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Radio show for SWR about the concert of the Berlin trio of trumpeter Lina Allemano with Michael Griener – drums and Dan Peter Sundland – bass at Jazzfest Berlin 2020. Introducing her solo debut album “Glimmer Glammer” (picture) as well.
Radio show for SWR including interviews with the trombone player Conny Bauer and the pianists Aki Takase and Alexander von Schlippenbach. Besides their music I chose recordings of Archie Shepp & Jason Moran (picture), Maggie Nicols, Marshall Allen & Tara Middleton of the Sun Ra Arkestra, Sheila Jordan and Jimmy “Duck” Holmes.
Radio show about the pianist Jane Getz for SWR including her recordings with Pharoah Sanders, Charles Mingus, Eugene McDaniels and Dale Fielder, as well as her own albums as Mother Hen and as a bandleader in jazz. Her book (picture) is worth reading.
Portrait of the composer Emre Dündar, fellow of the Berliner Künstlerprogramm of DAAD for Deutschlandfunk Hörspielmagazin, including excerpts of performances of his works at Festival Ultraschall Berlin in January 2021, performed by Ensemble KNM Berlin.
Radio show for SWR2 about music and poetry.
With Bernd Oeszevim, Roman Babik and the poet Shannon Sullivan, Joachim Badenhorst and the poet Peter Holvoet-Hanssen, Ig Hennemann and Anna voor de Wind with a poem by Anneke Brassinga, Didrik Ingvaldsen and the Nowegian-Czech quartet + choir, inspired by the poetry of Rafael Alberti, Keir Neuringer and the Ensemble Klang, Ya Tosiba/Zavoloka with a poem by Aliagha Vahid Isgandarov, Mahsa Vahdat and Kronos Quartet with a poem by Forough Farrokhzad, and Hans Unstern (photo by Konstantina Levi).
Radio feature for SWR2 about the online exhibition “Rooted in Iran”, curated by Ruth Wiesenfeld and the Iranian Female Composers Association IFCA, a project of Towards Sound.
Introducing the composers Negin Zomorodi, Arezou Rezaei, Afarin Mansouri and Farnaz Ohadi (picture).
Radio feature for Deutschlandfunk about the online exhibition “Rooted in Iran”, curated by Ruth Wiesenfeld and the Iranian Female Composers Association IFCA, a project of Towards Sound.
Introducing the composers Atefeh Einali (picture), Parisa Sabet and Aida Shirazi.
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.
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.
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.