Enjoy Jazz Listening Bar with Sophie Emilie Beha

In a listening bar, visitors can listen to good music in a relaxed atmosphere and concentrate on the pure listening experience with high-quality drinks. The songs come - deliberately contrary to the current streaming and playlisting trend - from vinyl and the works are played in their entirety. Slow hearing, if you like. After the successful premiere at last year's anniversary festival, Enjoy Jazz for the new edition, we are once again working with Hirsch + Ille, the specialist for entertainment electronics. Four different hosts, all music journalists, present a selected album, which is then played on high-quality audio equipment that guarantees a first-class sound experience. Afterwards, there is space for the host and the audience to exchange ideas about what they have heard.

Sophie Emilie Beha works in various contexts, including music, text, language, curation, improvisation and dramaturgy. She is an author and presenter for various public broadcasters and writes regularly for newspapers and various specialist magazines. Both on stage and in front of the camera, she moderates podcasts, panel discussions, festivals and concert introductions. In Cologne, Beha curates concerts and festivals in the Stadtgarten. In 2021 she was nominated for the German Jazz Journalism Award, and since 2022 her curatorial work has been supported by NICA artist development. She has been on the jury of the German Jazz Award since 2023.

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