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Tom Step reports from Jazz in the Park. 30 August- 1 September 2024, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Artists: DAOUD, Qinta Spartă and Norzeatic, Oreglo, Jazzbois, Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox, Isfar Sarabski, Cymande, Orchestra Baobab, Tigran Hamasyan Trio, Avishai Cohen Trio, Roni Kaspi [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 US alto player, cultural omnivore and all-round creative force John Zorn may have been a circus ringmaster in his other life. Invited to showcase multiple projects at Jazzaldia this year, the prolific composer mustered six different combinations from eight [...]
I was in the building when Killer Mike got arrested at the Grammy Awards. Well, sort of: I was in a darkened “war room” at Los Angeles’s Crypto.com Arena, exhaustedly working the show amid a sea of glowing screens, as [...]
After six decades, the annual festival in the breathtaking Basque seaside town San Sebastián (Donostia) has a tried and tested mix in its schedule. Overseas visitors take in a well-judged selection from the US artists on Summer visits to Europe. [...]
Gaume Jazz reaches its 40th edition in 2024. Which is all the more impressive because the festival resolutely remains outside the mainstream, and has had the same artistic director, Jean-Pierre Bissot, since the start. It takes place in the village [...]
