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2 days ago |
jazzjournal.co.uk | Mark Gilbert
Ofri Nehemya might be a name familiar to those who’ve followed the work of such luminaries as Avishai Cohen (bass), Omer Avital, Shai Maestro, Ben Wendel, Eli Degibri, Aaron Goldberg, Gilad Hekselman, Yotam Silberstein and Avishai Cohen (trumpet). Israeli drummer and composer Nehemya played with them all. Born in 1994 to a musical family, Nehemya went to Thelma-Yellin High School for the Arts before moving to New York, aged 22.
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2 weeks ago |
jazzjournal.co.uk | Mark Gilbert
Just as Nigel Jarrett laments the dilution – even hijacking – of the word “jazz” by festivals featuring pop and increasingly resting on “inclusion” as a justification, Swanage in Dorset lays claim to hosting “‘the largest and purest jazz festival on the south coast of England”. Whatever jazz is or may be, the festival’s 2025 programme tends to bear out the proposition.
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1 month ago |
jazzjournal.co.uk | Mark Gilbert
For a third year Wandsworth – London Borough of Culture 2025 – presents Battersea Park in Concert over the summer bank-holiday weekend, this year 23-25 August.
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1 month ago |
jazzjournal.co.uk | Mark Gilbert
There has been a lot of excitement over the arrival yesterday in Denmark of one Miles Davis’s paintings. It is a painting gifted by Davis to saxophonist Bill Evans for the latter’s work in helping revive Davis’s career in the early 1980s. Evans has now loaned the painting to Danish pianist Sir Niels Lan Doky to enhance Epicurus, Lan Doky’s new jazz and dining venture in Copenhagen.
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2 months ago |
jazzjournal.co.uk | Mark Gilbert
“Sounded great!” quipped Scofield as drummer Bill Stewart suddenly dived off stage just as the trio had taken the stand. It was typical of the guitarist’s always amiable stagecraft, evident throughout the evening in clear, informative and sometimes wry announcements. Stewart was soon back, presumably having retrieved some forgotten item from the green room, and the band were into Blue Monk. The choice was indicative of the 70-minute set to come.
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