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John Kelman's Best Live Shows of 2010
John Kelman
With the realization that there will always be more music coming at him than he can keep up with, John wonders why anyone would think that jazz is dead or dying.Another year, another treasure trove of live performances to dovetail with all the great recorded music released in 2010. Attending more festivals abroad than ever before—Norway's Natt Jazz, Kongsberg, Molde and Punkt; Germany's Enjoy Jazz; Finland's Tampere Jazz Happening; Raleigh, North Carolina's New Universe Music Festival; and The Netherlands' Dutch Jazz & World Meeting and dOeK Festival—along with the perennial TD Ottawa International Jazz Festival, it was hard to choose 25 shows out of the more than 110 live performances, but here they are, in chronological order:
1. April 1, 2010: Brad Mehldau Trio
Grand Theatre, Kingston, Canada
2. April 21, 2010: Transatlantic
Metropolis, Montreal, Canada
From left: Neal Morse, Roine Stolt, of Transatlantic
3. May 27, 2010: 1982 Trio
Mount Ulriken, Bergen, Norway
1982 Trio, from left: Sigbjørn Apeland, Nils Økland, Øvind Skarbo
4. May 28, 2010: Stian Westerhus
Natt Jazz, Bergen, Norway
5. May 28, 2010: Eivind Aarset Sonic Codex
Natt Jazz, Bergen, Norway
6. June 27, 2010: John Scofield / Piety Street Band
TD Ottawa International Jazz Festival, Ottawa, Canada
7. June 28, 2010: Ralph Towner / Paolo Fresu
TD Ottawa International Jazz Festival, Ottawa, Canada
From left: Ralph Towner, Paolo Fresu
8. July 4, 2010: Christian Scott
TD Ottawa International Jazz Festival, Ottawa, Canada
9. July 4, 2010: Tomasz Stańko
TD Ottawa International Jazz Festival, Ottawa, Canada
10. July 9, 2010: Jan Erik Vold/Arild Andersen/Bill Frisell
Kongsberg Jazz Festival, Kongsberg, Norway
Norwegian Poet Jan Erik Vold
11. July 10, 2010: Jaga Jazzist
Kongsberg Jazz Festival, Kongsberg, Norway
12. July 21, 2010: Ketil Bjørnstad's Antonioni Project
Molde Jazz Festival, Molde, Norway
Ketil Bjørnstad's Antonioni Project, from left: Anja Lechner, Arild Andersen, Eivind Aarset
Andy Sheppard (Missing: Bjørnstad, Marilyn Mazur)
13. July 21, 2010: Nils Petter Molvær Trio
Molde Jazz Festival, Molde, Norway
14. July 22, 2010: Ola Kvernberg's "Liarbird," with Joshua Redman
Molde Jazz Festival, Molde, Norway
15. July 23, 2010: Motorpsycho/Trondheim Jazz Orchestra/Trondheimsolistene
Molde Jazz Festival, Molde, Norway
From far right: Motorpsycho's Bent Sæthe and Hans Magnus Ryan
with Ola Kvernberg and members of the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra/Trondheimsolistene
16. September 3, 2010: Jan Bang, ...and poppies from Kandahar
Punkt Festival, Kristiansand, Norway
From left: Arve Henriksen, Jan Bang
17. September 4, 2010: Supersilent, with special guest John Paul Jones
Punkt Festival, Kristiansand, Norway
From left: John Paul Jones and Supersilent's Arve Henriksen
18. October 2, 2010: Portico Quartet
L'Astral, Montreal, Canada
Portico Quartet, from left: Jack Wyllie, Duncan Bellamy, Milo Fitzpatrick, Nick Mulvey
19. October 3, 2010: Chick Corea/Christian McBride/Brian Blade
Dominion Chalmers Church, Ottawa, Canada
From left: Chick Corea, Christian McBride, Brian Blade
20. November 6, 2010: Juhani Aaltonen Quartet
Tampere Jazz Happening, Tampere, Finland
From left: Iro Haarla, Ulfe Krokfors, Juhani Aaltonen, Reiska Laine
21. November 7 , 2010: Samuli Mikkonen, Marrku Ounaskari, Per Jørgensen
Tampere Jazz Happening, Tampere, Finland
From left: Samuli Mikkonen, Per Jørgensen, Marrku Ounaskari
22. November 7 , 2010: Jimmy Herring Band
New Universe Music Festival, Raleigh, USA
23. December 2 , 2010: Harmen Fraanje Avalonia Trio
Dutch Jazz & World Meeting, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
24. December 2 , 2010: The Ploctones
Dutch Jazz & World Meeting, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Ploctones, from left: Martijn Vink, Efraim Trujillo, Jeroen Vierdag, Anton Goudsmit
25. December 3 , 2010: Eric Vloeimans' Gatecrash
Dutch Jazz & World Meeting, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
From left:Jeroen van Vliet, Eric Vloeimans, Gulli Gudmundsson, Jasper van Hulten
Photo Credits
Brad Mehldau: Tony Rodgers
Transatlantic: Courtesy of Radiant Records
1982 Trio: Luca Vitali
Eivind Aarset: Madli-Liis Parts
Eric Vloeimans' Gatecrash: Hans Speekenbrink
All Other Photos: John Kelman
