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Like A Jazz Machine Festival (Operderschmelz, Dudelange, Luxembourg. 10-11 May 2024. Review by Oliver Weindling) Daniel Migliosi. Photo credit: Oliver Hochkeppel Like A Jazz Machine cleverly mixes higher profile acts with music of some of the leading and up-and-coming local bands in a five-day festival (I attended days 3 and 4). It takes place in…
Rewire Festival 2024 (Netherlands): Annea Lockwood, Autechre, Alabaster DePlume, Speakers Corner Quartet, Keeley Forsyth, Dialect, goat (jp), SUNN O))), The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters (Various venues, The Hague, Netherlands, 4-7 April 2024. Festival Round-Up by AJ Dehany) Keeley Forsyth at Rewire © Alex Heuvink The Hague’s Rewire festival is a trusted bastion of the…
Sebastian writes: Europe DOES include the UK. The AJC organisation in France has just been in touch with the specific - and reassuring - message that their call for applications for a new "Franco-European" project called Jazz With includes bands with a UK element. Jazz With is an international iteration of AJC's hugely successful "Jazz…
An Evening with Kazuo Ishiguro & Stacey Kent(Queen Elizabeth Hall. 30 March 2024. Review by Dominique Jackson) The QEH stage. Image by Bianca Bagnarelli. Photo credit Ted Hodgkinson (*) “What should a modern day jazz song look like?” was the conundrum Kazuo Ishiguro had to wrestle when Stacey Kent first asked him to pen some…
Organic Soulfood, Fifth Column (Opus Jazz Club, Budapest. 26 and 27 January 2024. Review by Oliver Weindling) Antonin Rayon, Jim Hart, Daniel Erdmann Opus Jazz Club in Budapest forms part of the Budapest Music Centre (BMC), a centre for contemporary music in general and for jazz in particular. Built just over a decade ago, there’s…