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Jazzclub Singen (Hohentwiel, Germany) 15th Anniversary
by Robert R. Calder
Fifteen years ago Jazz-Club Singen was established in relation to the modest little theatre cum cinema (called GEMS) at the edge of the little industrial town of Singen-am-Hohentwiel, in the handsome German hinterland of Lake Constance (the Bodensee). About halfway through this period I became a part-time resident of the region. I hopped on a train ...
Istanbul: Ortakoy European Jazz Weekend
by Francesco Martinelli
Istanbul is already home to two major jazz festivals, but the scene registered a meaningful new addition lately. Emin Findikoglu, a pianist, composer and arranger who studied in USA during the '60s and was behind the very first jazz festival organized in the Bosphorous city, was contacted by the Municipality of Besiktas to organize a jazz ...
Changamire at GIFT: Part 3-3 - Homeward Bound
by Changamire
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3Introduction I am Changamiré, a Jazz/R&B singer in Washington, DC, USA. This story is about my performance at the 8th Annual Georgian International Festival of the Arts (GIFT), the weekend of June 11, 2004, in the warm and charming city of Tbilisi, the capital of the Republic ...
Changamire at GIFT: Part 2-3 - Changamire's Gift
by Changamire
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3Introduction I am Changamiré, a Jazz/R&B singer in Washington, DC, USA. This story is about my performance at the 8th Annual Georgian International Festival of the Arts (GIFT), the weekend of June 11, 2004, in the warm and charming city of Tbilisi, the capital of the Republic ...
Changamire at GIFT: Part 1-3 - Departures and Arrivals
by Changamire
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 Introduction I am Changamiré, a Jazz/R&B singer in Washington, DC, USA. This story is about my performance at the 8th Annual Georgian International Festival of the Arts (GIFT), the weekend of June 11, 2004, in the warm and charming city of Tbilisi, the capital of the ...
Jazz in Prague
by Kevin Dean
Vit Svec (right) eerily opens up his last set with bass chords that flutter like bat wings in a dark cave.To his right, the head of pianist Matej Banko begins to dip and bob and, just before his nose touches the piano keys, he begins to play quick, staccato notes that bounce around the ...
A Quickie Guide to Jazz Festivals in Eastern Europe
by Cyril Moshkow
The Jazz festival movement did not penetrate the Iron Curtain until the late 1950s, when some Communist regimes, trying to liberalize their public image, allowed many things that were not possible during Stalin's era: abstract art, modern dance, cinema with no propaganda message, and jazz music. Jazz Jamboree , the first major jazz festival ...
Jazz Meets Wine in the South of France
by Francesco Martinelli
Perpignan is an ancient and noble town on the border between France and Spain. It was the capital of the Catalan kingdom, and it is still very proud of this heritage: in some ways, traveling by train for example, it's much closer to Barcelona than to Paris. This is one of the reasons why the Jazzebre ...
Braxton in Italy, November 2003
by Francesco Martinelli
Are you still mad at yourself because you didn't pick up those Arista LPs in the cutout bins? Would you kick your own butt because you missed the concert when Anthony Braxton's quartet with Crispell, Dresser and Hemingway came in a venue near you? Don't despair, there is hope still. In the current time-cycle, rather 'complex' ...
Tampere Jazz Happening 2003
by Francesco Martinelli
Tampere is the biggest inland town of Scandinavia, but it’s sitting between two lakes on a narrow strip of land, so it has a somewhat marine air about it. Due to the abundance of water it was an important industrial center for papermills and textiles, but now most of these heavy industries have moved elsewhere: Finland’s ...
