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    ​Luciana Souza and Trio Corrente began their current U.S. tour with a performance at Boston’s Regattabar.

    Live, Trio Corrente

    Apr 23, 2024 10:51 AM

    Luciana Souza, Trio Corrente Bring ‘Cometa’ to Vivid Life

    Luciana Souza is the most justly renowned Brazilian jazz singer working in the United States. Trio Corrente is…

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    Henry Threadgill performs with Zooid at Big Ears in Knoxville, Tennessee.

    Live, Various Artists

    Apr 9, 2024 11:30 AM

    Jazz Emerges as Essential Component of Knoxville’s Big Ears Festival

    Big Ears, the annual four-day music celebration that first took place in 2009 in Knoxville, Tennessee, could well be…

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    David Murray and his trio mates engage in a visceral yet sensitive blowout at this year’s Vossa Jazz Festival.

    Live, Various Artists

    Apr 2, 2024 12:47 PM

    Vossa Jazz Makes a Big, Diverse Noise

    Last year, the Vossa Jazz Festival in Western Norway officially joined the rare ranks of jazz fests at 50. It is an…

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    Pianist Sullivan Fortner, who performed at the Old Church with bassist Tyrone Allen and drummer Kayvon Gordon, leads a clinic during the PDX Jazz Festival.

    Live, Various Artists

    Mar 19, 2024 3:37 PM

    Portland Jazz Festival Keeps Loyal Patrons Coming Back

    To get from one’s car to the Old Church, a beautifully refurbished old building in a corner of Portland, Oregon’s…

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    ​Vijay Iyer (left) and Nicole Mitchell perform music by Andrew Hill at Harlem Stage’s Gatehouse on March 1.

    Live, Vijay Iyer, Andrew Hill, Nicole Mitchell, Yuhan Su, Nasheet Waits, Reggie Workman, Mark Shim, Milena Casado, Devon Gates

    Mar 12, 2024 11:17 AM

    Iyer & Friends Pay Homage to Andrew Hill

    A program of music by the late Andrew Hill is right up Harlem Stage’s alley. “Let’s get real: This is what we…

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    ​The full cast of the centennial celebration for Max Roach, held Jan. 26 at New Jersey Performing Arts Center.

    Live, Max Roach

    Feb 13, 2024 1:56 PM

    All Hail, Memories of Max

    Toward the middle of the lengthy centennial celebration for the great drummer and composer Max Roach (1924–2007) at…

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    Mary Halvorson expanded her hollowbody guitar to match her imaginative foot-pedal-assisted forays at this year’s NYC Winter Jazzfest.

    Live, Various Artists

    Feb 6, 2024 1:59 PM

    Immediacy Meets Intensity at NYC Winter Jazzfest

    Crisscrossing dozens of venues, in multiple New York neighborhoods, presenting smart lineups and thoughtful creative…

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    Opening night featured the duo of Miami native Cécile McLorin Salvant and Sullivan Fortner.

    Live, Various Artists

    Jan 23, 2024 11:45 AM

    Resourceful Talent on Display at South Beach Jazz Festival

    Between Jan. 4 and Jan. 7, as northerners froze, Miami Beach held the (mostly) outdoors South Beach Jazz Festival.…

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    “I really respect people who could learn this vocabulary and find a way to express it in a way that is so unique,” Nduduzo Makhathini said of the late pianist Don Pullen during his live Blindfold Test.

    Live, From the Magazine, Nduduzo Makhathini

    Jan 2, 2024 11:19 PM

    Blindfold Test: Nduduzo Makhathini

    Much powerful and resonant music has emanated from South Africa and, in part due to the reprehensible cultural scatter…

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    ​“They were so in tune with each other, every note just works,” O’Connell said of Bill Evans and Jim Hall’s duo take on “I’m Getting Sentimental Over You.”

    Live, Bill O’Connell

    Dec 27, 2023 12:22 PM

    Blindfold Test: Bill O’Connell

    In his first Blindfold Test, pianist and composer Bill O’Connell worried a bit about guessing artists correctly but…

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