Philippos Thönes
Drummer Philippos Thönes is awarded the 25th Jazz Nachwuchspreis of the city of Leipzig and opens this year's festival with the band Church of Jupiter. Afterwards: Jakob Bro Trio.
2021 Body Time
Jakob Bro Trio
"Music wants to take its own direction. Our job is to follow it"! The Danish guitarist with the filigree playing is coming back to town. His latest ECM release "Uma Elmo" is currently causing a stir, just like its predecessors.
Jester/Steidle
As part of the Leipziger Jazztage 2021, Leipzig guitarist Steffi Narr and Oliver Steidle - a central player in Berlin's experimental scene, will meet for the first time. Second concert at 23:59.
TRAINING feat. Işıl Karataş
The greatest possible musical freedom, ecstasy and spirituality. Previously: Filippou/Heuken/Tanrikulu.
Filippou / Heuken / Tanrikulu
As part of the festival motto "Body Time", space is also to be given to special sounding bodies. The starting point for this concert was the encounter of several vibraphones. Afterwards: TRAINING feat. Işıl Karataş
Keboo
This year's "HMT Stage Night Special" act. Followed by KID BE KID.
KID BE KID "Lovely Genders"
Bubbling over musicality. KID BE KID combines hip-hop and jazz in equal measure with a neo-soul voice. Prelude: HMT Stage Night Special with Keboo.
Àbáse
New from Brazil, via Budapest and Lagos: Àbáse fuses samba and hip-hop into a sun-sparkling mixtape.
Harth/Lindemann "VOICES IN THE HEAD
The listening experience of speech, sound radio play and songs, conceived by Maike Lindemann and Sonja Harth, lets the voice take center stage. Second concert at 8:00 pm.
Michael Wollny BAU.HAUS.KLANG
How can the idea of the Bauhaus be translated by jazz improvisers and other sound artists into previously "unheard" music?
Before: Alma Naidu & Band
Alma Naidu & Band
Winner of this year's BMW Welt Young Artist Jazz Award. Naidu comes to Leipzig with a newly assembled band, in which she unites some promising jazz newcomers* of the country.
Afterwards: Michael Wollny Bau.Haus.Klang
snakesoda
Rahel Hutter and Niklas Kraft make music with different instruments and DAWs and experiment with alienations of sound and text fragments. Second concert at 23:59.
Czajka & Puchacz
Czajka & Puchacz is the duo of Slovenian pianist Kaja Draksler and Polish drummer Szymon Gąsiorek.
Nick Dunston - Skultura
Founded and led by Nick Dunston, the band performs the compositions of the Brooklyn-born double bassist, who now lives in Berlin.
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Singing bowls, electronics and visual stimuli as a melting pot of the digital future.
Julia Hornung Gypsy Collectif
The double bass player is one of the central figures of the renaissance of jazz manouche in southern Germany. Second concert at 21:00.
Munka/Kappenstein "Into Me / Out Of Me"
First performance! Singer Anne Munka and drummer Demian Kappenstein together create a multidimensional world of sounds.
Sam Hylton
The Munich-based American pianist is the recipient of the 2021 BMW Welt Young Artist Jazz Award. Second concert at 8 p.m.
Giocondo / Ramoser / Sberveglieri "Sugar"
Insatiable energy and full body commitment. As part of the cooperation with the South Tyrol Jazz Festival, a dancer meets two double bass players. Prelude: Naïma Mazic & Haggai Cohen-Milo "of(f) rhythm"
Naïma Mazic & Haggai Cohen-Milo "of(f) rhythm"
Workshop performance with the participation of students from the University of Music and Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig. Afterwards: Giocondo/Ramoser/Sberveglieri "Sugar"
Soft plastic
"Performative free jazz regardless of losses". Second concert at 23:59.
Popp
The passionate percussionist Simon Popp presents his solo project that invites to transcend and dance in equal measure.
Sonia Loenne "MOVING IN"
The singer explores new connections between her body and her singing in a solo performance. Second concert tour through the "Lost Places" at 17:00.
Karch | Ní Bhriain | Rumsch | Wójcik "Celestially Light I
In dialog. Meeting of the experimental and young Polish and German music scene. Second concert tour through the "Lost Places" at 17:00.
Hausmann / Paas / Wodni "(SK)IN - SIDE - OUT"
Three female artists and friends meet for a trialogue about their perception of their bodies and ask themselves and each other questions about their female and artistic identity. Second concert tour through the "Lost Places" at 17:00.
Fallen Crooner
Double bassist and composer Robert Lucaciu defragments his own, (cis)male self-image in his latest project.
Euregio Collective "FLOATING: Reflections On Water"
Liquid, gaseous and solid. The musical exploration of the aggregate states of water in the atmospheric setting of the Old City Baths.
MINIM feat. Sainkho
The music of the young Polish band led by guitarist Kuba Wójcik explores new dimensions inspired by the Siberian-born singer and vocal artist Sainkho Namtchylak and her experience. Second concert at 22:00.
Karch | Rumsch "Celestially Light II
In exchange. Polish musicians and those from the local scene meet at various points in the festival.
Processor
A trio like a machine that unfolds atmospheric-spiritual character that invites you to dream. Second concert at 21:30.
Jaga Jazzist
The Norwegian super group looks back on a band history of four decades and comes to town with their new album "The Tower"! Second concert at 22:30.
PoLy-Mirrors / a re-performance of feminine diagonals
In the piece by choreographer Naïma Mazic with compositions by pianist Elias Stemeseder, polyrhythms shared by dancers and musicians open up new perspectives.
H. C. BEHRENDTSEN "Syncopes
Here, what belongs together is brought together: Hans Arnold, Christian Dähne and Konni Behrendt bring (new) music and (old) dance into close proximity to each other. Second concert at 11:30 pm.