Youn Sun Nah was once asked why jazz fascinates her so much, why she gave up her career as a musical singer, moved from her hometown of Seoul to Paris and studied there? Her answer is as simple as it is convincing: "There are no boundaries in jazz." Where it ...
The SWR Jazz Award not only ennobles an existing work, but can also be seen as an incentive for future creativity: With Ayse Cansu Tanrikulu and Nick Dunston, the 2024 jury honors "two free spirits whose creative energies complement and potentiate each other". The wealth of energy is already evident in the fact that ...
Marie Krüttli's solo debut "Transparence" was recently released, followed by a new trio recording in the fall: the Berlin-based Swiss pianist, who hovers between jazz, impressionism and avant-garde, has earned herself an excellent reputation in recent years, even though she is only in her early 30s. David Murray ...
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 against the current trend towards streaming and playlisting - from vinyl and the works are played in their entirety. ...
In co-production with the BASF cultural program, the Enjoy Jazz Festival 2024 presents the three Grammy Award-winning American jazz singer Cécile McLorin Salvant. For Der Spiegel she is the "heir to Billie Holiday" and for the New York Times simply "the best jazz singer of the last decade". Cécile ...
In 2018, pianist Kris Davis performed for the first time with drummer Terri Lyne Carrington and electronic musician Val Jeanty: The trio formed the basis of musical explorations that led to the album "Diatom Ribbons" (2019). With guests such as Marc Ribot, Esperanza Spalding and JD Allen, it became a ...
Flute, harp, drums - what sounds like a neat chamber music ensemble is in fact an unpredictable power trio: Blanche Lafuente, Rafaëlle Rinaudo and Delphine Joussein may incorporate subtle, jazzy moments into their sets, but the French women like to tease their playing in the direction of noise and complex, repetitive, energetic ...
The quest for healing concerns environmental challenges such as climate change as well as political and social crises. According to the 2023 Democracy Index, only 7.8 percent of the world's population live in a "full democracy". The UNHCR reports over 117 million refugees. Music, especially jazz, plays an important ...
Author, pop writer, musician and DJ Thomas Meinecke is an extremely well-informed music connoisseur. His breakthrough came 25 years ago with "Tomboy". His gender studies, which became a novel, were far ahead of their time: "An extraordinary program for which no literary example will be so easily found ...
South African drummer, composer, historian and activist Asher Gamedze, part of Angel Bat Dawid's Tha Brotherhood and companion of pianist Nduduzo Makhathini, released "Turbulence & Pulse" in 2023, a stroke of genius inspired by Charles Mingus' sound of the mid-60s and taking up the political impulse of those years ...
The concert was organized by Summertime TLV JazzFest Tel Aviv as part of Enjoy Jazz 2023, which unfortunately had to be postponed and will take place this year instead. Nigun is Hebrew for melody and refers primarily to religious songs. The Nigun Quartet around the bassist ...
If you wanted to introduce Fred Thomas properly, you would need a lot of time. He plays various instruments (masterfully), composes, produces, arranges, dabbles in jazz and chamber music and has since released an album of his interpretations of Bach's works on ECM.
Mastering the piano and harmonies helps him when playing the drums. This in turn allows him to better grasp the rhythmic dimension of the piano. Like Tyshawn Sorey or Jack DeJohnette, 25-year-old Julius Rodriguez has a double talent. A few keywords: at the age of 12 ...
"As we tenor saxophonists get older," David Murray once said, "we tend to play fewer notes, but with more authority." Anyone who's been around for a while - and Murray has been in contact with pretty much everyone since the mid-1970s, when he was shaking up the New York scene ...
The trade press was unanimously enthusiastic: Jazzthetik described their album as a "masterpiece", Jazzthing heard "an extremely exciting large ensemble" and the Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung recognized a "fresh cell cure for big band jazz". The praise went to the Silent Explosion Orchestra (SEO), a band full of talented young jazz musicians from the West ...
This year we are celebrating the 100th birthday of the American writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin. To mark the occasion, Enjoy Jazz is presenting Grammy winner Meshell Ndegeocello live at the Feuerwache on november 1st with her highly acclaimed current album, a Baldwin tribute. And as a special treat ...
This artist's CV lives up to the meaning of her surname ("free as a bird"). The list of her collaborations makes it seem as if Ndegeocello has been through popular music history: Arrested Development, Madonna, the Rolling Stones, Alanis Morissette, Herbie Hancock, Santana, Pat Metheny and Prince...
Recently, Chicago producer, trumpeter and composer Will Miller, who is part of the indie band Whitney and has played for Lil Wayne, among others, finally followed up on his 2019 debut: The second album under the project name RESAVOIR was released in the fall of 2023.
Of course the name Miles Davis comes up when people talk about Avishai Cohen. Of course his classical training comes up, his being a child prodigy, his studies at Berklee College of Music. And, of course, the fact that he earned his spurs in the Mecca of jazz, New York, as a ...
Can you increase enthusiasm? Oh yes, and easily 20-fold! It is a logistical and artistic masterpiece that cannot be overestimated: the best young musicians from three schools in three cities in two federal states pool their talents under the direction of - ...
She likes to crack jokes, wears a big grin with pride and nobody can fool her on the bass: Endea Owens combines show talent with virtuosity, fantastic compositions and stylistic confidence. Since graduating from the Juilliard School, she has played as a band member on Stephen Colbert's Late Show almost ...
In Romania, the singing of winter carols is an ancient and very popular custom. On Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, children and young people parade through the streets of villages and towns, from house to house and sing. Many songs have pre-Christian roots, others are religious ...
Two duos that didn't so much seek each other as find each other - kora player Ballaké Sissoko has long been associated with cellist Vincent Segal, accordionist Vincent Peirani with saxophonist Émile Parisien. In 2019, they performed for the first time at the "Les Nuits de Fourvière" festival in Lyon.
A collective, lively body of sound that moves and touches, transports you to strange universes and tells fantastic stories. Melodies between vintage and the present day, sometimes as if from a nouvelle vague classic, an American space odyssey, an Italian spaghetti western or a dark agent thriller. Compositions full of surprises, free and together ...
She is an icon of American showbiz. She has achieved what every singer dreams of no less than five times in her career: winning a Grammy. What's more, Dianne Reeves is the only one of the honorees who has managed to win the award in three ...