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A Late August Harvest of Music

August harvest

It’s getting to be a broken record, but one I love to play: Folks, this week is packed with great choices for lovers of improvised music in the Black American tradition (you can call it jazz if ya wanna).

Whereas the first week of the month belonged to eminent locals, this week is aswarm with internationally recognized touring artists representing an impossibly wide slice of the expanding musical tart tatine. It’s harvest season, after all, and for the next eight days, northeast Ohio can enjoy a bumper crop of musical delights, and every one a feast.

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One Night In The Midwest: Stein/Smith/Shead Meet The Moment

The improvising trio of bass clarinetist Jason Stein, double bassist Damon Smith and drummer Adam Shead released a three-CD set last Friday of recordings from a December tour recorded at venues in Milwaukee, Indianapolis, Lafayette, Indiana, St. Louis and Bloomington, Illinois entitled Five Nights in the Midwest (Irritable Mystic Records). Sharp-eyed readers might notice the absence of a Midwestern city close to our hearts. But fear not. The trio rolls into Waterloo Arts Sunday for a New Ghosts concert that comes at the two-third point of an 18-concert tour.

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