Friday 8 July Philip Lassiter and his tight-playing band open North Sea Jazz 2022 with an overwhelming tribute to trumpeter Roy Hargrove (1969 – 2018), who passed away four years ago. The keyboardist and trumpeter used to lead the horn section of Prince’s New Power Generation. There he got to know the Dutch saxophonist Candy […]
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North Sea Jazz 2021
“We had a narrow escape, but we are allowed to play for you this afternoon,” Benjamin Herman told the audience before starting his performance with the Quartet NL on Saturday afternoon, 10 July 2021. Normally, this would have been the North Sea Jazz weekend, but if anything has been subject to inflation this year, it […]
A musical eruption like never heard before: Sonny Rollins in Holland
One of the best concerts ever given in the Netherlands was the performance by the American tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins (1930) at the Arnhem Academy of Art in 1967. “It was a musical eruption like never heard before and that probably never will happen again,” said saxophonist and jazz promoter Hans Dulfer, who was in […]