Kristin McGee, University of Groningen Collectivities and Mixed-Mediations in Amsterdam’s Translocal Jazz Scene The new jazz constituency got here in part by following their own agenda through pop music and have no intention of discarding their fondness for it (Johnson 1997: 17). You have many crossover bands where there is a sort of movement creating attention for a larger music stream and from where the local scene only becomes bigger and stronger. Ultimately because of that you receive more exposure and more creative possibilities (Trumpeter Rob Van de Wouw, July 5, 2009 Amsterdam). In August of 2008, the Melkweg’s Blue Note Trip event featured DJ Maestro and trumpet soloist Rob van de Wouw, two of the series’ most popular artists. It was one of Amsterdam’s rare warm summer evenings. I arrived at 11:00 p.m., guested-in with an older, bearded Dutch man comfortably attired in loose-fitting farmer jeans. Wandering through the double doors, we arrived into a medium-sized hall featuring an elevated stage, state of the art sound system, well-equipped lighting booth in the balcony and a small bar. A giant poster displayed prominently behind the stage promoted the event’s title (Blue Note Trip) with a photograph of a young, urban, and fashionably dressed man in pork pie hat, tattered suitcase in hand – the quintessence of the cosmopolitan, traveling urbanite. DJ Maestro walked in minutes later carrying two crates of vinyl, ordered a drink, and waited quietly for the last hip hop DJ to finish his set. In total those occupying the hall numbered not more than twenty – a mix of tourists and Dutch music fans, most in their twenties. Approaching midnight, he began his set with Latin-tinged lounge music as the small crowd directed themselves towards the stage – but no one, beyond a group of guys holding beers in their hands and swaying from foot to foot, ventured onto the dance floor. By Dutch standards, the hour was far too early for dancing and letting loose. Gradually warming up the room, Maestro incorporated the sounds of Brazilian rock, salsa, hip hop, house, and big beat into his non-stop four-hour set as the hall steadily filled up.