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Kaisa’s Machine
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Kaisa's Machine - Nordic noir meets New York glitter
“The rhythm and the groove, that always felt natural to me.” Finnish-born Kaisa Mäensivu is a jazz bassist living in New York City. She is the founder of the group Kaisa's Machine and has played internationally, leading her band at Ronnie Scott's in London, New York's Rochester Jazz Festival and the North Sea Jazz Festival. Kaisa is also a regular guest performer with other groups and loves to explore other styles of music.
Kaisa's Machine represents Mäensivu's vision of music in the form of her compositions. The music aims to be relatable in its purity - sometimes it is bouncy and groovy and celebrates with you, other times it makes you think about all the mysteries and tragedies of life on our planet. Playing bass is Mäensivu's way of dealing with it all. (press release)
Program and cast
Kaisa Mäensivu: bass
Max Zenger: alto saxophone
Eden Ladin: piano
Max Light: guitar
Joe Peri: 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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