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Live Review

Penang Island Jazz Festival 2016

Read "Penang Island Jazz Festival 2016" reviewed by Ian Patterson


12 + 1 Penang Island Jazz Festival Bayview Beach Resort/Various Venues Penang, Malaysia December 1-4, 2016 A tongue-in-cheek marketing ploy, or fear of inviting disaster? The Malaysians are doubtless no more or no less suspicious than folk in most places, but the organizers of the 12th + 1 Penang Island Jazz Festival, as it was officially billed, perhaps weren't taking any chances. Although the monsoon season in Western Malaysia isn't too severe, a late afternoon ...

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7 Virtual Jazz Club, i talenti di tutto il mondo si sfidano in rete

Read "7 Virtual Jazz Club, i talenti di tutto il mondo si sfidano in rete" reviewed by Rosarita Crisafi


Lo scorso 19 dicembre si è concluso 7 Virtual Jazz Club, il primo concorso internazionale per musicisti interamente on line. Un contest virtuale che ha visto la partecipazione di centinaia di musicisti da tutto il mondo in cui è risultata vincitrice la sassofonista tedesca Nicole Johaenntgen con il brano “Flugmodus," al secondo posto la giovane band spagnola The Jazz Fingers con il brano “Bill Tone," al terzo posto il pianista dominicano Miguel Andrés Tejada col brano “Rumbeando." Una giuria di ...

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Album Review

Nicole Johanntgen: Henry

Read "Henry" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Still only in her mid-thirties, Zurich-based German alto saxophonist/composer Nicole Johänntgen has been performing and tirelessly exploring music for over twenty years. With half a dozen recordings as leader under her belt, Johänntgen turns to New Orleans for inspiration on Henry. Named after her father, who used to play trombone in lieu of an early morning alarm clock for the young Johänntgen, the songs were written during a six-month sojourn in New York and recorded in the Crescent City. The ...

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Nicole Johänntgen: Moncaup - Sisters in Jazz

Read "Nicole Johänntgen: Moncaup - Sisters in Jazz" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


Nata in Germania 35 anni fa, Nicole Johaenntgen vive a Zurigo dal 2005 dove ha svolto gran parte della sua attività professionale. Nel suo stile la massima influenza viene da Dave Liebman, di cui è stata allieva, e tramite questi da John Coltrane. S'esprime di preferenza al sax soprano, con uno stile cantabile e un suono lineare, ma al contralto sa essere veemente e appassionata, e al baritono (assente nei due CD di cui parliamo in questa recensione) offre un ...


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