Review by Tony Dudley-Evans This year, JazzFest Berlin, presenting its 59th edition, returned to its natural home, the Berliner Festspiele, a venue near perfect for a jazz festival due to its size and flexibility. The […]
Duke Ellington – Live At The Berlin Jazz Festival 1969 -1973 (The Lost Recordings TLR2204041. Album review by Len Weinreich) By their own admission, record companies are a clumsy, scatty and careless […]
The programme of Jazzfest Berlin 2022 is announced and tickets go on sale this morning. The press release begins: “After the two hybrid festival editions with digital bridges to New York, Johannesburg, […]
Jazzfest Berlin: Scenes of Now Various Venues, Berlin — 4-7 November 2021. Round-Up by AJ Dehany) Jazzfest Berlin was founded in 1964 in West Berlin as the “Berliner Jazztage” with an activist […]
Vijay Iyer Trio with Linda Han-Oh and Tyshawn Sorey / Kaja Draksler & Susana Santos Silva (Pierre Boulez Saal, JazzFest Berlin 2021. Review by AJ Dehany) The Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin […]
“An international, collaborative experiment” is how Festival Director describes Jazzfest Berlin 2021. Ahead of the opening of the festival on Thursday 4 November, a further press release has been published, developing further […]
*The programme for the 58th Jazzfest Berlin is announced today. *This year’s festival from 4 to 7 November is the fourth under the artistic direction of Nadin Deventer and has the strapline […]
The Europe Jazz Network has just announced the winner for its 2021 Adventurous Programming award, the award’s tenth year, writes Juliette Kay The process behind selecting the winner was in two stages. […]
Jazzfest Berlin was livestreamed from various venues across Berlin and New York, 5-8 November 2020. Review by AJ Dehany: The 57th edition of Jazzfest Berlin was completely online via livestream and on […]
The programme for JazzFest Berlin 2020 is announced today. Key points are : – “The connection between the jazz scenes in Berlin and New York is the focus of the third festival […]
JazzFest Berlin (Haus der Berliner Festspiele 2019. Round-Up by Alison Bentley) hr-Bigband feat. Joachim Kühn & Michel Portal/Ambrose Akinmusire/Brian Marsella/Eve Risser/Late Night Lab 1 This is the third and final part of […]
JazzFest Berlin 2019 (Haus der Berliner Festspiele. 31 October – 3 November 2019. Round-Up Part 2 by Alison Bentley) Sinikka Langeland/The Australian Art Orchestra/Late Night Lab 2/Paul Lovens This is the second part […]
JazzFest Berlin 2019 (Haus der Berliner Festspiele. 31 October- 3 November 2019. Round-Up by Alison Bentley) This is the first of Alison’s three-part Round-Up of JazzFest Berlin 2019 Christian Lillinger’s Open Form […]
Sebastian writes: Jazzfest Berlin has announced its first events for the 2019 festival, the second festival under the artistic direction of Nadin Deventer. The opening event on 31 October will be Sonic […]
