JazzFest Berlin 2024

by John Sharpe
November 11, 2024

JazzFest Berlin 2024 Haus Der Berliner Festspiele Berlin, Germany October 31-November 3, 2024 Intro For its sixtieth edition, the renowned JazzFest Berlin not only presented a full program of 24 shows by over 120 performers from around the globe, but also ran a research lab looking back at the event's history, ...

Steve Swell: Dances With Questions

by John Sharpe
January 11, 2024

American trombonist Steve Swell plays to the strengths of his talented cast of improvisers on the sprawling multifaceted Dances With Questions, a three-CD box set which documents his three day residency at the 2019 Krakow Jazz Autumn. The center piece is the 70-minute title cut for a dozen musicians, but the album also includes two discs ...

Brda Contemporary Music Festival 2022

by Neri Pollastri
October 20, 2022

12. Brda Contemporary Music Festival ?martno, Slovenia Hi?a Kulture 17-19.9.2022 Arriva alla dodicesima edizione il Brda Contemporary Music Festival, rassegna di musica creativa e improvvisata organizzata e diretta da Zlatko Kau?i? a ?martno, piccolo e delizioso paesino sloveno appena aldil�� della frontiera con il Friuli. Il festival ha anche quest'anno conservato ...

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Barry Guy: Back to the Drawing-Board (Part 3)

by Duncan Heining
February 22, 2016

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 One of the things which may strike the listener on hearing the London Jazz Composers' Orchestra for the first time is just how much volume Guy is able to draw from just seventeen to twenty players. Some other big bands sound almost insipid in comparison. There ...

Mats Gustafsson & Nu Ensemble: Hidros 6: Knockin'

by John Sharpe
November 8, 2015

An avant-garde jazz composition based on the songs of '50s rocker Little Richard. Really? Yep, that's the premise behind Swedish reedman Mats Gustafsson's large scale work recorded at the Krakow Jazz Autumn in 2013. Although best known for his small group output with The Thing and Fire!, Gustafsson has regularly assembled bigger groupings during his career, ...

The Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet: Concert For Fukushima Wels 2011

by Eyal Hareuveni
April 28, 2013

The Peter Br?tzmann Chicago TentetConcert For Fukushima Wels 2011PanRec/Trost Records2013 In 2011 the Music Unlimited Festival in Wels, Austria, celebrated Peter Brötzmann's 70th birthday (as well as the festival's 25th year edition), under the title Long Story Short. Br?tzmann was asked to curate the program and after ...