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A rich seam of jazz guitars and interesting duo performers meet an immersive cloud of ambience in a month full of enticing jazz action.

Ira Dot is the project of Canadian musicians Ryan Akler-Bishop and Eddy Wang. As artists, the duo have stretched their work across a wide canvas: Wang is a filmmaker, multidisciplinary artist, and PhD ...

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He sang and co-wrote some of the definitive teenage anthems of the 1950s and early ’60s, including “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do,” and then reinvented his career in the ’70s.