Sebastian Scotney
Editor at LondonJazz News
Writer at The Economist
#stilleuropean/ @londonjazz editor/ @economist contributor / film+music reviewer for @theartsdesk / translate from FR & DE / in 30th season coaching @lwminirfc
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1 month ago |
theartsdesk.com | Sebastian Scotney
There was a telling remark in Wynton Marsalis’s recent interview with Katty Kay for the BBC show “Influential”. Talking about how jazz functions in real time as a democracy, he said: “Our music requires you to be in balance with other people”, contrasting it with unnamed but all-too-obvious examples in the US of the rise of cultures based on principles diametrically opposed to that, i.e. the search for victory and 'greatness' through bullying and subjugation.
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1 month ago |
theartsdesk.com | Sebastian Scotney
The German theologian, pastor and anti-Nazi dissident Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) was a saintly, courageous figure, of major historical significance. Those are good reasons to ensure that his story gets told and becomes better known. At a time when fanatical violent nationalism is on the rise and religion has been commandeered to support it, Bonhoeffer's work and his contribution to ideas have a renewed relevance.
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1 month ago |
theartsdesk.com | Sebastian Scotney
Mezzo-soprano Helen Charlston just gets better and better, both as singer and as actor. Last night’s recital at Temple Church had an unusual and wide-ranging programme – consisting of a first half hopping through the centuries, followed by a complete performance of Schumann’s “Kerner-Lieder” cycle. Charlston and Sholto Kynoch had originally devised this programme for last autumn’s Oxford International Song Festival.
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1 month ago |
theartsdesk.com | Sebastian Scotney
Spare a thought – please – for Leipzig-born pianist Jutta Hipp (1925-2003). In 1956, she became the very first woman to record albums in her own name for the Blue Note label. Earlier this month was the centenary of her birth. It went by more or less unremarked.
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Jan 23, 2025 |
theartsdesk.com | Sebastian Scotney
Nine billion streams a year. That’s the sheer scale on which the music of Ludovico Einaudi reaches audiences. The Italian, who will be 70 this November, is courteous and genial in person – I interviewed him in Montreal a couple of years ago – but is also, patently, a superstar. In his new, 13-track album, The Summer Portraits (Decca Records), he has nostalgic and personal stories to tell.
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I find @LudovicoEinaud SO hard to write about. Here goes ... on @theartsdesk https://t.co/bqT4JkSJfa .
I'm really missing Martin Hummel @UbuntuMusicJazz . His death, far too soon, is a huge loss for the entire UK jazz scene. I wrote about him for the German magazine @JAZZTHETIK in 2021. In sadness. https://t.co/8qKuFCSZaz https://t.co/cEGYVm8QZk
Feel very honoured to be part of @theartsdesk's film team. Here's my 4* take on Quentin Dupieux's The Second Act with #leaseydoux from @mubi https://t.co/8q06kV4TLo