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Jazzkaar Interviews: Kirke Karja
by Martin Longley
Estonian pianist Kirke Karja has regularly appeared at the Jazzkaar festival in Tallinn, customarily performing in surprising settings, always delivering a fresh band combination, or a new set of music, or altering ratios between improvisation and composition, acoustic or electric palettes. During the last two years she has a.) been discovered by the rest of the ...
Moers Festival Interviews: Kenny Garrett
by Martin Longley
The release of Kenny Garrett's Sounds From The Ancestors album (Mack Avenue, 2021) has reinvigorated his live performances, as the saxophonist tours heartily with an expanded band that's heavy on the Afro-Latin percussion. In recent times, multi-instrumentalist Garrett has been gigging with this dedicated Sounds From The Ancestors line-up, heavily devoted to the album, but not ...
Live From Brussels: The Residents, Marco Marcelletti, Lynn Cassiers & Jean-Paul Estiévenart
by Martin Longley
The Residents Botanique Brussels, Belgium January 29, 2023 Right at the start of their European tour, The Residents appeared at Botanique, a principal Brussels music venue. Calling this venture Dog Stab! 2023 strongly suggests a concern with their classic 1978 album Duck Stab! and the more recent (2020) ...
Moers Festival Interviews: Brandon Seabrook
by Martin Longley
Brandon Seabrook cultivates a forked assault on the guitar and the banjo, amplifying both of them, and negotiating their strings at high speeds, filling his playing with hyper-detailed improvisations, or constructing complex compositional strategies, frequently referred to as 'riffs.' Seabrook has long been a crucial presence on the New York City scene, whether leading his own ...
Belgrade Jazz Festival 2022
by Martin Longley
Belgrade Jazz Festival Dom Omladine/MTS Dvorana Belgrade, Serbia October 26-30, 2022 There are now early signs that some festivals might be set to struggle during 2023, but even if certain aspects are reduced, much of the damage can be cosmetically screened. So far. Perhaps it depends on ...
Artonov 2022
by Martin Longley
Artonov Brussels, Belgium October 12-15, 2022 Artonov is a Belgian festival that's committed to the commingling of creative strategies. Performances will always display at least two artistic forms, picking from a treasure trove that includes music, dance, film, poetry, painting, storytelling, video and even olfactory and culinary ...
Jazz Juniors 2022
by Martin Longley
Jazz Juniors Cricoteka Kraków, Poland September 28-October 1, 2022 Jazz Juniors is primarily a competition, but simultaneously exists as a regular festival. This latter aspect has enlarged during recent years, following the debut of its new artistic director Adam Pierończyk in 2019. Also an established saxophonist, it's clear ...
Enjoy Jazz Interviews: Tania Giannouli
by Martin Longley
Along with fellow pianist Nik Bärtsch, the other Artist In Residence of this year's Enjoy Jazz festival is Tania Giannouli, from Athens. Like Bärtsch, she has also become a regular at the EJ concerts in Heidelberg, Mannheim and Ludwigshafen, although Giannouli has been appearing in more recent years. In 2020, your scribe caught her set at ...
Enjoy Jazz Interviews: Nik Bärtsch
by Martin Longley
The Swiss pianist Nik Bärtsch has become a virtual fixture of the Enjoy Jazz festival, which customarily inhabits at least three cities in southern Germany. It sprawls across all of October and half of November, presenting at least one performance each night in Heidelberg, Mannheim or Ludwigshafen. Sometimes there will be two or even three gigs ...
Ethno Port 2022
by Martin Longley
Ethno Port Centrum Kultury Zamek Poznań, Poland June 11-12 2022 The three-day Ethno Port festival moved back to its natural month of June in 2022, following a September edition in '21. Your scribe only managed to arrive for the second and third days, but still caught a wide ...
