Protected: Review: Voices of Pohjola (2001)

by Jesse on May 5, 2011

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Protected: Review of Zawinul (1971)

May 5, 2011
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Protected: Authenticity and Improvisation in Jazz

May 5, 2011
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Protected: Parisian in America: Interview with S.V.

May 3, 2011

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Protected: Debussy, Minstrelsy, and French Nationalism

April 27, 2011
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Protected: Alice in Dixieland: A Window on Women in Jazz

April 25, 2011
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Protected: Paris Africain: The Rhythms of the African Diaspora

April 23, 2011
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Protected: At the Crossroads: One Group’s Attempt to Americanize the European Sound

April 23, 2011
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Protected: Your Not So Typical Angel: The “Invention and Alchemy” of Harpist Deborah Henson-Conant

April 22, 2011
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Protected: Han Bennink: Master Synthesist

April 19, 2011
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Protected: The European Reception of The Modern Jazz Quartet

April 18, 2011
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Protected: Jazz and the Global Israel

April 17, 2011
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Protected: Princesse Tam-Tam

April 17, 2011
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Protected: International Man of Mystery: Herb Flemming in Berlin

April 15, 2011
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Americans in London: The politics of the JLCO’s Barbican Residency

September 16, 2010
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From 16 to 20 June, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO) took over London’s jazz scene with performances, workshops, and jam sessions.  The JLCO’s music director is of course Wynton Marsalis, whose controversial views on the future of jazz and conservative programming at JLC have caused chagrin on the part of musicians and journalists, [...]

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Concert Review: Tomasz Stanko @ Regattabar — Part I: Meta-Critique

August 25, 2010
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From the looks of eager anticipation in the packed Regattabar before veteran Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko’s first set on April 20, 2010, one might have been tempted to conclude that European jazz had finally “arrived” in the United States.  Ironically enough, it must have been something of an empty victory for the Europeans. Their American [...]

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6th Biennial Dutch Jazz Meeting 2008

December 27, 2008
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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 [...]

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Review: New Dutch Swing, by Kevin Whitehead

December 21, 2008
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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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35 Honorary Americans

December 1, 2008
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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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Top 50 European Jazz Albums

November 30, 2008
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I am asked periodically by acquaintances who know little about jazz to recommend a list of top albums to get them started.  Now that  I am involved in writing a dissertation/book based on research in Europe, I get the same questions about European jazz, this time from fellow music scholars: what does it sound like? [...]

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