Horace Silver: North Sea Jazz Festival, 1994

March 18, 2025

My apologies. TypePad, the platform on which JazzWax sits, experienced server problems and was down yesterday and this morning, keeping me from posting. Hey, it happens. [Photo above of Horace Silver in a publicity still] Now that it's back up, I'm serving up an hour of Horace Silver and his band at the North Sea Jazz ...

Jazz on Soul, Pop, Rock, Folk, and other intangible territories - Part 2

by Artur Moral
November 7, 2024

Part 1 | Part 2 James Carter soloing on a song by Sting? A prolific French guitarist and producer, approaching his thousandth album, deconstructing one of Billy Joel's most candid love songs? A Spanish trumpeter translating the Bee Gees into the jazz language? Yes, all this will happen in this second installment of a ...

Decades of Worldwide Promotion By the Man in the Room

by Arthur R George
April 14, 2023

A Life In Music Wulf M��ller 384 Pages ISBN: # 9798353190752 Amazon Direct Publishing2022 Working in Europe and facilitating jazz internationally, Wulf M��ller reveals himself in his autobiography A Life in Music (Amazon Direct Publishing, 2022) as a man who for 40 years was in the rooms where ...

Joe Lovano: Cleveland's Ultimate Jazz Titan

by Matthew Alec
December 20, 2022

Friday, June 24th, 2022, saxophonist Joe Lovano's group Sound Prints (alongside trumpeter and co-leader Dave Douglas) delivered a tour de force performance to spellbound audience members at the historic Mimi Ohio Theatre in Playhouse Square as a part of Cleveland's annual Tri-C JazzFest. Seasoned group interplay between drummer Rudy Royston, bassist Matt Penman, and pianist Leo ...

North Sea Jazz Festival 2019

by Ljubinko Zivkovic
July 19, 2019

North Sea Jazz Festival Rotterdam, The Netherlands July 12-14, 2019 For a while now, jazz festivals have lost their exclusivity and being a musical source for just jazz fans or those who wanted to get involved in the scene. More commercial artists from other musical genres have actually become a ...

Vincent Houdijk

Born: May 18, 1981

Vincent Houdijk

is a virtuoso, versatile, Dutch percussionist, with a preference for his specialization; the vibraphone. The combination of his classical and jazz studies gave him a broad view on music. Houdijk has an investigative attitude, curious about many various types of collaborations within music and musical styles. He masters many percussion instruments and has mainly focused on the vibraphone in the past 15 years. His music style cannot be described in one word since his inspiration is mainly influenced by world music, classical, minimal and improvised music. Vincent Houdijk is an inspiring music artist and teacher with an open mind.

Meet Tom Wells

by Tessa Souter and Andrea Wolper
October 2, 2017

Born and raised in that other “capital of jazz"--Kansas City, birthplace of Charlie Parker--Super Fan Tom Wells, along with long-time jazz date, his wife, Geri St. Clair (a future Super Fan--stay tuned!), is a huge supporter of the local scene. How huge? Well, Tom and Geri once followed the University of Missouri Kansas City's Jazz Orchestra ...

North Sea Jazz Festival Recap: A Moveable, Musical Feast

by Joan Gannij
July 22, 2015

North Sea Jazz Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands July 10-12, 2015 Three days immersed in sounds and sensations. Followed by two days at home in zombie mode, zen silence. Rather than do an exhausting commute from Amsterdam to Rotterdam each day (by train or auto (50 miles / 75 kilometers each way), I ...

North Sea Jazz Festival 2015: The Roller Coaster Has Taken Off

by Joan Gannij
July 11, 2015

Jan Willem Luyken, Director of the North Sea Jazz Festival, has a lot to celebrate this year. It is not only the 40th anniversary of the popular festival, it's also the tenth anniversary of their move from the Hague to Rotterdam, and the year that Luyken became director. Described as “the world's largest indoor music festival," ...

Take Five with Aaron Akins

by AAJ Staff
June 23, 2015

Aaron Akins' music is something out of the ordinary.?After all, a voice strongly reminiscent of Nat “King" Cole wrapped up in a sophisticated urban beat is not something heard every day. Stir the ingredients, jazz it up a little, and Aaron Akins might be it.?Produced by Darryl?Swann (Macy Gray), the singer's second studio album ...