Skopje Jazz Festival
Last night Hamilton de Holanda, the Brazilian bandolim player, finished his short tour along Dutch and Flemish venues with a concert at the Tropen Theater in Amsterdam. I had planned to join the Antwerp concert, but I felt tired and a bit sick, so I decided to take some rest. I learned that Hamilton de Holanda would join the Skopje Jazz Festival next week. One of the regular visitors of my daily Keep Swinging web log is Marjan A. from Macedonia and he pointed me to this Skopje Jazz Festival.
During that same concert at the Universal Hall The Leaders will perform, an all-star band with great names like Chico Freeman tenor & soprano saxophone - Bobby Watson alto saxophone - Eddie Henderson trumpet, flugelhorn - Fred Harris piano - Buster Williams bass and Lenny White drums. I heard Eddie Henderson in 2006 at the Northsea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam in the Benny Golson All Stars. A great trumpet player. On the 21st of October you should join our national Dutch pride The ICP Orchestra. ICP stands for Instant Composers Pool and when I was a teenager I heard these men playing in Middelburg ( in the southwest part of The Netherlands). Some members from 40 years ago are still active in the band: Misha Mengelberg, who is an excelent modern jazz pianist and Han Bennink, who can even make rhythms without his drums. This band will play in a double concert with Butch Morris' Nublu Orchestra. On the last day I'd try to get tickets for Alexander Von Schlippenbach in the Dom ARCH, who is a skilled piano player in the Thelonious Monk tradition. I've never seen him in concert, but I heard his great recordings, like his Enja recording Schlippenbach Plays Monk.
It feels uncomfortable that I can't find the Hamilton de Holanda Quintet scedulded for the 20th and 21st of October; maybe their performances have been canceled. If you visit this festival there will be enough time to enjoy Macedonia and Skopje, as it seems to be a beautiful country.
Thanks Marjan A. for pointing me to this great festival and if you visit it, please share with us your impressions and pictures. I love to post it in my Keep swinging blog.
Time exposure for the 15th of October:
1927:
- lazy weather = goofus five
- mediterranean blues = devillers
- fight that thing / my mammy's blues = red spikes majors and minors
1937:
- clock cleaners = mickey mouse cartoon
1947:
- evonce / humph / suburban eyes / thelonious = thelonious monk sextet
- 7 x 8 stomp / bagatell / bagatell / syv ganger stomp = rolf syversens kvartett
1957:
- boogie-woogie / ill wind / late date / lover come back to me / makin' whoopee / roses of picardy / soulville /time on my hands / where are you? / who = ben webster quartet
Hans Koert
keepswinging@live.nl
PLAYLIST
ellis marsalis-branford marsalis/loved ones = hit of the week/the complete hit of the week recordings - volume 2 (2) = lou lanza/shadows and echoes = emmett miller/the minstrel man from georgia ( 1928-29) = thelonious monk/greatest hit = donald byrd quintet/parisian thoroughfare = art blakey quintet/a night at birdland - volume 2 = vsop quintet = rene urtreger trio-bobby jaspar all stars/1955-1956 (lp)
Nederlands ( To the English translation )
Gisteren kwam er een eind aan een korte tournee van Hamilton de Holanda, de Braziliaanse bandolim speler, die een serie concerten gaf op Nederlandse en Vlaamse podia; het laatste optreden was in het Tropentheater in Amsterdam. Ik was van plan om het concert in Antwerpen bij te wonen, maar ik was moe en besloot om rust te nemen. Hamilton de Holanda treedt, volgens zijn website, deze week op, op het Skopje Jazz Festival. Eén van de trouwe bezoekers van deze Keep swinging web log, Marjan A. uit Macedonië wees me op dit bijzondere festival.
Ik vind het vreemd dat ik het Hamilton de Holanda Quintet niet tegenkom in de programmering op 20 en 21 oktober; misschien is zijn optreden afgezegd of is hij er juist in toegevoegd. Hoe dan ook; als ik er zou zijn, zou er ongetwijfeld nog genoeg tijd overblijven om te genieten van deze mooie stad Skopje en dit schitterende land, Macedonië.
Bedankt Marjan A. dat je me op dit festival hebt gewezen. Als je er naar toe gaat, laat me dan maar eens horen hoe het geweest is. Misschien kunnen we een paar foto's in deze Keep swinging weblog plaatsen.
Tijdopname voor 15 oktober:
1927:
- lazy weather = goofus five
- mediterranean blues = devillers
- fight that thing / my mammy's blues = red spikes majors and minors
1937:
- clock cleaners = mickey mouse cartoon1947:evonce / humph / suburban eyes / thelonious = thelonious monk sextet
- 7 x 8 stomp / bagatell / bagatell / syv ganger stomp = rolf syversens kvartett
1957:
- boogie-woogie / ill wind / late date / lover come back to me / makin' whoopee / roses of picardy / soulville /time on my hands / where are you? / who = ben webster quartet
Hans Koert
keepswinging@live.nl
SPEELLIJST
ellis marsalis-branford marsalis/loved ones = hit of the week/the complete hit of the week recordings - volume 2 (2) = lou lanza/shadows and echoes = emmett miller/the minstrel man from georgia ( 1928-29) = thelonious monk/greatest hit = donald byrd quintet/parisian thoroughfare = art blakey quintet/a night at birdland - volume 2 = vsop quintet = rene urtreger trio-bobby jaspar all stars/1955-1956 (lp)
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