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20.11.2014. Already a few weeks behind us but still interesting to look back. Jazz Belgrade the celebration edition of 2014 was worthwhile. It was the 30th edition of a Jazz festival which hosted a lot of great musicians throughout the years. To celebrate it, this years edition had an exhibition of photos from the international press covering the last few years. It also had many artifacts and posters from previous editions going 30 years back in time. Like the 1971 edition when the name of the festival was Newport Jazzfestival (connecting with the famous American festival) and a line up of Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk and more….

This years edition started with a show of the Max Kochetov Quartet, a Serbian Ukraine Quartet lead by Max Kochetov an excellent saxophone player. Modern jazz, good vibes and an excellent young bass player. Lots of improvisations. Good start.

Was the first concert seated with a full hall, the next concert was without seats and even more people entered the Danilo Perez concert. Nobody could get in or out. In some moments it looked like a popconcert. For me it was distracting since the quiet intermezzos in the music need a quiet place to listen and feel the music coming to you instead of trying to get a normal place to listen. But considering the concert of the Danilo Perez trio it is possible to say a few things. There was the incredible vibe of Brian Blade behind the drums, always pushing the band to a higher level. But as a whole the group sometimes seemed to be playing hasty and Perez was hitting the pianokeys hard and less subtile as he can do. It seemed as if how more people were in the room, the more the musicians turned into themselves, making less contact. I heard them playing better.

But the following artist finally made this evening a succes. In the different room upstairs there was the concert of Nils Petter Molvaer and Laurens von Oswald. In this seated room the quality of listening wa

Leoni Jansen is a Dutch singer and stage director. She started out as TV personality: anchor woman on Dutch national television for the daily Children’s News. After that she hosted various art and music programs on television and ended up with her very own television show: Jansen & Co.

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Wishing to devote more time to singing and the theatre she said goodbye to TV and produced a number of music theatrical productions. She has made a range of programs such as a Pyjama night in the Concertgebouw and an Opera party for children in Vredenburg and she directed theatre shows for pop bands like Room Eleven, Sensual and Giovanca.

multicultural cooperations

Over the past few years she has been busy, mainly creating music programs which bridge different cultures. She was, for instance, co responsible for the theatre hit: Female Factory, a show in which 13 female top stars from 10 different countries presented themselves simultaneously. A show that also has been seen in Moscow and Madrid, following a week when the Carré theatre was completely sold out. Leoni produced the series Wereldwijven, that featured a Dutch singer with a singer from a different continent. She produced the show She got game (three versions!) with amongst others Astrid Seriese, Lucretia van der Vloot, Rocq’E Harrell, Izaline Callister, Ricky Koole and Nurlaila Karim, which attracted capacity crowds throughout the country over four seasons. And she created the multicultural show Made in Holland, in response to 11 September, to be seen in Carré and in which 45 artists from 22 different cultures took over the space for one week.

She sang at the wedding of prince Willem-Alexander and princess Maxima in the Arena in Amsterdam. And she was responsible for the music production of Faranani, a homage to Nelson Mandela from the Koninklijk Theater Carré in 2002, which was broadcast live in dozens of countries.

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