The Gig

The Gig

Rise Together

Notes from the Pittsburgh International Jazz Festival

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Nate Chinen
Sep 24, 2024
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Sean Jones Quartet, Pittsburgh Int’l Jazz Festival. Sept. 22, 2024. (The Gig)

Sean Jones was smiling as he looked out across the crowd thronging Liberty Avenue in downtown Pittsburgh on Sunday night. But in his onstage remarks as in his casually spectacular trumpet playing, the man wasn’t fooling around. First acknowledging that we happen to live in divi…

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