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Alexander Beets

The Optimal Evolution of Amersfoort World Jazz

by Phillip Woolever
October 11, 2022

A multitude of festivals recently returned from the pandemic wasteland as the world of live music played catch-up from over two years of interruptions, but few comebacks in the busy summer of 2022 were as uniformly strong as the full reopening of the Amersfoort World Jazz Festival. During what is likely now a permanent switch from ...

Amersfoort World Jazz Festival 2021

by Martin Longley
November 11, 2021

Amersfoort World Jazz Festival Amersfoort, Netherlands August 9-15, 2021 As with so many festivals during the last 18 months, the Amersfoort World Jazz Festival was forced to concentrate on local talent. Although steering away from big name international visitors, this summer edition offered a prime opportunity to familiarise our ears ...

Sylwester Ostrowski: la musica come celebrazione della vita

by Emmanuel Di Tommaso
November 8, 2021

Il sassofonista polacco Sylwester Ostrowski non è solo un brillante musicista e produttore, ma anche un promotore culturale di grande successo. In particolare, è fondatore e organizzatore dello Szczecin Jazz Festival, un evento che si svolge nella sua città natale in Polonia. Nel momento in cui Ostrowski ha ripreso a suonare dal vivo in tutta Europa ...

Sylwester Ostrowski: Music As A Celebration Of Life

by Emmanuel Di Tommaso
September 19, 2021

Polish saxophonist Sylwester Ostrowski is not only a brilliant musician and producer, but an equally successful cultural promoter. In particular, he is the founder and organizer of the Szczecin Jazz Festival, a celebrated festival he organizes in his native city. As soon as he hit the road after the hiatus forced by the pandemic, we had ...

Szczecin Jazz: Europe's First Hybrid Festival Off 2021

March 2, 2021

It is a strange feeling to write a piece about a jazz festival while the first band is on stage. I can hear Belmondo Quintet enchant their in-person audience from where I'm sitting, backstage in the production office of the Szczecin Opera Theater, where Europe's first international jazz festival of 2021 has just kicked off. From ...

Trav'lin' Light

By Judith Nijland

Label: Maxanter Records
Released: 2013

Ronnie Cuber: Infra-Rae: Ronnie Cuber Meets The Beets Brothers

by Raul d'Gama Rose
February 23, 2012

It is easy to forget an elder statesman such as the magisterial Ronnie Cuber, who continues to give commanding performances on his baritone saxophone. The absence of a sense of history clouds successive generations, who will honor young masters like Brian Landrus but forget the ancestors. The great tones from the bass end of the saxophone ...