LET'S TALK ABOUT JAZZ... and bloom! Now!
Been outside lately? It's fun to let the late winter wind shake your trouser legs, coat flaps and hairstyles while you gaze at the early bloomers in the light floodplain forest. For as ever, the emerging green season is not stingy with charms! But there's more! In 2022, in addition to the spring awakening of nature after the second pandemic winter and the accompanying massive restrictions on cultural (experience) life, there is also a reblooming of the same in theair. Finally! We can't quite believe it yet and our confidence is still a tender plant, but we are holding on to it, watering with care and taking a look ahead at what is to come!
Just a moment - a quick look back over our shoulder is a must: What have we actually done in the past few months? Sighed and tussled our hair (too)! Lastly, we had decided to keep our feet still until the end of February and not to organize. Because without a long-term and prudent opening strategy we could not plan! Organizing concerts with musicians from other countries requires advance planning. The continuous back and forth between planning, announcement, cancellation, re-planning, hope for opening, re-planning and announcement ties up additional financial and human resources that we cannot afford in the long run. Up to here. Let's move on! Not only we oscillate between melancholy and hope! So does the music of Leipzig-based musician Damian Dalla Torre, whose debut album "Happy Floating" was released at the end of February and who (as luck would have it) will open our year-long concert series for this year with his release concert at the sociocultural center die naTo on March 20. A few days earlier on March 15, the HMT Stage Night will start again at the Moritzbastei. Speaking of which, - we at the Jazzclub and the Moritzbastei have made plans together! Formerly initiated and carried out as a cooperative event, the Jazzclub accompanied the nationwide jazz festival in the Moritzbastei recently only on the sidelines. Starting this year and fittingly for the 30th edition of the festival on April 8 and 9, 2022, things will be different again. Attention cliffhanger: More about this in the next issue!
Now we hear each other more often again!
Your Jazzclub Team