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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Now where were we? The last live gig that I attended was just before the level 3 lockdown. It seems like forever…
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In late March, with the novel coronavirus roaring through jazz as well as all other performing artists and in-person activities as an…
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“Because the pandemic pauses the present, it forces us to live in the future. The question I asked myself . . .is…
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Nothing can stop the music and musicians, not even a pandemic! [Ed.’s note: Pianist-composer-arranger-conductor John Beasley‘s 40 years of musical creativity has…
MoreA few days ago I conducted a Zoom interview with the noted Norwegian musician John Pål Inderberg. I was interested to learn…
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In her recently released Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit, author Eliese Colette Goldbach, a native Clevelander, called her hometown “an…
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China, the first country whose performing arts industry was directly affected by the pandemic, is now gradually allowing bars and clubs to…
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When Greece shut down schools and advised social distancing in early March, Greek bassist Petros Klampanis was on a plane to Bogotá,…
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As the U.S. economy craters in response to the Covid-19 virus, the mostly freelancing writers, photographers and videographers covering jazz are affected…
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New Zealand is a long way from Germany but the country has been on our minds recently. Our skies are all but…
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Today at 2 pm (PDT) Hermann’s Jazz Club of Victoria, BC is live-streaming Maria Manna’s Sunday Gospel, normally hosted monthly, as an…
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