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Spoken Jazz & New Releases
by Ludovico Granvassu
Spoken word is performance art that goes hand in hand with jazz because words often sound great and notes can speak loud and clear. In this episode we will explore the best of it, together with outstanding new releases that are making our summer even hotter than it already is! Happy listening!
Frank van Berkel: New Programmer at Amsterdam's Bimhuis is Committed to Serve and to Curate
by Joan Gannij
Frank van Berkel, the new Programmer at the Bimhuis, Amsterdam's premier jazz club, is no stranger to the music world. He started out as a musician, double bass/bass guitar, and played many venues back in the '80s and '90s, including Amsterdam's rock palace Paradiso and the Bimhuis, with different bands, that included Nine Tobs, Remo Tobs, ...
Fano Jazz by the Sea 2018
by Libero Farnè
Fano Jazz by the Sea Varie sedi Fano e dintorni 21-29.07.2018 A partire dall'edizione dello scorso anno la Rocca Malatestiana è diventata il fulcro di Fano Jazz by the Sea. Nel giardino antistante la possente struttura storica viene allestito il Jazz Village, punto di incontro per varie iniziative collaterali: concerti e ...
Toronto Jazz Orchestra: 20
by Jack Bowers
The name on the album--20--says it all: the world-class Toronto Jazz Orchestra has been presenting marvelous music in eastern Canada and beyond for twenty years and has marked the special anniversary by releasing the fourth in a series of admirable recordings that began in 2001 with Toronto Jazz Orchestra. This time out, all ...
SFJAZZ: Decades After, Five Years In
by Arthur R George
Five years after the San Francisco, California organization SFJAZZ created its own building, the SFJAZZ Center, it has proved a raving, even rampaging, success, unrelenting in programming, sales, education, and music production. Its number of concerts has doubled from 248 to more than 500. Its membership has increased by almost 200% to more than 14,000. It ...
Carlo Pagnotta, Direttore Artistico Di Umbria Jazz
by Libero Farnè
Da quando prese le mosse nel lontano 1973, il festival di Umbria Jazz si è evoluto nel tempo ed è cresciuto, senza mai rinunciare alla sua primaria identità, vale a dire la volontà di innestare la forza prorompente del jazz sulla cultura e la storia millenaria di un'intera regione. La direzione artistica della manifestazione, che nei ...
Francis Hon: Before Dawn
by Troy Dostert
Taiwanese pianist Francis Hon didn't plan on becoming a jazz musician. But, during his doctoral studies in piano performance at the University of Texas, he met Jeff Hellmer, Director of Jazz Studies at the university, and that connection initiated Hon's pathway into the world of jazz--one he further explored during an eventual move to New York ...
Brad Mehldau Trio al Parco della Musica, Roma
by Mario Calvitti
Brad Mehldau Trio Parco della Musica Roma 12.05.2018 Ogni tanto capita che un artista esca dal suo ambito di riferimento generalmente ristretto per venire esposto a un pubblico più vasto ed eterogeneo. Succede ad esempio a quei musicisti jazz che vengono “scoperti," più o meno occasionalmente, da un pubblico generico ...
Umbria Jazz 2018 In Perugia From July 13-22: Celebrating 45 Years Of Jazz In Italy And Beyond
Not many festivals have had the kind of impact that Umbria Jazz has had on the musical history of a country and on its social history as well. When it started out in 1973, Umbria Jazz was simply an attempt to combine the passion of a group of jazz lovers with the needs of a region ...
Andy Zimmerman: Half Light
by Karl Ackermann
Saxophonist Andy Zimmerman is not a household name. The native Chicagoan has been composing, performing, and teaching music for more than two decades. In part, he comes to the subscription-based vinyl label Newvelle by virtue of a long association with the label's co-founder Elan Mehler, himself an accomplished jazz pianist. Mehler and Zimmerman played together at ...
