TIP

The three-day LeipJAZZig festival with explicit opening to other arts takes place for the second time in 2015.

In "Tief Blau Grün See" (Deep Blue Green Sea), a collage about the whale is created from original sounds, literary sequences (for preparation, the collection of quotations at the beginning of "Moby Dick" is recommended) and improvised concept music. The quartet's explicit goal is to make the boundaries between the individual genres of art permeable. - Radjo Monk (voice, text, video), Oliver Kurth (fx, visuals), Wolfram Dix (perc, sketches) and Frank Braun (tp, elec, sketches) and

At the festival's conclusion, the focus is on the poetry of the Russian Nobel Prize winner Joseph Brodsky. The poems read by Stefan Kamnisky (cf. Thomas Hertel's "Dead Men Walking") meet compositions by Lora Kostina, who combines modern jazz, contemporary music and classical music in a trio with Daniel Werbach and Stan Neufeld. - Stefan Kaminsky (voice), Lora Kostina (p, comp), Daniel Werbach (kb) and Stan Neufeld (dr)