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Frank Zappa's Jazz Legacy Refuses to Die
by Ludovico Granvassu
Frank Zappa may have said “jazz is not dead, it just smells funny" but looking at his life and music one does not get the impression that he really believed that jazz was decomposing or dying a slow death. On Freak Out, one of the most impressive debut albums of all times, he ...
Sneak Attack of the Sponges
Album: 13
By Flat Earth Society
Label: Igloo Records
Released: 0
Duration: 3:31
Jazz Middelheim: Antwerp, Belgium, August 16-19, 2012
by Martin Longley
Jazz Middelheim 2012 Park Den Brandt Antwerp Belgium August 16-19, 2012 The Jazz Middelheim festival is a weekender that hasn't relinquished its fondness for adventure over the last four decades. Nuzzling up against stellar bookings are acts, Belgian and otherwise, who seek to jolt the expectations ...
Hong Kong International Jazz Festival, Days 4-6, September 28-30, 2011
by Ian Patterson
Days 1-3 | Days 4-6 | Days 7-8Hong Kong International Jazz FestivalHong KongSeptember 25-October 2, 2011 The 2011 Hong Kong International Jazz Festival offered up over forty groups from 24 countries--a big jump from the eight bands that made up the first edition of HKIJF in 2008. Apart from the ...
Summer Jazz Cycling Tour 25: Groningen, The Netherlands, August 26-27, 2011
by John Sharpe
Summer Jazz Cycling Tour 25Groningen, Netherlands August 26-27, 2011 Only in the Netherlands. Where else would anyone think to create such a harmonious conjugation of jazz and cycling? Now in its 25th year, the annual ZomerJazzFietsTour (Summer Jazz Cycling Tour) takes place in the bucolic countryside just outside Groningen in the northern Netherlands. ...
Flat Earth Society to tour the USA in May
Flat Earth Society is coming to the USA for their first performances ever on American soil. May 14, Tropical Heatwave, Tampa (USA première) May 15, The Palladium, St Petersburgh (Fl) May 17: Millennium Stage at The Kennedy Center, Washington May 18: Johnny Brenda's in Philadelphia May 19: Lincoln Center, Atrium Stage, NY May 20: Museum of ...
Finland's April Jazz Festival 2010
by Anthony Shaw
April Jazz Festival Espoo/Tapiola, Finland April 28-May 2, 2010 The wind in these northern climes can hit heavy, even during the sunny days of late April. This year an east wind drove down from the Arctic Ocean and any opportunity to get into the sun needed to be taken--but it's a sign ...
Cheer Me, Perverts!
Label: Crammed Discs
Released: 2009
Track listing: Vole Sperm Reverie; Rearm, Get That Char!; Kotopoulopology; Blind Inside; Bad Linen; Too Sublime in Sin; Dawn on the Desert; Flatology; Smoke on Fire, The King is Burning; Mutt.
Flat Earth Society: Cheer Me, Perverts!
by Ian Patterson
Fifteen-piece Belgian big band Flat Earth Society is the sonic equivalent of a freak show--weird, wonderful and like nothing you've come across before. Cheer Me, Perverts! is bursting with the energy of punk--sharing some of the anarchy, too--yet the CD exhibits intricate section harmonies and wonderful contrapuntal melodies. The soloists revel in their freedom, and the ...
Montreux Jazz 2009 Festival Journal
by Phillip Woolever
43rd Montreux Jazz Festival Montreux, Switzerland July 5-6, 2009 Summer months of music on the European festival circuit are indeed a multi-cultural garden of both earthly delights and otherworldly musical experiences. For performers and fans alike, these planes seem to unite for unique harmonic convergences. Among many storied festivals through ...
