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    The Marcin Wasilewsksi Trio is set to play the Polish Night showcase at jazzahead! in Bremen, Germany, on April 19. The Atom String Quartet, Monika Borzym, Joanna Duda and Power of Horns also are scheduled to perform on the eight-band bill.

    News, Marcin Wasilewski Trio

    Feb 12, 2018 1:47 PM

    jazzahead! to Host Polish Talent

    Since 2006, jazzahead! has helped turn Bremen, Germany, into a place for the jazz world to congregate during a week of…

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    Roscoe Mitchell performs at Vibrato Grill & Jazz in Los Angeles last week. The composer and saxophonist was there to receive the Founders Award during ASCAP’s Jazz Awards ceremony.

    News, Roscoe Mitchell, Matthew Shipp

    Feb 12, 2018 11:07 AM

    Roscoe Mitchell Honored by ASCAP

    Last week amid the million-dollar homes along Los Angeles’ Mulholland Drive, Vibrato Grill & Jazz hosted ASCAP’s Jazz…

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    AMP Trio is one of the featured performers of the Jazz in Progress: The Next Faces of Jazz series.

    News, Ambrose Akinmusire

    Feb 10, 2018 11:18 AM

    Willard Jenkins Finds ‘The Next Faces of Jazz’

    Journalist, author and arts presenter for more than 40 years, Willard Jenkins’ career has grown out of a serious love…

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    Keefe Jackson (left) and Dave Rempis perform at the Sons d’hiver festival in Paris on Jan. 29.

    News, Dave Rempis, Keefe Jackson

    Feb 9, 2018 2:42 PM

    Sons d’hiver Festival Advances the Art of Adventurous Improv

    From its modest beginnings in 1991, the Sons d’hiver festival steadily has built an international reputation for…

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    Pianist and bandleader Alfredo Rodríguez remembers living in Cuba, wishing he “could talk and play with American musicians.”

    News, Alfredo Rodríguez

    Feb 8, 2018 10:39 AM

    Q&A with Alfredo Rodríguez: Global References

    It’s difficult not to think of political controversy surrounding the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival when…

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    Singer Dee Dee Bridgewater was among the performers on Blue Note at Sea.

    News, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Robert Glasper, Chick Corea, Ambrose Akinmusire, Marcus Miller

    Feb 7, 2018 1:02 PM

    Blue Note at Sea a Showcase for Abundant Talent

    For years, Entertainment Cruise Productions Executive Director Michael Lazaroff has been trying to strike the right…

  • Amir-ElSaffar_credit_Michael_Crommett.jpg

    Amir ElSaffar’s most recent recording is Not Two, with his 17-piece Rivers of Sound Orchestra.

    News, Amir ElSaffar, Mike Reed

    Feb 6, 2018 2:04 PM

    Q&A with Amir ElSaffar: Ditching Dichotomies

    When Amir ElSaffar was growing up in River Forest and Oak Park, Illinois, his father would sneak him into blues clubs;…

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    BOP Trio, which comprises bassist Linda May Han Oh (from left), drummer Johnathan Blake and saxophonist Chris Potter, recently played Giant Step Arts’ opening event, a two-night run at Manhattan’s Jazz Gallery.

    News, Linda May Han Oh, Chris Potter, Johnathan Blake

    Feb 5, 2018 1:23 PM

    Nonprofit Giant Step Arts Hosts First Shows

    It’s hard to think of a jazz photographer with a more personal and identifiable pictorial personality than Jimmy Katz,…

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    Joe McPhee is set to perform with Graham Lambkin on June 16 as part of Lampo’s latest season of programming in Chicago.

    News, Joe McPhee

    Feb 5, 2018 9:42 AM

    Lampo Announces New Concert Season

    Lampo, the Chicago-based nonprofit organization that commissions and hosts experimental performances around the city,…

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    A Jan. 29 memorial service in New York for Muhal Richard Abrams opened with the performance of his recently composed chamber work, “Trio Things,” by pianist Joe Kubera, violinist Tom Chiu and cellist Meaghan Burke.

    News, Muhal Richard Abrams, Roscoe Mitchell, Henry Threadgill

    Feb 3, 2018 1:24 PM

    Abrams Lionized at Memorial Service

    Family, friends and fellow creative artists gathered at The Community Church of New York on Jan. 29, for “A Musical…

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