An occasion that is not to be missed, the annual La Défense Jazz Festival has been gaining more and more traction year on year.
The Qwest TV roundup brings you a selection of the best new content from the platform along with a run down of what's caught our eye in the music world this week.
"I began to realize that many of these kids didn’t seem to have the same prejudice as adults. You have to be taught how to hate."
Jump into mid-August on Qwest TV, featuring the most interesting pieces of recent news from the music we love, and the hottest new content to enjoy on our video streaming platform!
Jump in to this week on Qwest TV, featuring the most interesting pieces of recent news from the music we love, and the best new content to enjoy on our video streaming platform!
Summer playlists, they end up accompanying moments that stay with us in sepia tone for a long while to come. With outside revelling an absolute must, the summer playlist is proof of the necessity for great sounds at this time of year, perhaps more than any other.
In talking to Qwest TV, Carla Bley laughs a lot as she sifts through some of her significant historical moments of melody-making and free improvisations and even dredges up a memory that she has never talked about before.
We Out Here – it started as a compilation album, and it since snowballed into something much bigger; a brand of jazz? An event? A movement? Whatever stamp you want to put on it, one thing is clear to see and hear: Gilles Peterson’s inaugural We Out Here festival this August is the result of a buzz that has seen jazz and related music break from its box and spill out into the mainstream.
Pannonica de Kœnigswarter was the friend and muse of the American jazz world. By supporting musicians, exploding codes, cadences, and 'proper' tones, Pannonica was driven by an endless appetite for improvisation; she helped spurn the entire bop revolution. Here, Qwest TV takes a look back at the extraordinary life of an enlightened adventurer whose ear, passion and intuition gave bebop the means to exist.
With our 2019 part one playlist, Qwest TV offers the chance to revisit and refresh the musical moments that have stood out from the rest. The quality of a great song, while it hits us hard the first time we hear it, always grows and changes over time. To take stock at this mid-way point is to celebrate the freshest and most infectious new music. Wrap your ears round these.
