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The inaugural Denver Jazz Fest unfurled over four days from April 3 to 6, 2025. The sprawling festival presented 32 concerts at 12 different venues throughout the Denver and Boulder area. The timing ...
Music and religion have been intertwined for as long as, well, music and religion have been around. For its fourth annual ...
Any band can spend years trying to hone their sound, but sometimes their hit songs don't do the best sales pitch for new fans. Read more here ...
Record Store Day is here once again and we at Far Out are first in the queue. Here are our collective £150 Record Store Day ...
The 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina feels particularly heavy as it forces us to confront the culmination of memory, ...
Formed in 1983, the Abu Shaar Brothers began as a Syrian quartet performing Islamic chants praising the Prophet Mohamed. The ...
Gumbo and oyster po’ boys, jazz and ... those in English colonies. Allowed to congregate on Sundays, they held market, danced to native drums and sang their call-and-response chants.
“Jazz has absorbed whatever was around from the very beginning,” the writer Francis Davis told Wen Stephenson in a 1996 ...
In this video, you'll learn how to play any jazz standard as a solo piano arrangement using just three core techniques. Using ...
I used to be a professional transcriber—and now, I'm sharing my full collection with you. This video gives you an inside look at my massive archive of jazz piano transcriptions, including complete ...
Jeremy Irons narrates a concert documentary on the annual celebration, featuring Herbie Hancock, Kurt Elling, Femi Kuti and ...
The Detroit Jazz Festival announced its 2025 lineup, featuring prominent national and international jazz acts. Jason Moran will be the 2025 artist-in-residence. The free festival takes place Labor ...