New CD out now!

Anton Goudsmit

Ploctones
Presentation new CD
050
support act KNALPOT
@ Paradiso
Amsterdam
Netherlands

Corrie van Binsbergen

Corrie van Binsbergen, originally uploaded by Eddy Westveer.

Quintet Paul van Kemenade

Ray Anderson

Quintet Paul van Kemenade
@ MuziekPodium Zeeland
Jazzcafé 't Schuttershof Middelburg
Netherlands

Paul van Kemenade - alto saxophone
Ray Anderson - trombone
Frank Möbus - guitar
Ernst Glerum - bass
Han Bennink - drums

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Vincent Koning, Rob van Bavel & Frans van Geest

The Ghost, The King & I
CD presentation
@ jazzclub Porgy & Bess
Terneuzen
Netherlands

Frans van Geest - bass
Vincent Koning - guitar
Rob van Bavel - piano

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Jacobien Vlasman Quintet

Jacobien Vlasman Quintet
@ Jazzclub im Stellwerk
Hamburg
Germany
Jacobien Vlasman - vocals
Jan von Klewitz - alto saxophone
Kai Brückner - guitar
Andreas Henze - bass
Rainer Winch - drums

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Yvonne Walter invites....in Hopper

Pierre Anckaert

Yvonne Walter invites
@ Hopper
Antwerp
Belgium

Yvonne Walter - vocals
Pierre Anckaert - piano
Hendrik Vanattenhoven - bass

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Nathalie Loriers Trio

Nathalie Loriers Trio
@ Hopper
Antwerp
Belgium

Nathalie Loriers - piano
Philippe Aerts - bass
Bert Joris - trumpet & flugelhorn

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Yohimbe Brothers

Yohimbe Brothers
featuring Vernon Reid
@ MuziekPodium Zeeland
De Spot
Middelburg
the Netherlands

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Valentine Concert

Yvonne Walter
@ OC Sint Andries
Antwerp
Belgium

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Frederike Schonis

CD presentation FRE
Frederike Schonis
@ Lantaren/Venster
Rotterdam
Netherlands

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Bojan Zulfikarpasic & Eric Vloeimans

Eric Vloeimans & Bojan Zulfikarpasic
@ jazzclub Porgy & Bess
Terneuzen
Netherlands

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BOO'S JAZZOO'S

www.ledeltheater.nl
www.boosjazzoos.nl

NEW PHOTOBOOK Jazz in the city

NOW you can buy my book with a selection of intimate jazz portraits.

The photos are printed on high quality premium paper.

Jazz in the city

Portraits of jazz musicians by Eddy Westveer

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Stolen moments

This weekend the Selmer tenorsaxophone (nr. 108434, in brown leather softbag ) of Dutch saxophone player Jan Menu has been stolen in Amsterdam.

If you have any information?
Please contact me!

Ernst Glerum wins VPRO/Boy Edgar Price 2009

This photo was taken on December 21, 2008 with The Itch Quartet. See my black/white serie of this HERE.

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JAZZISM 2009 1

The Dutch glossy jazzmagazine JAZZISM publishes interview with the Ploctones.
Four photos of mine were used from a recent concert in Middelburg.

3Double Dutch

Arend Niks, Yonga Sun & Rob Verdurmen

-Drummers Double Bill –
-CRAM –
-Talking Cows -
@ MuziekPodium Zeeland
Jazzcafé 't Schuttershof
Middelburg
the Netherlands

Review of this concert (in Dutch) on jazzenzo

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Rony Verbiest & Koen, Waso & Dajo De Cauter

Rony Verbiest, originally uploaded by Eddy Westveer.

Rony Verbiest & Family De Cauter
@ jazzclub Porgy & Bess
Terneuzen
Netherlands

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Jazz in the city

PZC

Afgelopen donderdag 8 januari is mijn foto-expositie Jazz in the City geopend.
Een leuk begin van de dag was een prachtig artikel in de Provinciale Zeeuwse Courant op de cultuurpagina met een verwijzing op de voorpagina. Lees het artikel HIER.

Ondanks de winterse weersomstandigheden hebben velen de weg naar Goes gevonden. Ik was erg blij met de warme belangstelling en de vele positieve reacties. Na een openingswoord door Mr. Sophie van ’t Westeinde, in haar hoedanigheid als wethouder van cultuur, opende jazztrompettist Rik Mol de expositie in stijl met een prachtige ballade.

De 43 jazzportretten van Roy Hargrove, Rik Mol, Christian Scott, Paolo Fresu, Steven Bernstein, Erik Truffaz, Rita Reys, Frederike Schonis, Mark Murphy, José James, Brian Zalmijn, Miriam Makeba, Barbara Hendricks, Willem Breuker, Philipe Catherine, Anton Goudsmit, John Scofield, Stanley Clarke, Wiro Mahieu, Hein Van de Geyn, Robert Mitchell, Monty Alexander, Esbjörn Svensson, Frank Morgan, Archie Shepp, Piet Noorddijk, Maceo Parker, Joe Lovano, David S. Ware, Robin Verheyen, Ben van den Dungen, Chris Strik, Jeff Hamilton, Rony Verbiest, Benjamin Herman, Toots Thielemans, Pascal Schumacher, Ingeborg Cneut, Luciano Biondini en Richard Galliano hangen nog tot 31 januari in het Stadskantoor van Goes,
M.A. de Ruijterlaan 2
4461 GE Goes
(vlakbij het station).

Openingstijden
maandag 9.00 tot 17.00 uur
dinsdag 9.00 tot 17.00 uur
woensdag 9.00 tot 17.00 uur
donderdag 9.00 tot 20.00 uur
vrijdag 9.00 tot 17.00 uur
zaterdag 10.00 tot 12.00 uur

Zoals gezegd zijn de foto’s nog tot 31 januari in het Stadskantoor te zien. Uiteraard zijn ze te koop. Ook is er ter gelegenheid van deze expositie een prachtig fotoboek uitgegeven. Het boek is te zien en te bestellen via deze link of neem even contact met mij op.

The Amsterdam Jazz Club

Michael Varekamp

The Amsterdam Jazz Club
@ Pol’s Place
Bergen op Zoom
Netherlands

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Hypochristmastreefuzz

Benjamin Herman , originally uploaded by Eddy Westveer.

Itch Quartet
@ jazzclub Porgy & Bess
Terneuzen
Netherlands

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-->> Review by Mischa Beckers on jazzenzo (Dutch only)

Jazz Bridge Calendar 2009

Jazz Bridge Calendar 2009, originally uploaded by Eddy Westveer.

Yesterday I received my Jazz Bridge Calendar for 2009. And the month May shows my contribution to the calendar. It's a photograph of Archie Shepp I made in May this year on the International Jazz Festival in Middelburg.

Untill a few months ago I had never heard of Jazz Bridge. Board member and jazzmusician Suzanne Cloud told me all about it.

About Jazz Bridge
The Jazz Bridge Project is a nonprofit organization established by a group of caring Philadelphia jazz musicians and fans dedicated to assisting professional Delaware Valley jazz musicians and vocalists in times of crisis by providing confidential and caring support in keeping with their personal dignity. Through donations, grants, and music bookings, Jazz Bridge will assist those coping with emergencies involving health, legal, financial, personal and professional needs, building an awareness of the local jazz sound and the community of musicians who make it.

Help Jazz Bridge be the bridge between the music makers and the people who love and appreciate this music.

If you are a local jazz musician who needs help, please call 215-517-8337 or email info@jazzbridge.org

Short-term Goals
- Provide emergency financial assistance regarding health,
housing, legal issues
- Provide for “Final Needs” – burial, cremations, survivor’s hardship
- Provide a resource center for community members and their families to access information on low-cost health and legal assistance, pro bono/sliding-scale professional services, and organizations that provide answers to problems that uniquely pertain to musicians.

Long-Term Goals
- To establish a permanent assisted-living facility where basic physical and artistic needs are met for older and ailing jazz musicians.
- This facility would also provide short-term residencies for musicians whose circumstances would otherwise force them into homelessness.
The assisted-living, continuing care facility would also serve as a meeting place, a haven for mentorship, a rehearsal space, and recording studio. Volunteers and paid staff would provide the needed services for an enhanced quality of life for the residents.

Contact:
Jazz Bridge Project
3008 Limekiln Pike
Glenside, PA 19038
215-517-8337
info@JazzBridge.org

NOW you can get your Jazz Calender HERE !

Mona Lisa Revisited

Stefan Lievestro

Mona Lisa Overdrive
@ Pol’s Place
Bergen op Zoom
Netherlands

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Mona Lisa Supersize

Jesse van Ruller

Mona Lisa Overdrive
@ jazzclub Porgy & Bess
Terneuzen
Netherlands

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At the end of the concert bandleader Stefan Lievestro announced that there may be a serious possibility the name of the band has to be changed. Something has to do with the copyright of the trade mark. Most probably the name will change from Mona Lisa Overdrive into Mona Lisa Supersize. The new name finds its origin during a brief brainstorm session in a MacDrive Restaurant......

-->> Review by Mischa Beckers on Jazzenzo (Dutch only)

The Ploctones

Efraïm Trujillo

The Ploctones
@ MuziekPodium Zeeland
Jazzcafé 't Schuttershof
Middelburg
the Netherlands

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-->> Jazzenzo
-->> Ploctones website

Drikusman

Job Chajes

Afterparty
Drikusman
@ jazzclub Porgy & Bess
Terneuzen
Netherlands

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Han Bennink gets European Jazz Award in Vienna

Han Bennink gets European Jazz Award in Vienna, originally uploaded by Eddy Westveer.

Pierre Courbois 5/4 Sextet

Pierre Courbois
@ jazzclub Porgy & Bess
Terneuzen
Netherlands

Winner of the VPRO Boy Edgar Prijs 2008
Pierre Courbois, drums
Toon de Gouw, trumpet
Jasper Blom, tenor- and sopranosaxophone
Jan Menu, baritonsaxophone
Willem Kühne, piano
Niko Langenhuijzen, bass


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The Cave Singers

The Cave Singers

The Cave Singers
@ Crossing Border
The Hague
Netherlands

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Art- and Culture Award 2008

Award, originally uploaded by Eddy Westveer.

The young jazztrumpeter Rik Mol receives the Art- and Culture Award 2008 of Lions Club Vlissingen. The price contains a cheque to the amount of € 2.500 and a concert.
In October he also got the Stimulatingsprice 2008 for young talent of the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds.


Rik Mol’s
What’s on tonight
@ Cultuurwerf
Arsenaaltheater
Vlissingen
the Netherlands

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James Taylor Quartet

James Taylor Quartet

James Taylor Quartet
@ ‘t Beest
Goes
the Netherlands

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Dan Weiss

Dan Weiss


Rudresh Mahanthappa Quartet
@ MuziekPodium Zeeland
Jazzcafé 't Schuttershof
Middelburg
the Netherlands

Fredo Corleone: I'm your older brother, Mike, and I was stepped over!
Michael Corleone: That's the way Pop wanted it.
Fredo Corleone: It ain't the way I wanted it! I can handle things! I'm smart! Not like everybody says... like dumb... I'm smart and I want respect!
Michael Corleone: That's not what Pop wanted..
Fredo Corleone: That's what I wanted!!

(from the Godfather II)

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Miriam Makeba, Mama Afrika died on stage

Miriam Makeba (March 4, 1932 - November 9, 2008)

was a Grammy Award-winning South African singer, also known as Mama Afrika.

Makeba was perfoming in Castel Volturno in the Province of Caserta, in the south of Italy, during an anti-maffiaconcert for Roberto Saviano, a writer who was threatened by the maffia to be killed. She died after the concert due to cardiac problems.
Miriam Makeba became famous as a jazzsinger in the fifties. Her worldhit Pata Pata came out in 1967. A year before she got a Grammy for a record that she made together with Harry Belafonte.
Makeba's full name is Zenzile Makeba Qgwashu Nguvama Yiketheli Nxgowa Bantana Balomzi Xa Ufun Ubajabulisa Ubaphekeli Mbiza Yotshwala Sithi Xa Saku Qgiba Ukutja Sithathe Izitsha Sizi Khabe Singama Lawu Singama Qgwashu Singama Nqamla Nqgithi. In keeping with tradition, her full name contains the first names of her male ancestors followed by a one- or two-word description of their character.

My photocollections on Flickr

Exhibition of jazz pictures

In the month january 2009 there will be an exhibition in the townhall of Goes.

M.A. de Ruyterlaan 2
4461 GE GOES

de 43 portretten zijn te zien tijdens kantooropeningstijden.
De officiële opening is op donderdag 8 januari 2009 om 16.00 uur door
Sophie van 't Westeinde (wethouder) en
Rik Mol (jazztrompettist)

Jazz portraits of.............
Roy Hargrove, Rik Mol, Christian Scott, Paolo Fresu, Steven Bernstein, Erik Truffaz, Rita Reys, Frederike Schonis, Mark Murphy, José James, Brian Zalmijn, Miriam Makeba, Barbara Hendricks, Willem Breuker, Philipe Catherine, Anton Goudsmit, John Scofield, Stanley Clarke, Wiro Mahieu, Hein Van de Geyn, Robert Mitchell, Monty Alexander, Esbjörn Svensson, Frank Morgan, Archie Shepp, Piet Noorddijk, Maceo Parker, Joe Lovano, David S. Ware, Robin Verheyen, Ben van den Dungen, Chris Strik, Jeff Hamilton, Rony Verbiest, Benjamin Herman, Toots Thielemans, Pascal Schumacher, Ingeborg Cneut, Luciano Biondini, Richard Galliano.

Mellowtime Music Festival

Certainly one of the most intimate festivals in Europe. This year for the fifth time in the Belgian countryside close to the borders of the river Schelde organised by singing hostess Yvonne Walter. The festival area is called Da Boerenhofke (the farmstead) and there is place for about 500 happy few. Those visitors can enjoy nice wine, beer and delicious local food. And in the evening there are terrace heaters and bonfires to drive away the chilly cool air. Yvonne Walter invites only friends on the stage. On saturday there were Stella Domazos and her quintet, Dez Mona with strings and Mark Murphy prooved to be still top vocalist on word level. He was accompanied by Rob van Bavel on piano, Clemens van der Feen on bass and Chris Strik on drums.
And sunday Yvonne opened with her own trio with Rony Verbiest, Hans van Oost and Mary Hehuat. On sunday there was more then music. There were entertaining intermezzo's by writer Bart Plouvier and writer and actress Antje De Boeck (with musical help of Bart Van Caenegem). And there Argentinian tango's by Carlos Diaz "Zapatango" and before the weather changed closing act Roland Van Campenhout on guitar and vocals.
More photos HERE

Jazz Middelheim

Nat Reeves (Pharoah Sanders Quartet)

See SLIDESHOW with impression of Jazz Middelheim

...a Sunday Night in Rotterdam

You'll never walk alone at North Sea Jazz.......

...a Saturday Night in the Hudson

North Sea Jazz Festival named their festivalstages after great world rivers like Amazon, Hudson, Nile, Maas, Missouri, Mississippi and Volga.

I decided to spend the Saturday evening for the 5 concerts in the Hudson. The hall is not soundproof and a lot of noise and undesirable sounds leak in to the Hudson. On the quiet moments that can be interfering for musicians and audience.

And well begun is half done. The Kenny Werner "Lawn Chair Society" Quintet starts off the evening at 17.30. The quintet has a great line-up with trumpeter Randy Brecker, tenorplayer David Sanchez, Scott Colley on double bass and Brian Blade hits the drums and they play a great set.

The second set: New to me is Michel Camilo. The Michel Camilo Trio is Michel Camilo on piano, Charles Flores on bass and Dafnis Prieto on drums. Camilo's powerplay doesn't hit me in the heart. Though it looks like I am almost the only one. The 53 years old Camilo hits the Yamaha piano as if he tries to demolish it. He will not succeed but he manages to break his pianostool.

The third concert is by the Randal Corsen Group. Randal Corsen is one of my favorite piano players. He mixes jazz with Caribbean influences and brings some very fine musicians on stage. On bass (again) Scott Colley and one of the worlds greatest drummers Horacia "El Negro" Hernández with percussionist Pernell Saturnino and as special guest Roy Hargrove.

Roy Hargrove stays on this stage to perform with his Roy Hargrove Quintet with his regular line-up Justin Robinson (alto sax), Danton Boller (double bass), Montez Coleman (drums) and new in this band Orrin Evans on piano.

Fifth concert on row is Horacio "El Negro" Hernández & Italuba. Italuba (combination of Italy and Cuba) are Cuban musicians living in Italy. Amik Guerra plays trumpet, Ivan Bridon piano and Daniel Martinez electric bass. Horacio played his first foreign gig 20 years ago on this same festival and since that time it is not possible for him to enter and leave Cuba on his own terms. This concert end up in a jam session with Roy Hargrove, Montez Coleman, Danton Boller and Ramon Valle.

Photos North Sea Jazz Festival (coming up) HERE.

North Sea Jazz Festival 2008 started

Maria Schneider

conducting

the Maria Schneider Orchestra

North Sea Jazz Festival

A unique, historic festival!

The first edition of the North Sea Jazz Festival took place in 1976 in the Nederlands Congresgebouw in The Hague. Some numbers in those early days: six venues, three hundred artists and about nine thousand visitors. In this very first festival year internationally renowned jazz legends performed, such as Sarah Vaughan, Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie and Stan Getz, as well as most Dutch avant-garde artists.
In the intervening years, the North Sea Jazz Festival has developed into a major international jazz event. Over the years the numbers have increased to: fifteen venues, approximately thirteen hundred artists and a visitors number that varies between sixty-five thousand and seventy thousand every year. Since 2006 the festival has found a new and more spacious location: Ahoy Rotterdam.
North Sea Jazz is known all over the world because of the many musical genres it has to offer, ranging from traditional New Orleans jazz, swing, bop, free jazz, fusion, avant-garde jazz and electronic jazz; to blues, gospel, funk, soul, R&B, hip hop, world beat and Latin. All of which are presented during a single weekend: 11, 12 and 13 July 2008.
Besides familiar names like Nat Adderley, Erykah Badu, Paul Anka, Steve Coleman, Miles Davis, Candy Dulfer, Ibrahim Ferrer, Ella Fitzgerald, Alicia Keys, Lionel Hampton, Al Jarreau, B.B. King, Wynton Marsalis, Herbie Hancock, Jamiroquai and The Zawinul Syndicate, the North Sea Jazz Festival also gives young talent a chance to make it on a major stage. Some names of artists who were introduced to a European audience: Shirley Horn, Tania Maria, Roy Hargrove and Rachelle Ferrell.
This is what makes North Sea Jazz so unique – a festival where for three days the past, the present and the future of jazz music are presented, all under one roof.

http://www.northseajazz.com/