LET'S TALK ABOUT JAZZ, PHILIPP
To have his own passport already one year before GITARRENGIPFEL - my dear Scholli! And "Scholli" is almost the right word: Because Philipp Scholz is the one who! Who already had his own passport in 2016, who also plays this year with three bands at the Jazztage - and who wins the Leipzig Jazz Young Talent Award 2017 including 6,500 euros from the Marion-Ermer Foundation!
We congratulate you very much, dear Philipp! And we agree with every single word of the furious text in the Jazztage program booklet, written by someone whose name we do not want to reveal here. Because of the surprise! It's not Bert Noglik, Wolf Kampmann or Ulrich Steinmetzger - the three have written about other Jazztage acts, also very, very worth reading. Speaking of Jazztage, here we go! While we are working on this jazz calendar, the very last Pat Metheny tickets have just been sold. We have never sold out the opera house so early. All the better that there are a total of 14 guitarists to experience at the festival, from Gilad Hekselman at the opening to Tobias Hoffmann at the closing. In between, Egberto Gismonti (with Maria João!), Jakob Bro, Werner Neumann, Kalle Kalima, Monika Roscher, Bertram Burkert, Giovanni Weiss... There are also two events away from the festival concerts: the screening of the new feature film "Born To Be Blue" about Chet Baker on October 15 in the Prager Frühling cinema bar and the lecture by photographer Arne Reimer about his visits to the "American Jazz Heroes" on October 21 in the concert foyer of the Opera House.
By the way, we've also been back in the middle of the jazz club live season since September, friends! The daily HMT Stage Night starts on October 10, Flo Kästner and Johannes Enders play on October 27.
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