10 April 2016
Monika Roscher / Hip-Hop
Antonio Seidemann talks to the German guitarist Monika Roscher about her approach to composition, about music needing beauty as well as the elements of ugliness at times, about her big band, as well as about listening to historic examples of jazz for the musicians' attitude more than for just the notes ( TZ München). --- Khaya Cohen sees the recent fusion of hip-hop with jazz elements as a potential breeding ground for new directions not just in hip-hop but also in jazz ( Earmilk).
11 April 2016
Kenny Barron / Switzerland
George Varga talks to the pianist Kenny Barron about his start in music in the band of Roy Haynes, about how Dizzy Gillespie hired him for his band in 1962 when Barron was merely 19 years old on the recommendation of saxophonist James Moody alone, about the lyricism in his playing, about his desire to nurture young musicians in his own band, as well as about his dream to record with strings ( San Diego Union-Tribune ). --- This year's JazzAhead! trade fair in Bremen, Germany, will showcase bands from Switzerland, and Hans Hielscher sheds light on the Swiss scene, some of its traditions, its creative musicians and its financial support system ( Spiegel Online).
12 April 2016
Hugo Strasser / Lenny Breau
Lisa Marie Albrecht reports about the German pianist Heinrich Haas who will inherit the late swing clarinetist Hugo Strasser's musical archive comprising 2000 arrangements, and talks to Haas about how he had met Strasser who was 60 years older than him and who eventually featured Hass in his concerts ( Abendzeitung München ). --- Ray Routhier reports about the legacy of the guitarist Lenny Breau who died more than 30 years ago but whose five-finger style and harmonic approach influenced many of his colleagues, speaks with fellow musicians and relatives of the guitarist and revisits Breau's troubled life as well as his mysterious death ( Portland Press Herald).
13 April 2016
... what else ...
Andrian Kreye comments on the results of the jazzstudie 2016 ( Süddeutsche Zeitung). --- Apollinaire Scherr hears Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra playing his new opus, "Spaces", with the dancers Jared Grimes and Lil Buck ( Financial Times). --- The Elbjazz Festival in Hamburg, Germany, pauses this year but now has announced the dates for next year's event ( NDR). --- Dean Essner lists clubs in Washington, D.C., which offer live jazz after the closure of the Bohemian Caverns ( The Washingtonian). --- The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced 178 scholars, artists and scientists who have been awarded 2016 Fellowships, among them 12 composer, among those the saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter ( New Music Box). --- Emily Chudy talks to the British singer Val Maugenest ( Get West London). --- Howard Reich hears the trumpeter Nicholas Payton at Chicago's Jazz Showcase ( Chicago Tribune). --- Hans-Jürgen Linke looks back at last year's Darmstadt Jazzforum focusing on "Gender and Identity in Jazz " ( Goethe-Institut). --- The German Union Deutscher Jazzmusiker (UDJ) is searching for a new executive director ( UDJ). --- Caroline Rees talks to the British saxophonist Courtney Pine about his six favorite books ( Express). --- Howard Reich hears the guitarist George Freeman at his 89th birthday concert at The Green Mill in Chicago ( Chicago Tribune). --- Amelia Mason talks to the bassist and singer Esperanza Spalding ( 99.9wnur). --- Tobias Böcker hears the drummer Jochen Rückert in Neuburg, Germany ( Augsburger Allgemeine).
Obituaries
We read further obituary about the late David Baker ( Washington Post, Wall Street Journal). --- We learned of the passing of the bassist Terry Plumeri at the age of 70 ( ABC Action News), the singer Bill Henderson at the age of 90 ( Variety, Hollywood Reporter), the entertainment lawyer Seymour Lazar at the age of 88 ( New York Times), the drummer Dennis Davis ( Rolling Stone), the Ethiopian saxophonist Mekurya Getatchew at the age of 81 ( New York Times), as well as the Austrian clarinetist Alfons Würzl at the age of 75.
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