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Renee Klahr/Think of the best songs of 2021 as a playlist catering to the most basic human urges. Within it, booties were called, muffins were buttered and bloody revenge was contemplated. It was quite a year. -
Renee Klahr/Think of the best songs of 2021 as a playlist catering to the most basic human urges. Within it, booties were called, muffins were buttered and bloody revenge was contemplated. It was quite a year.
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The Undead Music Festival hosts a nationwide "Night of the Living DIY" this Friday, organizing house concerts from Oakland to Brooklyn. As one grassroots concert presenter explains, living rooms might just be where improvisation thrives best. -
Pianist Christian Sands has an old-school jazz education — yet loves to riff over Kanye West beats and arrange OutKast songs. Of course, if you follow improvised music today, this is far from unusual.
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Hear Joshua Redman, Aaron Parks, Matt Penman and Eric Harland, live from the BeanTown Jazz Festival.
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Formell performs epic music and poetry, magical and real, about the Afro-Caribbean experience.
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Russ Gershon's new work, The Collected Unconscious, wails and rocks at the New School in New York.
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Hear the fervently imaginative trumpeter perform at Newport with his trio and special guests.
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From the stage at Newport, Figarova's sextet surveyed an iconic music scene — listeners on the lawn, Narragansett Bay in the background, boats floating in the harbor. Hear the pianist and her European group in a concert from the 2010 Newport Jazz Festival.
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From two stages at the Newport Jazz Festival, hear a gifted young singer and the Latin side of Herbie Hancock.
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Two unique emerging artists step out at the Litchfield Jazz Festival, the climax of a three-week jazz camp in Kent, Conn. Hear Gabriel Alegria's Afro-Peruvian jazz sextet and Gerald Clayton's piano trio in concert.
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At the 52nd Monterey Jazz Festival, three-quarters of the stellar fusion band Return to Forever reunited. Hear Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke and Lenny White — on piano, bass and drums, respectively — perform a highly charged acoustic set.
