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Nicolas Kummert

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 ...

Gent Jazz 2021

by Martin Longley
August 9, 2021

Gent Jazz Bijloke, Gent Belgium July 12-18 2021 Last year, the Gent Jazz festival operated with a 400-person audience capacity, and presented a very successful 10-day season, albeit highlighting Belgian acts, and with no lumbering large-fee, big-ticket-sales American bands allowed. The 2021 edition still wasn't able ...

Live From Brussels: Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, Sal La Rocca, Igor Gehenot, Diederniko Kummsels & Makas

by Martin Longley
March 1, 2019

Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège Bozar January 9, 2019 Much of this evening's programme featured compositions that are probably of interest to jazzers, particularly with the presence of George Gershwin and Leonard Bernstein, although Aaron Copland and Samuel Barber will doubtless have more crossover appeal than most composers. There was ...

Nicolas Kummert: La Diversité

by Roger Farbey
January 31, 2017

Belgian saxophonist Nicolas Kummert has been influenced by African music since a two month stay in Senegal at the age of 17, where he collaborated with musicians from that country and later from Benin, Mali, Kenya, Sao Tomé, Morocco and Tunisia. He met award-winning Blue Note guitarist Lionel Loueke during a recording session for Beninese singer ...

Matthieu Marthouret Organ Quartet: Upbeats

by Dan Bilawsky
May 22, 2012

Necessity is not only the mother of invention, but also of direction. French pianist Matthieu Marthouret initially took on the task of mastering the organ because of problems finding bass players for rehearsals, but he found his own voice on the instrument and discovered a world of possibilities in the process. The debut album from his ...

Tell Me The Meaning (The Eclectic Album, Vol. 1)

By Gyle Waddy

Label: Elyts Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Disc 1: 'Groove Down Side' - 1. Sap-Doo-Da; 2. Mornin'; 3. Moondance; 4. Tell Me The Meaning; 5. Knock Me A Kiss; 6. Ne Me Quitte Pas; 7. Missing You Bluies; 8. Barack Obama Is His Name (Barack Obama Is The Man); 9. Nothing Is Impossible; 10. Miracle Of Love Disc 2: 'Mellow Down Side' - 1. You See I Love You; 2. Just Hold On; 3. Body And Soul; 4. Have I Told You Lately I Love You; 5. Glow; 6. Broken Heart; 7. Are You Sure?; 8. Emotional Skid Row; 9. De Blin' Man Stood On De Road An' Cried; 10. Morgen, Op. 27, N°. 4

Jazzahead 2011: April 28 - May 1, 2011

by John Kelman
May 16, 2011

Jazzahead Bremen, Germany April 28-May 1, 2010 Jazz may be a marginalized genre with shrinking CD sales and, at least in North America, a painfully low profile in popular media, but just a few days at Jazzahead in Bremen, Germany, leave a much different impression. A trade show for all ...