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6 April 2016

--- Patricia Mannie reports about the retirement of 87-year-old pianist Al Gord ( The Suburban Times).

--- Andrew R. Chow reports about the upcoming Cecil Taylorretrospective at the Whitney Museum ( New York Times). The contractor who had stolen the prize money for Cecil Taylor's Kyoto Prize was sentenced to prison in Monday ( New York Times).

--- Perry Stein reports about the closing of the Bohemian Caverns in Washington, D.C. ( Washington Post).

--- Stefan Franzen hears the saxophonist Manu Dibango in Freiburg, Germany ( Badische Zeitung).

--- Jördis Bachmann talks to Thomas Eckardt about the Jenaer Jazzfrühling festival, but also about the jazzstudie2016 about living and working conditions of jazz musicians in Germany ( Thüringische Landeszeitung ).

--- Bruce Ingram talks to the pianist Willie Pickens about the Ravinia Jazz Mentors program in Chicago ( Chicago Tribune).

--- Neil Elkes reports about plans for a statue commemorating the late British saxophonist Andy Hamilton ( Birmingham Mail).

--- Zachary Woolfe sees and hears the opera "Charlie Parker's Yardbird" at the Apollo Theater ( New York Times).

--- Elke Silberer reports about how rumors about the financial situation of the moers festival have damaged the event's reputation ( Die Welt).

--- Meridee Duddleston talks to the bassist and future artistic director of the Newport Jazz Festival Christian McBride ( WRTI).

from: http://www.jazzinstitut.de/?lang=en