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Jazz Preview: Luciana Souza’s “The Book of Longing” & Yellowjackets

November 5, 2018
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Why this team up? Other than that both Luciana Souza and the Yellowjackets have been nominated for multiple Grammys?

Jazz CD Review: Harold López-Nussa — Rhythms Charming and Churning

June 30, 2018
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Pianist Harold López-Nussa is his own bold and expressive rhythm section.

Jazz CD Reviews: A Trio of Adventurous Jazz Vocalists

January 27, 2018
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Three jazz singers go outside of the Great American Songbook — with entrancing results.

Jazz CD Review: “MONKestra, Volume Two” — Reinventing Monk

August 15, 2017
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John Beasley and his big band doesn’t tame Monk or make him uncharacteristically pretty.

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