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NORTH SEA JAZZ FESTIVAL 2010 Saturday, the 10th of July, 2010 Hudson Hall Bob Brookmeyer - Ornette Coleman - Bobby Hutcherson-Cedar Walton Quartet Each year ten thousands of jazz fans world wide look forward to visit the North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam. It's the biggest jazz indoor festival in the world. On Saturday the 10th of July, 2010 the Hudson hall in the Ahoy building in Rotterdam was for me the plays to be. I joined three concerts with only great names as a living encyclopediae of jazz history: Bob Brookmeyer, Ornette Coleman, Bobby Hutcherson and Cedar Walton. I love to look back to that evening ..... North Sea Jazz Festival 2010: A review Durium

V-DISCS FOUND ON CHRISTMAS ISLAND V-Discs were specially made recordings by the Music Section, Entertainment and Recreation Branch, a special Services Division of the US War Department and were sent to the soldiers at the front all over the world. As a lot of these 65 years old relics were destroyed after the war, these records are now collectors items. Thanks to Peter Symons' father, who served as a British engineer on Christmas Island in the Pacific Ocean during the 1950s two of these special records were found in an abandoned bunker. V-Discs found on Christmas Island Durium

ALEX LEVIN TRIO Alex Levin - Michael Bates - Brian Floody New York Portraits Alex Levin, a New York based piano player, will release a new album later this year with his trio. The album will be entitled New York Portraits. The name refers to the jazz men that influenced him. In the liner notes Alex remembers his first experiences with Jazz, visiting, as a young adult, the New York jazz scene. New York Portraits: A great album to look forward to. Alex Levin: new release - New York Portraits Durium

ED KIRKEBY - crooner and manager in the 1929s Although Ed KIrkeby is remembered as the manager of Fats Waller, he also was a gifted vocalist or crooner if you like. During the 1920s his voice is to be heard on numerous dance band recordings of bands with imaginative names, like the University Six, the Goofus Five or the Varsity Eight - in fact all the same group of people: Swindle or marketing? Fact is that Ed Kirkeby was one of them using several pseudonyms as a crooner. Ed Kirkeby in the Roaring Twenties Durium

BRIAN THEORY HARGROVE European debut in Paradiso - Amsterdam 21st of July, 2010 ( 8.30 pm) (Brian Hargrove)( photo courtesy: http://www.myspace.com/brianhargrove) Twenty years ago Roy Hargrove made his debut at the North Sea Jazz Festival in The Hague and since that he is a sought after instrumentalist of festivals all over the world. This summer Roy won't be playing at the North Sea festival, but he hasn't forget his fans in Holland - on the 21st of July, 2010 he will perform with his RH Factor for an extra concert in Paradiso Amsterdam. Great to know is that Roy's brother Brian "Theory" Hargrove will make his European debut - like Roy did twenty tears ago. Enough reason to put some spotlights on Brian, who plays keys in RH Factor. Roy Hargrove (photo courtesy: Hans Koert) Roy Hargrove with brother brian in extra concert Durium

ED KIRKEBY Photo: Institute of Jazz Studies Rutgers University Libraries Most people will remember Ed Kirkeby as the manager of Fats Waller - in 1966 his memoires about that bustling period in his career, were published as Ain't Misbehavin' - The Story of Fats Waller. It was one of the first jazz books I ever bought, as I collected Fats Waller's records during the 1970s and Ed Kirkeby's book contained a discography. Ed Kirkeby became Fats' manager in 1938, but met him for the first time in the Camden studios on the 24th of June, 1935, now 75-years ago being responsable for the recording session scheduled on that day. One of their first conversations has been survived: Is that you're last glass? No it's my first bottle. Hooray for Love (1935) Ed Kirkeby's first meeting with Fats Waller - 75 years ago Durium

Avishai Cohen Avishai Cohen electrifies the audience at each performance I read in an announcement and that seems to be true ...... Avishai Cohen and his band left the Middelburg's audience almost shocked - Oriental sounds, Hebrew songs and jazz improvisations were mixed into a slick show ..... With his new album Aurora. Avishai impresses with his cross-border music. Avishai Cohen and his Aurora Quintet was one of the guests at the 4th International Jazz Festival of Middelburg , in the southwest part of The Netherlands, last month. Avishai Cohen: Oriental sounds in Middelburg abbey Durium

MY at random Vinyl PLAY for TODAY: the brothers/stan getz-zoot sims-al cohn-allen eager-brew moore Keep ( it ) Swinging Durium

FRED HERSCH plays JOBIM Fred Hersch, pianist, played with Art Farmer, Eddy Daniels, Phil Woods, Tommy Flanagan, Lee Konitz, Joe Lovano, Toots Thielemans and in the Mel Lewis Orchestra before he started to make his own records. Fred Hersch plays Jobim is one of his latest. He says to be inspired by the Choro-music he heard in Brazil and that makes this record a special one! Fred Hersch plays Jobim Durium

RIK MOL Rik Mol, only 25 years old, is one of the most promising trumpet players of Western Europe and that creates obligations. His first album, What's On Tonight, was rather traditional; Funk On Me contains a lot of funky elements which will appeal to the youth. For Mol, educated as a classical trumpet player, it's not his final destination: Misschien wordt mijn volgende plaat wel weer gewoon een bebopplaat met Piet Noordijk - wie weet?(= Maybe, my next album will be a bebop-album with saxophone player Piet Noordijk, who knows!!) he suggests. His first appearance with his new band was in Middelburg, capital of the province of Zeeland(The Netherlands), the region where he was born and raised..... Funk On Me !! Rik Mol introduces his Funk On Me band Durium

GIGI GRYCE Gigi Gryce ( 1925-1983) is one of those jazz musicians that didn't got the recognition they deserve ...... As an alto saxophone player he was a follower of Bird and found his inspiration in the music played in the past ........ His legacy contains some fine tunes, which never have been given due homage - One of his last albums, The Rat Race Blues, released by Prestige / New Jazz was recorded 50 years ago. As always, very crisp, precise and bluesy Gryce ( quote ( Ron Wynn)) quote ( Ron Wynn)) Gigi Gryce and his 50 years old Rat Race Blues Durium

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gerry mulligan/mulligan plays mulligan Keep (it) Swinging Durium

I still haven't heard Jan Menu .............. !! He's a Dutch baritone saxophonist Keep (it) Swinging Durium

RONNIE CUBER RONNIE I remember how I was fascinated hearing someone play the baritone saxophone. I listened to Gerry Mulligan 1954 Salle Pleyel concert more then a hundred times, before I learned about other great instrumentalists like Adrian Rollini, Serge Challof, Leo Parker and Pepper Adams. Most of them are gone now. Ronnie Cuber knows how to play this instrument in both the lower as the upper registers and is labeled as the jazz's greatest living baritone saxophonists. Ronnie Cuber - a Tribute to the Past: Ronnie Durium

ceresband/ if you have to ask, you'll never know ornette coleman/the shape of jazz to come les geants du jazz moderne Keep (it) Swinging Durium

DUKE ELLINGTON ( 1899-1974) Today, the Duke was born 111 year ago. Duke Ellington's popularity was growing 80 years ago .... Although the Depression hit every American citizen and a lot of (dance) band leaders had to re-organize their orchestras or had to fight for gigs to find a living, it seems that he was doing well. Duke Ellington: early 1930: The Year of Depression Durium

CHARLIE HADEN The career of Charlie Haden seems to have been developed into an upward trend: Art Pepper, Elmo Hope, the legendary Double Quartet of Ornette Coleman and his Quartet West recordings. But few people know that, when the young 18-years old Charlie moved to California with his plywood bass, he had finished a 16 year career as the youngest cowboy singer and yodeller on the air. Charlie Haden revives his roots Durium

Thanks for your commend - you're complete right - in fact the Choro-music blog ( http://choro-music.blogspot.com ) seems to be the only one available ( in English). Choro Music Blog Durium

DIA NACIONAL DO CHORO On the 4th of September 2000 an official document of the Brazilian government announced that the 23rd of April every year shall be marked as Dia Nacional do Choro - National Choro Day. The 23rd of April was deliberately chosen in honour of Alfredo da Rocha Viana Filho - better known as Pixinguinha (April 23, 1897 - February 7, 1973), choro composer, arranger, flautist and saxophonist. Today it is Pixinguinha's 113th birthday - and Choro Day, all over Brazil and elsewhere music events are scheduled to celebrate choro and Pixinguinha.Choro and Pixinguinha Day Durium

LOUIS ARMSTRONG An anonymous picture calls up questions - anonymous is not the right word in this case, as we know when it was taken and that the man on the photo is, of course, Louis Satchmo Armstrong, one of the best known jazz musicians ever. But who took this photo on the 27th of May, 1965 at the Auction Hall in Blokker in the north western part of The Netherlands? Louis Armstrong in Blokker (The Netherlands) (1965) Durium

HERBIE BROCK I'm searching for recordings by Herbie Brock for an article. I do have the Herbie Brock Trio recordings issued as Brock's Top's. Can someone suggest me how can obtain reissues of his 1955 Savoy solo album - the 1957 Herbie's Room recordings and / or the 1960s Herbie Brock Art solo live recordings at the Miami "700"club? All suggestions welcome !! Durium contact

Now's The Time - a novel by Larry Strauss In the 1950s the jazz scene in the US developed from bebop into hard bop and west coast jazz and numerous, now legendary musicians, like Bird, Dizzy, Lee and Donald Byrd runned the show, but a lot of less famous musicians tried to make a living in a scene charactized by booze and drugs. Larry Strauss wrote a novel about Didi Heron, a fictive black trumpet player, in a search for her father's last concert which was recorded on an ordinary reel-to-reel. Now's The Time - a novel by Larry Strauss Durium

TAMARA MARIA Tamara Maria, whose roots are in Indonesia, Holland, the Molucca Islands and Portugal, released a great debut album dedicated to Brazilian music - the Bossa Nova, born 50 years ago as a mix of Brazilian music and jazz elements. She didn't copy the old standards, but gave it her own modern fresh rhythmic groove .... Tamara Maria - Dutch Lady of Bossa Nova Durium

sidney bechet/jazz classics - volume 1 Keep Swinging 1250x Durium