From the monthly archives:
An innovative event, already twelve years in the making: invited guests from all over the world mingled with the movers and shakers of the Dutch jazz scene for three consecutive nights at the BIMhuis in Amsterdam.
photo credit: wot nxt
This was world-meets-Dutch Jazz, short attention span-style. Young up-and-comers, and some stalwarts, were slotted 25 minutes [...]
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If jazz criticism has a Hemingway, it may well be University of Kansas English professor and veteran American jazz journalist, Kevin Whitehead. Those of us who came to his work via NPR’s Fresh Air, Downbeat, or the Village Voice are already familiar with his gripping writing style, which entices with jazz-shaped prose, modernist understatement, poetic [...]
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So you have your European jazz street cred, you have your American jazz street cred, and then you have your rare transatlantic musicians who can lay claim to both. I thought it might be interesting to come up with a list of European jazz musicians who have become household names for Americans. Whether or not [...]
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