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Here's a look at the editorial:
LET'S TALK ABOUT JAZZ, BABY
Good news for all allergy sufferers: there's no reason to spend this month outside, the concert calendar is more than full: Wolfgang Muthspiel, Larry Grenadier and Jorge Rossy together at the Telegraph, Samo Šalamon, another guitar master in a great trio (Julian Argüelles and John Hollenbeck), Bill Laurance from Snarky Puppy with a new band and Metropole Orchestra strings at the naTo and: the MusikZeit, our small but very fine festival in spring.
We have been organizing MusikZeit every year since 1991, as the little sister of the Leipziger Jazztage, so to speak. While the focus has always been on musicians or the scenes of individual regions, this year for the first time we are putting the spotlight on a record label: Denovali has long enjoyed legendary status in dark jazz, ambient and drone circles - not only thanks to its swing festivals in Essen, Berlin and London, but also because of artists such as Greg Haines, the Hidden Orchestra and Contemporary Noise Sextet.
Now part of the Denovali family is coming to Leipzig for the first time. We are presenting four great acts on a single evening (which is also new): the London duo Piano Interrupted with their dense piano arrangements and cinematic soundscapes. Also from London: Poppy Ackroyd (cover picture of this issue). Her delicate music also has a cinematic quality - through field recordings that are woven into the delicately interlaced rhythms and atmospherically rich melodies. The music of Brazilian Ricardo Donoso is inspired by contemporary composition, but also by drone, techno and noise. In the Berlin project Field Rotation, surfaces and fields flow into one another. Painted with electro-acoustic timbres, however, the result is not a picture, but "only" a minimalist soundtrack.
Soundtrack? Cinematic? Aren't there several words from the world of film here? Yes, absolutely. And because the cinematic has become so present in jazz, this year the big sister of MusikZeit will be taking a closer look at (and above all listening to!) this phenomenon. CINEMATIC JAZZ is the motto of the 39th Leipzig Jazz Days from October 1 to 10, 2015. Michael Wollny will initiate a special Nosferatu project, Renaud García-Fons will set the oldest surviving animated film to music, Sex Mob will play the music from Fellini and James Bond films. Brad Mehl... but more on that later.
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