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    Sun Ra leads his Arkestra on the 1980 album Sunrise In Different Dimensions, which HatHut is reissuing on vinyl LP.

    News, Sun Ra

    May 26, 2016 5:43 PM

    HatHut Returns to Vinyl with Sun Ra Arkestra Reissue

    Few people have followed jazz through more changes than Werner X. Uehlinger. Born in Switzerland in 1935, he first…

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    Arve Henriksen of Warped Dreamer performs at the 2016 Moers Festival in Moers, Germany.

    Live, Review, Cassandra Wilson

    May 26, 2016 5:41 PM

    Moers Festival Gives Jazz Artists Opportunity to Branch Out

    Thanks to its adventurous annual music festival, the small northwestern German town of Moers has built up a legendary…

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    The Mary Lou Williams Festival in Washington, D.C., honors the late singer and pianist, pictured here, who died in 1981.

    Live, Review, Allison Miller, Jane Bunnett, Terri Lyne Carrington

    May 26, 2016 5:37 PM

    Miller, Bunnett, Carrington Bring Flair to Mary Lou Williams Festival

    “A drum is a woman” could have easily served as the subtitle for the second night of the 21st annual Mary Lou…

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

    Live, Review, Taylor Eigsti

    May 26, 2016 5:34 PM

    Eigsti Triumphs in Return to Gilmore Keyboard Festival

    In the first of two sold-out sets at Bell’s Eccentric Café in Kalamazoo, Michigan, the Irving S. Gilmore…

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    Chris Potter performs at the Jazzkaar Festival in Tallinn, Estonia, on April 27.

    Live, Review, Charnett Moffett, Al Di Meola, Chris Potter

    May 26, 2016 5:31 PM

    Jazzkaar Festival Unites American, Estonian Artists

    The Jazzkaar festival has been an annual event in Tallinn, Estonia, since 1990, when the Soviet period was coming to an…

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    Jason Adasiewicz (left), Steve Noble, John Edwards and Peter Brötzmann perform at the Art Institute of Chicago on May 21.

    Live, Review, Peter Brötzmann, Jason Adasiewicz

    May 25, 2016 5:22 PM

    Brötzmann Reveals Expansive Range at Chicago Museum Show

    Before Peter Brötzmann gained renown as a musician, he was a German art student who played clarinet in a Dixieland band…

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    Kamasi Washington (left) and Ryan Porter perform at Where Spaceways Meet: A Night of Spiritual Jazz, part of the Red Bull Music Academy Festival in Brooklyn on May 8.

    Live, Kamasi Washington, Pharoah Sanders, Sun Ra

    May 18, 2016 1:01 PM

    Washington, Sanders Channel Psychedelic Spirit in Brooklyn

    In the current climate of reconstituted knowledge—where a list of things you might not know or anything evoking Brian…

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    Grammy-winning drummer Ulysses Owens Jr. performs at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola in New York on April 29.

    Live, Duke Ellington, Ulysses Owens Jr.

    May 18, 2016 12:29 PM

    Owens & Friends Honor Ellington at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola

    In a celebration of “Ellington And Beyond,” the immensely talented drummer Ulysses Owens Jr. and his equally…

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    Joe Temperley (1929–2016)

    News, Joe Temperley

    May 18, 2016 12:26 PM

    Revered Baritone Saxophonist Joe Temperley Dies at 86

    Joe Temperley, an influential jazz musician whose virtuosic skill on the baritone saxophone and bass clarinet boosted…

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    Brue Barth demonstrated his distinguished combination of ceaseless imagination and unshakable swing at Mezzrow in New York City on May 7.

    Live, Bruce Barth

    May 18, 2016 12:21 PM

    Barth Brings Eloquent, Hard-Charging Swing to Mezzrow

    The small, narrow listening room Mezzrow, with its strangely perfect acoustics, is an unlikely success in a city full…

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