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I have heard Brigitte Beraha twice in the past few weeks, and can’t help feeling that there is something special going on: if such a thing as perfect singing exists, Brigitte Beraha, on her own terms, is surely getting even [...]
Who knew? That Christian McBride and Kurt Rosenwinkel, were contemporaries and friends at the Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts (CAPA)? “We’ve known each other for 37 years,” McBride explained. As a teenager at the school, Rosenwinkel’s main [...]
Guildhall Jazz Orchestra, Guildhall Jazz Singers, directed by Scott StromanGuildhall Jazz Percussion Ensemble, directed by Adriano Adewale & Ines LoubetSilk Street Concert Hall. 28 June 2024 “To celebrate four decades of jazz at Guildhall is to celebrate Scott Stroman”, said [...]
“How did these people get so good?” This was the question Adrian Chiles asked in a Guardian piece yesterday (*), with the title “I may not understand jazz – but I know enough to know it’s wonderful”. I wasn’t expecting [...]
Alex Dutilh‘s show Open Jazz on France-Musique, broadcast from 6pm to 7pm CET, Mondays to Fridays from late August until the end of June is one of the cornerstones of the French jazz scene, and among the most influential jazz [...]
“We should all stand up,” said Thomas Quasthoff. So we did. “And click our fingers on the two and the four of the bar.” That too. Brahms’s “Wiegenlied” Op. 49/4 had been ‘jazzed’ for us into 4/4, and became the [...]
jazzahead! have announced in their newsletter today that three countries will be jointly in focus as Partner Countries for 2025: Spain, France and Switzerland. There will also be videos of 2024 showcase performances going up on the jazzahead! YouTube channel [...]
Trumpeter Steven Nichols, originally from the Cotswolds, was set on playing the trumpet from a very early age. A 2022 graduate from the Royal Academy of Music, and these days consistently praised for his fabulous sound, his debut album From [...]
Sebastian attended the 16th Jazzdor Festival in Berlin. A write-up of the first show is HERE. In this second piece he picks just a few highlights and themes (*) from the remainder of the festival… Jazzdor Strasbourg-Berlin-Dresden, of which 2024 [...]
Michel Godard trio with Florian Weber and Anne Paceo (*) Did I hear a slight flicker of emotion, even of nostalgia in Philippe Ochem‘s voice as he announced the opening of the sixteenth Jazzdor Berlin-Strasbourg Festival last night? If there [...]
