John Ephland


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    The Irving S. Gilmore Piano Festival commissioned a piece by Tyshawn Sorey that premiered in Kalamazoo, Michigan, this spring.

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    The Irving S. Gilmore International Piano Festival features Diana Krall.

    The Gilmore Festival is Back

    Billed as “North America’s largest gathering of keyboard artists,” the 15th biennial Irving S. Gilmore…

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    Pianist Jeremy Siskind frequently performs in-house concerts with his trio, the Housewarming Project.

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    Benje Daneman’s new album is Light In The Darkness.

    Benje Daneman Commits to His Art

    Michigan-based trumpeter/flugelhornist Benje Daneman is perpetually busy. In addition to releasing Light In The…

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    Pianist Greg Spero is the leader of the band Spirit Fingers.

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    The trio Norma Winstone (left) leads—which includes Glauco Benier and Klaus Gesing—has been augmented by a pair of supplemental players for the ECM album Descansado—Songs For Film.

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    Elio Villafranca has recorded his sixth album, Cinqué.

    Villafranca Examines History

    For five days in early May, Cuban pianist/composer Elio Villafranca set up shop at Systems Two, the state-of-the-art…

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    Swiss-born drummer Jojo Mayer doesn’t want to player like robot, but he used to.

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    Singer Lina Nyberg and her band perform at the 2017 Stockholm Jazz Festival.

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    Jessica Curran’s debut is titled Here.

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    Tunisian oudist/vocalist Dhafer Youssef performs at Pakkahuone on Nov. 5 during the Tampere Jazz Happening.

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    Bassist Dan Berglund (second from let) performs with his bandmates in Tonbruket at Studion Kulturhuset during the Stockholm Jazz Festival on Oct. 7.

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    Saxophonist Gilad Atzmon has released a new book, Being In Time–A Post-political Manifesto (Skyscraper)

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    Frank Gambale onstage at the 2017 Uppsala International Guitar Festival in Sweden

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    Marco Pereira (left) performs with Miriam Aida at Sweden’s Uppsala International Guitar Festival, held Oct. 11–15.

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    Chris Eldridge (left) and Julian Lage released the album Mount Royal in February.

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    Lina Nyberg performs at the Stockholm Jazz Festival on October 9.

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    Rez Abbasi

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    Samantha Fish performs during the ELLNORA festval at the Krannert Center in Urbana, Illinois, on Sept. 14.

    Guitar Lovers Unite at ELLNORA

    The ELLNORA Guitar Festival, held Sept. 14–16, is a mecca for all manner of string players as well as voracious music…

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    Markus Reuter, Pat Mastelotto and Tony Levin perform at Callahan’s in Detroit on Sept. 3.

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    Omara Portuondo and Eliades Ochoa from The Buena Vista Social Club.

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    Guitarist Dewa Budjana’s latest album is titled Zentuary.

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    Dwiki Dharmawan performs at the 2017 Jarkata International Java Jazz Festival

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    Adam Rudolph’s latest album is Glare Of The Tiger, which he recorded with his band Moving Picture.

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    Anoushka Shankar

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    Roscoe Mitchell performs at the Stockholm Jazz Festival, which ran from Oct. 7–16 in Stockholm, Sweden.

    Jazz Meets World at Stockholm Fest

    This year’s Stockholm Jazz Festival, held October 7–16, tilted a bit more in the direction of world music, with jazz…

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    Miles Davis (left) and Michel Legrand in a publicity photo for the soundtrack to the 1991 film Dingo

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    Brothers Leonard (left) and Slava Grigoryan perform at the Uppsala International Guitar Festival in Uppsala, Sweden.

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    Charles Lloyd (foreground) and Harish Raghavan perform at the Oslo Jazz Festival on Aug. 17.

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    Jan Garbarek performs at the Oslo Jazz Festival in Norway on Aug. 14.

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    Charles Lloyd will headline the 30th Annual Oslo Jazz Festival, which takes place August 14–20.

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    Taylor Eigsti performs during the Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival in Kalamazoo, Michigan, on May 12.

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    Aaron Diehl performs on May 5 in Kalamazoo, Michigan, as part of the Gilmore Keyboard Festival.

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    Theo Bleckmann (left) and Ben Monder perform at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan, on April 9.


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