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Live Review: 2019 San Jose Jazz Summer Fest

Chris J. Walker

Tech-subjugated San Jose, main hub of Silicon Valley, has always been somewhat iconoclastic. Its Jazz Summer Fest—anchored around downtown Plaza de Cesar Chavez Park, the … Read More

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Live Review: 2019 Concord Jazz Festival

Lily O'Brien

The temperature was hot, but the jazz was cool at the Concord Jazz Festival on Saturday, August 3. At the Concord Pavilion, an outdoor venue … Read More

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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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Live Review: DC Jazz Festival 2019

The 15th annual DC Jazz Festival marked the full maturation of an event that began in 2004 as the Duke Ellington Jazz Festival; it’s been … Read More

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Live Review: Andrew Cyrille Night at the Vision Festival

That opening night of the 24th edition of the New York City-born and bred Vision Festival—the premier left-field summit where avant-garde jazz, dance, poetry, and … Read More

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