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Altoadige Jazz Festival 2018
by Libero Farnè
Varie Sedi Provincia di Bolzano 29.06--08.07.2018 Da alcuni anni il sottotitolo di questo festival potrebbe essere “Young European Jazz Festival," visto che il suo curatore Klaus Widmann evita accuratamente di invitare gruppi americani o nomi europei già troppo noti. Il suo obiettivo è invece quello di sondare le giovani tendenze ...
Blooming Tall Phlox
Label: L & H Production
Released: 2017
Track listing: Disc 1: Blooming Tall Phlox; Apples Laid Out On The Floor; Baba Liza’s Singer; Old-
Fashioned; Bread Store; Wildflower Meadows; Fish Fried On Open Fire; Sleeping In
The Tent; Pin Needles Warmed By The Sun. Disc 2: Smoke From The Hot Tea;
Grandpa Lera’s Bookcase; Clementine’s And Candies On Christmas Tree; Mommy’s
Shawl; Aunt Galya’s Perfume; Scented Candles And Sparkling Wine.
Pekka
Label: Edition Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Dragon; First Morning; Inke and Me; Pinch; Madness Subsides; Benjamin; Innocent Questions.
We Jazz Festival 2017
by Anthony Shaw
We Jazz Festival Helsinki, Finland December 2-9, 2017 Being a party animal at latitudes above 60 degrees takes some doing in the winter months, in Anchorage as in Archangel. Helsinki is south of both cities, just, but is host to one of Scandinavia's hottest and yet coldest modern jazz festivals in ...
36th International Tampere Jazz Happening
by John Ephland
36th International Tampere Jazz Happening Tampere, Finland November 2-5, 2017 They were the winner of this year's Europe Jazz Network (EJN) Award for Adventurous Programming. Receiving the award at April's jazzahead! conference in Bremen, Tampere Jazz Happening and Artistic Director Juhamatti Kauppinen celebrated what has become 35 years of top-drawer programming. The ...
Teemu Viinikainen: Return of Robert Dickson
by Friedrich Kunzmann
Finnish guitarist and composer Teemu Viinikainen III has played a part in the jazz world for almost 20 years now, gaining much recognition and popularity in his home country for his achievements with, among others, Blue Note signed U-Street All Stars in the early 2000s. 2017 sees Teemu very active--having greatly contributed his singular guitar sound ...
Verneri Pohjola: Pekka
by Friedrich Kunzmann
On this sophomore release with Edition Records Verneri Pohjola reinterprets the music of his late father, Pekka Pohjola. Pekka was an internationally acclaimed jazz- fusion/progressive-rock multi-instrumentalist, best known for his chops on the bass during his ventures in the 70s and 80s, collaborating, among others, with Mike Oldfield. Due to his father having been educated primarily ...
Girls in Airports: Live
by Karl Ackermann
Thanks in large part to labels like ECM, Odin Records and Rune Grammofon, jazz fans in the US have become familiar with a many Norwegian and Scandinavian jazz artists. Copenhagen based Girls in Airports has not been one of those groups but it's about time the quintet broke into this market. The group debuted with a ...
Forget Old Europe: 15 European Jazz Musicians You Need To Know About
by AAJ Staff
Since the first half of the 20th century, the Old Continent has played a pivotal role both in welcoming and supporting jazz artists from the United States. Over the following decades it has expressed generations of passionate musicians with increasingly original languages and ever greater improvisatory skills. In the 21st century there are countless ...
Yelena Eckemoff: In The Shadow Of A Cloud
by John Kelman
She may rarely perform live in this context, but Yelena Eckemoff has managed to build, over just seven years and a mammoth eleven releases--including her second release of 2017, In the Shadow of a Cloud--a loyal and growing following in the jazz world. It's all the more remarkable for a multi-talented expat Russian pianist who began ...
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