#beer

jaywink@jasonrobinson.me

I'm in love with #Amsterdam already ❤️ And I've only gone from train to hotel and then to food. Kinda happy my hotel is a bit out of the way, next to Vondelpark. It's a nice area to do #cycling to, beautiful.

On the way to concert, stopped at a #vegan restaurant called Deer Mama. Apart from the little mouse that has got in and is running around the restaurant, it's a nice place 😅 Sticky chicken bowl and bitterballen were extremely tasty, with some good local #beer to wash down with.

jaywink@jasonrobinson.me

Coming to #Amsterdam next week for some days, 29th Nov to 2nd Dec!

Best things to do while in town? The coolest cafes? Tastiest restaurants and beer places? On the 29th I'll be seeing Within Temptation and Evanescence, but the 3 other days are completely free. It's also my first time in Amsterdam 🤩

Also #beer company would be nice while in town - I know no one there! (ps. leftist ie "sane person" views requirement)

jakob@pod.orkz.net

Finally I am out and about again, an it is Copenhagen Jazz Festival these days. Friday my wife and I choose a local and very young piano trio whose records we have enjoyed a lot: Little North.

It was steaming hot (my comfort limit is 22°C), but they really played beautifully and I had a very cold beer. Same sound and tight, concentrated improvisations as we knew from the records I bought on Bandcamp. In the second set there was one, very long, very complicated ... erhm ... movement, where I had to whisper to my wife that it probably was entitled, "Lost in the Northern Jazzmark", but all in all a killer concert by some incredible, but still humble young musicians, who couldn't hide their surprise that the concert had been sold out. (The fate of the jazz-man and -woman who has played for empty night clubs and uninterested party people their whole life).

Their sound is both new and still very traditional. There is a certain sound of Nordic jazz and these blokes has both Niels Henning Ørsted-Pedersen and Jan Johansson in them while also doing all sorts of new things. Well, it was great!

Yesterday we were at a small concert at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory with the slovak singer Sisa Feher, very much pregnant. Very charming. On the last picture you can see the braids of my daughter :) Her mother make those and get high praise from all the African women in Copenhagen.

#music #festival #Copenhagen #jazz #CopenhagenJazzFestival #life #leisure #beer #LittleNorth #SisaFeher