Wall Street Journal skriver om multitalangen Jan Lundgren, som var en av Sveriges mest begåvade unga tennisspelare i början av 1980-talet och som vann stora tennistävlingar. Men Jan hade också en makalös musikalisk talang och spelade klassisk piano redan som 5-åring. Kanske var det Björn Borgs pressade tidsschema som avgjorde? Mer spännande läsning om Jan Lundgren i Doug Ramsey´s artikel publicerad i Wall Street Journal den 19 januari 2012. Läs mer/Read more »
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Bli medlem redan nu! Jazzkonstnär 2013
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Ystad, Sweden Jazz Festival and Music in the South are very proud to present the Brad Mehldau Trio at Ystad Theatre on Saturday 3 March 2012. The pianist Brad Mehldau, born in 1970 in Jacksonville, Florida, is on a world tour and come in early spring to Europe. In the Nordic countries are only two appearances scheduled including Ystad is first out. Since the early 1990s, Mehldau has toured with his trio as well as solo and made numerous recordings. On Mehldaus repertoire are original compositions, jazz standards and jazz arrangements of popular music, including rock and Brazilian. He uses his classical training and like to play different songs at different speeds simultaneously. Mehldau has created his own character by exploring jazz, classical romanticism and pop music. Läs mer/Read more » The fourth and final festival day has invited the Magnus Lindgren Batucada Jazz Quartet, Ystad own Anna-Frida Abrahamsson with Sometime Band and a tribute to Monica Zetterlund, Nils Landgren & Johan Norberg, Jacob Fischer & His Backenroth Duo, Enrico Pieranunzi, Erik Lindborg Trio and Tenor Battle between Scott Hamilton and Jesper Thilo Quintet. Still night concert with Richard Galliano La Strada Quintet with ”Tribute to Nino Rota.” As in previous days, the vast majority of the concerts were sold out. This year’s jazz festival has for four days has offered 33 concerts and 144 artists from 15 countries. In addition, it has been invited on four talk show, special interviews, with Bengt Hallberg, Georg Riedel, Herb Geller and Scott Hamilton. The festival was carried out by a festival committee of 10 people, about 100 volunteers and numerous sponsors. Preliminary, it has sold 6800 tickets. The festival has had a fantastic media coverage. Swedish Radio, P2 Live Jazz, has been directly sent four hours and also recorded all the concerts at the Ystad Theatre and Ystad Saltsjöbad. Korean TV has made a documentary about Ystad and Youn Sun Nah, who returned for the second year to Ystad. The major jazz magazines in the United States, Britain, France, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark and Sweden has been covering the festival. Many artists have expressed their desire to come back to Ystad, Sweden Jazz Festival. We look forward to 2012!
Ira Gitler, New York, is a legendary jazz journalist. He has during his journalism career, met and reviewed all of the great jazz legends, has published jazz literature, worked for the world’s largest jazz magazine Down Beat and more. The festival invites you to a unique meeting with Ira in Ystad Theatre on Sunday, August 7 at 12.30. Free entry! More than 4000 tickets are now already sold to this year’s jazz festival, but yet there are tickets left. The tickets can be purchased either here on the website or at the tourist office in Ystad. Tickets without advance purchase fee you can buy directly at the ticket counter at the Ystad Theatre or at each concert site just before the concert. NOTE: you then have to use cash. |
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