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19 October2016

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Jodok Hess sends his regards to the Swiss saxophonist Andy Scherrer who turns 70 these days ( SRF). --- Josh Rosenberg ( Spin), Michael Datcher ( LA Weekly) and John Lewis ( The Guardian) talk to the saxophonist Kamasi Washington. --- Chris Graham talks to the trumpeter Mark Filsinger about the Buffalo Jazz Collective ( Orchard Park Bee). --- Chelsea Brasted talks to the pianist David Lastie Jr. ( New Orleans Times-Picayune). --- The German photographer Martin Feldmann shows some of his photos from trip to the blues scenes of Chicago, Memphis and other American cities in Rüsselsheim ( Rüsselsheimer Echo ). --- Tom Lanham ( Paste Magazine), David Ellis ( Evening Standard) and Josef Engels ( Die Welt) talk to the pianist and singer Norah Jones. --- Hans Hielscher reports about the festival "Jazz and the City" in Salzburg, Austria ( Spiegel Online). Doris Wild talks to the festival's artistic director Tina Heine ( SalzburgerLand Magazin). --- The future artistic director of the Moers Festival is expected to involve the local audience more than before, we read, with the city of Moers implying that so far the festival may have been known internationally but not on a local level ( Westfälische Nachrichten). --- Roger Catlin talks to the trumpeter Terence Blanchard ( Washington Post). --- David Ellis talks to the pianist and singer Norah Jones . --- Nate Chinen talks to the drummer Andrew Cyrille ( New York Times). --- John J. Moser talks to the saxophonist Branford Marsalis ( Morning Call).

Obituaries

We learned of the passing of the trumpeter Don Lewis at the age of 65 ( Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, TMJ4), the saxophonist Bruce DeMoll at the age of 86 ( Parkersburg News and Sentinel), the educator and jazz historian Richard Wang at the age of 88, the Canadian drummer Guy Nadon at the age of 82 ( Montréal Gazette) , the producer Phil Chess at the age of 95 ( Chicago Sun-Times, New York Times), as well as the German composer Claus Ogerman who died in March at the age of 85, a sad fact which only now made the news ( Spiegel Online).