The second day of the festival we were there too early. Ahoy hadn’t opened his doors yet. But it was a nice day and there was an outdoor concert at the Harlem venue so it wasn’t that hard to wait.

Then we walked to the Maas venue were Victor Wooten would perform.

He can play bass !!!!!!!!

After his perfomance we bought� Victor Wooten’s� new album and had it signed.�

Miss� CHAKA KHAN. What can I say. She played a lot of her old songs but also a few from het new album. Very funky. OW!

To catch our breath from Chaka we went to a small sereen outdoor place to take sips from our Carparina’s and discussed the performance.

Than we took a rest and desided what to do next while eating a fried fish watching “Metro Special Edition”� at the indoor square.

We went to the Congo venue to see Marc Broussard, only the organization should have put him in a much bigger venue. There were as much people inside as there were outside. And we were watching it from the outside, so no picture of this one. You here a “black” voice when you close your eyes but he is a white dude. His voice and music sounds a bit like Al Green and Otis Redding. So very good.�

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We stayed at this venue because we surely want to be as close as possible to the next performance

Sharon Jones and The Dap Kings. This is very good Oldskool soul. And Sharon herself is a crazy woman. At the end my back and feet were killing me.�

It is time again to go to the North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam. The line-up this year is amazing. It is very hard to choose where to go. Here is an impression of the first day (11th of July).

Alain Clark was a big surprise. VERY GOOD !!!�

It was a bit boring to see a old man there with some old singers. I had hoped for more swing�

It was a hard choice to make. Will we go to Angie Stone or Jill Scott. Because we saw Angie recently in Heineken Music Hall we decided to go to Jill. Boy what a voice. She is so good!! A mixture of R&B, Soul, Rock and Jazz. Unfortunaltey we had to leave already after half an hour because we wouldn’t miss BOOTSY !!!!. But we should have stayed here….. �

This should have been the GRAND FINAL of the evening. I know it was a tribute to James Brown. But did we really need to see all those other unknown artists? And when he decided to do something about the funk he just walked into the audience and we had to shout with hem “Say it loud, we Love James Brown” or something like that.�

Last night I went to the concert of Angie Stone which was originally planned on 14th of february.
The last time it was in Paradiso, and I remembered that time the sound was a bit off.
But this time it was in the Heineken Music Hall.

She was very good again. A nice mixture of ballades and some up-tempo songs.
“So happy being me” is one of my favourites at the moment.