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Vadim Neselovskyi: Odesa: A Musical Walk Through a Legendary City

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by Henning Bolte
June 19, 2022

Vadim Neselovskyi, as insisting as he is playful and dramatic, is a fierce vivacious musician with a great gift for making an amalgamation of percussive fireworks with melodic motives flashing up time and again. His music is full of vital, explosive turnarounds and suddenly appearing melancholic moments. Odesa: A Musical Walk Through A Legendary City is ...

Article: In Pictures

Sanem Kalfa RefleX at Bimhuis

by Henning Bolte
April 9, 2022

A collection of photos from the Sanem Kalfa RefleX concert at Bimhuis in Amsterdam on March 4, 2022 featuring Sanem Kalfa, Fuensanta Mendez, Marta Warelis, Kamucan Yalcin, Sun-Mi Hong and Ilgen Arzik. It was an elegant performance by five distinctive female musicians/visual artists of great cultural diversity (Turkish, Polish, Mexican, and Korean background) from ...

Article: Live Review

Punkt Festival 2021

by Henning Bolte
October 9, 2021

Eivind Aarset Hotel Norge, Blå Kors Punkt Festival Kristiansand September, 2-4, 2021 Live remix is the key element and trademark of Punkt Festival in Kristiansand, southern Norway, now in its 17th year. Life itself had been remixed severely by the COVID pandemic that struck at the beginning of 2020. It ...

Article: In Pictures

Live Drawings from North Sea Round Town 2021

by Henning Bolte
August 13, 2021

The following is a collection of live drawings created at the North Sea Round Town Festival in Rotterdam that ran from July 2-9, 2021. As Artist-in-Residence at Goethe Institute Rotterdam/North Sea Around Town Festival held in June/July, I created a series of more than 50 live drawings mainly during drummer and Artist-in-Focus Sun Mi Hong's concerts. ...

Article: Live Review

North Sea Round Town 2021

by Henning Bolte
August 3, 2021

Sun-Mi Hong Diverse venues/sites: Laurenskerk, Goethe Institute, De Doelen, Worm, Boerderij Driebergen (Three Mountains Farm), private homes North Sea Round Town Rotterdam July 2-9, 2021 North Sea Round Town is a strongly community-based city festival in Rotterdam, deep in the Dutch delta. Founded 15 years ago, it takes place ...

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Naïssam Jalal: Un autre monde

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by Henning Bolte
March 17, 2021

Some may see the flute as an odd one out in jazz. For France that certainly does not apply. France has Michel Edelin from the older generation and, for example, Magic Malik, Eve Risser, Sylvaine Hélary and Naïssam Jalal from the younger. A flautist needs good sonic allies to embed flute sounds in and/or ...

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Sylvaine Hélary: Glowing Life

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by Henning Bolte
March 8, 2021

Is flute an odd one out in the present jazz field? Not really and not at all in France. France not only has Michel Edelin in the older generation, it has still more flautists in the younger generation that are also bandleaders in their own right, for example Magic Malik, Eve Risser, Naïssam Jalal and, of ...

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Simin Tander: Unfading

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by Henning Bolte
February 14, 2021

The newly formed quartet of German-Afghani vocalist Simin Tander with Swiss-Swedish electric bass guitarist Björn Meyer, Tunisian violinist Jasser Haj Youssef and Swiss drummer Samuel Rohrer from Berlin is a remarkable force field of igniting, merging and amplifying energies, temperaments and temperatures. Tander herself has provided 12 compositions here and three times her own lyrics as ...

Article: Live Review

Enjoy Jazz and More 2020

by Henning Bolte
December 8, 2020

Various venues Enjoy Jazz and More Heidelberg, Mannheim, Ludwigshafen, Schwetzingen October 14-30, 2020 Enjoy Jazz is a festival that stretches across 7 weeks from the beginning of October to halfway through November in the urban area of Mannheim, Ludwigshafen and Heidelberg in southwestern Germany. The long stretch had ...

Article: Live Review

Festa do Jazz 2020

by Henning Bolte
October 11, 2020

Centro Cultural Belem Festa do Jazz 2020 Lisbon September 12-13, 2020 Festa do Jazz, celebration of jazz, is the annual meeting of the Portuguese jazz community. It is normally held end of March/begin of April. For many years it took place in old glory theatre São Luis Municipal in the Baixa-Chiado ...