Nick Colionne at Charlie's Sushi

Excellence in Smooth Jazz Performance, Dining and Location - Nick Colionne at Charlie's Sushi in Clearwater this Thursday

World-renowned multi-time Billboards Contemporary Jazz Charting musician Jackiem Joyner is a saxophonist, producer, author, composer and a father. With six albums to his credit, a novel and his daughter, Trinity, (who inspired the recording of several songs on the artist’s latest release, Main Street Beat) it’s fair to say that he accomplished much in his young life. He will be bringing a great deal of energy and emotion to our venue. Adjectives on his website used to describe his music include dance, funk, upbeat, fiery, high-energy and more...

from Barbara Dennerlein

In 1988, the Hammond Nostalgia Club was founded in Germany. Recently, copies of the annual club magazine were on auction at ebay, including Issue No. 17 from the year 2008, in which apparently was reported on the founding event with lots of Hammond live music.

Barbara Dennerlein also performed there, reports the members magazine already on the title page. Unfortunately, a Hammond fan was faster than the author of these lines to catch the item on ebay. Understandably, Barbara has, more than 30 years later, no exact memory of this event. We would have liked to tell you more about it, but ... Maybe a reader can send us copies of the club magazine clippings.

Beth McKee

New Release by Beth McKee Highlights Month of La La's, Concerts and Community Building Events

Seattle’s Duende Libre

Rejoining Pangea: Seattle’s Duende Libre Uses Jazz Savvy to Knit Continents and Rhythmic Sensibilities from Cuba to Turkey

05/02/2018

Once long ago, there were no continents, nothing to divide the great mass of land. Seattle-based trio Duende Libre’s lyrical, clever songs explore this notion, charting the imaginary folds and roads of Pangea, the ebb and flow of the world’s sounds.


Guided by founder and bandleader, pianist Alex Chadsey, Duende Libre prove that what drifted apart can drift back together, and that musical traditions are living things and therefore constantly in flux. The Puget Sound and the...

read more at: http://duende-libre.rockpaperscissors.biz

from jazz@jazzinstitut.de

1 May 2018

Eberhard Weber / International Jazz Day

René Zipperlen talks to the German bassist Eberhard Weber about his health, about the stroke he suffered 11 years ago after which he had to quit playing the bass, about always having seen himself as technically inadequate on his instrument, about his decision to change from the acoustic to the electric variety of his instrument, about wanting to make music and not just play the bass, about how expression is more important than technique, about having discovered new sounds on his instrument, about his 25-year collaboration with saxophonist Jan Garbarek having been based on mutual respect more than friendship, as well as about the surprise he always felt when he realized people actually liked his music ( Badische Zeitung). --- 30 April 2018 was International Jazz Day, and while the main celebration took place in St. Petersburg, Russia (International Jazz Day ), the day was acknowledged all over the world. Pritha Banerjee, for instance, tells about the impact of jazz in India ( Free Press Journal); Corey Connelly reports about how Tobago hopes that jazz might help revive tourism to the Caribbean island ( Trinidad and Tobago Newsday); Nseobong Okon-Ekong and Vanessa Obioha talk to some Nigerian jazz event promoters ( This Day Live); Jonathan deBurca Butler talks to prominent Irish jazz fans about their love for the music ( Irish Examiner); Moses Opobo reports about the rise of jazz in Rwanda ( The New Times); and Jeremiah Ndjoze looks at IJD events in Namibia ( New Era). On the occasion of International Jazz Day, Sandee LaMotte talks to the neuroscientist Charles Limb about how jazz helps understand how the brain invents, how the creative process in jazz improvisation "is very different than the process of memorization" ( CNN).

2 May 2018

... what else ... 

Bobbi Booker acknowledges the connection between jazz and political activism (Philadelphia Tribune). --- Christina Hertel talks to the German amateur trombonistWerner Riedel ( Süddeutsche Zeitung ). --- The Swiss trumpeter Franco Ambrosetti will receive this year's Swiss Jazz Award ( Neue Zürcher Zeitung ). --- Marcus Crowder talks to the trumpeter Terence Blanchard about jazz as protest music ( Sacramento News-Review). --- The Birmingham, Alabama, pianist Raymond Reach was arrested on a child porn charge ( Alabama). --- Bill Turque ( Kansas City Star ) and Alana LaFlore ( Fox4KC) report about a city council meeting in Kansas City discussing the future of the American Jazz Museum. More here ( Kansas City Star), and here ( Kansas City Star). --- Martin Möller talks to the German trumpeter Helmut 'Daisy' Becker ( Trierer Volksfreund). --- Matthias Wegener talks to the South Korean singer Youn Sun Nah ( Deutschlandfunk Kultur ). --- Jazz Tangcay talks to the film director Gregory Caruso about his film "Flock of Four" about Central Avenue and the history of jazz in Los Angeles ( Awards Daily). --- The German journalist Hans Hielscher remembers his youth in East Germany, his love for jazz and his escape to West Germany just in time before the wall ( Spiegel Online). --- David Wallace talks to the poet, critic and theorist Fred Moten ( The New Yorker).

 

Obituaries 

We read further obituaries about the saxophonist Nathan Davis who had died at the age of 81 ( New York Times, PittNews). --- We learned of the passing of the jazz journalist Lee Jeske ( Jazz Promo Services), the pianist and singer Bob Dorough at the age of 94 ( New York Daily News, NPR, New York Times), the saxophonist Charles Neville at the age of 79 ( New York Times, New Orleans Times-Picayune), the pianist Brooks Kerr at the age of 66, the pianist Howard Williams ( Jazz Promo Services), the Russian-German bandleader Alexander Erpilev at the age of 57 ( Mitteldeutsche Zeitung), as well as the Australian pianist Dick Hughes at the age of 87 ( Sydney Morning Herald).

Danny Green 'All The Thing You Do'

Before his performance in our studios, pianist Danny Green told me he hadn't played many solo shows. In fact, his new album One Day It Will adds a string quartet to his long-running trio. After three dazzling songs, however, it was clear Green has plenty to say on his own.

With Justin Grinell on bass and Julien Cantelm drumming, Danny Green's previous trio album Altered Narratives featured a string quartet on a handful of songs. Green enjoyed that process so much he decided to write a full album's worth for this expanded group.

The quality of Green’s new compositions certainly stand on their own. Even as his arrangements show off all the skills of his fellow musicians, there was nothing missing in solo performances of "Lemon Avenue" and "Snowy Day in Boston".

After thrilling our live session audience, I told Danny Green I didn't miss his talented trio partners at all - but don't tell them that. This was a rare treat from a talented pianist showing off a side seldom heard outside the KNKX studios.

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