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July 14, 2022

Rotterdam Ahoy. 8-10 July

The 3-day NN North Sea Jazz Festival operates from a single site, originally in The Hague and since 2006 at Rotterdam’Ahoy, a convention centre and multi-purpose indoor arena. With 12+ stages ranging from large halls for thousands to see the [...]

From the first track’s gentle suggestion to “Close Your Eyes” it feels clear that we’re being invited on a journey through a night of our own imagining, starting with “Dancing in the Dark” and progressing through “Makin’ Whoopee”, “It’s a [...]

The Village on the Green, Aspull. Wigan Jazz Festival. 8 July 2022

The music and legacy of British saxophonist, flautist, vibist and composer/arranger, Tubby Hayes was in full flow at the Wigan Jazz Fest. Returning after a two-year break due to the pandemic, one could not imagine a more fitting band to [...]

According to the late ebullient George Melly, it was George Bernard Shaw who described dancing as ‘a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire’. Fascinating to jazz aficionados because for at least half-a-century, jazz provided appropriate soundtracks to both expression and [...]

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