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In Jazz & The City’s first few years after 2000, it was just a festival like many others. Some local musicians would play the smaller halls, a few stars would grace the better-known venues. It was something like the Salzburger [...]
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 [...]
Krakow Jazz Week is about to get bigger, according to its Director Tomasz Handzlik. “This year, for the first time, we have combined Seifert Jazz Days and Jazz Juniors under one name. Next year, the Seifert Competition, the world’s only [...]
The distinguished Munich-based journalist Ralf Dombrowski sets the scene for the 60th Jazzfest Berlin, looking at the festival’s history, at the programme in general, and at one concert which is set to be a defining moment of this year’s event [...]
Jacob Collier is on a quest. And he has decided to let the audience be part of it. He has clearly found a few things already. For example the way he directs choirs is superb. The voice that he gives [...]
Here we publish a personal tribute to Peter Brötzmann by Munich jazz writer Ralf Dombrowski. First in English (*) and then Ralf’s original German. In sadness. Peter Brötzmann’s importance as a musician had many different sides, but what was absolutely [...]
They do things differently in Salzburg. Car drivers stop as soon as a pedestrian steps out onto the road. If you set your heart on being served a bad coffee, you are going to have your work cut out. And [...]
