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North Sea Jazz 2007@Rotterdam - Sunday, July 15th (Day 3)
First things first: some cunts over at rotterdamjazz dot com are splogging my posts through Technorati - no way of contacting them yet, but I have my traditional greeting for them: choke on it and drop dead, pretty please with sugar on top..
The Acts
Bob Brookmeyer New Art Orchestra
Meh
Deelder Draait
The pride of Rotterdam, poet and Mayor of the Rotterdam Night Life: mister Jules Deelder! A jazz fanatic and he likes to preach to anyone who wants to listen: jazz is Jazz! - nice!
Africando
Another mix of styles, nice, but not really memorable - not bad
Dave Holland Quintet
Bassist Dave Holland has a great group of musicians to bring us excellent jazz music - sweet!
Hieronymus Fox:
I think I have never heard a guy playing the contra bass as tight as Dave Holland was. Great drummer, great blowers, great vibraphone and berimbau.. everything was so damn good!
Candy Dulfer & Friends
Just the closing fifteen minutes. I’m always amazed by this lady: her albums are mediocre at best, but her performance is something everybody should experience - solid!
Amy Winehouse
Who? The craziest of the craziest people in the music business at the moment, failed to show up and canceled. I guess I was lucky to get a chance to see her perform at Paradiso, because this is the second time the girl’s canceled a show in Holland this year. As I said before: this gal is one of the most incredible entertainers we have at the moment, but the way the anorexic drunk is behaving at the moment, I expect her to do a Hendrix in six to twelve months - Silly Rabbit..
Sly & The Family Stone
The One Everybody Was Waiting For.. Can’t find the words, I’ll probably post a seperate piece later on.. HF gives a great review:
Hieronymus Fox:
..What happened? The band started to play about five or six songs, playing straight ahead funky music. Timeless classics with a couple of the original band members still standing strong, but without.. Sly…
Anyway, at last he came on stage and yes, he looked hunchbacked, wore a strange XXL T-shirt, but was alive and active and when he sad down behing his Fender Rhodes and started to play and sing… aaaahh the old Sly was back! A deep soulful voice, sometimes soft, sometimes crying out loud. Shivers all over!
Sleepwalker
Japanese modern jazz/R&B - nice!
Snoop Dogg
WTF is Snoop Dogg doing at the North Sea Jazz?!? I mean, last year we had that horrible Kanye West, so this was a nice improvement, but still..
Conclusion
Third day was weird, we were dead tired, but we did get to see Sly & The Family Stone!!
Hieronymus Fox’s North Sea Jazz Journals at Last.fm:
Bob Brookmeyer New Art Orchestra
Dave Holland Quintet
Da Sole Selecta’s
Sly & The Family Stone
onmymind20070508 northseajazz program anounced!
Oooooo, daddy-o! Those crazy people of the North Sea Jazz Festival have anounced their line-up/program!! And it’s an interesting collection of artists that will be performing during those hot and sweaty days in July; here’s a few names:
- Amy Winehouse (still sober?)
- Snoop Dogg (WTF?)
- Steely Dan (the masters of silky pop)
- Sly & The Family Stone (xcellent surprise)
- Joshua Redman
- Ornette Coleman
- Wynton Marsalis (arrogant legend)
- Al Green (YES!!!!)
Me am happy, me start saving cash for three days of music, me am happyhappy!
Concert: Amy Winehouse @Paradiso, Amsterdam 2007
General Info
Artist: Amy Winehouse
Location: Paradiso, Amsterdam
When: 09 February 2007
Who?
Well, read about this crazy lady here and I’ve reviewed her albums..
I’ve been yapping about this dame for quite a while, so now that I finally got a chance to see her perform, I took it with both hands and feet!
The Show
The thing started at 01:00 and let’s be honest, I’m not used to this anymore 
But she did start on time, and she didn’t seem to be totally wasted, so what could go wrong? Well…
It’s just one little thing: she really doesn’t connect with her audience. Don’t get me wrong: she appreciates the applause and geniunely likes standing there on stage, but… there’s not a lot happening. The best bits were when she interacted with one of the backing singers (wow..)
Can she sing? Can she sing live? You bet your saltined @$$!! This dame does her songs seemingly effortlessly. If the frigging sounds system broke down, people’d still be able to hear her sing on the other side of the Channel.
Conclusion
I didn’t expect it to be a long show (cover price was low), but I still was left wanting more. She did most of the tracks of her current album and some from her 1st album, Frank. She definitely is a great singer and writer. Just wish she had more to convey to her public, it’s not that she’s not interested, it just doesn’t connect.
If she survives to make two more albums, I’ll gladly stand in line to see her perform again, hoping that Life and the Business has given her more strength to become a great live performer.
Rating: 
onmymind20070208 amy winehouse paradiso
Ugh.. I’m totally wrecked by a cold I’ve been enjoying the last coupla days. Today I kinda feel good enough to go outside, to Paradiso to see lil’ Miss Amy Winehouse! Didn’t expect to be fit enough to go and the damned weather’s not the greatest to be driving in at night, but hey, it’s Amy..
UPDATE: here’s my review..
