Ugly Beauty: The Month In Jazz – June 2018

I had been planning to attend the Vision Festival, which had an absolutely amazing lineup this year, in Brooklyn last month, but had to abandon that idea when I was invited to fly to Bergen, Norway for Nutshell and Nattjazz. Nutshell is an annual jazz showcase for arts promoters and a few journalists, put on by the Norwegian government. (Can you fucking imagine? A government that cares about culture and the arts?) Nattjazz is a small jazz festival, with multiple acts on three stages per night; the two overlap slightly, so I caught the first two nights of the festival before I had to fly home.