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Take Five With Bob Wijnen
by AAJ Staff
Meet Bob Wijnen:Bob Wijnen is a pianist of great sensitivity and depth. Much in demand as an accompanist, he is known for having some of the best ears around, as well as being an elegant and adventurous soloist who has absorbed a great deal of the history of jazz piano.He has toured ...
Bimhuis Continues New Year's Concert Tradition
Upon concluding another season of premium jazz productions, Amsterdam’s iconic Bimhuis celebrates further high notes with the latest edition of their annual Oud and Nieuw (Old and New) Festival. Expect New Years Eve here to include plenty of typical Netherlands improvisations : creative, humorous and obviously unique. The show has become a “must see” musical attraction ...
Concert Big Band Stan Kenton Big Band Retrospective
This year marks the centennial of one of the seminal figures of jazz, Stan Kenton (1911-1979). Kenton, born in Wichita, Kansas, and raised in Los Angeles, was an adventurous innovator in 20th-century music. A prodigious pianist, composer, and arranger, Kenton was above all a fearless and ingenious bandleader who created, along with a team of composers, ...
Lotz / Kneer: U-EX(perimental)
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by Eyal Hareuveni
In 2009, Dutch flautist Mark Alban Lotz and bassist Meinrad Kneer initiated a monthly creative music series, titled U-EX(perimental), at Centraal Museum in Utrecht, presenting performances of spontaneous free improvisations. After about 120 concerts Lotz and Kneer decided to document some of these unique musical meetings in a tiny studio in Amsterdam--so tiny that there was ...
Take Five With Robert Vermeulen
by AAJ Staff
Meet Robert Vermeulen: “If there is anything better than the off-the-wall humor of the video promo that preceded this Talking Cows album, it is the actual album itself. Yet much more than the humor of it all is the spectacular seriousness of the music: deadly serious, and for those familiar with the high standards ...
Estrella & Esquina 25 @ Jazzpodium De Tor In Enschede, The Netherlands
Estrella & Esquina 25: Marc Bischoff - piano, Efraim Trujillo - sax/ flute, Jose Luis Lopretti- bass, Enrique Firpi - drums, Estrella Acosta - vocals Cuban vocalist Estrella Acosta & Esquina 25 5tet present a musical program that mixes Caribbean and South American rhythms with adventurous improvisations. Surprising arrangements from the Afro-Cuban classics are interwoven with ...
Anton Corbijn: Inside Out
by Nenad Georgievski
Anton Corbijn Inside Out CTM Films 2012There are plenty of documentaries about all kinds of bands and musicians, but there aren't many documentaries about photographers that have helped put them on the music pedestal. Probably the only existing documentaries on music photographers are those about photographers Annie Leibovitz and Robert Knight. ...
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 ...
Boi Akih: Circles in a Square Society
by Ian Patterson
The soul of Boi Akih--a duo, sextet, and all configurations in between-- is Monica Akihary's soulful voice and guitarist Niels Brouwer's jazz/world-inflected acoustic guitar. Boi Akih has always experimented; Lagu Lagu (Bromo, 2005)--an exquisite meeting between jazz, blues and Indonesian folk--was sung in the almost extinct Haruku language of Akihary's ancestors. With Indian percussionist Sandip Bhattcharya, ...
Follow the 2012 Dutch Jazz & World Meeting Online!
The Dutch Jazz & World Meeting is completely sold out! Nearly 175 international jazz and world music presenters will visit the Dutch Jazz & World Meeting on October 5-6, 2012 in Amsterdam. Attendees will see and hear 26 showcases of the best and most distinctive Dutch jazz and world groups currently on the scene. In addition ...
