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After Ralf Dombrowski’s report of the opening weekend of Suedtirol Festival 2024, Oliver Weindling reports on its closing days Oliver Weindling writes: Suedtirol Festival’s change of artistic directors, from Klaus Widmann, to the present triumvirate of Max von Prest, Roberto [...]
Artists/bands covered: Live Nation’s NN North Sea Jazz Festival (NSJ) had noticeably fewer jazz ‘superstars’ on offer this year. Nevertheless, the continued embarrassment of riches, provided plenty of highlights to impress both casual NSJ ‘newbies’ and festival old hands alike. [...]
In the first of UKJN’s reports from this year’s 42nd Suedtirol Jazzfestival Alto Adige, 28 June to 7 July, Ralf Dombrowski reports on: – No Sax No Clar– Maria Faust’s “Mass of Mary”– Malstrom– Bonbon Flamme-Oli Steidle– Y-Otis We include [...]
The last of this year’s four serenade concerts was a departure into new territory . “We wanted to bring in a different sonic palette,” explained Andreas Meixner, who alongside Professor Stefan Baier is artistic director of the concert series at [...]
The following is an interview between jazz journalist Morgan Enos and saxophonist, composer, and bandleader Lakecia Benjamin. Benjamin just spent a week as a special guest with the Late Show Band on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, where Colbert [...]
Like A Jazz Machine cleverly mixes higher profile acts with music of some of the leading and up-and-coming local bands in a five-day festival (I attended days 3 and 4). It takes place in a modern arts complex in Dudelange, [...]
There are four musicians in The Billy Mohler Quartet. Yet after leaving their gig at Rizzoli bookstore on Sunday 19 May, I couldn’t help feeling that the name was a little misleading; their sound and energy felt more like a [...]
Now running for over 30 years, the Kaleidophon festival takes place at the Jazzatelier in the small town of Ulrichsberg in Upper Austria. It is an intimate but welcoming event for free improvised jazz and contemporary music. The venue itself [...]
One of my obvious takeaways from taking on the role of running the UK’s presence at the jazzahead! trade fair last month is the constant demand for independently-minded UK and UK-connected acts and artists all across Northern Europe. Evidence to [...]
As part of the celebrations of European Capital of Culture in Bad Ischl and the Salzkammergut region, the beautiful Austrian equivalent of the Lake District, pianist Roberto Magris from Trieste brought together an international group of like-minded musicians (or “long-standing [...]
