Jazzclub Live for Jewish Week with Richard Koch (tp), Benjamin Weidekamp (reeds), Valentin Butt (acc), Derek Shirley (b) and Christian Marien (dr).
Wednesday 1.7. 2015
20.30 Telegraph

The Berlin quintet plays klezmer and Balkan melodies for the Jewish Week, the grooves of which might well lure one or the other onto the dance floor. All others can enjoy virtuoso playing and open-minded improvisations of the musicians from Austria, Russia, Canada and the exotic country of North Rhine-Westphalia while sitting or standing. The music of the Sephardic Jews, which originated on the Iberian Peninsula and has absorbed influences from Morocco, Turkey, Argentina, Greece and Spanish folk music, plays a major role.