For 15 years now, the Festival Jazzdor has been building the artistic bridge between France and Germany!
For the team around Philippe Ochem, jazz means openness: they don't care about geographical and aesthetic borders and only want one thing: to share with the audience what excites them at the moment, to promote unexpected encounters, to make the heartbeat of jazz of today audible and tangible.
So set off, by bike, streetcar or on foot, leisurely or at a run, however you like, come and let yourself in for the listening pleasures of the Festival Jazzdor Berlin!
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Thursday, June 8 <br>
SAMUEL BER / JOZEF DUMOULIN / TONY MALABY<br>
Samuel Ber drums<br> Jozef Dumoulin keyboards<br> Tony Malaby tenor saxophone<br>
GERMANY PREMIERE
<br><br>It could have remained a one-time, chance meeting, that 2015 concert in a Brussels pub where the three masters of improvisation, who had much separating them in age, background and musical career, converged together for the first time. But the experience was so strong that they decided to continue it.
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<br>ENCRE ROUGE / WITH RED INK
<br>Richard Bonnet guitar | François Raulin piano | Mike Ladd spoken word vocals | Bruno Chevillon double bass | Tom Rainey drums
<br>PREMIERE<br>
The project "With Red Ink" explores the possibilities and interactions of music and words. The music is provided by Richard Bonnet and François Rollin, in original compositions that echo the Japanese haiku, the art of bringing impressions to the point in minimalist condensation. The lyricist and rapper Mike Ladd lays over it his spontaneous flow of freely improvised lyrics.
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<br>MUSINA EBOBISSÉ 5ET
Musina Ebobissé tenor saxophone | Olga Amelchenko alto saxophone | Povel Widestrand piano | Igor Spallati double bass | Moritz Baumgärtner drums
<br><br>RELEASE CONCERT
<br>There is something inward about their repertoire. No wonder, it was created in lockdown times, where the exchange with the audience was denied. The paths are tortuous, but the flow is steady, tying in with jazz history and writing it forward without ever falling into repetition. The basis was long improvisations, in which gradually crystallized motifs, which they then turned into landmarks in the pernicious fog of the pandemic and a lighthouse in uncertain waters.
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For more information about the program, visit the Jazzdor website.