Concert with Eleni Karaindrou and Ensemble

The final concert of this year's Enjoy Jazz Festival took place on Saturday, november 16, 2019. Greek pianist and composer Eleni Karaindrou performed in front of 800 listeners in the opera house of the Nationaltheater Mannheim. In the presence of Manfred Eicher, founder of ECM Records, the celebrations to mark the 50th anniversary of the music label at Germany's largest jazz festival came to a climax. Enjoy Jazz opened on Wednesday, October 2, 2019, with a concert by American pianist and ECM artist Carla Bley at the BASF Feierabendhaus Ludwigshafen.

After an introduction by festival director Rainer Kern and actor and member of the Enjoy Jazz Board of Trustees Matthias Brandt, Eleni Karaindrou and her 21-piece ensemble performed a 90-minute concert evening. The German premiere of her program "Tous des Oiseaux" included compositions by Karaindrou to the play "Tous des Oiseaux" by the Lebanese-Canadian author Wajdi Mouawad and the film "Bomb, A Love Story" by the Iranian director Payman Maadi as well as to various films by the Greek director Theo Angelopoulos.

In addition to Eleni Karaindrou and Carla Bley, the Enjoy Jazz 2019 program also included ECM artists Barre Phillips, Tord Gustavsen, the Yonathan Avishai Trio and the Maciej Obara Quartet to mark the 50th anniversary of ECM Records . The festival attracted over 20,000 visitors to the events of its 21st edition. In 2020, Enjoy Jazz will take placefrom October 2 to november 14.