Jazzkalender #292

LET'S TALK ABOUT JAZZ ... AND POETRY
"There are melodies and songs that enter certain rhythms, that beat your insides down and you're down to nine", wrote the pub night-tested Gottfried Benn in "Destille II" and leaves little doubt in the following lines that the distress of the lyrical ego hopes for relief in intoxicating transfiguration or a well-placed fist bump. However, April does not bring us jazz and intoxication, but rather MusikZeit 2019 with jazz and poetry - but there is not much in between. Apropos: the rabbit in a frenzy.
Alongside the cow in the propeller, this became famous in the former GDR thanks to the Jazz & Poetry event series initiated by Werner "Josh" Sellhorn. Until 1967, the series took place with a changing line-up, but often with Manfred Krug and the Jazz Optimists. The story of the interplay between jazz and poetry is tender, hard and even orgiastic, and continues - it can hardly be satisfied in just a few lines. All the better that KUU! open this year's MusikZeit with "Lampedusa Lullaby" and Jelena Kuljić's mighty voice throws itself into the rumbling body of her band, smoldering, ranting, lamenting and making it clear that two lovers, in changing guises, are rubbing against each other here. We would like to feel at home in the rhythmic thrusts of Nora Gomringer & Band forever, but neither the times nor jazz and poetry are made to stay. What's more, the moon is thinly clinging to the sky, the streets are roaring and where one of us stays, the other would like to be: Alfa Mist sends us on a hunt for our outlines and thus deprives us of sleep on World Jazz Day.
Flying is evolving.
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