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Saturday October 18, 2025 08:00 PM EDT
Promontory XV is a site-specific, public art performance by multimedia artist Hormuz Minina to take place in a hidden chasm off the BeltLine’s Eastside Trail, adjacent to the parking deck of the Fourth Ward Offices. The live performance will explore the intersection between nature and urban developm... | more...

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Wednesday July 17, 2024 12:00 PM EDT
Enjoy a free concert and lunch featuring internationally acclaimed 4th Ward Afro-Klezmer Orchestra, and eight-piece horn driven klezmer-funk-jazz-rock ensemble performing original compositions and arrangements combining West African influenced rhythms with Eastern European klezmer melodies. The 4th ... | more...

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Wednesday July 17, 2024 12:00 PM EDT
Plan to meet your friends downtown for Feed Your Senses, the Rialto’s free monthly lunch-and-learn performing arts series. FREE performance with lunch provided while supplies last. Internationally acclaimed 4th Ward Afro-Klezmer Orchestra is a eight-piece horn-driven klezmer-funk-jazz-rock ensembl... | more...

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Friday June 14, 2024 08:00 PM EDT
Event Description Internationally acclaimed 4th Ward Afro-Klezmer Orchestra is a eight piece horn driven klezmer-funk-jazz-rock ensemble performing original compositions and arrangements combining West African influenced rhythms with Eastern European Klezmer melodies. 4th Ward A.K.O. features a... | more...

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Wednesday May 17, 2023 12:00 PM EDT
Atlanta saxophonist Jeff Crompton has been playing his off-center brand of original jazz here and throughout the Southeast for 40 years. Jeff has performed with Michael J.Smith, Eugene Chadbourne, Mike Baggetta, the 4th Ward Afro-Klezmer Orchestra, and many others. He currently leads several ensembl... | more...

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Tuesday May 2, 2023 04:53 PM EDT
We just live in it | more...

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Thursday December 1, 2022 04:37 PM EST
Keep your soul nourished for the holidays | more...

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Thursday November 3, 2022 12:19 PM EDT
Tatsuya Nakatani and his Gong Orchestra roll into No Tomorrow | more...

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Friday September 9, 2022 08:00 PM EDT
NAG | Judy and The Jerks | Blammo | Ryan Vitamin | + Irrelevant Music DJs | more...

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Cornet player Roger Ruzow leads the eight-piece jazz ensemble 4th Ward Afro-Klezmer Orchestra through performances of original compositions and arrangements merging klezmer music with West-African influenced rhythmic styles. The lineup also features Bill Nittler (bari sax/clarinet), Noah Kess (drums... | more...

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Tuesday May 31, 2022 08:00 PM EDT
Jeff Crompton was born in Atlanta in 1958. For 30 years, beginning in 1982, he taught public school band in the Atlanta area. During that period, he played with a variety of bands and musicians, including pianist/composer Michael J. Smith, Darryl Rhoades, and The BazookaAnts, a free jazz/funk trio. ... | more...

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Sunday May 15, 2022 04:00 PM EDT
Jeff Crompton was born in Atlantain 1958. For 30 years, beginning in 1982, he taught public school band in the Atlanta area. During that period, he played with a variety of bands and musicians, including pianist/composer Michael J. Smith, Darryl Rhoades, and The BazookaAnts, a free jazz/funk trio. S... | more...

Best Local Jazz Act BOA Award Winner

Year » 2009
Section » Archives » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2009 » After Dark » Critics Pick
The 4th Ward Afro-Klezmer Orchestra

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Website: Jeff Crompton was born in Atlanta in 1958. For 30 years, beginning in 1982, he taught public school band in the Atlanta area. During that period, he played with a variety of bands and musicians, including pianist/composer Michael J. Smith, Darryl Rhoades, and The Bazooka Ants, a free jazz/f... | more...

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While reliving memories from some of the more brash and hedonistic shows that have come to define Upchuck's meteoric rise through Atlanta's indie music scene since 2018, singer KT and guitarist Mikey remember one close call they had while heading to an afterparty.

As the story goes, half ex... | more...

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Wednesday June 5, 2019 12:00 PM EDT
6.5.2019. | more...

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Friday January 25, 2019 10:43 AM EST
The jazz maestro drops an album of adventurous collaborations | more...

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Thursday July 19, 2018 02:09 PM EDT
The sax player was an ambassador for Atlanta's creative music scene | more...

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Tuesday December 5, 2017 05:29 PM EST
Flap, Bill Pritchard, and more 2017 standouts to hear now | more...

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Friday October 20, 2017 09:54 PM EDT
Chamber-jazz trio featuring members of Faun and A Pan Flute and 4th Ward AKO shows off material from new album | more...

Best Local Jazz Act BOA Award Winner

Year » 2013
Section » Archives » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2013 » After Dark » Critics Pick
Eric Fontaine
While much of saxophonist/clarinetist Eric Fontaine's musical catalog falls into the category of jazz composition, there is a growing output of his work that can be filed under improvisation. Fontaine's alternately smooth and explosive playing has graced Atlanta's jazz scene for more than a decade. He'smore...
While much of saxophonist/clarinetist Eric Fontaine's musical catalog falls into the category of jazz composition, there is a growing output of his work that can be filed under improvisation. Fontaine's alternately smooth and explosive playing has graced Atlanta's jazz scene for more than a decade. He's played with acts as diverse as the Soulphonics and the 4th Ward Afro-Klezmer Orchestra, among many others. In his new Living Space Trio, Fontaine joins with cellist/guitarist Benjamin Shirley and percussionist Scotty Bryan for a reflective journey through time and space that can be heard on two different recordings for the local Behip Records label. These days, Fontaine frequents Elliott Street Pub's Tuesday night Kevin Scott jams and the Sounds from the Underground series. Not only has his documentation of the local jazz scene been constant and concise, as evidenced by the treasure trove of clips on his YouTube channel, he's a major contributor to the seismic rumblings that define the raw and esoteric corners of Atlanta's jazz, rock, and experimental music scenes. www.ericfontainejazz.com. less...