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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The Colin Vallon Trio with Patrice Moret and Julian Sartorius at the Tinguely Museum and the Bird’s Eye in Basel on 28 February and 1 March 2025. #111Words #ColinVallon #PatriceMoret #JulianSartorius #TinguelyMuseum #BirdsEyeBasel #Basel #Jazz #Music #Improvisation https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-colin-vallon-trio-with-patrice.html
The Colin Vallon Trio with Patrice Moret and Julian Sartorius at the Tinguely Museum and the Bird’s Eye in Basel on 28 February and 1 March 2025

Pianist Colin Vallon's trio with bassist Patrice Moret and drummer Julian Sartorius played at the Tinguely Museum in Basel on Friday afterno...

Saxofour at the Tinguely Museum in Basel, 4 May 2024 (and memories of the World Saxophone Quartet in San Franscisco in the 1980s). #111Words #Jazz #Music #Saxofour #TinguelyMuseum #Basel #WorldSaxophoneQuartet #SanFrancisco #GreatAmericanMusicHall https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2024/05/saxofour-at-tinguely-museum-in-basel-4.html
Saxofour at the Tinguely Museum in Basel, 4 May 2024 (and memories of the World Saxophone Quartet in San Franscisco in the 1980s)

In the mid-1980s, I heard two incredibly memorable performances by the World Saxophone Quartet at the Great American Music Hall in San Franc...

Im Tingurley Museum Basel.
Interessante Kunst und mein Foto des Tages.

In Basel konnte ich heute einige schöne Fotos machen, ich freue mich darauf sie jetzt Stück zu Stück zu Entwickeln.

#kunst #skulptur #köpfe #basel #museum #tinguely #tinguelymuseum #fotografie

Kadri Voorand and Mihkel Mälgan at the Tinguely Museum in Basel

Kadri Voorand  accompanies her singing with furious piano and begins to loop her voice into caverns of singing, humming, whistling, breathin...

Deciding not to play: Eva Klesse at her quartet’s concert in Basel this evening

Sometimes, a jazz musician decides not to play. When pianist Philip Frischkorn began an unaccompanied coda at the end of his composition "Di...