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Craig Handy meets BAM
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A tribute to the funky side of Jimmy Smith and a dedication to the marvelous New Orleans heritage !
New York based tenorist Craig Handy is well known for his international collaboration with Art Blakeys „Jazz Messengers“, Wynton Marsalis, Roy Haynes, Elvin Jones, Charles Mingus Dynasty, The Cookers, Betty Carter and many more. His 2014 highly awarded album „Craig Handy & 2nd Line Smith“ combined his jazz roots with funk.
The organ trio „BAM“, Bublath, Andrey, May is based in Munich/bavaria, founded by Guido May, who is one of German most versatile drummers. Collaboration with Pee Wee Ellis, Fred Wesley, Benny Golson, Larry Coryell, Joey DeFrancesco, Lionel Hampton Celebration Jazz Orchestra, …
Craig Handy played for the first time as part of Alex Deutsch's Gelee Royal 2001 at P&B, before he was a guest a few years later with the aforementioned Cookers. Another, almost obvious Austrian "connection" is Raphael Wressnig, who often invited the saxophonist. The "link" is of course Jimmy Smith, the "Godfather" of the Hammond organ, who plays an important musical role for both Wressnig and Handy. Another spectacular project was that of Kip Hanrahan, which we realized in 2008 and in which Craig Handy also played. For the sake of completeness, it should also be mentioned that his band "2nd Line Smith", which has already been mentioned, has of course also played on our stage. Welcome back, Craig! CH
Program and cast
Craig Handy: tenor saxophone
Maxi Nachtmann: guitar
Matthias Bublath: hammond organ
Freddy Andrej: sousaphone
Guido May: drums
PORGY and BESS Jazzclub
Porgy & Bess (actually, Jazz and Music Club Porgy & Bess ) is a jazz club in the Riemergasse 11 in the 1st district of Vienna. The club , founded in 1993 is considered " the most important jazz organizer and trendy meeting point " of the Austrian capital .
The program of Porgy & Bess speaks to a very large audience , about 70,000 guests a year ; is accordingly Jazz " understood very pluralistic ," and the program " even in fringe areas , such as electronic music , contemporary music and world music penetrated . " Many international artists , particularly from the U.S. space , see also Austrian musician here an opportunity to perform . The club also offers the stage for events, such as the award of the Austrian World Music Award.
Musicologist Christian Scheib According to the Porgy & Bess " at the same time essential for the development of the musical ( jazz ) reality of a City" and needs and uses ' plain commonplace as urban space music. " It creates itself " through artistic preferences, acoustic quality , capacity and real capacity, the necessary exclusion of other clubs. " Here, the different areas of the jazz clubs allow - the area in front of the stage with tables, upstairs gallery , a lateral area with a bar at counter - different intense concentration on the concert scene . For Jazzthetik Porgy & Bess is even a " traditional club . "
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