Joe Lovano live in concert.
ON TOUR

Joe Lovano

12
critic concert reviews
jazz

How Good Are They LIVE?

Live Rating  

83
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12
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Last 12 Months Rating  
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Real Live Certified  

Real Live Certified badge for artists with consistent, high quality live performances and broad critical acclaim.

Critic Consensus

Joe Lovano is 'Real Live Certified' and is in the top 10% of all live performers. Based on 12 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Joe Lovano is rated as a superb live performer, with remarkable shows that are worth watching. Joe Lovano concert reviews describe live shows and performances as inventive and adventurous.

ON TOUR

Pražská Konzervatoř, Praha, Czech Republic (November 5); TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht, Netherlands (January 25)

Latest Release

Our Daily Bread (5 May 2023)

Artist Info

Genre
jazz
Origin
Cleveland, United States (12/29/1952)
Bio
Joseph Salvatore Lovano was born in Cleveland, Ohio on December 29, 1952 and grew up in a very musical household. His dad, Tony, aka Big T, was a barber by day and a big-toned tenor player at night.
Has Performed With
Dave Douglas

Critic Concert Reviews

Nippertown (USA)

August 15, 2023
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Joe Lovano is an iconic saxophonist not only on the national jazz scene but also on the global scene. To have him play as a guest soloist with a top-notch 17-member big band was certainly a treat for the full house at the Falcon on August 13th.

Jazzwise (UK)

November 28, 2022
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Joe Lovano with the Marcin Wasilewski Trio power-up Pančevo Jazz Festival

Jazzwise (UK)

September 1, 2022
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Having held off a full iteration during the past two pandemic affected years, there was a bounty of all-star jazz talent at the return of top Belgian festival

Nippertown (USA)

March 10, 2020
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The latest episode in Teri Roiger & John Menegon's “Jazzstock” series was billed as “An Evening of Expressive Music with Joe Lovano & Friends.” Mind you, “expressive” can be both defined and interpreted in many ways; also, not to put too fine a point on it, nobody in the jazz world expresses himself like Lovano.

Jazzwise (UK)

November 29, 2017
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A quiet, post-industrial town separated from Serbia's capital Belgrade by the Danube.

The Guardian (UK)

October 25, 2016
80
%
On the first of two nights at Ronnie Scott’s the quintet played some robust originals and put inventive Cuban spins on both swing classics and Thelonious Monk quotes with lyricism and wit.

The Guardian (UK)

October 22, 2012
100
%
Soundprints is a reference to the saxophonist Wayne Shorter's famous theme Footprints.

Past critic reviews published in

The Key (USA), The Quietus (UK), National Post (Canada), Record Collector Magazine (UK)

Image Credit

Bjorn Erik Pedersen [CC BY-SA 4.0] via Wikimedia Commons