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Article: Album Review

Antonio Adolfo: Bossa 65

Read "Bossa 65" reviewed by Katchie Cartwright

by Katchie Cartwright
June 28, 2023

In 1963, a seventeen-year-old Antonio Adolfo was already gigging professionally on the exploding bossa nova scene in Rio de Janeiro, his hometown. His career has continued unabated. For decades, he has been putting out a steady stream of admirable albums, earning critical praise and multiple Grammy nominations. His releases have often focused on the work of ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

New Releases Plus Birthday Celebrations for Ella Fitzgerald, Blossom Dearie & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
May 8, 2023

This broadcast includes new releases from the JOI (Jazz Outreach Initiative) Jazz Orchestra, Luis Russell and Grace Garland, plus birthday shoutouts to Blossom Dearie, Ma Rainey, Rebecca Martin, Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald, among others. Thanks for listening and please support the artists you hear by seeing them live and online. Purchase their music so they ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Bacharach to the Future - Part 2

by Ludovico Granvassu
March 11, 2023

As a young adult, Burt Bacharach used fake IDs to get into 52nd Street jazz clubs to have his mind blown by heroes of the bebop revolution like Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. Those early impressions could not but leave a mark in his sophisticated pop songs, seeds that would later make those very same songs ...

Article: Building a Jazz Library

Michel Legrand: Hollywood Hitmaker And Jazz Genius

by Chris May
February 13, 2023

For many jazz fans, Michel Legrand is celebrated, if he is celebrated at all, for one album only: the masterpiece Legrand Jazz (Columbia, 1958). But Legrand's jazz legacy is more extensive than that, including other historic recordings, with large and small ensembles, under his own name and by Stan Getz and Phil Woods, whose Images (RCA, ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

New Vocal Releases, Birthday Shoutouts to Lil Hardin Armstrong, Jutta Hipp and More

by Mary Foster Conklin
February 13, 2023

The broadcast begins the February fundraiser for the station and includes new releases from drummer Jay Lawrence & the Platinum Jazz Orchestra, vocalists Jo Lawry, Ben Cassara and Ann Hampton Callaway, with birthday shoutouts to pianists Lil Hardin Armstrong, Caili O'Doherty, Jutta Hipp, vocalists Ed Reed, CeCe Gable and bassist Katie Thiroux, among others. Thanks for ...

Article: Year in Review

2022: The Year in Jazz

by Ken Franckling
December 29, 2022

Current events impacted the jazz world in significant ways throughout 2022. In its third year, the coronavirus pandemic continued to lurk in some settings, while others recovered in robust fashion. Russia's war on Ukraine was felt by musicians and triggered an outpouring of support for its victims. Initiatives to ensure greater equity in jazz advanced. The ...

Article: Jazzin' Around Europe

The Optimal Evolution of Amersfoort World Jazz

by Phillip Woolever
October 11, 2022

A multitude of festivals recently returned from the pandemic wasteland as the world of live music played catch-up from over two years of interruptions, but few comebacks in the busy summer of 2022 were as uniformly strong as the full reopening of the Amersfoort World Jazz Festival. During what is likely now a permanent switch from ...

Article: Live Review

Aarhus Jazz Festival 2022

by Jakob Baekgaard
July 20, 2022

Aarhus Jazz Festival Various Venues Aarhus, Denmark July 9-16, 2022 With around 283,000 citizens, Aarhus is the second-largest city in Denmark, and the role of playing second fiddle doesn't suit a city that tends to be overshadowed by its big brother, the capital Copenhagen. Or so you would think. In fact, ...

About Andreas Hertel

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Musician

Andreas Hertel

Born: 1964

Andreas Hertel is a German jazz pianist, composer, bandleader, and piano teacher. Since the early 90ies he has been active on the German jazz scene.
He published 10 CDs with mainly original compositions in solo, trio, and quintet settings and wrote about 200 jazz tunes, some big band arrangements, and theatre music. Two of his CDs received longlist nominations for a German Record Critic's Award ("Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik"): "Blue Bop" (Trio, 2022) and "Keepin' the Spirit" (2015), feat. guest stars Dusko Goykovich (tp/flh), Tony Lakatos (sax), "Lady Bass" Lindy Huppertsberg (b), Jens Biehl (dr).
His Christmas song "It might be Christmas Every Day" won a "Global Music Award" (Silver Medal) in March 2024.
His bands also do tribute programs to Toots Thielemans and Bill Evans (feat. Jens Bunge-harm), Miles, Coltrane, the great Jazz Ladies (feat. Anne Czichowsky-voc), Milt Jackson (feat. Matthias Strucken-vib), piano/saxophone/trumpet in jazz, Europe and jazz, a.o. ...

News: Video / DVD

Toots Thielemans and Rob Franken

March 21, 2022

Every great jazz musician has his musical mate—an artist who perfectly complements his or her style and sound. Such jazz pairings that come to mind are Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, Pepper Adams and Donald Byrd, Thelonious Monk and Charlie Rouse, Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker, Art Farmer and Benny Golson, Clifford Brown and Max Roach, ...