Today, 29 April 2021 would have been the 99th birthday of Jean-Baptiste Frédéric Isidor, Baron (“Toots”) Thielemans (1922-2016) and plans for the centenary next year are already taking shape in his native Belgium. A dedicated website, toots100.be was launched today. [...]
The Europe Jazz Network has just announced the winner for its 2021 Adventurous Programming award, the award’s tenth year… The process behind selecting the winner was in two stages. The first step was that all 160+ EJN member organisations from [...]
There is a petition currently under way, seeking to put an end to the fixed penalty fine of EUR150 which is increasingly being levied on bassists travelling on trains in France with their instruments, perhaps part of a broader trend [...]
jazzahead! has just announced a new co-operation arrangement with the UNESCO-led International Jazz Day for this year’s digital edition. German Minister Monika Grütters and Dee Dee Bridgewater are announced as speakers for the opening event, and the Markus Stockhausen Group [...]
Review of a live concert at Unterfahrt. English version (*) first, then Ralf Dombrowski’s original German Tours these days aren’t what they used to be. Lionel Loueke has been able to organise four concerts in Berlin, Munich, Vienna, Barcelona, and [...]
