➜ finland at jazzahead! ➜ hungary at jazzahead!
➥ oddarrang ➥ szakcsi-horváth duo ➥ coustics jazzahead! ➜ BREMEN ➜ 10 MAR at 15:45 jazzahead! ➜ BREMEN ➜ 09 MAR at 15:00 jazzahead! ➜ BREMEN ➜ 11 MAR at 15:00 Olavi Louhivuori from Jyväskylälavi, Finland founded Oddarrang in The pianist, Béla Lakatos Szakcsi, born in Budapest in 1943, is seen as What the two time award-winning sextet from Hanover does is impro 2003, a quintet with an amazing line-up: cello and trombone. Together, belonging to the generation whose careers began in ruins; however sin- vised pop. They also produce sound jingles for television, radio and the five Finns enter soundscapes with Olavi’s compositions where style ce then, he has played at all the important festivals worldwide. In this advertising and they are all particularly intent on probing the interspace doesn’t count, and only music does. Line-up: Olavi Louhivuoi – jazz duet, he joins up with Kornél Horváth who is a real virtuoso on per- between sounds and traditions. Fusion is what it is and there is room in dr > Ilmari Pohjola – tb > Osmo Ikonen – cello > Lasse cussions. Line-up: Béla Lakatos Szakcsi – p > Kornél Horváth it for anything and everything. Line-up: Lothar Kuklinski – tp > Sakara – g > Lasse Lindgren – b / for more information go – perc / for more information go to > www.jazzahead.de Lothar Müller – g, live sampling > Richie Staringer – key, to > www.jazzahead.de live sampling > Gunnar Treff – b > Albi Husen – dr > N.N. – voc / for more information go to > www.jazzahead.de
➥ pepa päivinen quartet ➽ oláh-bacsó-boisseau trio ➥ misses conception jazzahead! ➜ BREMEN ➜ 11 MAR at 17:15 jazzahead! ➜ BREMEN ➜ 11 MAR at 15:45 jazzahead! ➜ BREMEN ➜ 09 MAR at 17:15 It was in 1999 that Päivinen founded his own first band, a trio that The trio of the Budapest pianist Kálman Oláh, is to be found at the The award-winning trumpet player Axel Dörner’s latest project, visited the recording studio regularly and that Päivinen enlarged to a centre of the jazz development in Hungary. Kálman Oláh’s motto is to Misses Conception, is his favourite trio. What gives the music its style is quartet three years ago. The language his voices speak is free of form keep Bártok’s spirit alive, but in modern-day vestments. Line-up: Dörner’s singsong sound: a grinding trumpet that can slip between and definitely original. Line-up: Pepa Päivinen – sax > Timo Kálman Oláh – p > Kristóf Bacsó – as, ss > Sébastien Boisseau rather cosy and bitter sharp. And that’s what always makes Dörner’s Kämäräinen – g > Ville Huolman – b > Wikko Hassinen – dr / – b / for more information go to > www.jazzahead.de concerts a real adventure. Line-up: Axel Dörner – tp > Jan for more information go to > www.jazzahead.de Roder – b > Steve Heather – dr / for more information go to > www.jazzahead.de
08 MAR ➜ 13 SEP 2007
➜ finland welcomes german jazz ➜ hungary welcomes german jazz jazzahead! festival ➤ exhibition ➤ symposium ➜ 08 – 11 MAR ➜ bremen, germany teatro lugi bon ➜ 15 APR ➜ colugna di tavagnacco, italy ➥ nils wogram & root 70 ➥ michael schiefel & thärichens tentett academy of music and arts ➜ UMO JAZZ FEST ➜ HELSINKI ➜ 31 AUG MOL BUDAPEST JAZZ FESTIVAL ➜ BUDAPEST 23 MAY ➜ göteborg, sweden ➜ 12 – 13 SEP molde international jazz festival ➜ The trombonist Nils Wogram has long been one of the masters of his Michael Schiefel is an exceptional vocalist: using his voice in an ironic, organiser ➤ MGH Messe- und Ausstellungsgesellschaft Hansa GmbH trade. The internationality of his band ›Root 70‹ documents the laconic and wonderfully androgynous way, he creates his very own style. Theodor-Heuss-Allee 21–23 ➤ 28215 Bremen, Germany 18 JUL ➜ reknes, norway ➤ ➤ cosmopolitanism of Wogram’s musical path which also took him to At the Jazz Festival Budapest he plays solo as well as with Thärichens Phone +49(0)421-3505-298 Fax +49(0)421-3505-681 ➜ New York where he refined his style to give it his own special finish. Tentett. This extremely colourfully arranged ensemble can sound sen- ➤ E-Mail [email protected] ➤ www.jazzahead.de umo jazz fest Line-up: Nil Wogram – tp >Hayden Chisholm – sax, clar > Phil suous and melancholic or crude and harsh as if it came from the depths 31 AUG ➜ helsinki, finland Donkin – b Jochen Rückert – dr / for more information go to of suburbia but also cosy enough for polished boulevards – maybe the > www.jazzfin.com most varied jazz discovery of the last ten years. Line-up: Michael mol budapest jazz festival ➜ Schiefel – voc & Thärichens Tentett / for more information ➜ go to > www.bmc.hu 12 – 13 SEP budapest, hungary european jazzXchange ➜ italy at jazzahead! ➜ sweden at jazzahead! ➜ norway at jazzahead! ➜ the international exchange programme Europe’s young jazz world is to be welcomed to jazzahead! 2007 in the context of the european jazzXchange. With the support of Culture 2000, the cultural promotion programme of the European Commission, two out- ➽ chet ➥ wildbirds & peacedrums ➥ mathias eick band standing bands representing very different stylistic directions could be jazzahead! ➜ BREMEN ➜ 09 MAR at 15:45 jazzahead! ➜ BREMEN ➜ 09 MAR at 16:30 jazzahead! ➜ BREMEN ➜ 10 MAR at 17:15 invited to Bremen from five European countries: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Italy and Hungary – whilst the other way round young German ensembles This band is brand-new: four musicians from Italy, among them an During performances, Mariam Wallentin, a voice artist, and the per- Mathias Eick will represent the rapidly growing number of outstand- will be guests at festivals and give concerts in these partner countries. Also ›American in Europe‹. All have strong, individual musical trainings, but cussion artist, Andreas Werliin, run a kind of small musical circus with a ing talents that come out of Norway’s exemplary musical education. in this programme, a european jazzXchange Big Band will be formed under together they are Chet. Line-up: Anna Maria Castelli – voc > Kyle variety of musical sounds. Wallentin and Werliin are at home in Göte- Eick studied at Trondheim Conservatory and his career as a band leader the leadership of the well-known composer and arranger Michael Gibbs. Gregory – tp > Simone Guiducci – g > Salvatore Maiore – b / borg and they are seen as newcomers even in Sweden. Line-up: is just beginning: he went into the recording studio with his first own The ensemble will be made up of a selection of the best students from each for more information go to > www.jazzahead.de Mariam Wallentin – voc > Andreas Werliin – perc / for more ensemble this year in spring for the superior ECM label. Line-up: country. ➤ Besides, within the conference of jazzahead! an international information go to > www.jazzahead.de Mathias Eick – tp and Band / for more information go to > panel of jazz authors will draw a kind of provisional balance of European www.jazzahead.de jazz. They will present their book about The History of Jazz in Europe which is going to be published soon. Initiated in 2003 by the publishers James L. Collier (New York), Walter Turkenburg (Den Haag) and Wolfram Knauer, the Director of the Jazz Institute in Darmstadt. Organisers: Klaus Kuhnke Archive (Germany) > MGH Messe- und Ausstellungsgesellschaft Hansa GmbH (Germany) > Finnish Jazz Federation (Finland) > Moldejazz (Norway) > Academy of Music and Arts (Göteborg, Sweden) > Budapest Music Center (Hungary) www.bmc.hu > Fonda ➥ glauco venier trio ➥ kallerdahl-öhman-de heney ➥ zanussi five zione Luigi Bon (Italy) jazzahead! ➜ BREMEN ➜ 10 MAR at 15:00 jazzahead! ➜ BREMEN ➜ 10 MAR at 16:30 jazzahead! ➜ 11 MAR at 16:30 The pianist and prize winner, Glauco Venier belongs to the circle of Lindha Kallerdahl has explored the depths of her voice since she took The most exceeding thing about the band of the bass player Per jazzahead! colleagues of big jazz talents like Norma Winstone and Kenny Wheeler, Lee her first professional steps as a musician and found out her own unmis- Zanussi is the frontline which consists solely of saxophonists. Zanussi Konitz, Ernie Watts and Steve Swallow. It is already one and a half decades takable sound. Over the years, Kallerdahl and Nina de Heney, the bass succeeded in bringing together three of the strongest voices of con- ➜ turntable of european jazz since he founded his own first jazz formation. Line-up: Glauco Venier player, have been regular partners. The third member of the trio is the temporary Norwegian jazz to produce the right sound for his own com- – p > Yuri Goloubev – cb > Asaf Sirkis – dr / for more infor- drummer Martin Öhman. Together this band is single-mindedly search- positions. Line-up: Kjetil Møster – ts > Rolf-Erik Nystrøm jazzahead! welcomes jazz from Europe: Ten international ensembles mation go to > www.jazzahead.de ing for the ultimate freely improvised sound. Line-up: Lindha – as > Eirik Hegdal – bs & as > Per Oddvar Johansen – dr, plus two formations from the host country will present themselves for Kallerdahl – voc > Nina de Heney – b > Martin Öhman – dr / perc > Per Zanussi – b / for more information go to > expert judgement in a brief compact programme lasting about thirty for more information go to > www.jazzahead.de www.jazzahead.de minutes each. For (some of) the musicians from Florence, Budapest, Göte- borg, Trondheim or Jyväskylä, this could be the first of a series of interna- tional encounters – and thus constitute a part of their jazz careers. europe ➜ italy welcomes german jazz ➜ sweden welcomes german jazz ➜ norway welcomes german jazz ➜ welcomes german jazz
The idea of the German Jazz Meeting to support German jazz abroad is to be pursued in the context of the european jazzXchange. Whether in international festivals or in individual concerts – in 2007, five German bands will play on European stages. ➥ romy camerun & band ➥ invisible change ➥ der rote bereich TEATRO LUIGI BON ➜ COLUGNA DI TAVAGNACCO ACADEMY OF MUSIC AND ARTS CONCERT HALL ➜ MOLDE INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL ➜ ➜ 15 APR GÖTEBORG ➜ 23 MAY REKNES ➜ 18 JUL at 14:00
Playing solo or with her band - Romy Camerun is well known for her in Invisible Change is a contrast, deliberately applied and almost schizo- None of the usual solo instruments are included, no trumpet, no imitable, passionate voice and creative improvisations. She has already phrenic in effect, between stomach and mind. Moments of intimacy that saxophone, no piano – the sound opens up all the possible paths worked with Clark Terry, Ack von Royen, Ed Kröger and Bill Ramsey. allow for a cunning play on the listeners’ emotions give way to a room- between the styles. And so ›Der Rote Bereich‹ sounds like a forbidden Line-up: Romy Camerun - voc & Band / for more information go to filling coldness of dutiful formality. Line-up: Oliver Maas – p > zone in a cross-border scenario: very rocky, very free and above all > www.fondazionebon.com markus braun – b > Bernd Oezsevim – dr / for more information always very collective. Line-up: Frank Möbus – g > Rudi Mahall go to > www.hsm.gu.se – b clar > Oliver Bernd Steidle > dr / for more information go to > www.moldejazz.no