’s legacy from ...

Patricia Nicholson: Improvisation based in a shamanic concept: Video, Photos

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- 01/12/2019

Patricia Nicholson is an artist and the founder and director of the free jazz organization Arts for Art (AFA). In 2016, I was interning at Arts for Art ...

Interview with Franck Amsallem: The soul is paramount: Video

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- 29/11/2019

Jazz interview with jazz pianist and composer Franck Amsallem. An interview by email in writing. JazzBluesNews.com: – When you improvise, you know where you’re going. It’s a matter ...

CD review: Vincent Herring, Bobby Watson, Gary Bartz – Bird at 100 – 2019: Video, CD cover, Photo

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- 29/11/2019

August 29, 2020 will mark the centennial of one of jazz’s most iconic figures, Charlie Parker. The celebration gets off to a jubilantly swinging start with an alto ...

Terri Lyne Carrington discusses the urgency behind social science and Waiting Game: Photo, Video

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- 29/11/2019

INTERVIEWS VIDEOS Woman in Jazz & Blues

Thought provoking. Conscience awakening. A call to action. Terri Lyne Carrington and Social Science’s new album, Waiting Game (Motéma), is a direct response to the current sociopolitical climate ...

Interview with Chiemi Nakai: I don’t know … Video

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- 27/11/2019

Jazz interview with jazz pianist, composer and arranger Chiemi Nakai. An interview by email in writing. JazzBluesNews.com: – When you improvise, you know where you’re going. It’s a ...

CD review: Leo Richardson – Move 2019: Video, CD cover

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- 27/11/2019

“Move” is the second album from tenor sax specialist Leo Richardson, and represents the follow up to his highly successful 2017 début for Ubuntu, “The Chase”. Like Scott ...

A banner week in New York Jazz clubs, among other reasons to be thankful: Videos, Photos, Sounds

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- 27/11/2019

Thanksgiving is upon us, and with it comes a call to gratitude. So in this Take Five, we offer reasons to be thankful. It’s a totally stacked week ...

Interview with Corey Christiansen: When I improvise I am composing in real-time: Video

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- 25/11/2019

Jazz interview with jazz guitarist Corey Christiansen. An interview by email in writing. JazzBluesNews.com: – When you improvise, you know where you’re going. It’s a matter of taking ...

CD review: Randy Brecker & Ada Rovatti – Brecker Plays Rovatti: Sacred Bond 2019: Video, CD cover

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- 25/11/2019

ARTISTS INTERVIEWS VIDEOS

Brecker Plays Rovatti: Sacred Bond, features the husband and wife team of Grammy Award-winning trumpeter and fusion pioneer Randy Brecker and saxophonist-composer Ada Rovatti but also includes their ...

Interview with Miles Davis: At 1984 – Part I, Part II, Part III Videos

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- 25/11/2019

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Interview with Angel Forrest: Blues will take over for the empty music: Video, Photos

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- 24/11/2019

BLUES INTERVIEWS VIDEOS Woman in Jazz & Blues

Interview with Canadian energic vocalist Angel Forrest: stays true to her country and blues roots. How has the Blues and Rock counterculture influenced your views of the world ...

CD review: Snorre Kirk & Stephen Riley – Tangerine Rhapsody 2019: Video, CD covers

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- 24/11/2019

Drummer Snorre Kirk has a great musical partner here – tenorist Stephen Riley, who blows with this warm, raspy tone that takes us back to classic Ben Webster ...

Jazz takes centre stage with new Disney Pixar movie: Video

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- 24/11/2019

Disney Pixar have unveiled the first trailer for their new animated movie ‘Soul’, which tells the story of Joe Gardner, a middle-school band teacher whose true passion is ...

Interview with Denman Maroney: Everything is related: Video

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- 23/11/2019

Jazz interview with jazz pianist and composer Denman Maroney. An interview by email in writing. JazzBluesNews.com: – When you improvise, you know where you’re going. It’s a matter ...

CD review: Lee Konitz Nonet – Old Songs New 2019: Video, CD cover

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- 23/11/2019

As artists mature, the circumstances that allow them to perform optimally become more and more explicit. Occasionally, it falls upon a collaborator to find these spaces that allow ...

Viktorija Gecyte pays a visit to afternoon Jazz, before the Sarah Vaughan vocal competition: Photos, Video

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- 23/11/2019

INTERVIEWS VIDEOS Woman in Jazz & Blues

Viktorija Gečytė started singing early in life. Although she didn’t come from a musical family, she has always been drawn to music; she would often hitchhike to music ...

Interview with Sidsel Storm: The music is definitely spirit: Video

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- 22/11/2019

Jazz interview with jazz singer Sidsel Storm. An interview by email in writing. JazzBluesNews.com: – First let’s start with where you grew up, and what got you interested ...

CD review: Jimmy Cobb – This I Dig of You 2019: Video, CD cover, Photo

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- 22/11/2019

In the spring of 1959, drummer Jimmy Cobb took part in the two recording sessions that made up Miles Davis’ iconic jazz album, Kind of Blue. He doesn’t remember ...

Jazz, soul and blues musicians nominated at the 2020 Grammy’s: Video, Photos

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- 22/11/2019

The nominations are out for the 62nd Grammy Awards including a number of jazz, soul and blues artists on the list… Gary Clark Jr. has picked up four nominations ...

Interview with Jonathan Ng: Jazz improvisation the goal form to break form: Video

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- 21/11/2019

Jazz interview with jazz violinist and vocalist Jonathan Ng. An interview by email in writing. JazzBluesNews.com: – When you improvise, you know where you’re going. It’s a matter ...

CD review: Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra & Wynton Marsalis – Jazz and Art 2019: Video, CD cover

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- 21/11/2019

Music and paintings share so many characteristics – textures, colors, layers, line, form, shape – and when these two art forms come together, they create a bold new ...

2019 – New CD’s Advertisements – Click on the CD cover and buy from here

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- 21/11/2019

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Interview with Anders Lоnne Grоnseth: We all think, feel and express ourselves differently: Video

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- 20/11/2019

Jazz interview with jazz saxophonist, reed player and composer Anders Lønne Grønseth. An interview by email in writing. JazzBluesNews.com: – When you improvise, you know where you’re going. ...

CD review: Ronnie Cuber – Four 2019: Video, CD cover

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- 20/11/2019

New CD's Review

Ronnie Cuber is without question one of the greatest baritone saxohonists of all time. Composer/arranger and leader of his own groups that goes back to 1959. Ronald Edward ...

Excellence assumes many forms, for the 2020 Grammy nominees in Jazz and Blues: Photos, Videos

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- 20/11/2019

Christian McBride, Esperanza Spalding and Branford Marsalis are among the jazz and blues artists in the running for the 62nd Grammy Awards. The Recording Academy announced its nominations on ...

Interview with Sugar Blue: The Colors of The Blues: Video, Photos

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- 19/11/2019

BLUES INTERVIEWS VIDEOS

Interview with harmonica master Sugar Blue – his new album reflects the constant research of sounds and emotions that drives his creative force. What do you learn about ...

CD review: Robben Ford, Bill Evans – The Sun Room 2019: Video, CD cover

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- 19/11/2019

The Sun Room is exactly what you get when two legendary musicians join forces together, in this case virtuoso jazz/blues guitarist Robben Ford and acclaimed saxophonist Bill Evan, the ...

Film critic harlan Jacobson reviews Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman: Video, Photo

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- 19/11/2019

DeNiro, Pesci, Keitel, Pacino. Old home week for the Mob in Martin Scorsese’s much awaited and acclaimed The Irishman, which had its debut at the NY Film Festival last ...

Interview with David Helbock: We have a good balance between intellect, feeling and soul: Video

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- 18/11/2019

New CD's Review VIDEOS Woman in Jazz & Blues

Jazz interview with Austrian jazz pianist and composer David Helbock. An interview by email in writing. JazzBluesNews.com: – When you improvise, you know where you’re going. It’s a ...

CD review: Eliane Elias – Love Stories 2019: Video, CD cover

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- 18/11/2019

Eliane Elias ascends to a new echelon of artistic expression with the August 30, 2019 release of Love Stories on Concord Jazz. A multi-hyphenate musician whose recent releases Made in Brazil (2015), Dance of ...

New music by Pat Metheny, Marta Sanchez, Ben Williams, Avram Fefer and more: Videos, Photos, Sound

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- 18/11/2019

Pat Metheny, “America Undefined” The wheels never stop turning for Pat Metheny. While keeping up a global tour regimen unsurpassed by any jazz musician, this guitarist-composer is also ...

Interview with Danny Simmons: The collaboration between Ron Carter and I is like a pretty perfect dream come true: Video

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- 17/11/2019

Jazz interview with jazz narrator Danny Simmons. An interview by email in writing. JazzBluesNews.com: – First let’s start with where you grew up, and what got you interested ...

CD review: Delfeayo Marsalis & the Uptown Jazz Orchestra – Jazz Party 2019: Video, CD cover

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- 17/11/2019

BLUES CONCERTS VIDEOS Woman in Jazz & Blues

New Orleans old-school jazz comes to Chico. Under the direction of trombonist Delfeayo Marsalis and anchored by Dirty Dozen Brass Band founder Roger Lewis on bari sax, the ...

Blues Heaven in Frederikshavn 2019: Video, Photos

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- 17/11/2019

Holy Week 1-3. November 2019 was the world-class blues in Frederikshavn. Arena Nord was the venue for Denmark’s biggest blues festival, Blues Heaven. The concerts took place on ...

Interview with Kjetil Mulelid: … if you’re not just doing math music: Video

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- 14/11/2019

Jazz interview with jazz pianist and composer Kjetil Mulelid. An interview by email in writing. JazzBluesNews.com: – When you improvise, you know where you’re going. It’s a matter ...

CD review: Stephane Belmondo, Sylvain Luc – 2.0 – 2019: Video, CD cover

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- 14/11/2019

20 years separate the meeting between the two artists, Stéphane Belmondo and Sylvain Luc, who after an evening of improvisation on the stage of the legendary Baisé Salé, ...

Success for Norwegian Blues in London: Video, Photos

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- 14/11/2019

BLUES CONCERTS VIDEOS

The weekend of November 8-10, the Norwegian blues community celebrated itself in a large-scale blues invasion of London. The finale was in the very large parlor of concert ...

Interview with Binker Golding: I only use my intellect to explain … Video

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- 13/11/2019

Jazz interview with jazz saxophonist Binker Golding. An interview by email in writing. JazzBluesNews.com: – When you improvise, you know where you’re going. It’s a matter of taking ...

CD review: Carl Arter – Song From Far Away 2019: Video, CD cover

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- 13/11/2019

Carl was a 1940s contemporary in Pittsburgh of many musicians who left town and became international stars, including Ahmad Jamal, Mary Lou Williams and Billy Eckstine. An outstanding ...

Pedrito Martinez Group lights up afternoon Jazz with an explosion of Afro-Cuban rhythm: Video, Photo

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- 13/11/2019

When Pedrito Martínez extended his hand for an introductory shake, I noticed how similar its texture is to the skin of a conga — as if his hands ...

Interview with Matt Olson: Soul is not something I actively think about when I play: Video

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- 12/11/2019

Jazz interview with jazz saxophonist and composer Matt Olson. An interview by email in writing. JazzBluesNews.com: – When you improvise, you know where you’re going. It’s a matter ...

CD review: Chris Madsen – Bonfire 2019: Video, CD cover

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- 12/11/2019

Music fans of any genre should be wary about albums with “all-star” casts. While the lineups are stellar, and expectations high, often the results are, well, subpar. Listening ...

New music from Kassa Overall, Dan Weiss, The Westerlies and more: Photos, Videos, Sounds

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- 12/11/2019