Let's Talk about jazz ... and CHAOS.
Do you know this? You're sitting in chaos - in the middle of a huge mountain of clutter, old laundry and new acquisitions. In between you find memories, challenges, joy, sorrow, fear and hope. The line between what's really there and what's actually just going on inside you slowly blurs into a mush of uncertainty.
And you really want to clean up this mountain. Everything has to go. Out of sight, out of mind. Put away in drawers or packed into boxes. To be put in order. And in the midst of this urge for order and cleanliness, man or woman loses themselves again and again in becoming part of this stupid mountain. Just sitting motionless in the chaos, so that you don't have to decide what has to go into which box.
The view out of the window (of course, still sitting in the middle of the chaos mountain) shows the same mood. The sky apparently knows just as little where to go with his mind. It is summer, damn it! Why does the sky look so gray, why is it raining so seemingly incessantly, shortly before the clouds break and the sky decides to meet the concrete of the city with sunshine. And then, at the latest, a little meekness sets in again, you sink into the mountain of chaos, make yourself comfortable and realize: rain is just as good as sunshine and we all have decision-making difficulties from time to time. Serenity helps.
So instead of getting all worked up about this stuff in the German manner and at the same time remaining comically motionless yourself, it's somehow nicer to recognize newly opened opportunities and begin very slowly, step by step, to clean up the mess. And music helps with that. Chaos, joy, sorrow, sun and also rain - music is able to express all that. Sometimes loud, sometimes soft. Sometimes fast, sometimes slow. Everything and also nothing. It helps us to pack the chaos into our boxes and to put it away. Whether as a silent companion or as pulsating motivation.
As diverse as the chaos and the calm, as diverse are the concert and festival offers in July and August in or around Leipzig. As a jazz club, we are also slowly dropping into the hustle and bustle, enjoying participating instead of doing, leisurely packing box after box and looking forward to this great summer of music with and for you.
Here are two tips for different minds: If you feel like getting out of Leipzig, you should consider listening to concerts at the Saalfelden Jazz Festival in the midst of a scenically inviting environment - so you can virtually take a vacation. If you're too lazy to travel in sympathetically overcrowded trains - despite the €9 ticket - you can also stay comfortably in Leipzig and visit jazz and fusion musicians on stage in the Kulturnhalle at the Roots and Sprouts Festival. Diversity is the keyword here: Here you'll find "traditional instruments and rhythms on electronic sounds and people with the most diverse musical backgrounds."
See you,
Your Jazzclub Team