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An Embarrassment of Riches
by Ludovico Granvassu
It's a great time to be a jazz lover, with so many fantastic new releases that it's almost overwhelming. To quote Shakespeare, it's an embarrassment of riches! This week we have handpicked some of the most exciting new music, from giants like Bill Frisell and Chris Potter to indie upstarts and international artists like Theon Cross ...
Jasper Blom Quartet: Polyphony
by Roger Farbey
Saxophonist Jasper Blom's double album Polyphony, released on Whirlwind, centres around two key elements. Firstly, his long- standing penchant for adding a guest soloist to his quartet, reflected in each disc having its own additional musician. On the first CD there is trumpeter Bert Joris, with whom Blom and his quartet have played for several years, ...
Dutch Concert Big Band: Plays Dutch Originals
by Jack Bowers
If you think locating a needle in a haystack is strenuous, try finding something less than complimentary to say about Plays Dutch Originals, an absolutely marvelous recording by the superlative Dutch Concert Big Band. As far as can be determined, this is the only album set down (to date) by the band, which was formed in ...
Festival Jazz International Promotes Rotterdam Renaissance
by Phillip Woolever
After an excellent full day program centered by national talent at Rotterdam's Festival Jazz International, two strong impressions rang very clear. The first was that considering current performers, experimentation and ongoing tradition, the Netherlands is obviously one of the per capita international leaders regarding the size and scope of a national jazz scene.
Gravity
By Jasper Blom
Label: Mainland Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: Britpop; Estrella Latina; Nancy in the Sky; The Jaive Song; Road Rage; Folky; Life in a Day; Angelocology (Payé, Payé, Paya).
Take Five With Thomas Winther Andersen
by AAJ Staff
Meet Thomas Winther Andersen:Originally from Norway, Thomas Winther Andersen now lives in Amsterdam. At 13, he began playing electric bass, and after a few years his love for jazz became so strong that he decided to switch instruments and learn to play upright bass. Thomas studied music at the Amsterdam Conservatory from 1988 to ...
The Jasper Blom Quartet: Gravity
by John Kelman
With Gravity, Dutch saxophonist Jasper Blom concludes his Mainland Records trilogy--its cover perhaps suggesting something more danceable than the heads and hands that graced the respective covers of 2008's Statue of Liberty and 2011's Dexterity. Each recording has its own charms, but Gravity is, hands-down, the most upbeat and joyous of the three, and another superb ...
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 ...
Dexterity
By Jasper Blom
Label: Mainland Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Knor; Homecoming; White Stripes; Waltz for Magnus; Tasmania; En L'Amoureux Vergier; Running Gag; The Roundtrip; Candy.
Knor
Album: Dexterity
By Jasper Blom
Label: Mainland Records
Released: 2011
Duration: 05:37
