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Read more: The Hot Box #086 – All New Material
A plethora of all-new material this time around in The Hot Box 086 including a great set from John Donegan’s Irish Sextet and the long awaited blues bonanza on Nigel Mooney’s Mooney’s Blues.
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- Written by: Werner Lewon
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Read more: Tales from the far Side 15.09.22 Preview of Limerick Jazz Festival 2022
On today's edition I have a glimpse at this year's Limerick Jazz Festival with its exciting line-up and I feature some of the appearing artists
Read more: Tales from the far Side 15.09.22 Preview of Limerick Jazz Festival 2022
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- Written by: Werner Lewon
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On this week's edition I bring you further into 21st Century Jazz with Part 2 of my exploration with contribution by Irreversible Entanglements, Luke Stewart, James Brandon Lewis, Moor Mother, Chad Taloy and others. And I pay also tribute to the late great Jamie Branch
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- Written by: Werner Lewon
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Read more: Tales from the far Side 01.09.22 A Jazz September Song
Bringing you gently into the month of September with some great Jazz by John Scofield, Sarah Vaughan, Enrico Pieranunzi, Donald Harrison, Dinah Washington, Roy Hargrove, Sidney Bechet, Christof Lauer, Eric Alexander, the Cookers and others ...
Even when the days are getting shorter, there are longer nights for JAZZ .......
Read more: Tales from the far Side 01.09.22 A Jazz September Song
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Read more: Tales from the far Side 25.08.22 Jack DeJohnette at 80
On this edition I celebrate Drummer jack DeJohnette's 80th Birthday with a selection from his rich and innovative recording back catalogue as a leader and as a sideman.
Read more: Tales from the far Side 25.08.22 Jack DeJohnette at 80
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- Written by: Werner Lewon
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Read more: Tales from the far Side 18.08.22 Another Kind of Blue, the colour Blue in Jazz
On this edition I reflect about the different shades of the colour BLUE with some different styles of JAZZ, with music by Charles Mingus, Jackie McLean, McCoy Tyner, Linda May Han Oh, Michael Wollny, Cowboys and Frenchmen, Tom Harrell, Pasquale Grasso and others
Read more: Tales from the far Side 18.08.22 Another Kind of Blue, the colour Blue in Jazz
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Read more: The Hot Box #085 - Jazz Times’s Top 10
And the Hot Box gets to number 85!
This time, a few samples from the Jazz Times’s Top 10 albums of the 1980s, together with a review of the new Palmetto release by baritone and clarinet star Brian Landrus. And the third and final track, never before heard, of the Louis Stewart/Honor Heffernan acoustic session.