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Greg Baker’s ‘experimental genre bending musical transgressions’

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

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

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. 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

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

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

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

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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