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Esperanza Spalding on jamming with Prince, and the stunning upset of Justin Bieber
- A support slot with Prince set the stage for Esperanza Spalding’s 2011 Grammy win and a whole new level of recognition
The Times-Tribune, Scranton, Pa.Check out what's planned for the Scranton Jazz Festival starting Aug. 2
- The Times-Leader (Wilkes-Barre, Pa.)
Joe Lovano, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy coming to 19th Annual Scranton Jazz Festival
- The Times-Tribune, Scranton, Pa.
Scranton Jazz Festival schedule set
- Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
Twin Cities Jazz Festival announces Regina Carter, Stefon Harris for 2024 headliners
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Starring Jazz Guru Bill Frisell, Here's Why Paul Motian’s ‘On Broadway Vol. 1’ Is Essential Listening for Every Guitar Player
Bill Frisell’s innovative lines and chord voicings flow majestically on this masterful jazz recording
- EntertainmentAkron Beacon Journal
Cleveland native and saxophonist Lovano, Cleveland Jazz Orchestra to play at HüG in Akron
Cleveland native Joe Lovano, a Grammy-winning jazz saxophonist, returns home to perform with Cleveland Jazz Orchestra at the new HüG arts center in Akron.
- EntertainmentAssociated Press
Review: Lovano’s trio is post-free jazz in a chamber setting
The latest album from saxophonist Joe Lovano’s Trio Tapestry has almost no pulse but plenty of heart and soul. “Our Daily Bread,” released Friday, is post-free jazz in a chamber setting, and absorbing despite the lack of a bass or beat.
- LifestyleColumbia Daily Tribune
Notes and tones: Jazz festivals stretch through summer into Labor Day weekend
Road trip, anyone?
- EntertainmentThe Telegraph
Joe Lovano, Trio Fascination review, Village Vanguard, New York: all the right ingredients, just a tad undercooked
The pandemic has hit jazz hard, as it has every other art form. But jazz is used to surviving hard times, because that’s all it ever knows. Jazz lives an especially precarious existence because it falls between two stools, being neither a “high art” deserving a proper place at the funding table, nor popular enough to survive in the marketplace. Ironically, given its roots, its existence is especially hand-to-mouth in America. In Europe a trickle of funding descends down to jazz; in the US it’s b
