Day 4 - Jazz about town
Jazz has taken over the city this week. Anyone visiting
Trondheim can see the festival branding, you can’t miss it – there are flags
and posters on display in the streets, bridges and major roads leading into the
city. It looks great and it’s all done on a budget.
The 2017 brochure design is clean and striking. Each year, the festival commissions local designers to come up with new design. Often they're students. They run a competition and the winner makes the cover! A clever idea to engage people with the festival and to give the print a different feel each year.
A festival highlight this evening is the Chris Potter Quartet – but this afternoon he’s doing a free talk at Bar Passiar – it’s packed. There is a Fokus programme everyday this week – these workshops are all free, they’re located in a central position at the festival, in a bar with huge windows, so you can’t miss it. Passers by pop in to see what’s going on – it’s a great idea. This talk was followed by a drum workshop by Marcus Gilmore. Both talks are full of students – something that this festival does really well, and there’s good reason, more on that later.
The branding hasn’t changed much over the years, it doesn't need to, but there
has been one important change. On the suggestion of a visiting artist a couple
of years ago, .NO was dropped from the title. They had suggested that the
festival was in fact saying ‘NO’ to jazz! Eek.
The 2017 brochure design is clean and striking. Each year, the festival commissions local designers to come up with new design. Often they're students. They run a competition and the winner makes the cover! A clever idea to engage people with the festival and to give the print a different feel each year.
A festival highlight this evening is the Chris Potter Quartet – but this afternoon he’s doing a free talk at Bar Passiar – it’s packed. There is a Fokus programme everyday this week – these workshops are all free, they’re located in a central position at the festival, in a bar with huge windows, so you can’t miss it. Passers by pop in to see what’s going on – it’s a great idea. This talk was followed by a drum workshop by Marcus Gilmore. Both talks are full of students – something that this festival does really well, and there’s good reason, more on that later.
Photography credit: Arne Hauge 2017
Tonight it’s American jazz fusion and Latin jazz
guitarist Al Di Meola. Those lucky enough to get a ticket packed into the
Dokkhuset. I had a spot right at the back, but also right next to the bar. 🍷🍷
Photography credit: Arne Hauge 2017
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