Showing posts with label European Jazz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label European Jazz. Show all posts
Thursday, June 4, 2020

Guy Jones Interviews Jim Tomlinson in Stockholm, Parts II and III

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Jim Tomlinson photographed by Goio Villanueva As noted in earlier posts in Jazz Flashes, my Stockholm-based confrère  Guy Jones , found...
Monday, June 4, 2018

Guy Jones Interviews Jim Tomlinson in Stockholm, Part I

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Jim Tomlinson and Stacey Kent I've recently heard that my good friend Guy Jones , founder of the Stockholm-based jazz reissue label...
Friday, October 21, 2016

New Reissues: Jan Lundgren Trio Plays the Music of Victor Young

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Last month, the newly formed Fog Arts label began what is an ongoing series of digital reissues of Jan Lundgren albums that have been lo...
Saturday, September 3, 2016

Jazz Flash News: R.I.P. Irish Jazz Guitarist Louis Stewart (1944-2016)

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My friend Guy Jones, of Stockholm, Sweden, recently alerted me to the passing of Irish jazz guitar legend Louis Stewart , who died on Augu...
Saturday, July 2, 2016

Svend Asmussen's 100th Birthday

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On June 28 my daughter turned three years old, and on that same day legendary Danish jazz violinist Svend Asmussen celebrated 100 years o...
Monday, May 30, 2016

New Releases: Mattias Nilsson's Dreams of Belonging

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Mattias Nilsson (Photo: Anja Emzén) Born in Karlskrona, Sweden, in 1980, pianist Mattias Nilsson turned down the offer of a place at Ma...
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Thursday, February 18, 2016

Chris Barber Live in East Berlin, 1968

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Along with Humphrey Lyttelton , Ken Colyer , Kenny Ball , and Acker Bilk , among others, trombonist Chris Barber is one of the elder stat...
Saturday, February 13, 2016

Jutta Hipp and Zoot Sims, 1956

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German pianist  Jutta Hipp   met versatile saxophonist  Zoot Sims  sometime in the 1950s in Germany, precisely during a European tour of t...
Saturday, January 2, 2016

Buddy Tate & Humphrey Lyttelton in London, 1974

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The first Jazz Flashes post of 2016 is devoted to a little-known collaboration between trumpeter Humphrey Lyttelton and saxophonist Buddy ...
Thursday, December 10, 2015

Wilton Gaynair: A Jamaican Saxophonist in Europe

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When one considers Jamaica's contributions to world music, it's inevitable to think of reggae and ska, but jazz may not be the fir...
Saturday, November 28, 2015

Harry Parry & His Radio Sextets

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If ever anybody was more deserving of being described as a multi-instrumentalist, that musician was Harry Parry , the Welsh bandleader who...
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Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Swedish Trumpeter Bengt-Arne Wallin Dies at 89

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I just heard from my Stockholm-based friend, Guy Jones , founder and president of Friends of Jan Lundgren , the fan club of pianist Jan Lu...