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Virgil Mihaiu

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Belgrade Jazz Fest: International, Indefatigable

November 22, 2025

Photos by Jarko Vesic One of Europe’s most impressive jazz festivals – Beogradski Jazz Festival – has created and maintained, for over…

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Our man in Romania reports: Uprooted voices at Bran Castle

October 4, 2025

Now in its 12th edition, the Bran Jazz Festival is consolidating its prestige year after year. Although the seats available for spectators…

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Jazz bridges East and West: JAM Montenegro 2025

June 26, 2025

Since 2011, I have had the chance to participate in most editions of Jazz Appreciation Month in Montenegro (= JAM Montenegro). Pianist…

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Jazz intrigue – the Russian emigré who’s helped an international avant-garde elude totalitarianism

December 4, 2024

A new Romanian film documents the man behind invaluable, Quixotic Leo Records, and reunited the author with Leo Feigin after 30 years.…

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Int’l Jazz Day and 17th annual JAM in Montenegro

May 28, 2024

 Each new descent into Montenegro brings me emotional fulfillments similar to those generated by great music. That makes the exhausting journey with…

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Jazz Month 2023 in Montenegro, with French and Albanian accents

July 26, 2023

As author of a volume about F. Scott Fitzgerald – the creator of the Jazz Age “brand” – I cannot resist a…

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Jazz Worldwide

Letter from Cluj, of jazz and culture

January 7, 2023

Virgil Mihaiu has been a JJA member for some 30 years, supporting and reporting on music and other subjects (he is a…

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Jazz Worldwide

Vilnius Mama Jazz fest at 21: Big tent across Baltic borders

June 29, 2022

Anthony Braxton’s ensemble “systematizing unconventional sounds, grouped on atonal principles” received a standing ovation from a full house; frail but valiant Vladmir…

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Jazz Rebounds: at Bran Castle, Romania, music gives hope

October 6, 2021

Like many well-reputed jazz festivals, the one hosted by Romania’s emblematic Bran Castle is the work of a music lover with a…

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Jazz Rebounds in Romania: International Gărâna Fest endures despite virus

August 31, 2020

2020’s pandemic notwithstanding, the 24th edition of Romania’s Gărâna Jazz Festival held in early August provided an example of continuity and international…

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Jazz Appreciation Month 2011 in Montenegro

November 17, 2011

Although Montenegro reemerged on the world’s map only a few years ago, its jazz community has quickly found an adequate organizational structure:…

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