EMW at Jazzkaar Festival – Part One: Funky Business

Audio cables were plugged into tall speakers, instrument flight cases were cracked open, and drum heads were tuned up. Before long, the flights began to touch down at Lennart Meri Tallinn Airport and footsteps started to fall in the hip district of Telliskivi, capping off another summer in Estonia.

Just as we reported on Tallinn Music Week last year, Elis Jaansoo and Sebastian Buccioni have been there as correspondents at Jazzkaar Festival. The festival, running from Monday August 23rd to Sunday August 29th, has boosted the global touring cachet of Tallinn; and as the festival puts it, “combines the avant-garde with the mainstream for a festival of diversity.”