Rotterdam has become a flourishing centre of improvisation music. Musicians from all over the world meet in this Dutch city, where they stimulate each other in their quest for new musical forms and perspectives. The Swedish trombonist Ebba Åsman moved on the advice of her teacher Ilja Reijngoud to Rotterdam, where she plays a key […]
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Love is a better motivator than guilt
If an essay bundle obsesses your mind for weeks, it must be well-written. Jonathan Franzen (1958) communicates the urgency of his message in a refined way. The American author has not chosen for the detour of the novel (The corrections (2001), Freedom (2010), Purity (2015)), but he addresses his audience in a direct way. In […]
John Coltrane album rediscovered after 55 years
John Coltrane’s Both Directions at Once is a complete, lost album that the John Coltrane Quartet recorded on 6 March 1963. The record never appeared because it was considered to be not commercial enough at the time. A day later the same quartet shared the studio with singer Johnny Hodges and that more mainstream jazz […]