Hi listees,
I have just recovered from visiting the North Sea Jazz Festival, since I
went all three days.
Friday was an interesting day seeing Da Lata, Gilles Peterson (his first
set was musically and beatmix-technical very OK, but it was still early in
the evening so very few people were dancing), Two Banks of Four, Raw Deal,
Angie Stone (who truly is da bomb), Rahsaan Patterson and the final DJ set
by Gilles Peterson AND Peter Kruder, which was cut short after only half an
hour into the set because of "the tight curfew". The organization let this
very unique opportunity of these two great DJs playing together slip by,
even though the room was pretty crowded and almost everybody was dancing. I
could tell that Gilles and Peter were not too thrilled with the decision to
cut off the power.
Saturday I watched Roy Hargrove playing together with the Dutch Metropole
Orchestra, BB King (still in good shape), Dutch sax-diva Candy Dulfer and
the Brand New Heavies. Unfortunately I had to leave that concert, after
waiting for almost 10 years to see them live, because the sound was the
most horrible I have heard in the six years I have visited the festival.
The last show I saw was The New Cool Collective Big Band, who threw an
almost two hour latin/salsa/disco/ soul/drum'n'bass party.
Sunday turned out to be the best day. Saw Al Jarreau, who now clearly is
over the hill, George Benson, who looked surprisingly fit and who played a
Best Of, including The Ghetto/El Barrio, Me'shell NdegeoCello, which was
the best gig of the weekend (very laidback, almost all of her songs in a
new arrangement) and after that D'Angelo, who gave the North Sea Jazz
Festival a scoop: during Sh*t, D*amn, Motherf*cker he smashed his mic,
broke the mic stand and took one of ?uestlove's cymbals and broke it on the
stage. Even so, the concert was pretty good, but much more aggressive than
he is on Voodoo. The last concert I saw was MJ Cole's gig, which only
lasted 40 minutes due to a little bonfire earlier that day, cutting most of
the gigs short.
h a s t a l a b y e b y e,
r e n e w i r t z
don't forget to discover your bueno side ...
-----Original Message-----
From: temi castro [SMTP:temicastro@yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 10:21 AM
To: jero@souljazz.com; acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
Subject: Re: I'm happy three
It's summer, the last 3 weeks it's non-stop
grey/elusive rays of sunshine here in London town, but
I'm a happy man. Why?
I went to Essential Music Festival in Brighton on a
press pass tip and got to see slum village, scholly d
& DJ Kut Swift, James Brown (I wanna get down and do
my thing...), Freddie Mcgregor, Lee Scratch Perry,
Rahzel, Lynden David Hall, Talvin Singh & Cleveland
Watkiss, and the mighty Angie Stone.
Time was running short so the organisers put James
Brown b4 Angie Stone. He did his thing, which was more
like a revue than the 4 tons of solid funk thing of
the early years. He did anything to not sing more than
2 songs consecutively; guests, soloists, pom pom
girls, one minute silence for somebody who died... It
was slightly sad in that I wish I saw this 30 years
ago kinda way, but the man is a legend.
Angie stone played a short set but killed it
nevertheless, at past 11pm the organisers pulled the
plugs out but the crowd kept singing and the drummer
kept drumming... My sunshine has come, and there's no
more rain in these clouds...
Peace,
t
> Cruz & Oscar De Leon, The Heath Brothers and Freddie
> Hubbard. Especially 2 banks of 4 made an excellent
> impression. Valerie Etienne assisted Julie Dexter on
> the vocals and Gary Bartz dropped in with a mean
> sax..Angie Stone is a real soul diva..
>
> regards,
> Jeroen
>
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