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.

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