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Jim Snidero Returns To Cleveland On A Bird’s Feathers

Published 4 March, 2025 By John Chacona

Jim Snidero is about to hit the road, and he’s doing it the old-fashioned way—loading up the van and driving through the Midwest, playing night after night, city after city. And when he rolls into BOP STOP for a Friday, March 7 performance, he’ll bring the kind of musicians who turn heads: Peter Washington on bass and Jason Tiemann on drums.

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Chris Hovan’s Quartet Brings Generations Together at Bop Stop Gig

Published 25 January, 2022 By John Chacona

Jazz has so many dialectics, you’d think it was invented by Socrates or Hegel. Inside/outside, written/improvised, traditional/avant-garde: all are ways of arriving at the truth about jazz.

As a journalist as well as a player, Cleveland’s Chris Hovan is surely familiar with these admittedly reductive categories and more–like this one: young/old. It’s implied in the name of his Generations Quartet, which will appear Thursday night at Bop Stop at the Music Settlement.

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