All goods things in life must finally come to the end, so is this lovely Fest. Four Days of total enjoyment drown me down and energised to survive the rush in the same time. What matters here it that again it helped me learn a lot new things about the music and about myself too. It definitelly made me happy and wanting to come back nect year again . To see the City I love. To meet the Friends who are living there. To fee The Music.
As all things were going better and better, soon all good time together replaced the old good sleep. With things like that one needs to catch up a day as once it passed it passed. There is no way back. But who would be worried about the time passing by when the music surrounds you and drives your spirit high? Exactly. Therefore trully yours himself jumped to the pool as well as there was really the one way only to go.
After the 1st day positive energy boost , the day two was looking even more impresive. There were two highlits appealing to me already in the program: My beloved Globe Unity Orchestra and the Aki Takase Duo act with Ingrid Laubrock. Unexpectedly a closing set on the main stage came as a most welcome challenge to me as well, but let’s do not get ahead of the story.
Here we are. This is a report from the first day of the festival weekend this year. As always there was a lot of great music and the great fun. Meeting with friends and interesting conversations with both: artists and visitors. When the music buzzes around and the heart rate goes up the magic happens. Jazz junkie like myself can stay alive as long as the sounds keep feeding back. And with a good hype one gets the good vibe, follow the write up below to find out more.
When I heard amiira recording for the very first time it immediately stroke me. Swiss drummer Samuel Rohrer, was the only musician there I didn’t know much about. Later I found that he is also a label creator and owner.
Quick research back however did proof me wrong as I actually not only heard him before but even own two sessions with him being playing on. One is from one of my favourite young reed players in Germany, Daniel Erdmann – Sleeping with the Enemy. Another from his co-patriot pianist Colin Vallon – Vailleurs.
Two-time Grammy-winner and founding member of Snarky Puppy Bill Laurance fulfilled a lifelong fantasy with his sold out show at the Union Chapel. He will share it with the world with the release of the album and DVD Live At Union Chapel on November 11th on Ground UP Music/Verve Label Group.
Watching this ACT début for David Helbock I can see the same scenario over and over again. I’ve known this artist for 5 years and when he started to establish himself under Berliner Traumton label for which he made five recordings. But he wasn’t shy even before having being present on at least ten others under his own name all collectively. Two of those I had a pleasure to review before so I have seen some growing up process too.
Let’s jump Into the Mystic then. This trio is a “proper”piano trio with the rhythm section just like his last “Traumton Trio” was but with a small personal shift behind the drums. Completely opposite if compared to his previous Random Control Trio made with two brass-men.
Soweto Kinch’s restless inspiration seemingly knows no boundaries, and the multi-award winning saxophonist, band-leader, composer, rapper and radio host has applied his talents to a wide range of different styles and themes over the course of his career. Whether it’s the daily grind of inner city life (2006’s A Life in the Day of B19) or the seven deadly sins (2013’s The Legend of Mike Smith), Kinch can always be relied upon to delve deep into his source material and examine it from a fresh new angle.
This news really took me by surprise. This year the Nobel Literature Prize goes to an American rock legend: Bob Dylan. The first after-shock thoughts however bring to this choice more justice and certainly he is more the poet to me in general perception than a rock musician. Even this rock genre doesn’t really fit the picture in my humble opinion.
Although this is their fist duo recording, trumpeter Tom Arthurs and electronic musician Sam Britton (AKA Isambard Khroustaliov) have collaborated in a number of different ensembles. Both in and out of the Not Applicable label/collective, over a period of at least ten years.
