from jazz@jazzinstitut.de

7 February 2018

... what else ...

Silke Sobotta talks to the German jazz impresario Rolf Wagemann about his concert series "Hot House Jazz Club" and jazz in Gelsenkirchen ( Lokalkompass).  
 --- Michael J. Agostino comments his choices for best jazz albums in 2017 ( The Village Voice). --- Marco Virgillito reports about the German graphic artist Robert Nippoldt ( Neue Ruhr Zeitung).
 --- The Grammy Award winner have been announced, and they are ... (Grammy ).
 --- Chris Heath and Robert Maxwell talk to Quincy Jones ( GQ).
 --- Fritz Hahn reports about new venues presenting jazz in Washington, DC ( Washington Post).
 --- Jonathan Stempel ( Reuters) and Bob Egelko ( San Francisco Chronicle) report about a lawsuit between the son of Thelonious Monk and a California brewery.
 --- Samir H. Köck attends a concert by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and the Austrian trumpeter Thomas Gansch ( Die Presse).
 --- We read an interview with the Scottish saxophonist Helena Kay ( M Magazine).
 --- Imade Borha talks to the saxophonist Reggie Davis ( The Frederick News-Post ).
 --- Anja Kernig reports about a new theater play based on the circumstances of Keith Jarrett's "Köln Concert" ( Saarbrücker Zeitung ).
 --- Andreas Hartmann hears trombonist George Lewis and saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell performing with a piano controlled by a software using qualities of artificial intelligence ( Der Tagesspiegel). Both, by the way, have a Chicago background, not one in Detroit as the sub-headline suggests.
 --- Ethan Iverson talks to the British composer and double bassist Gavin Bryars ( Do the Math ).
 --- Solange Morel talks to the Swiss violinist Laura Schuler ( Berner Zeitung).

Obituaries

We read further obituaries about the South African trumpeter  Hugh Masekela ( New York Times,  The Guardian,  NPR,  Wall Street Journal,  London Jazz News).
 --- We learned of the passing of the organist Seleno Clarke at the age of 87 ( Tributes), the trombonist Bill Hughes at the age of 87 ( SI Live), the singer  Micki Varro at the age of 75 ( The Hollywood Reporter), the pianist  Jeter Thompson at the age of 87 ( The St. Louis American), the Canadian pianist  Tommy Banks at the age of 81 ( Global News), the German guitarist Coco Schumann at the age of 93 ( Berliner Morgenpost, Deutschlandfunk Kultur  (1), Deutschlandfunk Kultur (2), San Francisco Chronicle , Süddeutsche Zeitung, Thüringer Allgemeine , Die Welt, Smithsonian Magazine, Augsburger Allgemeine), the German saxophonist Rolf Pifnitzka ( Byte FM), the saxophonist Eddie Shaw at the age of 80 ( Vintage Vinyl News, Chicago Tribune), the TV music director Robert Arthur at the age of 89 ( Vintage Vinyl News), the drummer Bob McKee at the age of 90 ( Ideastream), the drummer Leon Ndugu Chancler at the age of 65 ( Bonedo, Rolling Stones), the pianist Dick Mattick at the age of 80 ( Daily Herald), as well as the novelist  Bill Moody at the age of 76 ( Bill Moody Jazz).