HURRAY!

The final program is out:

http://www.northseajazz.com/nl

No this year,

but much and good food

ciao!

I don't think I can afford a ticket.

But it's high on my wishlist.

If things work out for me, I'll go there.

Are you staying in Rotterdam?

Good stuff.

Interesting that at the CONGO venue on Friday they've got DIRTY LOOPS:

Three years ago, an experimental, funky, unique cover of Lady Gaga's hit Just Dance suddenly appeared on the internet. Without any promotion the video was viewed over 100,000 times and went viral on social media. It turned out it was Swedish power trio, Dirty Loops that was giving popular pop songs a complete makeover. The spiritual father of the band is keyboard player-singer Jonah Nilsson who, together with bassist Henrik Linder and Aron Mellergardh on drums, takes well-known songs and uses a jazz approach to transform them into unique numbers, barely reminiscent of the originals. The band has taken hits of Justin Bieber, Rihanna, Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake, musically stripped them and given them a new structure. The trio recently debuted live on tour with stars like David Foster, Babyface and Chaka Khan. Dutch audiences can hear this innovative, exhilarating Swedish stage sensation for the first time at the North Sea Jazz Festival. The trio's first album is expected to be released in September.



...Circus

Followed by Snarky Puppy:

For a long time, these American artists were a well-kept secret in underground jazz. But since the release of their live CD/DVD Ground Up (2012) it is out in the open. We should all know Snarky Puppy as one of the most promising groups in instrumental fusion jazz. Drummer Robert "Sput" Searight (known from Snoop Dogg, among others), keyboardist Shaun Martin (Erykah Badu) and bassist and bandleader Michael League are the basis of this act, that, with its lineup of twenty-five rotating members, is somewhere between a garage band and a collective. Snarky Puppy experiments with many styles, in which raw funk, deep soul and blues are the main ingredients. A show by the innovative ensemble from Brooklyn is filled with harmonic changes, complex melodic structures and long improvisations. Yet Snarky Puppy always remains approachable and rhythmically enticing. A combination of qualities that belongs at a festival.



...Intro/Whitecap




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