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Concert Big Band Stan Kenton Big Band Retrospective
This year marks the centennial of one of the seminal figures of jazz, Stan Kenton (1911-1979). Kenton, born in Wichita, Kansas, and raised in Los Angeles, was an adventurous innovator in 20th-century music. A prodigious pianist, composer, and arranger, Kenton was above all a fearless and ingenious bandleader who created, along with a team of composers, ...
Take Five With Robert Vermeulen
by AAJ Staff
Meet Robert Vermeulen: “If there is anything better than the off-the-wall humor of the video promo that preceded this Talking Cows album, it is the actual album itself. Yet much more than the humor of it all is the spectacular seriousness of the music: deadly serious, and for those familiar with the high standards ...
Estrella & Esquina 25 @ Jazzpodium De Tor In Enschede, The Netherlands
Estrella & Esquina 25: Marc Bischoff - piano, Efraim Trujillo - sax/ flute, Jose Luis Lopretti- bass, Enrique Firpi - drums, Estrella Acosta - vocals Cuban vocalist Estrella Acosta & Esquina 25 5tet present a musical program that mixes Caribbean and South American rhythms with adventurous improvisations. Surprising arrangements from the Afro-Cuban classics are interwoven with ...
Dutch Jazz & World Meeting 2012: October 5-6, 2012
by John Kelman
Dutch Jazz & World Meeting Amsterdam, The NetherlandsOctober 5-6, 2012With Jazzahead! 2012--the annual European jazz trade fair--demonstrating that jazz is, if not exactly big business, then certainly bigish business, it's no surprise to find that The Netherlands' biannual Dutch Jazz & World Meeting is making the same salient point, albeit more narrowly ...
Boi Akih: Circles in a Square Society
by Ian Patterson
The soul of Boi Akih--a duo, sextet, and all configurations in between-- is Monica Akihary's soulful voice and guitarist Niels Brouwer's jazz/world-inflected acoustic guitar. Boi Akih has always experimented; Lagu Lagu (Bromo, 2005)--an exquisite meeting between jazz, blues and Indonesian folk--was sung in the almost extinct Haruku language of Akihary's ancestors. With Indian percussionist Sandip Bhattcharya, ...
Follow the 2012 Dutch Jazz & World Meeting Online!
The Dutch Jazz & World Meeting is completely sold out! Nearly 175 international jazz and world music presenters will visit the Dutch Jazz & World Meeting on October 5-6, 2012 in Amsterdam. Attendees will see and hear 26 showcases of the best and most distinctive Dutch jazz and world groups currently on the scene. In addition ...
Dutch Jazz & World Meeting 2012 is sold out!
Tickets to attend the DJWM12 are all sold out. There are however a limited number of tickets available for the morning and afternoon sessions in the Conservatorium of Amsterdam We can offer a limited number of passes to attend only the morning/afternoon sessions on Friday or Saturday in the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. Costs: €39,- for one ...
Dutch Jazz & World Meeting 2012 Program Complete
During the second Dutch Jazz & World Meeting, which takes place October 5 & 6, 2012 in Amsterdam, 26 prominent jazz and world music acts from the Netherlands will present themselves to both national as well as international music professionals. Music Center the Netherlands announced the complete line-up of the showcases. On Friday October 5 and ...
Amina Figarova: Twelve
by Hrayr Attarian
Calling Amina Figarova merely a jazz impressionist does injustice to the full breadth of the pianist's vision and does not reflect the uniqueness of her artistry. That said, most of her compositions do have an impressionistic bent. The nocturnal “Shut Eyes, Sea Waves...," for instance, on Twelve (her twelfth release as a leader), uses her cascading ...
Complete Dutch Jazz & World Meeting Lineup Announced
During the second Dutch Jazz & World Meeting, which takes place October 5 & 6 2012, in Amsterdam, 26 prominent jazz and world music acts from the Netherlands will present themselves to both national as well as international music professionals. Music Center the Netherlands today announces the complete line-up of the showcases. The following acts will ...
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