Winter sessions

When it's cold outside, it will be comfortably warm in Pazzani Pizza with The Winter Sessions. This winter the restaurant is filled with live music. Acoustic jazz duos, singer-songwriters, sultry bossa nova and swing are on the program. After a stroll at the Westergasfabriek, Pizza Pazzani is the perfect place to eat a pizza and drink mulled wine, or a hot chocolate with Italian panettone.Tonight with music from Lorenzo Buffa on double bass and Emanuele Pellegrini on piano, both are students at the Conservatory of Amsterdam.

When it's cold outside, it will be comfortably warm in Pazzani Pizza with The Winter Sessions. This winter the restaurant is filled with live music. Acoustic jazz duos, singer-songwriters, sultry bossa nova and swing are on the program. After a stroll at the Westergasfabriek, Pizza Pazzani is the perfect place to eat a pizza and drink mulled wine, or a hot chocolate with Italian panettone.Tonight with music from Lito Mabjaia on bass guitar and Nick Mabjaia on guitar, these brothers are students at the Conservatory of Amsterdam.

Singer Margriet Sjoerdsma pours emotion into her songs and it connects with her audience. The musical protégé of Rita Reys pays tribute to Eva Cassidy, who also could connect with her audience like no other.

At the age seventeen Margriet Sjoerdsma first came by the music of Eva Cassidy: "I was immediately blown away. Her voice has so much expression. It immediately hit me." Therefore she dedicated her fourth album to Eva Cassidy.

For her tour 'A Tribute to Eva Cassidy' the singer asked the brother of the deceased young American singer to accompany her on violin. Together they toured throughout the country. Due to the overwhelming success of this tour, a reprise tour was soon scheduled.

We like it Live! Boom Petit plays a colorful mix of new jazz, funk, soul, fusion and contemporary jazz which gives the sound of the band an accessible and modern twist.

When it's cold outside, it will be comfortably warm in Pazzani Pizza with The Winter Sessions. This winter the restaurant is filled with live music. Acoustic jazz duos, singer-songwriters, sultry bossa nova and swing are on the program. After a stroll at the Westergasfabriek, Pizza Pazzani is the perfect place to eat a pizza and drink mulled wine, or a hot chocolate with Italian panettone. Tonight with music from Bruno Calvo Anillo on trumpet and piano player Xavi Torres, both are students at the Conservatory of Amsterdam.

When it's cold outside, it will be comfortably warm in Pazzani Pizza with The Winter Sessions. This winter the restaurant is filled with live music. Acoustic jazz duos, singer-songwriters, sultry bossa nova and swing are on the program. After a stroll at the Westergasfabriek, Pizza Pazzani is the perfect place to eat a pizza and drink mulled wine, or a hot chocolate with Italian panettone. Tonight with music from Gerhard Ornig on trumpet and guitarist Eran Har Even, both are students at the Conservatory of Amsterdam.

During the last years of her life Rita Reys mentioned Fay Claassen as her successor in interviews. The Netherlands has few young jazz singers who met Rita's strict quality standards, but Fay Claassen was always on top of Rita's list. Partly at the request of the Peter Beets Trio, who accompanied the jazz legend for more than 10 years, this tribute is a fact. All of the beautiful songs that Rita loved to sing will be performed this night. Fay Claassen, will put her own twist on the material while keeping the memory of Rita alive.

We like it Live! Feather and the White play "Rough riffs, slave-driving beats and produce vocals somewhere between those of Jim Morrison and Tom Waits; a duo that has sufficient skills to impress all audiences"- 3voor12 Amsterdam.

The fellas of the Rogier Telderman Trio present their debut album 'Contours' in the club. Besides inspiration from jazz (Miles Davis, Keith Jarrett and Esbjörn Svensson), they also get ideas from minimal music, pop and classical music

Leyla McCalla’s cello sounds raw and thick. It is consistent with the spirit of New Orleans, where she has lived for years. Music is everywhere in this city. McCalla played her cello (and banjo and guitar) on every corner of the French Quarter, when she was not on the road with The Carolina Chocolate Drops.

In the spring of 2014, her debut album Vari-Coloured Songs (Music Maker Relief Foundation) was released. The album contains influences from her youth: her Haitian descent, music by Bach, the years she lived in Accra (Ghana) and the years she lived in Harlem, New York. But the poetry of poet Langston Hughes, nostalgia for times past and above all the swampy sound of New Orleans with its famous plaintive strings are what created the sound of the album.

With an expressive voice, McCalla sings folk songs with a message. Songs of African-American emancipation and of passion for pure music. Last summer, she made her debut at Lowlands and she can count the Taj Mahal as one of her biggest fans.

The Metropole Orchestra plays Jørg Keller's contemporary adaptation of Oliver Nelson's "The Blues & The Abstract Truth", a classic in jazz history.

Without pain there is no real blues. Ralph de Jongh presents his new album 'Sun Coming Up' in the club: a mix of blues, soul, rock & roll.

From working at Chicago's Red Carpet Car Wash to appearing on national television, from gigging at the smallest ghetto blues bars to performing on the biggest international concert stages, master bluesman Lil' Ed Williams has come a long way. Mixing smoking slide guitar boogies and raw-boned Chicago shuffles with the deepest slow-burners, Lil' Ed and his blistering Blues Imperials - bassist James "Pookie" Young, guitarist Mike Garrett and drummer Kelly Littleton - deliver the blues, from gloriously riotous and rollicking to intensely emotional and moving. Not since the heyday of Hound Dog Taylor & The HouseRockers has a blues band made such a consistently joyful noise. Currently celebrating 24 rip-roaring years together, Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials ply their musical talents with skills that have been honed to a razor's edge. As much a family as a band, Lil' Ed, Pookie, Mike and Kelly have outlasted sports stars and presidents, musical fads and fashion trends. And together, they continue to make blues history with each and every performance and new recording.

We like it Live! Immersive garage soul with blues, funk and jazz influences and with the the voice of front woman Elsa Bekman as the icing on the cake that gives the sound of the band a rock edge.

What do Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Jay McShann, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, John Hammond, the late Jimmy Witherspoon, Dr. John, Maria Muldaur, Roomful of Blues and the Canadian band The Rockin' Highliners have in common? They were all involved with Duke Robillard in one way or another, either as a guitarist, bandleader, songwriter, singer, producer and session musician.

For over forty years he has been working from the studio and on stage with music styles such as jazz, R&B, Tex-Mex and rock, yet he always returned to pure blues. Duke Robillard makes full use of all his creative talents, something that is unique in the blues industry and rare in the music business as such. He is a complete artist who is at the peak of his doing.
DOORS OPEN AND DINNER FROM 19:00 | ENTRANCE FEE: €14,- / €10,-

PROGRAM APRIL ‘15
VR 3 APR FRIDAY NIGHT OUT

THE FRESH CUTS & SPECIAL GUESTS

Friday Night Out! The complete night out with live music by soecial guests and The Fresh Cuts and DJ The Groove Supplier until late.

In this new concert series '007', Michiel Borstlap invites friends from his worldwide branched network of musicians, for an exclusive cooperation in the North Sea Jazz Club. The kick-off is with a very special guest: the Panamanian American jazz and fusion drummer Billy Cobham. A tough guy, given his resume. In the seventies Cobham played with Miles Davis and The Brecker Brothers, but also with John McLaughlin in the Mahavishnu Orchestra. Later he played in the band of Carlos Santana and meanwhile he has thirty albums to his own name.

What can you expect? Just like with James Bond: action, danger and lots of new twists. But there is always a happy ending and there are cocktails for the enthusiast.

DOORS OPEN AND DINNER FROM 19:00 | ENTRANCE FEE: € 24,- / € 20,-

SAT 4 APR LATE NIGHT LIVE / FUNK / JAZZ

TRUNK
We like it live! Groovy oriented energy is what give TRUNK a "bite". Their debut album is coming soon and is according to the band a mix between John Scofield and New Cool Collective.

COMMENCEMENT: 23.30 | FREE ENTRANCE

SUN 12 APR R&B / SOUL

SYLVANA’S SOUL LIVE
Let's bring back the soul! Sylvana's Soul Live is a spectacular, musical talk show where Sylvana Simons invites top musicians and music lovers.

DOORS OPEN AND DINNER FROM 18:00 | ENTRANCE FEE: € 24,- / € 20,-

FRI 17 APR VOCAL JAZZ

GREETJE KAUFFELD
Last November Greetje Kauffeld received the Edison Oeuvre Award, on her 75th birthday. It is now time to invite this renowned singer to the North Sea Jazz Club.

DOORS OPEN AND DINNER FROM 19:00 | ENTRANCE FEE: € 24,- / € 20,-


SAT 18 APR JAZZ / SOUL

RADIO 6 PRESENTS: JARROD LAWSON
He's back: Jarrod Lawson! The young pianist and soul singer that everyone is talking about. His star keeps rising. His debut album 'Jarrod Lawson' is getting rave reviews and the American is compared to greats, such as: D'Angelo, Maxwell and Omar.

Lawson played on a birthday party of his musical hero Stevie Wonder and shared the stage with Bilal, The Average White Band and Liv Warfield who even called him "The Truth."

Ever since the seventies Robben Ford is known as a leading guitarist. For the first time in two years, the musical giant play in The Netherlands tonight.

Ford, who Musician Magazine named as one of the "100 greatest guitarists of the 20th century", has developed a reputation as a solo artist in the seventies and eighties in the jazz and pop world. But was also as a member of the pioneering fusion group LA Express and as the sideman of Joni Mitchell, Miles Davis and blues legend Jimmy Witherspoon. He is also a five time Grammy-nominee.

Tonight, the 63-year-old bluesman plays songs from his album Into The Sun in the club. "One of the top recordings I've ever done" Ford mentions. And for someone with thirty-five albums to his name that is a striking remark. In his own words, the emphasis of this album is more on poetic lyrics and melodic vocals more so than what was the case in his earlier work.