The work of jazz pianist/composer Uri Caine is eclectic. His projects include a Mozart remix and improvising on laptops with a trio. On a trip to Amsterdam, he talks about […]
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In the autumn of 2001, Radio Netherlands organised a Dutch music week in Japan. The crème de la crème of Dutch jazz musicians gave several concerts in Tokyo and Nagasaki. […]
David Swatling finds himself attending the jazz funeral in New Orleans of the man he went there to interview: Milton Batiste, leader of the Dejan’s Olympia Brass Band. He was […]
When Nina Simone’s autobiography “I Put a Spell on You” appeared in 1992, we met up with the mesmerising singer in her Paris apartment. Nina Simone (1933-2003) had a classical […]
One of Memphis, Tennessee’s most famous sons, blues guitarist BB (Beale St. Bluesman) King (1925-2015) was our guest in this edition of the weekly magazine programme Rembrandt Express hosted by […]
Annie Ross, Britain’s First Lady of Jazz, looks back on over a quarter of a century in jazz as an acclaimed and sometimes very controversial, vocalist and song writer. Life […]
Pete Myers caught up with jazz great Lionel Hampton (1908-2002) while he was on tour in Europe in 1979. His performance on the Vredenburg stage in Utrecht was a celebration […]
Afroscene, Radio Netherlands’ weekly programme for listeners in Africa, featured this interview with Augustus Kwamlah Quaye, better known as Cab Kaye, in 1979, shortly after he moved permanently to […]