2023 was the year of women in music. Nowadays we see female conductors, composers, bandleaders and even a spectacular increase in the number of female violinists. The professional music scene, for many centuries the domain of men, is finally changing. If women played an instrument it used to be a harp, but the conductor’s box […]
Nubya Garcia
North Sea Jazz 2022
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 […]
Nubya Garcia’s connecting music
Nubya Garcia (1991) has dominated jazz venues for some years now. It is therefore surprising that the recently released Source is her debut album. In 2019 the tenor saxophonist performed with her band at the North Sea Jazz Festival on an evening featuring the latest generation of London jazz musicians. The British capital is experiencing […]
The most memorable moments of North Sea Jazz part 2
We continue our list of the most memorable moments of North Sea Jazz. E.S.T. 13 July 2007, Congo, 8:15 – 9:30 PM At the beginning of the first night of North Sea Jazz 2007 the Swedish group E.S.T. set the tone by flowing their beautifully lyrical jazz music seamlessly into exciting, hallucinating sounds. Magnus Öström […]