Cape Town Jazz Festival 2013
Cape Town Jazz Festival 2013 Cape Town, South Africa April 5-6, 2013 Music has the power to transport those on the receiving end to another place, but the terms of travel are usually figurative in nature. For four North American journalists, however, the figurative took fantastic form with an offer to visit Cape Town, ...
Read MoreBurghausen Jazz Festival 2013
Burghausen Jazz Festival Burghausen, Germany March 12-17, 2013 Located almost exactly halfway along the border of the province of Bavaria (located in Germany's southeast) and Austria, the town of Burghausen might seem an odd place for a jazz festival, especially one now celebrating its 44th year. But this town of just 18,000 people, located ...
Read MoreECM: A Cultural Archeology
ECM: A Cultural Archeology Haus der Kunst München, Germany November 23, 2012-February 10, 2013 A trip to München (Munich) is a bit like a pilgrimage for fans of Germany's ECM label, especially right now, with the city's Haus der Kunst hosting a three-month exhibition, ECM: A Cultural Archeology, celebrating the music of this ...
Read More9th Penang Island Jazz Festival: Malaysia, November 29-December 2, 2012
9th Penang Island Jazz Festival Bayview Hotel Penang, Malaysia November 29--December 2, 2012 From pickup at the airport at 10.30pm to personal send-off five days later at 4.00am, Paul Augustin, the Director of the Penang Island Jazz Festival, is what you could call the perfect host. It's this personal touch--instilled in the festival ...
Read MoreBarcelona Voll-Damm Jazz Festival: Barcelona, Spain, November 24-30, 2012
Barcelona Voll-Damm International Jazz Festival Barcelona, Spain November 24-30, 2012 Sometimes picking a few festival highlights is easy. A big name turns on the charm, one or two young Turks announce their arrival on the scene, someone famous steps up at a jam session--the rest is okay, just nothing special. The Barcelona Voll-Damm Internacional ...
Read MoreExit Zero International Jazz Festival: Cape May, NJ, November 9-11, 2012
Exit Zero International Jazz Festival Cape May, NJ November 9-11, 2012 After the beating the Northeast took from Hurricane Sandy and a snowy nor'easter, people were ready for something positive, and for some it came in the form of the first Exit Zero International Jazz Festival in Cape May, New Jersey. Pianist Ramsey Lewis, ...
Read MoreOCT-LOFT Jazz Festival: Shenzhen, China, October 8-23, 2012
OCT-LOFT Jazz Festival Shenzhen, China October 8-23, 2012 The OCT-LOFT Jazz Festival, in Shenzhen, Gaungdong Province, is one of the youngest jazz festivals in China, yet in just two editions it has already established itself as one of the best. Financially, it can't compete with the Shanghai Jazz Festival, which for its 2012 edition ...
Read MoreBelgrade Jazz Festival: Belgrade, Serbia, October 25-28, 2012
Belgrade Jazz Festival Belgrade, Serbia October 25-28, 2012 There are hundreds of jazz festivals around the globe every year, in places like Baku, Azerbaijan, and Sibiu, Romania, and Valletta, Malta. But there may be no more improbable setting for a jazz festival than Belgrade, Serbia. Not that long ago, in the late 1990s, during ...
Read MoreBeishan International Jazz Festival, China, 19-20 October 2012
Beishan International Jazz Festival Beishan Theater Nanping Town, Zhuhai, China 10-20 October, 2012 Jazz festivals occupy some fairly far-flung, diverse, and oftentimes dramatic settings; from the Polar North to the volcanic mountains of East Java, from medieval European towns to the great urban metropolises of North America, from tropical Thai islands to luxury ...
Read MoreNewport Jazz Festival 2012
Newport Jazz Festival Fort Adams State Park Newport, RI August 3-5, 2012
While countless jazz festivals have sprung up in all corners of the world, droves of people still flock to the one that's considered the granddaddy of them all. The Newport Jazz Festival has been a testament to the power, possibilities and ...
Read MoreTrombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue
Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue Keswick Theatre Glenside, PA June 2, 2012 In his introduction at the Keswick Theatre in the Philadelphia suburbs, Philadelphia Folk Festival director Michael Cloeren stated, “Musicians like this come along once in a generation." By the end of the concert, no one at the packed theater could argue ...
Read MoreVictoriaville 2012
Festival International Musique Actuelle Victoriaville Victoriaville, Canada May 17-20, 2012 There are many ways to weigh a music festival, but one method that sets a fairly reasonable standard for excellence is whether or not there was at least one point that elicited feelings of good fortune. Not just if it was enjoyable or if ...
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