Oliver Weindling reports from the Rencontres AJC, where a new cohort of Jazz Migration bands was showcased, and a cross-border initiative “Jazz With” was launched. The Annual Meeting in Paris of AJC (Association Jazz Croisé) includes two nights of performances. [...]
Oliver Weindling reports from having spent three evenings in succession at Porgy and Bess club in Vienna. He writes: An eclectic three days at Porgy and Bess in Vienna, proving how it’s a venue really at the peak of the [...]
The Jazzdor festival itself has become a major “brand” for some of the exciting, and indeed European, jazz. It has built from the foundation of its annual festival in Strasbourg, which started in 1986, also to include an annual festival [...]
This 3-day event was a meeting of 10 musicians, where five from the UK were invited to work with five musicians living in Portugal, as part of the annual festival organised by Jazz ao Centro Clube Coimbra. The event’s imaginative [...]
Bernd Zimmermann and Susanne Pohlen’s New Colours Festival is now in its third year. The promoters – who also present the monthly series FineArtJazz – are determined to show that Gelsenkirchen in the Ruhr does have interesting things to offer, [...]
Bozcaada Jazz Festival has taken place since 2017 on a small island which is about 5 hours by car – plus a 30 minute ferry ride – from Istanbul. Just a few minutes outside the island’s main town, it has [...]
Artists: * Han Bennink, Ingrid Laubrock, Marta Warelis* Christophe Monniot /Didier Ithursarry* Kuhn Fu (Christoph Kühn, Tobias Delius, Frank Gratkowski, John Dikeman, Ziv Taubenfeld)* Julie Sassoon Quartet with Lothar Ohlmeier, Rudy Fischerlehner, Meinrad Kneer* Max Andrzejewski, Camila Nebbia /James Banner [...]
Gaume Jazz Festival celebrated its 40th edition from 9 to 11 August. As with so many other festivals, this festival has been run from the beginning by one person, Jean-Pierre Bissot, who has carefully nurtured and adapted the programme. It [...]
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. [...]
