NORTH SEA JAZZ ROTTERDAM

2010 North Sea Jazz Festival Packages

2010 North Sea Jazz Festival Program - Click on dates:

Friday July 10

Saturday July 11

Sunday July 12

North Sea Jazz Floor Plan

AHOY ROTTERDAM, Netherlands

Site: 16 indoor/outdoor stages; 60 concerts (23,000 persons per day).

Music: A veritable Jazz Woodstock. The largest gathering of straight-ahead jazz in Europe all year. North Sea spans the spectrum of Blues, Fusion, Gospel, and Soul. Musicians love the festival because they get to see, hear and often jam with each other.

Festival Style: A veritable jazz smorgasbord of 60 concerts.

Special Events:  Workshops, Exhibitions, Photos, student workshops at The North Sea Jazz Festival

The organizers of the North Sea Jazz Festival are proud to announce the complete program for the 35th edition.

Visitors will surely enjoy the Pat Metheny Group, Caetano Veloso, Earth, Wind & Fire, Herbie Hancock’s “The Imagine Project” and Jamie Lidell. Besides super stars Diana Krall, Ben Harper, Norah Jones, Katie Melua, Joss Stone and Corinne Bailey Rae, jazz legends Dave Holland, Ron Carter and Bob Brookmeyer will make an appearance during the 35th edition of the festival. The top of present-day jazz will be represented by Joshua Redman and José James.

The Netherlands will be represented Caro Emerald, who is very popular at the moment, Waylon, Eric Vloeimans, Typhoon & New Cool Collective, Giovanca and others. From the Dutch Jazz major league: Jesse van Ruller and Michiel Braam, among others, and New York-based Ben van Gelder.

Artist in Residence
Artist in Residence this year will be vanguard man Ornette Coleman, the greatest innovator of jazz in the 1950s and ’60s. As our guest of honor, he will perform some very special projects. On Friday, you will be able to enjoy “This Is Our Music Now”, that will reunite Coleman with special guest Charlie Haden, after 30 years, and with Joshua Redman, son of Dewey Redman, who used to play in the famous Coleman Quartet at the time. On Saturday, he will play a repertoire from the much-praised album Sound Grammar with the modern Coleman Quartet. And on Sunday, visitors will have the unique opportunity to see Coleman on stage with Bachir Attar & Master Musicians of Jajouka – a very important source of inspiration for Coleman – and guitarist James Blood Ulmer, a former student.

Global Brooklyn, N.Y.C.
Since the 1930s, New York has been known as the jazz capitol of the world. Besides many American jazz artists, the city has attracted international musicians since the 1990s, thanks to globalization. The lively jazz scene that has recently come into existence in Brooklyn is a fine example of the way jazz continually reinvents itself, thanks to the various musical backgrounds of all these artists. Musicians like Timuçin Sahin, the British pianist John Escreet, Ben van Gelder, Rudder, Todd Sickafoose, Darcy James, Steve Lehman and Jonathan Haffner, who are currently making their names in the N.Y.C. jazz scene. It should also be noted that they are all very interested in meticulous compositions, in which improvisation and written music go hand in hand and together form an exciting and completely new sound.

Hyperrhythm & O.K. Computer
Recently, musicians with a fascination for hyper rhythms have clustered together in scenes in several cities. These producers are emerging as the architects of musical constructions of staggering proportions. Cities like Los Angeles, Glasgow and London are playing a large role in this development. In Amsterdam, Viral Radio is broadcasting this new electronic music into homes and onto dance floors.
The Viral Radio team has compiled a program with an exclusive line-up, including Swiss virtuoso Dimlite, Irish wonderboy Mike Slott, the Scottish “herald of change” Hudson Mohawke and the Austrian keyboard wizard Dorian Concept. On Sunday, you can attend an electronic improv session in the Volga by world-famous musicians and young sound artists. Real-time innovation in the realm of computer music, DJ culture and electro-acoustic improvisation by GARETH & MACHINEFABRIEK, Hild Sofie Tafjord & Philip Jeck, Lothar Ohlmeier, Tom Arthurs, Ollie Bown, Sam Britton, Fennesz, Brandlmayr & Dafeldecker and Knalpot.

XXL
Exciting big bands from all over the world that present a completely different sound. Keyboard man Jerry Dammers from The Specials will salute Sun Ra with his Spatial AKA Orchestra. Keyboardist/composer Jason Lindner will present the current N.Y. jazz sound, together with the Rotterdam Jazz Orchestra. The Mask Orchestra, of famous English composer Colin Towns, performs cutting-edge musical pieces that are both picturesque, melancholy and rock like a house on fire. Finally, Spok Frevo is one of the best frevo orchestras from Brazil. Frevo is an up-tempo musical style, influenced by the polka and marching-band music that is becoming more and more recognized in Brazil.

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