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Greg Baker’s ‘experimental genre bending musical transgressions’
chamber music
May 30, 2012
Yesterday saw the release of Greg Baker’s Subversion album on the Composers Concordance Records label. Baker is one of those composers who...
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Deco Japan & the Heart of the Modern Girl Party
art deco
May 8, 2012
If you are a fan of the Art Deco aesthetic, make sure you visit Japan Society's Deco Japan: Shaping Art and Culture, 1920-1945 exhibit. Art...
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Women sax and brass jazz musicians: an interview with Janice Littlejohn
Music
May 5, 2012
New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival (Jazz Fest 2012) is underway. With that in mind, we turned to Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn, director-producer...
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Women of Jazz Fest 2012: interview with filmmaker Janice Littlejohn
Jazz Fest 2012
May 5, 2012
Jazz. Even the word is exciting, with a sexy, sizzling seduction. For the women of jazz, the role has traditionally been singers or pianists. Yet...
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Chris Parker Trio: Grammy winner, Japan sensation, prodigy serve killer jams
Chris Parker Trio
May 2, 2012
What happens when you put a Grammy-winning drummer together with a 15-year-old bass prodigy and a stellar female pianist from Japan? Answer: a...
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Today's photos: New Orleans Jazz Fest 2012 kicks off
Jazz Fest 2012
April 29, 2012
The 43rd annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival is officially underway. It started April 27, 2012 and runs through May 6, but this year&...
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Second annual Fiji International Jazz and Blues Festival set for May 10-13, 2012
Fiji International Jazz Festival
April 22, 2012
Port Denarau, Fiji, will again be the site of an International Jazz and Blues Festival for four days in mid-May — May 10-13, 2012. Last year,...
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Amina Figarova’s new album and tour plans
jazz
April 12, 2012
Pianist Amina Figarova was born in Baku in Azerbaijan. She is classically trained, but her heart is in jazz. She is married to the Belgian flutist...
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Regina Carter turns ‘personal ethnomusicology’ into musical performance
jazz
April 9, 2012
Last February in San Francisco, I had the good fortune to attend jazz violinist Regina Carter’s Reverse Thread concert, whose title is that...
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Kate McGarry: a new album and an April tour
jazz
April 5, 2012
Girl Talk, singer Kate McGarry’s fifth album with Palmetto Records, will be released next week on April 10 (and Amazon.com has already set up...
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