One of the best examples of how ideology can be undermined by the reality of life and how the reality of life is echoed in art can be experienced live this year at the opening concert of Enjoy Jazz with Mashrou'Leila. Much has been written about the emancipatory potential of this band from Lebanon, but above all it is their danceable musical style, somewhere between Phoenix and Arcade Fire with Arabic influences and jazz elements, that will ultimately thrill the audience. Enjoy Jazz is particularly pleased to be able to present this unique band as the opening act of the 18th festival.
With the closing concert, Enjoy Jazz 2106 can once again announce a genuinely original program. John Coltrane would have been 90 years old on September 23, 2016. Reason enough to honor his music with a "tribute" at the finale of this year's festival. Archie Shepp, who followed in John Coltrane's footsteps not only musically but also socio-politically with his music and the message it conveys, will be joined on stage this year by a band specially put together by him and Rainer Kern, which will more than do justice to his mentor's legacy. The cards for an appropriately creative "tribute" are therefore well mixed, especially as Archie Shepp recognized early on: "Only Coltrane could sound like Coltrane!"

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