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7 December 2016

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Christian Oscar Gazsi Laki talks to Bernd Zimmermann about the situation of jazz in the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia ( Rheinische Post). --- Fabrice Gottraux talks to the saxophonist Manu Dibango ( Tribune de Genève).
--- The German drummer Eva Klesse will receive the Westphalia Jazz Award 2017 ( Westfälische Nachrichten ).
--- Anna Borowiecki talks to the Canadian trombonist Allen Jacobson (a good friend of the Jazzinstitut) ( St. Albert Gazette).
--- George Varga talks to the 88-year-old saxophonist Anthony Ortega ( San Diego Union-Tribune).
--- Dean Balsamini reports about the saxophonist Wilbert Perry who accuses his landlord of trying to "drum him out" of his rent-controlled East Village apartment by planting bedbugs in it ( New York Post).
--- Sharon Coyle-Saeed talks to the pianist Vince di Mura ( My New Jersey).
--- Laman Osmayilova talks to the Azerbaijani pianist Isfar Sarabski (AzerNews).
--- The 2017 WDR Jazz Award for composition goes to the German saxophonist Jens Böckamp; the WDR Jazz Award for improvisation to the pianist Jürgen Friedrich ( WDR).
--- Peter Disch talks to label manager Volker Dueck about a recent court decision about the payout from the German copyright organization Gema ( Badische Zeitung).
--- Frank Ridder look at parallels between playing jazz and Industry 4.0 ( Silicon).
--- Alexa Peters selects 10 women instrumentalists "who redefine jazz" and ends up with Lil Hardin Armstrong, Alice Coltrane, Mary Lou Williams, Mary Osborne, Emily Remler, Melba Liston, Vi Redd, Marjorie Hyams, Kasey Knudsen and Carmen Rothwell ( Paste Magazine).
--- Barry Davis talks to the guitarist Pat Martino ( The Jerusalem Post). 
--- Laf Überland remembers the German cross-genre magazine Sounds ( Deutschlandradio Kultur).
--- The back catalogue of the legendary Swiss avant-garde label HatHut Records  was acquired by the Belgian production and recording group Outhere Music which plans to continue the program of label founder Werner X. Uehlinger.  --- Ali Gorman talks to the trombonist Jeff Bradshaw about having to change his diet after being diagnosed with diverticulitis ( 6ABC).
--- Nate Chinen hears some recent releases on Resonance Records and talks to some of the men behind the label ( New York Times).


Obituaries
We learned of the passing of the trumpeter and chef Edgar Chase Jr. at the age of 88 ( New York Times), the Indian guitarist Carlton Kitto ( Radio and Music, First Post), the pianist Mac Chrupcala at the age of 75 ( Newport Daily News), the Swiss collector and jazz researcher Theo Zwicky at the age of 89 (info by Arild Widerøe), the saxophonist Herb Hardesty at the age of 91 ( WWL TV, New Orleans Times-Picayune), the clarinetist Jim Torok at the age of 80 ( Minneapolis Star-Tribune), as well as the singer and electronic pop musician Ben Runnels at the age of 32 ( San Francisco Chronicle).