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Jazz Meets Classic And Cinema on Gerhard Daum's 'Jazz Ballads'
Jazz Ballads is the fourth album by Gerhard Daum that I’ve reviewed since 2017, and each album has been a surprise—from solo piano to guitar to ensemble and now to trumpet. Daum’s trumpet is the lead instrument on all of the tracks along with an ensemble that includes piano, flugelhorn, guitars and MIDI bass—all played by ...
jazzahead! CLUBNIGHT programme announced: 1 Ticket. 35 Venues. 70+ Concerts.
Club-hopping all round Bremen on the evening of 12 Aprileverything from a world champion beatboxer to avant-garde icon Han Benninkfrom the Mallorcan guitarist featured in Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona to an (imaginary) free trip to Curaçao in the Caribbeanand a new app. A special highlight and a favourite feature of Bremen’s jazzahead! in April is ...
Mareike Wiening: 'Reveal' Offers Jazz Rhythms of Hope
by Lawrence Peryer
Today, the Spotlight shines On Mareike Wiening. Mareike is a drummer and composer who joined us on the occasion of the release of her third record as bandleader, Reveal (Greenleaf Music). Featuring her long-time group: tenor saxophonist Rich Perry, pianist Glenn Zaleski, guitarist Alex Goodman, and bassist Johannes Felscher, the band is joined on ...
The Netherlands as central focus at jazzahead! ...and a message: 'Jazz needs diversity'
jazzahead! 2024—with partner country the Netherlands—will be three busy and full-on days and nights from April 11-13. Key themes of the showcase programme at the forthcoming jazzahead!2024 are: a superb array of acts from the Netherlands, this year’s partner country; a very strong presence of women among the 40 acts, particularly in the role of bandleaders; ...
Roberto Di Gioia + Max Herre: Web Web’s Experiments in Electronic Jazz
by Lawrence Peryer
Today, the Spotlight shines On Roberto Di Gioia of the German Jazz supergroup Web Web and his group's collaborator, the songwriter and producer Max Herre. WEB WEB's fifth album is also their second with Max, appropriately titled, WEB MAX II (Compost Records). This is an exciting, genre-bending album that includes appearances from Los Angeles-born ...
Showcase acts for jazzahead! 2024 announced with the Netherlands as partner country
The selection process for showcase acts is now complete: from a total of around 800 applications, five international juries bringing a high level of expertise have made their decisions. The 40 acts who will be performing at the showcase concerts for jazzahead! 2024 are announced today. jazzahead! 2024 is an event produced by MESSE BREMEN. It ...
The first names for jazzahead! 2024 are announced: Maite Hontelé (and mambo!) at the Gala Concert
Let there be joy... and energy... and mambo! The 2024 jazz trade fair and festival will take place from April 11 to 13. jazzahead! goes mambo- and presents the first names for its next edition in 2024. Dutch trumpet star Maite Hontelé and the internationally renowned Dutch youth jazz orchestra NJJO (Nationaal Jeugd Jazz Orkest) – ...
Jazzfest Berlin 2023
by Giuseppe Segala
Haus der Berliner Festspiele Quasimodo Jazz Club, A-Train Jazz Club, Berlino 2-5.11.2023 C'era più di un buon motivo per stimolare quest'anno la decisione di raggiungere il Jazzfest Berlin: primo tra tutti, la presenza di un grande protagonista come Henry Threadgill, che giunto sulla soglia degli ottant'anni, con alle spalle una ...
Ron Carter: An Evening With Ron Carter, Richard Galliano (Live At The Theaterstübchen, Kassel)
by Richard J Salvucci
The odds are that most readers are not intimately familiar with jazz accordion. Undoubtedly, that is because there are not very many of them; someone might list Art Van Damme, Tommy Gumina, Angelo di Pippo, and Mat Mathews, none of them a household name. The Franco-Italian Richard Galliano should probably hold contemporary pride of place among ...