Amazonas Green Jazz Festival, July 21-July 30, 2023, Manaus, Brazil. In this first of three reports, we welcome New York-based journalist Ted Panken to LJN. Ted reports for us from the Amazonas Green Jazz Festival, which ran from July 21 to July 30 in Manaus, the capital of the Amazonas State in Brazil. As this…
"The space is completely different, the community feeling is really special. It’s an adult playground. Everything is incredibly artistic and so much fun,’ says Johanna Burnheart about the Detect Classic Festival. This festival will take place from 11 to 13 August at Schloss Bröllin, an 800-year-old estate an hour North-East of Berlin. The festival, founded…
L-R: Liam Noble, Cathy Jordan, Paul Clarvis. Photo copyright Tom Mesic, Linz Inntöne Festival(Diersbach, Austria. 21-23 July 2023. Report by Oliver Weindling) Festivals which are carefully curated, like Inntöne/ Jazz am Bauernhof (jazz at the farm), held on promoter/programmer Paul Zauner’s farm in Austria - the nearest major town is Passau - give one a…
Gărâna Jazz Festival (Gărâna, Romania. 5-9 July 2023 Festival Round-Up by Oliver Weindling) The Side Effects. L-R: Stian Carstensen, Marius Neset and Thomas Stronen. Photo credit Michal Sykora The Garana festival has now reached its 27th edition. In the Romanian Carpathian mountains, south of Timisoara, which itself had a major festival just the previous week…
"You choose the songs you love doing. I love the whole spectrum, swing, ballads, bossa nova, everything." says Netherlands-born singer Wilma Baan. Her new album has a fascinating backstory. Feature by John Fordham: Wilma Baan. Photo credit: Nadja von Massow Wilma Baan, the Netherlands-born jazz singer, is in the prime of a long, very diverse,…