Researching the essence of the blues for his master’s degree, tenor saxophonist Efraïm Trujillo made some spectacular discoveries: ‘facts’ that had been assumed and passed on as truths by musicologists for decades turned out to be untenable. For example, the oft-mentioned ‘blue note’ is not an essential characteristic of the blues as has always been […]
Rembrandt Frerichs
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 […]