Gheorghe Posted January 27, 2023 Report Share Posted January 27, 2023 I remember there was always very fine music. A few weeks ago there was 3 hours of Levercusen on TV and I saved it on the harddisk of the TV and eventually found time to look at it, since I was looking forward to see some good stuff, but was very disappointed, since nothing of the music did say anything to me. It was Spyro Gyro which I think was a quite famous band and as I did google it it´s associated with jazz rock, but though I was very much into jazz rock when it was happening (electric Miles, Herbie Hancock Headhunters, Chick Corea RTF, Alphonse Mouzon electric band, Larry Coryell) I never was more aware of Spyro Gyro than seeing that group on posters...... I did reel it forward to see what the other music might be, but it was not more interesting to me. European musicians, but about the same bag. There are so many super hot players in NY who play hot stuff, topnotch musicians, why didn´t they bring something like that ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niko Posted January 27, 2023 Report Share Posted January 27, 2023 (edited) they always had weird programming with an emphasis on fusion when I looked at the program over the years... I've lived close to Leverkusen for most of my life but was never tempted to go... when I look at the upcoming edition here it's the same... still more fusion than I would put on there, and a lot of what Downbeat used to call "beyond". If I had to attend something, it would be coin-toss between Uri Caine's Wagner program and aging songwriter Konstantin Wecker... the better festival in the (WDR) area was always Moers, and even though that festival has changed a lot, too, the program still looks much more attractive (link, still in progress)... the festival that gets the Leverkusen concept right (w a much bigger budget) is North Sea Jazz, that's also just 250km or so away... in fact, North Sea Jazz gives you a surprisingly full picture of today's jazz, Tom Jones, Buddy Guy, Marcus Miller, Mette Rasmussen, Andrew Cyrille, Wynton Marsalis, Jan Garbarek, Fred Hersch, all on the same bill Edited January 27, 2023 by Niko Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gheorghe Posted January 28, 2023 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2023 Thank you Niko. Yes North Sea Jazz is legendary. In my youth we had the luck that most stars who did North Sea also did "Wiesen Jazzfestival" here in Eastern Austria. It seems it was from the same booking maybe Wim Wigt that we got all those stars, Diz, Blakey, Herbie, Dexter, Jackie McLean, Woody Shaw, Miles Davis, Joe Henderson, Archie Shepp, Max Roach, all those wonderful guys..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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