jazz@jazzinstitut.de

15 February 2016

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Andrew Gilbert talks to the drummer Mike Clark ( The Mercury News).
 --- Martin Schmidt talks to the guitarist Julian Lage ( Gitarre Bass).
 --- Larry Getlen looks at the destroying relationship between Charlie Parker and heroin - although the headline, "Charlie Parker’s heroin addiction helped make him a genius", has nothing really to do with what's in Getlen's article ( New York Post).
 --- Manfred Knispel reports about an initiative to establish jazz programs in Wiesbaden, Germany ( Wiesbadener Tagblatt).
 --- Wolfgang Sandner reports about Frank Wellert, lead trumpeter of the German HR Bigband ( Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ).
 --- Chris Farrell talks to the pianist Noah Haidu ( Bklyner).
 --- Laura Hofmann reports about political discussions about a potential House of Jazz in Berlin, Germany ( Der Tagesspiegel).
 --- Andrew R. Chow reports about Wayne Shorter and Sting winning the Polar Music Prize ( New York Times).
 --- Tetona Dunlap talks to the trumpeter Bria Skonberg ( Magic Valley).
 --- Samir H. Köck talks to the drummer Louis Hayes ( Die Presse).
 --- The nominations for Echo Jazz, the German equivalent to the Grammy, are out ( Echo Jazz ). And the winners of this year's Grammys are in ( Grammy ).
 --- Jamie Paisley talks to the clarinetist Anat Cohen about still persistent sexism in jazz and how it's only slowly changing ( WKAR).
 --- Mike Ferguson talks to the pianist Andrew Allen ( The Ledger).
 --- Philippa Schmidt talks to the Swiss bassist Heiri Känzig ( Zürichsee-Zeitung).
 --- Jaime Green talks to Camay Murphy Calloway about her father, the singer and bandleader Cab Calloway ( ABC News).


Obituaries
We read another obituary about the Swiss collector and jazz historian Theo Zwicky who had died in December at the age of 89 ( The Guardian). --- We learned of the passing of the singer Lynne Roberts at the age of 80 (courtesy of John McDonough), the arranger and producer David Axelrod at the age of 83 ( Billboard), the Danish violinist Svend Asmussen at the age of 100 ( Washington Post, New York Times), the German guitarist Stephan Diez at the age of 62 ( NDR), the journalist and jazz advocate Patricia Myers ( Arizona Central), the singer Al Jarreau at the age of 76 ( Ebony, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Los Angeles Times, Die Presse, NPR, Süddeutsche Zeitung, New York Times, Spiegel Online, Atlanta Black Star, Zeit Online), the pianist and singer Barbara Carroll at the age of 92 ( Playbill), the German pianist and journalist Michael Naura at the age of 82 ( NDR), as well as the German saxophonist Jürgen Engesser at the age of 56 ( Badische Zeitung).