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Herbie Hancock, Diana Krall, Jon Batiste highlight 2023 Newport Jazz Festival lineup
- This summer, the Newport Jazz Festival will return to Fort Adams State Park from August 4-6.
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- EntertainmentThe Telegraph
Love Supreme Festival, review: the death of jazz has been greatly exaggerated
After a two-year hiatus Britain’s only outdoor jazz festival has come roaring back. When it was launched in 2013 by lawyer and jazz enthusiast Ciro Romano everyone told him he was mad. The weather in Britain was too unpredictable, and jazz just wasn’t cool enough to attract the necessary numbers. But he’s proved the doubters wrong. At the weekend there were 75,000 attendees, five times as many as in the launch year, making Love Supreme the biggest jazz festival in Europe.
- EntertainmentThe Telegraph
Regina Spektor finds God, and MUNA channel a Year Six disco – the week’s best albums
Regina Spektor’s eighth album opens with a strong gambit, as the Russian-American singer-songwriter describes an encounter with God on a New York street corner, conjuring this mystical visitation in cheerfully mundane terms: they decide to “grab a beer” and “we didn’t even have to pay / 'Cause God is God, and he’s revered”. Naturally, she has questions: “Why doesn’t it get better with time?” she wants to know, evoking the confusions and challenges of life with a particularly artful verse: “I jus
- EntertainmentThe Commercial Appeal
From Mavis Staples to Herb Alpert, these acts will perform during GPAC's upcoming season
Mavis Staples, Herb Alpert and The Milk Carton Kids are among the acts set to appear as part of Germantown Performing Art Center's 2022-23 season.
- EntertainmentVariety
Jon Batiste Debuts Lead Track From ‘Relief,’ All-Star Benefit Album for Jazz Foundation of America (EXCLUSIVE)
Recent Oscar winner and late-night star Jon Batiste is premiering a new track, “Sweet Loraine,” that serves as the leadoff single from an upcoming benefit album, “Relief: A Benefit for the Jazz Foundation of America’s Musicians Relief Fund.” Variety has the song’s exclusive debut, below. The album comes out on all formats — digital, CD […]
- EntertainmentLA Times
California Sounds: 5 essential songs of anti-racism
When future historians look back at this era in anti-racist music, they'd be advised to expand their search terms.
- EntertainmentConsequence of Sound
Lucinda Williams announces Car Wheels On a Gravel Road 20th anniversary tour
She'll play the album in full before segueing into a second set comprised of career highlights.
- NewsStereogum
Ugly Beauty: The Month In Jazz – August 2017
One of the first lessons I learned when I was first getting into jazz, back at the dawn of time, was Follow The Sidemen. If you hear a record that kicks your ass, write down the players' names and start looking for them. If Rudy Royston or Tyshawn Sorey or Johnathan Blake is on drums,…
- NewsThe Atlantic
The Re-Flowering: Charles Lloyd's Second Golden Age
The jazz saxophonist went from 1960s pop stardom to years of self-imposed exile, but he’s now producing some of the best music of his career.
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Montreux Jazz Festival celebrates 50th edition
Charles Lloyd, an American saxophonist who performed at the first edition in 1967, opened the celebrations at the Montreux Casino with his New Quartet -- accompanied by Jason Moran on piano, Reuben Rogers on bass and Eric Harland on drums. Miles Davis, Nina Simone, Aretha Franklin, Prince and Deep Purple have given legendary concerts at the event, which former co-director Quincy Jones calls the "Rolls-Royce" of festivals.
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Panic!’s Big Step Up, Hinds’ Howling Good Time & More
Panic! At The Disco: Death Of A Bachelor (DCD2/Fueled By Ramen) Where on one hand it might be easy to see this band as a remnant of an era that passed by a half-decade ago, there is no denying 1) A very strong fan base for it still exists (huge first-day numbers at iTunes), 2) this fifth studio album is effectively a solo album by band frontman Brandon Urie, and 3) It rocks in an appealing, Queen/Darkness/over-the-top chorused way. There are samples from and sonic nods to Frank Sinatra, the B52
