Jazz Middelheim
The Jazz Middelheim is a place-find four days in mid-August every year an international jazz festival in Antwerp .
history
The festival first took place in 1969 as a Jazz Promenade in Middelheim Park in Antwerp (hence the name). Its founder and long-time director was the composer Elias Gistelinck (1935–2005), who was the music producer of the Belgian Radio and Televisieomroep , and who also organized a series of concerts in this park in the following years, which were broadcast by radio. In 1973 this resulted in the multi-day summer festival under the name Jazz Middelheim , although the festival was moved from the open-air museum to Park Den Brandt across the street.
Jazz Middelheim took place annually until 1981 ; thereafter the festival was organized every two years. After the 2007 festival, VRT outsourced the organization to Jazz en Muziek vzw , which also ran the Gent Jazz Festival . From then on, Jazz Middelheim took place again as an annual festival. The concerts are broadcast on the music program KLARA of the Flemish Radio.
Program items (selection)
In 2010 Toots Thielemans , Wayne Shorter , McCoy Tyner performed with Joe Lovano , Cassandra Wilson , Archie Shepp , Ahmad Jamal , the World Saxophone Quartet , Chucho Valdés , Pepe Habichuela & Dave Holland .
In 2011 Jamie Cullum , Randy Weston (African Rhythms Tribute to James Reese Europe Projekt), Carla Bley and Charlie Haden (Liberation Music Orchestra), Omar Sosa and the Flemish singer Lady Linn , Allen Toussaint (in a duo with Marc Ribot ), John Zorn , the Brussels Jazz Orchestra and Dave Douglas .
In 2012, Avishai Cohen , Abdullah Ibrahim , Ornette Coleman , Stefano Bollani , Toots Thielemans , Paolo Conte , Eric Vloeimans , Ernst Reijseger , Zara McFarlane , Jef Neve , Larry Coryell and Philip Catherine played .
Selection discography
- Masada Live in Middelheim 1999 ( Tzadik 1999)
- Michel Portal & Richard Galliano Concerts (Dreyfus 2004, eight pieces from the 2001 festival)
- Stefano Bollani & Hamilton de Holanda O Que Será ( ECM 2013, live recording from the 2012 festival)
- Liberation Music Orchestra Time / Life ( Impulse 2016, contains live recordings from the 2011 festival)
- Teun Verbruggen , Jozef Dumoulin , Nate Wooley , Ingebrigt Håker Flaten KaPSalon (Rat Records 2018, live recording from the festival 2014)
- Marcin Wasilewski Trio Live (ECM 2018, live recording from the 2016 festival)
literature
- Marc Van Den Hoof & Rob Miseur Jazz Middelheim Brussels :: VRT 1991
