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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. [...]
It’s a slam dunk. By general agreement Wayne Shorter was one of the greatest instrumentalists and composers in the history of jazz. Equally, his final quartet, with pianist Danilo Pérez, bassist John Patitucci and drummer Brian Blade is accepted to [...]
British guitarist Ant Law joins forces here with Milan-born Turkish-British singer Brigitte Beraha for a short but emotionally potent set. Law is a stalwart of the UK jazz scene, but this album represents a couple of significant musical departures for [...]
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 [...]
In future years, Emmet Cohen should always be remembered as the ebullient jazz musician whose online performances during Covid, live from his Harlem apartment, raised our spirits and almost vanquished our lockdown blues. But now, with this album recorded early [...]
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, [...]
The location of the Gǎrâna Jazz Festival is appropriately called Poiana Lupului, meaning “wolf’s glens”. Perhaps it reflects the attitude of the musicians: playful, sharp, fearless and cunning! A main focus of the first few days of the festival, which [...]
The word had surely got out in advance but there were still some present who genuinely didn’t know what they had come to hear. Which was Wynton Marsalis playing an unannounced gig to open Edinburgh International Festival’s Up Lates programme. [...]
