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Jazz man Raphael Gualazzi: Italy’s Jamie Cullum?

('Marta Nathansohn',) — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:36:31 -0000

The weekly German magazine Die Zeit called him ‘the perfect synthesis between Paolo Conte and Jamie Cullum’. In person, the 30-year-old is shy, but onstage he turns into a wild devilish creature. We catch him on the European tour for his second album Reality and Fantasy

UK to Poland via France: hitch-hiking Europe

('Sara Szeremeta',) — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:21:01 -0000

You could stay in a hotel in Egypt for a week. Or you can spread the same amount of money over a month and a half for a trip of an alternative kind: hitchhiking Europe. Here’s one way to do it, which included 30 drivers, volunteer work and new friends

Sofia's clubs: what American jazz?

('Annika Thornton',) — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:22:10 -0000

Balkan sounds and American influences are in search of space. The jazz scene in particular is in rapid evolution, after the darkness of the communist period. A meeting of several of the major musicians on the Bulgarian music scene - Theodosii Spasov, Elitza Todorova, Stoyan Yankoulov and Anton Duchev