Festivals

Norah Jones, Wayne Shorter, & more headline at Gent Jazz Festival 2017

Singer Norah Jones is one of the crowd pullers at Gent Jazz Festival 2017. The festival in the Belgian town will be held from 6 to July 15th. The festival was first held in 2002....

Oran Etkin Trio at Jazz Dock, Mladi Ladi Jazz Festival, Prague, Czech Republic

Mladi Ladi Jazz Festival presents a nation-wide tour (in the Czech Republic) of Oran Etkin’s various projects: Timbalooloo concerts for kids, Gathering Light concerts and a...

Hazmat Modine – A Weird American Post-Modern Blues & World Music Fusion Experience

Greil Marcus’s brilliant book “Weird America” was written to explore the secret roots of Bob Dylan’s music—obscure ballads and folk legends, which usually led to...

Star Names For Cheltenham Jazz Festival 2017

“One of the UK’s classiest and most eclectic jazz festivals” The Guardian “The long running Cheltenham Jazz Festival has always fluidly negotiated the terrain...

North Sea jazz 2017 | Top Global Artist Confirmed

“This is one of the greatest events in music…in the world” George Benson  Van Morrison, Herbie Hancock, Jamiroquai, George Benson, Norah Jones, Laura Mvula and many...

Bugge Wesseltoft’s New Conception of Jazz – 2016 Edition

Bugge (pronounced ‘boogie’) came onto the jazz scene over 20 years as an eager and innovative jazz pianist, keyboardist, producer and composer from Norway.  But he...

Jazz Goes to Town in Hradec Kralove, East Bohemia

Jazz Goes to Town is an international music festival in Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic, about an hour by bus or train, northeast of Prague. This year will be the 22nd edition of...

Binker & Moses interview – The super London duo!

Sunday 3rd July @ The Love Supreme Festival – The Artists area On the last day of the Love Supreme Festival, I popped to the Artists area to sit on a bench outside, sun...

Zurich Jazz Festival “jazznojazz” | Exciting mix of urban jazz, soul and fusion

The 18th edition of the Zurich Jazzfestival jazznojazz promises to be captivating with its exciting mix of urban jazz, soul sounds, and jazz fusion grooves. Sponsored by the...

Roundup – Jazz Middelheim 2016

The sound of Ornette Coleman kept alive at Jazz Middelheim..“Sound is a form of invisible emotion.’’ Saxophonist Ornette Coleman spoke those words in a 2008 interview. The...

Interview with Alan Gorrie – Average White Band

The last day of the Love Supreme Festival saw many artists and performances; it was an incredibly packed day, full of music and chats. One of the scheduled interviews on my list...