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European Jazz Stage 2008
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08/17/2008
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13 Weeks of Jazz From Europe

 


 

European Jazz Stage 2008

From the great stages of Europe, Radio Netherlands Worldwide brings you this year's European Jazz Stage with host Daniel Frankl.  

Take your listeners on a jazz vacation: 13 hours of performances beckon from venues across the continent, including the acclaimed North Sea Jazz Festival.

This 2008 season of European Jazz Stage features Medeski, Scofeld, Martin & Wood, Kurt Elling, astounding young alto player Joris Roelofs, European Jazz Competition winner Empirical, saxophone master Joe Lovano, Benjamin Herman and much more...

Highlights 

European Jazz Stage is a special jazz series for radio. Release for all 13 one-hour shows begins 1 July and runs through September. Listen to a quick taste of what's in store for you this season:

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European Jazz Stage is available for broadcast at no charge. Click for more broadcast information, distribution details as well as highlights from our sampler.

August 17

The Metropole Orchestra Big Band

Program one of European Jazz Stage 2008 features music from Vince Mendoza with the Metropole Orchestra Big Band, Nils Landgren, Ilja Reijngoud and Fay Claassen.

August 24

Electrified: the North Sea Jazz Festival

From The North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam, where 15 stages rock, croon, swing and fly with music from across the spectrum of jazz. Here are some of the best electric bands the 2007 festival had to offer.

August 31

Young lions

This program features saxophone player Joris Roelofs - just 24 - who has won the Stan Getz/Clifford Brown fellowship Award in the US. Also we hear the European Youth Jazz Orchestra.

September 7

Jazz adventure

One of the last concerts by the late wizard of keys and sounds, Joe Zawinul. And Paris Touch gives us an intriguing sample from the jazz micro-cosmos of the French capital.

September 14

European talent: North Sea Jazz Festival

This program has highlights of the finalists' sets of the first European Jazz Competition, hosted by the North Sea Jazz Festival in 2007. It focuses too on British winning iband Empirical.

September 21

Europe Goes Tropical

Hermeto Pascoal, founding father of Brazilian free jazz, happily mixes traditional rhythms like forros, frevos and sambas with jazz, rock and even modern classical music.

September 28

Heleen van den Hombergh and more...

Intimate songs by Heleen van den Homberg; her quartet featuring Holland's most delicate piano player; plus another beautiful concert from reed player David Kweksilber with Guus Jansen on piano.

October 5

Family Jewels

Daniel Frankl hosts a special hour with some of the greatest performances from 30 years of the North Sea Jazz Festival, featuring the likes of Phil Woods, Betty Carter and Toots Thielemans, to name but a few.

October 12

Jazz delicacies

In this program, highlights of one complete night of music from the Madeira Hall at the 2007 North Sea Jazz Festival. It's a sanctuary of intimate and delicate music, played by experienced musicians with impeccable taste and style.

October 19

Funky stuff

The beat goes on in this show featuring the Yohimbe Brothers: Vernon Reid, DJ Logic and Taylor McFerrin. Also there's Benjamin Herman with his quartet: Carlo D'Wys, Jesse van Ruller and Martijn Vink.

November 2

(Almost) live highlights

Bright moments from the 2008 North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam. Now in its 33rd year, the festival is among Europe's best known summertime events, featuring top international players and upcoming ensembles in all jazz styles.

November 9

Remarkable singers

Daniel Frankl hosts three vocal concerts with highly individual singers: Kurt Elling (in concert at the 2007 North Sea Jazz Festival), Dutch singer Lydia van Dam, and Michael Schiefel with the United Women's Orchestra.

November 16

Zapp Quartet - Concertgebouw Jazz Orchestra

This program features the Zapp String Quartet - Holland's most sparkling, hardest grooving string ensemble - and the Concertgebouw Jazz Orchestra.


 
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