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- Written by: Donald Helme
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Read more: The Christmas Box 2024
(The Ghost of Christmas Past)
Celebrating Christmas and also celebrating the 90th anniversary of the campaign to ban jazz in Ireland, which seems to have failed.
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- Written by: Werner Lewon
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- Category: All Other Jazz
Read more: Tales from the far Side 19.12.24 A Freedom Jazz Dance for the New Year
On this edition I try to express the wish for peace and and hope in this war-torn World, expressing it with the most peaceful, colourful, varied and innovative art form of this world and that of course is JAZZ !!!
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Read more: The Hot Box #133 - Remembering Quincy Jones
The celebrated composer, orchestrator and arranger, and sometime trumpet player, Quincy Jones, died November 3rd aged 91. The Hot Box looks at the jazz contribution he made in the latter part of the 20th century, with tracks from Frank Sinatra, Sarah Vaughan, Ray Charles, Nat King Cole and the man himself.
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- Written by: Werner Lewon
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Read more: Tales from the far Side 12.12.24 Young female European Pianists
On this edition I feature some of the best up-coming and established young female Jazz Pianists in Europe featuring the Liv Andrea Hauge Trio, Sunna Gunnlaugs, Francisca Tandoi, Kaja Draksler, Olivia Trummer, Anja Lauvdal, Anne Iversen and others
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- Written by: Daniel Rorke
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Read more: Album Review: Shane Latimer – Residuum
Shane Latimer is one of the most truly unique musicians I know. Not merely a prodigious talent when playing straight-ahead Jazz, he is also a singularly arresting practitioner of Free Jazz and “Improvised Music” (whatever that is). In recent years he has turned his death-ray-like musical stare in the direction of electronica, using synthesisers and other occult means of interacting technologically with sound to produce consistently surprising results. The result of his years of experimentation is Residuum available through Diatribe Records, the title of which is allegedly not a commentary upon the government’s housing policy.
It would serve you well to cast aside any assumptions you may have about both Jazz musicians and electronic music before you enter Latimer’s world. This is not your father’s Jazz-musician-makes-electronic-stuff album. I could not possibly begin to assign any sense of genre to this music. It is surely a record filtered through the guitarist’s exceptional knowledge of aesthetic, form, harmony, and structure, however the result reveals itself like a fractal landscape of sonic shapes and events that sprout new lands and new topography at every turn. Expectation and supposition are the enemy of experience here. Comparisons or congruencies don’t apply. This music is its own thing and I advise clean ears when approaching it.
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- Written by: Werner Lewon
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Read more: Tales from the far Side 05.12.24 The Blue (s) of the Winter-the best in Jazz
On this edition I'ld like to warm your hearts with some winter-themed Jazz. Come rain, come snow, come storm, jazz will keep us warm.
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Read more: Tales from the far Side 28.11.24 Another musical Walk into the magic of Jazz
On this edition, I once again put on my musical Walking Boots and lead you into the magic of Jazz with music connected with all kinds of Walking.
Read more: Tales from the far Side 28.11.24 Another musical Walk into the magic of Jazz