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British punk-rap duo Bob Vylan led chants against the Israeli military in a live BBC broadcast on Saturday. Irish-language rappers Kneecap also are being investigated.Monday, June 30, 2025 from NPR Topics: Music
Marco Contestabile makes psychedelic blues music influenced by Tarquinia, where he grew up.Monday, June 30, 2025 from NPR Topics: Music
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Having been a source of quality reissues back when vinyl was still king, it is fitting that the Original Jazz Classics series has returned now that the vinyl renaissance continues to carry on full-force among the music-buying public. Now...Monday, June 30, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
Musical memories from childhood have a way of sticking. For some, it might be an encounter with Beethoven from a dusty stack of old albums packed away in the parental record collection. For others, it might be the (then, 1954) modern...Monday, June 30, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
A parodist might quip that Trio Contrafactus is simply another name for a quartet, as that is what pianist and entreprenuer Spike Wilner is leading on his new recording, The Children and the Warlock, wherein Wilner and his rhythm section...Monday, June 30, 2025 from All About Jazz News
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Some artists aim for a signature sound by adhering closely to genre conventions. Guitarist Tim Jago takes a different approach. Drawing deeply from the jazz tradition, Jago forges a unique path that blends personal expression with...Sunday, June 29, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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The trio of Mike Watt , Brandon Seabrook and Mike Pride began as a pandemic-era experiment, exchanging music files remotely to create Stove Top (RareNoise, 2021)... [ read more ]Sunday, June 29, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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The phrase Nitty Gritty has a number of meanings, among the most oft-repeated of which are "mundane," "ordinary" and "commonplace." Guitarist Russ Spiegel surely had another definition in mind when naming his seventh album, whose...Sunday, June 29, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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Irish-language rap group Kneecap gave an impassioned performance for tens of thousands of fans on Saturday at the Glastonbury Festival despite criticism by British politicians and a terror charge for one of the trio.Sunday, June 29, 2025 from All About Jazz News
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On Winged Victory , songwriter Willi Carlisle weaves between the absurd and the sentimental. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Carlisle about the 11 tracks of originals and covers.Saturday, June 28, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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Pianist Tyler Henderson 's Love Endures is a rare artifact of musical honesty, an album that trades studio gloss for the imperfect magic of real-time interaction. Recorded in the attic of a house owned by a devoted jazz aficionado in...Saturday, June 28, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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Jazz never did know how to deal with Cecil Taylor . Does it now? Here is a session from Burning Ambulance from the Outside In Festival in Crawley Sussex recorded on 3rd September 1988. Cecil Taylor was fresh from his sojourn in Berlin...Saturday, June 28, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
Taken together, Fred Hersch 's first two albums for ECM Records can be seen as a bid for recognition as the preeminent pianist in contemporary jazz. The solo work of Silent, Listening (ECM, 2024) complements the trio work on The...Saturday, June 28, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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Defense lawyer Marc Agnifilo called the tumultuous relationship between Combs and singer Cassie Ventura "a great modern love story," and sought to dismantle the credibility of key witnesses.Friday, June 27, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Interviews
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EDM mega-star Steve Aoki continues to break genre boundaries with his new album HiROQUEST 3: Paragon.Friday, June 27, 2025 from NPR Topics: Music
Some of the Italian composer's most memorable film scores were recorded at Forum Studios in Rome's Parioli neighborhood.Friday, June 27, 2025 from NPR Topics: Music
Guy was one of the first guitarists to use electronic feedback and distortion. Now, at age 88, he has a cameo in Ryan Coogler's supernatural horror film Sinners. Originally broadcast in 1993.Friday, June 27, 2025 from NPR Topics: Music
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Anyone who has listened to at least some of the Posi-Tone releases from the past several years will recognize the personnel on Pivot Point: vibraphonist Behn Gillece 's eighth date as a leader. Tenor/soprano saxophonist Willie Morris, ,...Friday, June 27, 2025 from All About Jazz News
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Fred Hersch 's The Surrounding Green , his third release for ECM Records, is a testament to the art of the piano trio, combining lyrical introspection with sophisticated interplay. Recorded in May 2024 at Lugano's Auditorio Stelio Molo...Friday, June 27, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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Copenhagen 's Marie Mørck releases her third album, My One and Only Love, as a 20-something up-and-comer on the Danish vocal jazz scene. Her well-received earlier projects contained originals and standards, but My One and Only Love stays...Friday, June 27, 2025 from All About Jazz Feature Articles
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There is no sophomore slump on First Impressions, which is the second recording by the splendid young drummer Marcello Carelli's quartet/trio. It is one on which he not only anchors the rhythm section but also wrote nine of the studio...Thursday, June 26, 2025 from All About Jazz CD Reviews
Source marks the sophomore release from Italian pianist Lorenzo Bellini. After graduating from jny: Boston 's Berklee College of Music in 2021 with a performance major, Bellini formed lasting partnerships with his quartet members:...