Friday, July 6, 2012

Challenge at North Sea Jazz 2012

Just two more nights until the start of the North Sea Jazz Festival 2012. This years line-up includes some exciting challenge recording artists and challenge distributed artists. An overview no-to-miss concerts can be found below.

For those of you who will be attending the Festival, be sure to check out our store! It is located outside, next to the Nile. On presentation of this newsletter you will receive a 10% discount on all the albums within our store!

For those of you who do not have the chance to pay us a visit at the festival we have selected the best and latest albums of our performing artists on www.challengerecords.com/nsjf. Use the code NSJF12 at the checkout to receive a 10% discount on your total order.

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FRIDAY, JULY 6th

Nguyên Lê - Amazon 19.15h - ACT guitarist Lê joins the Metropole Orchestra.

Joey Baron - Hudson, 22.15h - ECM artist Joey Baron performs as a part of the Joe Lovano and Dave Douglas Quintet.

Tineke Postma - Amazon, 23.15h - Edison winner 2011, playing along with Terri Lyne Carringtons 'The Mosaic Project'.

Eric Vloeimans
- Yenisei, 23.15h - Regular North Sea guest Eric Vloeimans joins forces with Syrian clarinet player Kinan Azmeh and Sri Lankan born pianist Dinuk Wijeratne.



SATURDAY, JULY 7th

Rudresh Mahantappa - Mississippi, 16.45h - Rudresh returns to the festival as special guest playing with the Codarts & Royal Conservatory Big Band and can also be seen at the Darling stage with Rez Abbasi's Invocation (21.30h).

Yuri Honing - Darling, 17.30h - Boy Edgar Winner Yuri Honing with his 'hard' band Wired Paradise.

Bart Wirtz Quintet (feat. Sean Jones) - Mississippi, 21.30h - Nominated for the Edison Jazzism Publieksprijs for his latest album iDreamer

Toon Roos Group (with Peter Erskine) - Yenisei, 17.15h - Lyrical funky jazz, original compositions.

Wolfert Brederode - Yenisei, 23.15h - Dutch ECM pianist with his international quartet.

Vijay Iyer Trio - Madeira, 23.45h - Vijay Iyer won an unprecedented 5 categories in the 2012 Downbeat Critics Poll, including album of the year for 'Accelerando'. Vijay can also be seen at the Darling stage with Rez Abbasi's Invocation (21.30h).

Craig Taborn - Volga, 18.45h - Solo piano concert by this years 'Paul Acket Award' winner.

Kevin Eubanks (guitar) and Craig Taborn (Fender Rhodes) - Hudson, 20.30h - Playing with Dave Holland and Eric Harland as PRISM, an Anlgo-American supergroup.



SUNDAY, JULY 8th

Jan van Duikeren's Fingerprint - Mississippi, 19.30h - Experienced sideman (Candy Dulfer, Paul Weller, Caro Emerald, New Cool Collective) van Duikeren, now as a confident energetic bandleader!

Danilo Perez - Amazon, 20.30h - Grammy-nominee and Mack Avenue recording artist Perez is present at North Sea with the Wayne Shorter Quartet.

Joris Teepe
- Madeira, 20.30h - As a part of jazz legend Benny Golson's Dutch Quartet.

Estafest - Yenisei, 22.00h - Four top Dutch jazz artists joining forces. The musical result is exciting, magnificent, hilarious and breathtaking.