Article for Goethe Institut about the year 2020 in jazz, containing quotes from interviews with the musicians Ronny Graupe, Joe Hertenstein, Niklas Lukassen and Maxine Troglauer.
Jazz 2020
Songs about light and darkness
Radio broadcast about light and darkness in music for SWR2, with
Harry James and his orchestra, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker and Earl Coleman, Rita Hayworth, Henry Mancini, Jimmy Witherspoon, Wayne Shorter and the Miles Davis Quintet, Sun Ra and his Arkestra, Horst Jankowski, The Real Group, The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble (photo) and Son House.
Streaming jazz
My radio feature about the new App “jazzed” for SWR2 Treffpunkt Klassik, containing quotes of Götz Bühler, Head of Content in Germany and the Cologne-based musician Reza Askari.