It’s been a while, since I last wrote on my blog … I think I was kind of ‘written out’ after I finished my biography and published it. Not that there isn’t anything happening in the world that might ask for a comment … or that there haven’t been great records released over the past weeks and months … I think it was just important to re-focus myself and find a new idea for the blog and for what to do with my time. In the last few weeks and months, I did put some order in my music archive – digital and physical – and there is still some work to do there, even so I had over 5000 discs in my hand over that period. After the summer, I will finish the work on the archive and then start my blog again. More frequently, but with a different concept. I might still occasionally write about a new record that really got me, but reviews are done in so many other places, that I am not sure, I am needed to point out some of these records as well. What I have in mind is a series of short portraits and listening recommendations, under the working title: ‘Least we forget: European Jazz Masters Of The Past’.
During almost 40 years in the music business, I was lucky enough to meet countless amazing artists, some who unfortunately have passed away already and I would like to pay tribute to their lives and artistry by making sure we won’t forget them. A few of these musicians I had the pleasure to work with, others not, but their influence in the European jazz scene was and still is felt. Who today is remembering Aladar Pege? Or Jutta Hipp and Milcho Leviev? What about Edward Vesala, Ian Carr or Hans Koller ….. and the list goes on and on … this will be a project of love for the artists, their music and jazz in general. It will need a lot of research and listening and therefore it will be perfect for me to do in the fall and winter and I am already looking forward to get going.
Meanwhile I wish everyone a wonderful summer (or winter, depending where you are) and hope you will be reading me again in a few weeks’ time.
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