{"id":7665,"date":"2016-07-22T10:36:42","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T17:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=7665"},"modified":"2016-07-26T10:15:37","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T17:15:37","slug":"ystad-beckons-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2016\/07\/ystad-beckons-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Ystad Beckons Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/2016-Ystad-2.jpg\" alt=\"2016 Ystad #2\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7668\" \/>Bill Mays and I are looking forward to being a part of the 2016 Ystad Sweden Jazz Festival. We have done our concert \u00e2\u20ac\u0153A History of Jazz Piano\u00e2\u20ac\u009d twice in The United States and are delighted that Jan Lundgren, the festival\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s artistic director, invited us to Ystad to present it for the first time in Europe. Bill will play music composed by 27 jazz pianists in a stylistic range from Jelly Roll Morton to Cecil Taylor. My role is to talk a bit about each of the pianists. We will be at the venerable Ystad Theatre the afternoon of August 3. In the photograph, Bill and I pose with our instruments following a 2015 presentation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Mays-Ramsey-Seasons-101015.jpg\" alt=\"Mays, Ramsey, Seasons 101015\" width=\"367\" height=\"253\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Mays-Ramsey-Seasons-101015.jpg 367w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Mays-Ramsey-Seasons-101015-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 367px) 100vw, 367px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In its seven years, the Ystad festival in the eleventh century town on the Baltic coast has become one of Europe\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s best-known summer jazz events. Artists performing over its five days will include European and international stars, among them this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s guest of honor, accordionist Richard Galliano. Host Lundgren (pictured) and bassist Mattias Svensson will give a concert with the<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Jan-Lundgren-facing-left.jpg\" alt=\"Jan Lundgren facing left\" width=\"305\" height=\"217\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6825\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Jan-Lundgren-facing-left.jpg 305w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Jan-Lundgren-facing-left-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 305px) 100vw, 305px\" \/> Bonfiglioli Weber String Quartet. From the United States there will be saxophonists Joe Lovano and Dave Liebman, bassist Avishai Cohen, pianist Bob James and vocalist Marlene Ver Planck. Trumpeter Hugh Masakela will come from South Africa, guitarist Martin Taylor from Scotland, trumpeter Paolo Fresu from Italy. For full details of the schedule, see the <a href=\"http:\/\/ystadjazz.se\/?lang=en\"target=\"_blank\">festival\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s website<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I have reported on four previous Ystad Jazz Festivals. Being there on stage will be a new experience for me, and it will be Bill&#8217;s Ystad debut. If you are going to be at the festival, please seek us out and say hello. Bill and I will enjoy meeting you. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Mays and I are looking forward to being a part of the 2016 Ystad Sweden Jazz Festival. We have done our concert \u00e2\u20ac\u0153A History of Jazz Piano\u00e2\u20ac\u009d twice in The United States and are delighted that Jan Lundgren, the festival\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s artistic director, invited us to Ystad to present it for the first time in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-main","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}