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Tallinn Music Week 2021

by Martin Longley
Tallinn Music Week Tallinn, Estonia September 30-October 2, 2021 The annual Tallinn Music Week has benefitted from excellent timing, with its 2020 and 2021 editions managing a placement outside of any hardcore lockdown actions, assembling a roster from outside of Estonia, albeit mostly from bordering or nearby lands. ...
Live From The Opus Jazz Club: Csaba Czirják Quintet, Xavi Torres Trio & Mash

by Martin Longley
The Csaba Czirják Quintet Opus Jazz Club Budapest, Hungary September 9, 2021 Budapest Music Center is a utopian artistic edifice. It houses a large concert hall, a recording studio, rehearsal rooms, a research library, a café and an impressive hoard of instruments, suited to jazz and moderne classical ...
Live From The Blue Note Jazz Club: Jan ‘Ptaszyn’ Wróblewski, Michel Korb, Felix Robin, Dawid Tokłowicz, Nata & Evgeny

by Martin Longley
Jan 'Ptaszyn' Wróblewski Blue Note Jazz Club Poznań, Poland August 31, 2021 Although not acknowledged on the main Blue Note website, along with the clubs in New York City, Tokyo, Hawaii, Milan and Rio De Janeiro, there has been a low-key acknowledgement of this Polish outpost's ...
Ethno Port 2021

by Martin Longley
Ethno Port Zamek Culture Centre Poznań, Poland September 3-5, 2021 The 2021 Ethno Port was much closer to the festival's accustomed scale, although still with a limited audience size. There were also no freebie outdoor performances in front of the Zamek castle-palace, although this was due to the ...
Citadelic 2021

by Martin Longley
Citadelic Citadelpark Gent, Belgium August 16-18, 2021 Your scribe took a three-day slice out of the six-day Citadelic festival, which had returned to its accustomed Citadelpark following a switch of location in 2020. He arrived for the second half of this 14th edition, catching three or four acts ...
Amersfoort World Jazz Festival 2021

by Martin Longley
Amersfoort World Jazz Festival Amersfoort, Netherlands August 9-15, 2021 As with so many festivals during the last 18 months, the Amersfoort World Jazz Festival was forced to concentrate on local talent. Although steering away from big name international visitors, this summer edition offered a prime opportunity to familiarise our ears ...
Live From Lisbon: Banha Da Cobra, Mário Laginha, Ricardo Toscano, Huh! & Gileno Santana

by Martin Longley
Banha Da Cobra Cosmos Campolide July 29, 2021 Cosmos Campolide is a new venture housed in an aging building, which used to be an 'old gentlemen's club,' going back around a century. From the street outside, its existence as a moderne venue for electronic adventure isn't evident, it just looks ...
Live From Tallinn: The Jussi Lehtonen Quartet, Akli, Dreamkrusher! & Shelton San vs Zahir

by Martin Longley
The Jussi Lehtonen Quartet Philly Joe's Jazz Bar Tallinn, Estonia July 28, 2021 Philly Joe's Jazz Bar is, somewhat appropriately, situated right on Freedom Square, a key central location in the Estonian capital city of Tallinn. There aren't so many global instances of similarly prominent placements for such ...
Viljandi Folk Music Festival 2021

by Martin Longley
Viljandi Folk Music Festival Viljandi, Estonia July 22-25, 2021 Viljandi must be a quiet place in usual times, situated down in the south of Estonia, and emanating a small town vibration. Usually its annual four-day folk festival magnetises a massive gathering, and invites multiple international acts, fully inhabiting an impressive ...
Live From Café De Loge, Bar Lume And The Missy Sippy Blues & Roots Club

by Martin Longley
Wolf Vanwymeersch Café De Loge Gent, Belgium July 14, 2021 Towards the end of the Gent Jazz festival, there's an intersection with the usually much bigger Gentse Feesten street celebration. In July 2021, this hedonistic explosion was defused, but several venues presented intimate shows on the same dates, ...