A glimmer of optimism for the summer festival season ahead

Tickets are on sale and a programme is announced significantly by a big jazz promoter in Austria for the open air 3-day INNtöne jazz festival this summer, one of the first by any European promoter so far. Run by trombonist and bandleader Paul Zauner

Published: 8 Feb 2021. Updated: 3 years.

Tickets are on sale and a programme is announced significantly by a big jazz promoter in Austria for the open air 3-day INNtöne jazz festival this summer, one of the first by any European promoter so far. Run by trombonist and bandleader Paul Zauner, known for his work with saxophonist David Murray and the first promoter to put on Gregory Porter anywhere in Europe back in the day, Paul, against the odds, managed to run events last summer suitably socially distanced.

Optimism for the summer festival season is badly needed. Timing seems realistic given that because it is beginning on 30 July it is not too soon in the vaccination roll-out and return to mass international travel. Line-up, with more to be announced, is strong and includes: Bill Frisell trio, the Michel Portal/Lionel Loueke/Christi Joza Orisha trio, Lucian Ban/John Surman/Mat Maneri trio, Fergus McCreadie trio, Ranky Tanky and the Paulette McWilliams band.

Full line-up here. Tickets: here

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Sounding Point hits the heights

''I sometimes hear a fiddle play or maybe it's a notion. I dream I see white horses dance upon that other ocean'' – Ralph McTell, 'From Clare to Here' The event release of Sounding Point attempts the impossible and succeeds. Long time avant jazz …

Published: 8 Feb 2021. Updated: 3 years.

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''I sometimes hear a fiddle play or maybe it's a notion. I dream I see white horses dance upon that other ocean''

– Ralph McTell, 'From Clare to Here'

The event release of Sounding Point attempts the impossible and succeeds. Long time avant jazz fans will need no reminding that violinist Mark Feldman is one of the greatest. Solo violin is no small undertaking even for a player of his rare calibre. Performing mainly his own work plus pieces by Sylvie Courvoisier, his pianist wife and labelmate, and by Ornette Coleman, this latest collection was recorded in a Brooklyn studio last spring and is released by Intakt on Friday.