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# - NorthSeaJazz2008: Chaka Khan rocks the MFing House, Lady don’t need a mic!!
North Sea Jazz Festival 2008: Schedule Released Today. OhBoy..
So, uhm..
I’ve just had a look at this year’s schedule for the North Sea Jazz Festival and.. it’s nice and complicated!
Friday, July 11:
- My girl Jill Scott; Adele, the New Girl; Cassandra Wilson, a Voice
- Instrumental: Herbie Hancock Quintet and Ron Carter Quartet
Saturday, July 12:
- Victor Wooten (HellYeah!); Roy Hargrove Quintet
- Vocalists: José James; Chaka Kahn (can the lady still do it?)
- Paul Simon; Christian Prommer’s Drumlesson (yes, HF..)
Sunday, July 13:
- Brad Mehldau Trio(Sweetness..)
- Pete Philly and Perquisite
- Bobby Hutcherson Quartet
Now, I’m not sure if I’ll be doing all three days again, I really want to see Mehldau, but the rest of the schedule that day seems a bit thin, we’ll see!
Another chance to see Jill from Philly is great too!
I do love me some music, boyz-n-girlz..
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
