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Ambrose Akinmusire QuartetSamora Pinderhughes/ EOS Kammerorchester I am spending a couple of days in Cologne, and this is going to be the first of three concert reviews from Cologne Jazz Week. CJW is a major festival, with a lot going [...]
Nigel Price announced the launch of his latest recording, Live ’23, with the Organ Trio in a performance at Alfie’s in Soho. It represents the culmination of a 43 date tour in 2023 that covered the length and breadth of [...]
What do flash mobs on public transport, synthetic ensembles of musical machinery and an impromptu concert on a rowing boat all have in common? Well, they were all regular sights during last week’s Jazzfestival Saalfelden in Austria. For several decades, [...]
Herbie Hancock once opined that the spirit of jazz was the spirit of openness. The Herne Bay Jazz Festival organisers, including its musical director, vocalist Kai Hoffman, have tapped into that feeling perfectly. It’s a non-profit festival and most of [...]
Météo Mulhouse Festival (Six venues in Mulhouse, Alsace. 21-24 August 2024. Review by Tony Dudley-Evans) The Météo Mulhouse Festival, known as Jazz à Mulhouse from 1983, and under its current name since 2009, has always been known for its adventurous programming. In the [...]
Franz Hackl, the trumpeter whose brainchild Outreach Festival is, splits his time between New York and Schwaz, his hometown, a few miles down-river from Innsbruck. The festival, now in its 32nd edition, is the highlight of the Outreach Academy, a [...]
Konfrontationen Festival takes place in Nickelsdorf, a small village about an hour east of Vienna, right on the Hungarian border. The festival has now reached its 44th edition. Report by Oliver Weindling on the 2024 festival’s middle day, 27 July. [...]
The Inntöne Festival gave more opportunities than ever to hear the carefully-curated selections of Paul Zauner. The Friday of the festival had just four main bands, but on Saturday and Sunday he had programmed 13 hours a day of non-stop [...]
Duke Ellington, orch. Morton GouldSolitude, Mood Indigo, Sophisticated Lady, Caravan Mary Lou WilliamsZodiac Suite Anthony BraxtonComposition No. 27. (+46, 59, 63, 146, 147, 151, Language Music) It is of course in the tradition of the Proms to programme some examples [...]
It was a lovely summer’s evening, the skies above the river and reed beds outside Snape Maltings were empty and silent, but inside the concert hall the audience was filling the seats in expectation of a great night of music, [...]
