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Live Review: 46th Umbria Jazz Festival

Thomas Conrad

When you have made many trips to Perugia, Italy for the Umbria Jazz Festival, you never get a sense of which years are bigger than … Read More

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Live Review: The 65th Newport Jazz Festival, for the First Time

Mac Randall

I have a confession to make: Before this year, I’d never been to the Newport Jazz Festival. Growing up in and around Boston with a … Read More

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Live Review: George Wein’s “One More Once” at Newport

Mac Randall

On Thursday, August 1, the evening before the official start of the 65th Newport Jazz Festival, George Wein, the festival’s original organizer and longtime leader, … Read More

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Live Review: 2019 Montreal Jazz Festival, Week 2

Sharonne Cohen

A jam-packed weekend opened the 40th edition of the Montreal International Jazz Festival, with inspiring performances by luminaries and rising stars such as pianists Chucho Valdés … Read More

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Live Review: 2019 Montreal Jazz Festival, Weekend 1

Philip Booth

One way to define a music festival: the sum of its memorable moments. There were plenty of those moments to savor during the first four … Read More

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Concert Review: Carla Bley and Ethan Iverson at the Healdsburg Jazz Festival

Andrew Gilbert

There are any number of Northern California jazz festivals that have been around longer than the one in Healdsburg, but none save the granddaddy of … Read More

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