Category: Concerts
Do you recall the ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ series of books? These books were a story with many threads, and you were asked at the end each chapter what you should do next, and then you skipped around the story, seeing where the thread you…
My first visit to A L’ARME was for it’s second installment in 2013 when Iwas still bedazzled by the shaggy chic of Berlin. It was there that I met up with my Free Jazz Blog colleague Martin Schray for the first of many times at the festival and took in the neighboring ‘beach bar,’just one of many that dotted the Spree river as it flowed throug…
Since its inception in 2012, Berlin based organizers Louis Rastig and Karina Mertin’s A L’ARME festival has carefully avoided being defined as only a free-jazz festival. Sure, through the years free jazz icons such as Peter Brötzmann, Sven-Åke Johansson, Irène Schweizer, Han Bennink, John Butcher, Ken Vandermark, Lotte Anker, Ikue Mori, Wil…
Saturday, August 6th and Sunday August 7thHeading south east on Av. Alvares Cabral, a mere kilometer over a hill from the Reservatório da Mãe d’Água das Amoreiras (see part 3), is another neighborhood park, the Guerra Junqueiro Garden. It’s similar to the other park with plenty of wonderful old trees, like the giant Ficus macrophylla behind the …
Thursday, August 3rd and Friday August 4thLet us start back at the park, the Amoreiras Garden / Marcelino Mesquita Garden, like many of the small neighborhood parks in Lisbon, the park has several playgrounds for kids, gravel paths to saunter on and a small cafe. Typically reasonably priced and stocked with an assortment of drinks and pastries, lik…
Part two in the ongoing coverage of Jazz em Agosto 2022.
The evening was cooling down, nicely, from the mid-90s of the late afternoon, and a very light breeze kept the air moving. After two years of festivals in modified formats and scope, the return to the outdoor amphitheater in the Gulbenkian gardens in the middle of Lisbon felt good in many senses…
Vision Festival 2022 Logo, from Arts for ArtBy Gary Chapin, Matthew Banash, Paul AcquaroUnable to be in New York this June, the Free Jazz Blog took part in the The Vision Festival this year from afar, enjoying the high quality video stream, but missing the community that forms around the festival … and some of us missed the merch tables too … h…
Der KulturhofI am wondering if it would be better if I did not write anything about
the Potentiale Festival. It feels like I’m exposing a precious secret. It’s not
that I think I have any great influence on the course of events, but rather,
when something seems so perfectly done, do we really want anyone else to know
about it? Well here goe…
Silent Green, Berlin
Thursday night at Boulez HallWe raced it from the Hauptbahnhof to Boulez Hall in
the rain. My train had been delayed and we had about 10 minutes to make the 10
minute bike ride, show our proof of vaccination, scan the tickets, peel off our
wet rain clothin…
Today, I took a walk to one of Lisbon’s botanical gardens — there are actually a number of places that could serve as such, but this one is the Jardim Botânico de Lisboa, a part of the University of Lisbon — perched on the hillside near the old, winding streets of Bario Alto. The entrance was unexpectedly free, and as I began descending into the…
Photo by Juliane SchützThe 9th A L’ARME! Festival kicked off Wednesday night at Zenner in Berlin’s Treptower Park. An open air event with DJs and drums, the event is a nod to normal, helping to welcome live events back, which tepidly have begun popping up throughout the city (and will hopefully continue… Daumen sind gedrückt.)After the opening …
