Since North Sea Jazz 2020 has been postponed for a year (you feel that the sentence is not right, but it sounds promising) we look back on the 25 most memorable moments of the festival days I have visited since the nineties. Music is not a competition, but when I studied the programme overviews of […]
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North Sea Jazz Festival 2019
Friday 12 July North Sea Jazz starts in drizzly conditions, but the temperatures rise to great heights in the halls of the world’s largest indoor jazz festival. The three-day Rotterdam festival is aimed at audiences of various ages and this is reflected in the musical line up: 91-year-old Burt Bacharach plays a generous selection from […]
Johan Bakker | | Music | Ben van Gelder, Bob Reynolds, Christian Sands, Christian Sands Trio, Jacob Banks, Janelle Monae, Joshua Redman, Kamasi Washington, Metropole Orchestra, North Sea Jazz, Reinier Baas, Rembrandt Frerichs Trio, Robert Glasper, Rymden, Soething about Sanna, Yuri Honing | 0 Comments
North Sea Jazz Festival 2018
This weekend Ahoy Rotterdam hosted the 43rd edition of North Sea Jazz, the largest indoor jazz festival in the world. Cameron Graves and his trio opened the festival in the Congo tent. Graves blends his classical piano style with exciting jazz and heavy nu-metal and he and his fellow musicians create their own unique genre. […]
Johan Bakker | | Blog, Music | Bill Frisell, Charles Lloyd, Eric Vloeimans, hans dulfer, Jack DeJohnette, John Scofield, Joshua Redman, Khalid, North Sea Jazz, pharao sanders, Pharrell Williams, philip catherine, Simin Tander, the Roots, Tord Gustavsen | 0 Comments