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Luiza, ?, ?, ?, and ? |
Véga, Nyon, Switzerland Paléo Festival de Nyon |
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| Accompanying my wife and son to Paléo (concert 2 out of 2). | |||
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UtopieXXL: Charlotte Müller Perrier, Jonathan Spicher, Jean-Luc Waeber, Alexandre Rion, Kathrin Hartmann, Dominique Haldemann, Maîtrise de Saint-Pierre-aux-Liens, and Gonzague Monney |
Véga, Nyon, Switzerland Paléo Festival de Nyon |
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| Carmina Burana (Carl Orff), performed by UtopieXXL, a 150-singer choir built around the Ensemble Vocal Utopie, in the version for two pianos and percussion. Accompanying my wife and son to Paléo (concert 1 out of 2). | |||
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Shems Bendali Quintet: Shems Bendali, Arthur Donnot, Andrew Audiger, Yves Marcotte, and Marton Kiss |
Cinéma de Verbier, Verbier, Switzerland Verbier Festival |
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| Ciné-concert (UNLTD series, Miles Davis 100): the quintet improvised new music live over Louis Malle's film Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (1958), echoing the original soundtrack improvised by Miles Davis in 1957. Not bad. | |||
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Gregory Porter, Chip Crawford, Ondrej Pivec, Scooter Brown, Jahmal Nichols, and Emanuel Harrold |
Montreux Jazz Lab, Montreux, Switzerland Montreux Jazz Festival |
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| We stayed after the Charles Lloyd concert, without knowing who Gregory Porter is. After seeing so many great musicians (Charles Lloyd, Marcus Miller, Mike Stern, Bill Evans, Mino Cinelu, Billy Cobham, etc.), let's just say it was a let-down. | |||
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Charles Lloyd, Gerald Clayton, Harish Raghavan, and Kweku Sumbry |
Montreux Jazz Lab, Montreux, Switzerland Montreux Jazz Festival |
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| That was really nice seeing Charles Lloyd again, for the 7th time and the first time in 7 years. I saw his workshop/interview two days before in Montreux as well. | |||
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Marcus Miller — We Want Miles!: Marcus Miller, Mike Stern, Bill Evans, Mino Cinelu, Russell Gunn, Brett Williams, and Anwar Marshall |
Montreux Jazz Lab, Montreux, Switzerland Montreux Jazz Festival |
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| This was just great. This was the second time I was seeing Mike Stern and Bill Evans together, but of course the first time I was seeing them with Marcus Miller. They should release a live album of this tour. | |||
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Billy Cobham's Time Machine: Billy Cobham, Gary Husband, Rocco Zifarelli, Victor Cisternas, Bjorn Arko, Antonio Baldino, and Andrea Andreoli |
Montreux Jazz Lab, Montreux, Switzerland Montreux Jazz Festival |
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| I realized I was not familiar with Billy Cobham at all. I knew he covered Sign O' The Times at some point. I since learned Stratus, which Prince played between 2006 and 2015 (notably in 2009 in Montreux), is a Cobham track. And also Red Baron, which Marcus Miller covered as well. | |||
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Grigory Sokolov |
Teatro La Fenice, Venice, Italy | |
| My first Sokolov concert. Programme: Sonata n. 4 op. 7 (Ludwig van Beethoven); Sei Bagatelle op. 126 (Ludwig van Beethoven); Sonata in B flat major D960 (Franz Schubert). | |||
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Davide Tuscano, Lionel Lhote, Marie Lys, Vartan Gabrielian, Sophie Kidwell, Sulkhan Jaiani, Vincent Casagrande, Matthieu Justine, Kyu Choi, Anouk Molendijk, Léa Sirera, Solène Nancy, Agnès Letestu, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Giulio Cilona, Chœur de l’Opéra de Lausanne, and Anass Ismat |
Opéra de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland Rigoletto opera |
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| Rigoletto opera (Giuseppe Verdi), directed by Richard Brunel. A truly excellent French production, with impressive sets and an inventive staging. | |||
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The Bad Plus Potter Taborn: Chris Potter, Craig Taborn, Reid Anderson, and Dave King |
Chapiteau, Cully, Switzerland Cully Jazz Festival |
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| I agree with Reid Anderson that Keith Jarrett's American Quartet was a great band. That was a fun concert, a bit too short. | |||
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CJO plays Victor Decamp: Victor Decamp, Marina Iten, Marco Karrer, Xavier Sprunger, Felix Grandjean, Lukas Kohler, Benjamin Szilágyi, Daniel Hernandez, Jonathan Salvi, Michael Cina, and Emilio Giovanoli |
Chapiteau, Cully, Switzerland Cully Jazz Festival |
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| It was a quality concert, but a little clinical, shall we say. | |||