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It’s been a while since my last visit to Bremen for jazzahead! Actually, it was in 2015! Time flies when you’re having fun…This year’s jazzahead!, one of the world’s biggest gatherings of the global jazz scene, will take place April 11th-13th. The 2024 edition will focus on the Netherlands with showcases from Alessandro Fongaro’s Pietre,…
Another genius has made his transition. Or how do you call someone who played on the freaky 1972 Miles Davis LP “On The Corner” and then five years later started an amazingly successful and productive career in soul music circles, being responsible for co-writing and producing some of the most precious tunes in soul music…
Pianist David Hazeltine is Number 1 on the year’s first JazzWeek chart with his tribute album “I Remember Cedar” dedicated to Cedar Walton. The album also features David Williams and Joe Farnsworth. The duo album “The Art Of Conversation” by Kenny Barron and Dave Holland remains at Number 2 and the new HighNote release from…
One of our favorite soul singers, Jarrod Lawson, recently announced a few stops for an upcoming European tour. His latest single is the gorgeous “Next Move”, a duet with Raquel Rodriguez which came out this past July. It’s an incredible love ballad with a heavy heavy monster dose of soul. We have accompanied his amazing…
In my review of the Northsea Jazz Festival 2015, I wrote about Roy Hargrove’s performance: “A fitting finale for me was the hot and cool, the fast and the furious Roy Hargrove Quintet mastering everything from hardbop grittiness to some preppy Golson/Farmer stuff and grooving, loping attacks. I still hope that he is not planning…
Stevie Wonder has been playing everyone’s favorite album (including mine), “Songs In The Key Of Life” from 1976, in its entirety on a successful, sold-out US tour. He is now bringing the three-hour show to Europe and will play London’s Hyde Park on July 10th. The tour has run for 18 months in the US…