North Sea Jazz Festival 8 – 10 July 2011
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The festival is held in July in Rotterdam every year. Simultaneous, multiple, mega-sized concerts for three days - that is the festival’s agenda. Before looking at this year’s lineup, let us take a minute to reminisce on two amazing sets that took place in 2009. To most of us, the accordion is rare in jazz. Yet Richard Galliano has taken this instrument to a new level, using it to accentuate a style that is expansive, embracing the full romantic arc from Brazilian music to Bach recently. Inspired initially by a renewal of the tango, Richard Galliano has revived a forgotten form of turn-of-the century Parisian dance music, and replaced the bagpipes and horns of the original bluesy musette with his accordion. The fond memories brought by North Sea did not stop here. Chucho Valdes is called the piano wonder of the world. There is a reason for that. What he did was to resolve decades of forced separation between jazz and Cuban music. We may look forward to more surprises in this year’s festival. (Richard Galliano also appeared in the Hong Kong International Jazz Festival in 2009.) |
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North Sea Jazz Festival 8 – 10 July 2011