from jazz@jazzinstitut.de

 29 December 2017

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Jennifer Waits reports about the college radio station WKCR at Columbia University in New York ( Radio Survivor).
--- Giovanni Russonello hears the Microscopic Septet, the Kamikaze Ground Crew and the Jazz Passengers in a concert retrospective to the 1980s and 1990s New York Downtown jazz scene ( New York Times). 
--- Ulrich Stock writes a "completely improvised" review about a performance by The Necks at Elbphilharmonie Hamburg ( Die Zeit). 
--- Mary Cross reports about the donation of a Louis Armstrong portrait to the Hogan Jazz Archive at Tulane University in New Orleans on the occasion of the retirement of its director Bruce Boyd Raeburn ( Tulane). 
--- Adam Olschewski reports about pianist Vijay Iyer's new sextet ( Neue Zürcher Zeitung). 
--- The Swiss jazz advocate Fredi Bosshart has been honored by the city of Zurich ( Limmattaler Zeitung). 
--- Benjy Engel reports about the end of the Sacramento Music Festival, previously known as Sacramento Dixieland Jazz Jubilee, after 44 years ( The Sacramento Bee). 
--- Oliver Schwambach reports about financial problems of the jazz festival in Saarbrücken, Germany, the artistic director of which disappeared despite owing artists' fees to a number of musicians ( Saarbrücker Zeitung). 
--- Colin Stutz reports about Texas Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee who will be the new chair of the Congressional Jazz Caucus in the House of Representatives after the resignation of Michigan Representative John Conyers ( Billboard). 
--- The German pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach was awarded the Order of the Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany ( Focus). 
--- Axel Mikolajczakc reads a book about the German drum manufacturer Sonor ( Sticks), and Tom Henry reads a book about the jazz history of Toledo, Ohio ( Toledo Blade).


Obituaries
We learned of the passing of the pianist Willie Pickens at the age of 86 ( Hyde Park Herald, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune, Jazz Beyond Jazz),

• the saxophonist Ralph Carney at the age of 61 ( KQED, New York Times),
• the singer Keely Smith at the age of 89 ( Variety, The Guardian, San Francisco Chronicle),
• the British pianist John Critchinson at the age of 82 ( London Jazz News),
• the singer Kevin Mahogany at the age of 59 ( Kansas City Star, New York Times),
• the drummer Bill Carney at the age of 92 ( Philadelphia Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer, The Philadelphia Sunday),
• the trombonist Roswell Rudd at the age of 82 ( Ottawa Citizen, Do the Math, WBGO, New York Times, New England Public Radio ), 
• the guitarist and artistic director of the Saint Louis Jazz Festival in Senegal, Khabane Thiam ( Le Soleil),
• the Filipino vibraphonist and saxophonist Eddie Katindig ( The Inquirer), as well as the Cameroon-born guitarist Vincent Nguini at the age of 65 ( New York Times).