Andrew ShieldsFeb 6
The Vertigo Trombone Quartet, Bird’s Eye Jazz Club, 5 February 2026. #111Words #BirdsEyeBasel #Basel #Jazz #Music #LiveMusic #VertigoTromboneQuartet #BernhardBamert #AndreasTschopp #NilsWogram #JanSchreiner #WorldSaxophoneQuartet #GreatAmericanMusicHall #Saxofour #TinguelyMuseum https://111-words.ghost.io/the-vertigo-trombone-quartet-birds-eye-jazz-club-5-february-2026/
The Vertigo Trombone Quartet, Bird’s Eye Jazz Club, 5 February 2026

Two central concerts in my early listening to jazz were by the World Saxophone Quartet at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco in 1984 and 1985. And in 2024, I saw the Austrian saxophone quartet Saxofour at the Tinguely Museum in Basel. Last night, though, I saw the

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Andrew ShieldsMar 17, 2025
Sixteen concerts so far this year. #111Words #Skyjack #LiveMusic #Concerts #Jazz #BradMehldau #AndreasTschopp #LindaRonstadt https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2025/03/sixteen-concerts-so-far-this-year.html
Sixteen concerts so far this year

With the Skyjack concert on Saturday, I'm up to sixteen concerts this calendar year. But I count double bills as two concerts, so it's not s...

Andrew ShieldsMar 16, 2025
The social and communal experience of musical transformation at the Bird’s Eye concert by Swiss-South African band Skyjack, 15 March 2025. #111Words #BirdsEyeBasel #Skyjack #TedGioia #VinnieSperrazza #MarcStucki #AndreasTschopp #KyleShepherd #ShaneCooper #JonnoSweetman #Jazz #Music #Improvisation #MusicalTransformation #Community https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-social-and-communal-experience-of.html
The social and communal experience of musical transformation at the Bird’s Eye concert by Swiss-South African band Skyjack, 15 March 2025

As I wrote two years ago, inspired by Ted Gioia's "Music to Raise the Dead", I am on a quest for musical transformation. And as I wrote la...

Andrew ShieldsDec 1, 2023
“Space” from The Grateful Dead, the Bill Frisell Trio, and Sparks and Tides with Andreas and Matthias Tschopp. #111Words #Space #Music #Improvisation #Jazz #TheGratefulDead #BillFrisell #ThomasMorgan #RudyRoyston #SparksAndTides #AndreasTschopp #MatthiasTschopp #BirdsEyeBasel https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2023/12/space-from-grateful-dead-bill-frisell.html
“Space” from The Grateful Dead, the Bill Frisell Trio, and Sparks and Tides with Andreas and Matthias Tschopp

I loved the ten minutes or so of "Space" at concerts by The Grateful Dead, when guitarists Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir (and sometimes bassist ...