Brigade Futur III
Jazztage Kick-off!
Eco-collapse, consumerism, privatization: topics that demand social discourse. Here in the dadaistic-jazzy headlock of Brigade Futur III.
2019 Future music
Heuken/Stadtfeld/Heigenhuber
Leipzig Jazz Young Talent Award 2019 - Award Ceremony and Concert
Niels Klein "Tubes and Wires
The quartet of the Cologne saxophonist combines science fiction and jazz to warm sound collages with bass clarinet and analog synthesizers. The result is a futuristic soundscape with organic sounds.
43rd LJT: Point.Vrt.Plastic
A jazz hybrid in a class of its own - as whimsical as it is beautiful, as eccentric as it is dreamy. - Kaja Draksler (p), Petter Eldh (b), Christian Lillinger (dr)
Point.Vrt.Plastic
A jazz hybrid in a class of its own - as whimsical as it is beautiful, as eccentric as it is dreamy.
43rd LJT: Jazzanova Live
Over 20 years ago, a DJ collective established itself in Berlin, focusing on Brazil, soul, funk, jazz, house, and hip hop - in 2018, the album "The Pool" was released - a hymn to a night danced through - Stefan Leisering (perc, keys), Axel Reinemer (elec), Paul Randolph (voc), Paul Kleber (b), David Lemaitre (g, voc), Stefan Ulrich (tb), Sebastian Borkowski (sax, flh), Yasmin Hadisubrata (keys), Carl Michael Grabinger (dr)
Jazzanova Live
More than 20 years ago, a DJ collective established itself in Berlin that focused on Brazil, soul, funk, jazz, house, and hip hop - in 2018, the album "The Pool" was released - a hymn to a night danced through
43rd LJT: Bobby Rausch
Through darkest bass valleys and pulsating groovescapes. Best (dance)noise from Berlin - Lutz Streun (bcl), Oleg Hollmann (bar), Jürgen Meyer (dr)
Bobby intoxication
Through darkest bass valleys and pulsating groovescapes. Best (dance) noise from Berlin
33 RPM - Crackling Whispers "50 Years ECM Records
Arne Reimer and Michael Rausch talk about the "second most beautiful sound after silence" and let the records spin.
Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra
Intelligently interwoven compositions that go beyond familiar schemes, make you forget expectations and set new standards.
Maciej Obara Quartet
You haven't heard such promising and seductive jazz in a long time. The BMW Welt Jazz Award winner 2019 presents his ECM album "Unloved".
Rocket Men
"Twerk & Travel in Space" - the title of the album released in 2018 is program for this intergalactic crew.
15 Corners Of The World
The documentary subtly explores the sound worlds of composer Eugeniusz Rudnik - an ode to the analog age.
Manfred Schulze Wind Quintet
Original compositions and arrangements by Schulze, who left an indelible mark on the jazz scene of the GDR.
43rd LJT: LIUN + The Science Fiction Band
Jazz and synthpop meet, shake hands and create something that sounds like the distant future - Lucia Cadotsch (voc, spl, comp), Wanja Slavin (synth, sax, comp), Dan Nicholls (synth), Ludwig Wandinger (dr, spl)
LIUN + The Science Fiction Band
Jazz and synthpop meet, join hands and create something that sounds like the distant future.
Stage Night Special #1: Oh Y!
The first musical collaboration of Steffi Narr and Jan Frisch - loud, staged chaos and silence shines on the horizon.
Stage Night Special #2: Oh Y!
The first musical collaboration of Steffi Narr and Jan Frisch - loud, staged chaos and silence shines on the horizon.
Dark Star Safari - Bang/Honoré/Aarset/Rohrer
Beyond gravity - electrifying soundscapes lead into the infinite expanses of the cosmos.
43rd LJT: Oh No Noh + Dark Star Safari - Bang/Honoré/Aarset/Rohrer
Oh No Noh
What Leipzig guitarist Markus Rom calls the "soundtrack for the end of a planet" elicits a euphoric "Oh yes".
Dark Star Safari - Bang/Honoré/Aarset/Rohrer
Beyond gravity - electrifying soundscapes lead into the endless expanses of the cosmos. - Jan Bang (voc, spl, p), Erik Honoré (synth, spl, voc), Eivind Aarset (g, elec, b), Samuel Rohrer (dr, perc, elec, synth)
Oh No Noh
What Leipzig guitarist Markus Rom calls the "soundtrack for the end of a planet" elicits a euphoric "Oh yes" from us.
43rd LJT: essence of north + Samuel Rohrer & Hilde Marie Holsen
essence of north
Goosebump music inspired by the northern lights, the silence and the forces of nature of a volcanic island in the Atlantic Ocean - Gerður Gunnarsdóttir (v, br) Claudio Puntin (cl, bcl)
Samuel Rohrer & Hilde Marie Holsen
Live premiere! The duo meanders between electronic music and jazz. Hilde Marie Holsen (tp, elec), Samuel Rohrer (dr, elec)
essence of north
Goosebumps music inspired by the northern lights, the silence and the forces of nature of a volcanic island in the Atlantic.
Samuel Rohrer & Hilde Marie Holsen
Meandering along frayed genre boundaries - this exciting combination of jazz and electronic music is "contemporary" in the best sense of the word.
Stucky con Carne feat. FM Unit
Erika Stucky and the musical flesh(es) lust - an avant-garde stage quake between pop and jazz.
43rd LJT: Hannah Weiss Group + The Sun Ra Arkestra + Stucky con Carne feat. FM Einheit
Hannah Weiss Group
BMW Welt Young Artist Jazz Award - On to new sounds! The Swiss singer acts free of genre attributions. Hannah Weiss (voc), Moritz Stahl (sax), Philipp Schiepek (g), Sam Hylton (p), Robin Jermer (b), Flurin Mück (dr)
The Sun Ra Arkestra
Interplanetary super-sonic jazz - or rather: "Phre, the music of the sun" - as the Afrofuturist and founder of the Arkestra, Sun Ra, called his music. - Marshall Allen (cond, as, fl), Elson Nascimento (perc), Robert Stringer (tb), Wayne A. Smith (dr), Stephen Tyler Mitchell (b), Cecil H. Brooks (tp), Vincent Chancey (frh), Tevin Thomas (p), Noel Scott (voc, sax), Danny Ray Thompson (bar), James E. Stewart (ts), Mr. Carl Le Blanc (g)
Stucky con Carne feat. FM Einheit
Erika Stucky and the musical meat(es) lust - an avant-garde stage quake between pop and jazz. - Erika Stucky (voc, acc, film), FM Einheit (elec, sounds), Steffen Schorn (sax) Ben Jeger (keys, glasharfe)
The Sun Ra Arkestra
Interplanetary super-sonic jazz - or rather: "Phre, the music of the sun" - as the Afrofuturist and founder of Arkestra, Sun Ra, called his music.
Hannah Weiss Group
On to new sounds! This year's winner of the BMW Welt Young Artist Jazz Award and her Munich group do not allow themselves to be pinned down to any genre.
43rd LJT: Philipp Gropper's Philm
Unadulterated and pure jazz of the present time, which will chisel its way into our memory while flying around among the stars - Philipp Gropper (ts, comp), Elias Stemeseder (p, synth), Robert Landfermann (b), Oliver Steidle (p)
Philipp Gropper's Philm
Unadulterated and pure jazz of the present time, which will engrave itself in our memory as it flies around among the stars.
Rebellious? A German History of Jazz.
Wolf Kampann, Wolfram Knauer and other panelists in conversation about the today and yesterday of jazz in Germany.
43rd LJT: Mette Henriette + Mouse on Mars
Mette Henriette
Saxophone, piano, cello - an unusual trio line-up that lets you dive into tender, mysterious spheres. - Mette Henriette (sax), Johan Lindvall (p), Leo Svensson Sander (clo)
Mouse On Mars
Impressive sound diversity - from Afrobeat and Glitch to Krautrock and Grunge to Techno and Ambient. - Jan St. Werner (elec, synth), Andi Toma (elec, synth), Dodo NKishi (dr, perc, g), tba.(dr), Hilary Jeffery (tp, tb), Moritz Ghost (Sonic Robots), Kresten Osgood (dr)
Mette Henriette
Saxophone, piano, cello - an unusual trio instrumentation that lets you dive into tender, mysterious spheres.
Mouse on Mars
Sound diversity at its best. Spectrum? From Afrobeat elements and glitch to Krautrock and grunge to techno and ambient.
The Claudia Quintet
Unique harmonies where the jazz label alone would fall short - genre-bending, innovative, refreshing.
Jazz for children: Peter's moon ride
A live radio play based on a (true!) story by Gerdt von Bassewitz. By and with the vibraphonist Volker Heuken and the actor and speaker Stefan Kaminsky.
Spielvereinigung Sued & MDR Radio Choir "Inseparable. Indivisible."
World premiere of the project "Inseparable. Indivisible." on the occasion of 30 years of peaceful revolution. This is a composition by US percussionist and composer John Hollenbeck written especially for Leipziger Big Band Spielvereinigung Sued and the MDR Radio Choir, with a libretto by lyricist Nora Gomringer.
John McLaughlin And The 4th Dimension
The guitar grandmaster breaks stylistic and playing boundaries.
SALOMEA
These are four young people from Cologne who bring a refreshing mix of jazz, hip-hop and electronic music to the stage and close the 43rd Leipzig Jazz Days for the time being!
43rd LJT - Special concert: Herbie Hancock & Band
The special concert of the 43rd Leipziger Jazztage is the logical end point of a festival opening up to visions. Following in the footsteps of John Mc Laughlin, Herbie Hancock is another hero of music history who has shown how jazz can be innovatively continued as an unconstrained contemporary art of the unpredictable.
A direct meeting of the two occurred during their joint work together with Dexter Gordon for the 1986 premiere of Bernard Tavernier's film "Round Midnight" about the life of Bud Powell, for which Hancock had written the Oscar and Grammy award-winning music. Successful film scores - think of Antonioni's "Blow Up" or "Death Wish," "Colors," "Harlem Nights,"... - are just one of Hancock's fields of activity. He composed hits like "Watermelon Man" (1960), "Cantaloup Island" (1963) and "Rock It" (1983) and released hit albums like "Maiden Voyage" (1965), "Crossings" (1972), "Sextant" (1973) and the million-selling "Headhunters" (1973).
His duo concerts at the pianos with Chick Corea in America and Europe (1978/79) are legendary. As a pianist and keyboardist with phenomenal playing technique, the restless tastemaker was involved in recordings of the greats: Wes Montgomery, Milt Jackson, Hank Mobley, Sonny Rollins, Miles Davis, Jaco Pastorius, Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter, Dave Holland and Wynton Marsalis. Remarkably involved was his collaboration with Joni Mitchell. He won two Grammys in 2008 for his tribute "The Joni Letters."
Coming from cool jazz, Hancock did not take the step to totally unbound improvisation. Rather, transcending purist stylistic boundaries and also commercially oriented, he has always significantly influenced developments in popular music such as electric jazz, jazz rock, fusion, funk, techno, hip hop and jazz rap, without denying that his artistic sovereignty is grounded in black tradition with a deeply rooted blues and gospel feeling. His fellow musicians from Leipzig are sought-after soloists of extraordinary standing: Lionel Loueke on guitar and vocals, James Genus on bass and drummer Justin Tyson. A star from the eternal jazz sky ennobles the Leipziger Jazztage at the main venue of its birth decade as a festival of lively music with format and trend-setting perspectives. What a post-finale for the Forty-Third!
This concert is already sold out!