It's easy just to think that the world revolves around our local patch. But it's remarkable the spread of what's going on at a selection of top jazz clubs around Europe
Take Stockholm's Fasching for instance presenting mainstreamer Joan Chamorro of the Sant Andreu Jazz Band on 29 Nov with world music band Tamikrest following on 1 December and avant trumpeter Peter Evans not long after on the 5th; Oslo's Victoria Nasjonal Jazzscene has blistering outfit The Core this week with the jazz and classical-loving pianist Uri Caine appearing on 3 Dec and the great avant guitarist Marc Ribot with his band Ceramic Dog the very next night. A-Trane in Berlin has the Marc Copland trio on Thursday featuring expat UK bassist Phil Donkin, a gig which is also live streaming; and staying in Germany in Munich at Unterfahrt the influential bassist Renaud Garcia-Fons is playing on Saturday.
At Sunside Sunset in Paris guitarist (and pianist) Kurt Rosenwinkel is playing on Friday and Saturday bringing with him double bassist Riccardo Del Fra and drummer Théo Moutou; while in Amsterdam at Bimhuis the Daniel García trio are a plum booking for Sunday; Polish pianist Marcin Masecki appears at Clamores in Madrid on Saturday; and in the last of this whirlwind whizz around what's coming up in Europe Portuguese singer Carmen Souza, above, appears at the Blue Note, Milan on Thursday night.
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