Home » Search Center » Results: Phillip Woolever

Results for "Phillip Woolever"

News: Festival

Jazz for Syria 2015 in The Hague

April 28, 2015

By Phillip Woolever After completing dynamic, multi-national concerts in the Global Week for Syria series, the entertainment focus shifts completely onto jazz for a climactic, gala celebration in The Hague, Netherlands on International Jazz Day, Thursday April 30th. The project has indeed been an ongoing international affair, with fundraising events and concerts during April 18th – ...

Article: Jazzin' Around Europe

Festival Jazz International Promotes Rotterdam Renaissance

by Phillip Woolever
December 21, 2014

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.

Article: Album Review

Ginger Baker: Why?

Read "Why?" reviewed by Phillip Woolever

by Phillip Woolever
December 7, 2014

The most pleasant surprises on Ginger Baker's first mainstream release in almost a decade are subtle. That term may not be generally applied to the 74 year-old bohemian beat master, but restraint has been an unheralded constant in Baker's wide-ranging career nonetheless. The relatively conservative approach goes against Baker's ongoing typecasting as a crazed ...

Article: Live Review

Saskia Laroo Band at Cotton Club

by Phillip Woolever
November 18, 2014

Saskia Laroo Band Cotton Club Amsterdam, Netherlands October 18, 2014 Amsterdam's Saskia Laroo is one of the many hard working, far traveling players who make jazz, indeed, a global village. Laroo's afternoon gig at a venerable, center city pub took place during the Amsterdam Dance Event, a huge music ...

Article: Live Review

Jeff Beck in Cologne

by Phillip Woolever
July 12, 2014

Jeff Beck Group E-Werk Cologne, Germany May 29, 2014 Sometimes a man's reputation proceeds him. Such was the case tonight, where an overflow crowd of 2,000 fans arrived early, and crammed into a steamy bunker of bricks to hear Jeff Beck's wonderous wails to the electric wind.

Article: Extended Analysis

Jack Bruce: Silver Rails

by Phillip Woolever
June 15, 2014

Jack Bruce and a sterling cast of supporting players roar down breathtaking tracks on this powerful production, offering what sounds like Bruce's autobiographical retrospective in an artistic, highly personal manifesto. The album seems to progress in stages, starting with British blues and abstract jazz, musical touchstones Bruce has based much of his catalog on. ...

Article: Live Review

Ron Carter Golden Striker Trio at Jazzfest Gronau 2014

by Phillip Woolever
May 15, 2014

Ron Carter Golden Striker Trio Evangelist Stadtkirche Jazzfest Gronau Gronau, Germany April 27, 2014 Ron Carter resumed his casual, “guy with the microphone" demeanor as bandleader for this afternoon's “church meeting," but brought a confident intensity to this conspicuously jazz conscious German community on the Netherlands border. A ...

News: Event

Anna Calvi 2014 Tour Hits Germany

March 24, 2014

Rising British star Anna Calvi will make two stops in Germany during the final leg of her initial 2014 tour. Calvi and her band, now expanded with a keyboard player, will visit Cologne, at Kantine on March 25th and at St. Peter’s Church in Frankfurt on March 26th. The current tour includes focus on a new ...

News: Event

Rock Meets Classic 2014 Blasts Off

March 13, 2014

The 5th edition of the “Rock Meets Classic" tour blasted off in Berlin this week for this season's extraordinary collaboration, mixing a fresh improvisational format with some of the heaviest power chords in popular music history. As usual, the tour's electric, rocking foundation comes from the Mat Sinner Band, with the Bohemian Symphony Orchestra Prague providing ...

News: Event

Benefit for Haiyan Typhoon Victims at Shapeshifter Lab on December 21st

December 11, 2013

A very special holiday gift of giving is scheduled for December 21st by some very interesting and charitable New York musicians in a uniquely dynamic benefit performance. A diverse assembly consisting of some of New York City’s most creative musicians has joined forces to provide humanitarian aid to victims of Typhoon Haiyan in the devastated Philippines. ...