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Günter Baby Sommer
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Richard Strauss and jazz? If anyone can build a musical bridge here, it is Günter Baby Sommer. No less a piece than "Also sprach Zarathustra" forms the musical basis for this. The first introductory bars alone are world-famous. Sommer, one of the most important representatives of contemporary European jazz, and his fellow players approach this music by Richard Strauss in an improvisational way and combine the symphonic poem with jazz music. (Press release)
Where should an improvising jazz musician reach for, or rather, where should he listen when he wants to express himself musically on Richard Strauss? This cornucopia of Strauss compositions is almost inexhaustible and unmanageable. The solution is not to go poaching in the operas, symphonic poems or chamber music, but to approach the general style of Strauss's compositions with one's own playing possibilities and individual musical material. Loud & quiet, painting in tones and musical images that tell stories - these are the possibilities that we improvising jazz musicians have to connect with the sound world of Richard Strauss. (press release)
Program and cast
Günter Baby Sommer: drums, percussion
Johannes Enders: tenor saxophone
Steffen Gaitzsch: violin
Micha Winkler: trombone
PORGY & 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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