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Oct 2024

Michael Wollny & Joachim Kühn

Kühn & Wollny © Jörg Steinmetz
Oper Leipzig
Concert

Double concert with Cécile McLorin Salvant.
Joachim Kühn, who turned 80 in March, was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit First Class this year. Free improvisation is "the meaning of life" for him, the Leipzig-born musician has repeatedly emphasized. He was already a professional jazz musician in the GDR at the age of 18.

  • Michael Wollny (p)
  • Joachim Kühn (p)

Cécile McLorin Salvant

Oper Leipzig
Concert

Double concert with Michael Wollny & Joachim Kühn.
Cécile McLorin Salvant is probably the smartest and most talented storyteller in US jazz today. Born in Florida in 1989, with Haitian-French-Guadeloupean roots, she won first prize at the Thelonious Monk Vocal Jazz Competition in 2010 at the age of just 21. There was a label boss in the audience who immediately signed her. Even before her 30th birthday, she has three Grammys in her pocket.

  • Cécile McLorin Salvant (voc)
  • Sullivan Fortner (p)
  • Yasushi Nakamura (b)
  • Kyle Poole (d)

Jazz for children I: Workshop

JfK Workshop
Residence (spinning mill) - not barrier-free
Concert

Hey kids between 8 and 12 years old - we're looking for you!

  • Bianca Bauer (dance, voc, soundpainting)
  • Marlene Aigner (dance, voc)
  • Tobias Pöcksteiner (b, soundpainting)
  • Jonas Langlet (toy-synth)
  • Charlotte Strauch (cl, bcl)

Jazz for children I: Performance

JfK I: Performance
Residence (spinning mill) - not barrier-free
Concert

This year, jazz for children is taking place with two separate events.

  • Bianca Bauer (dance, voc, soundpainting)
  • Marlene Aigner (dance, voc)
  • Tobias Pöcksteiner (b, soundpainting)
  • Jonas Langlet (toy-synth)
  • Charlotte Strauch (cl, bcl)

Joëlle Léandre

Joelle Leandre ©Schorle
Liebfrauenkirche
Concert

Over the course of her career, French musician and composer Joëlle Léandre has revolutionized double bass playing from the ground up. In the improvisational process, she develops a unique style that draws on influences from contemporary jazz and classical music, complemented by percussive elements and the use of her voice. The result culminates in a truly unique sound framework.

  • Joëlle Léandre (db)

Jazz for children II: Vienna Soundpainting Collective

JfK II: VSC
Residence (spinning mill) - not barrier-free
Concert

This year, jazz for children is taking place with two separate events.

  • Bianca Bauer (dance, voc, soundpainting)
  • Marlene Aigner (dance, voc)
  • Tobias Pöcksteiner (b, soundpainting)
  • Jonas Langlet (toy-synth)
  • Charlotte Strauch (cl, bcl)

Award of the Leipzig Jazz Young Talent Prize of the Marion Ermer Foundation: Max Löbner

Max Löbner ©Karine Bravo
The naTo
Concert

Max Löbner was recently awarded the Central German Jazz Prize. Now comes the Leipzig Jazz Newcomer Award. He and his band KLSD will demonstrate why on this evening: The quartet's sound spectrum, flanked by two guitars, ranges from flat and sensitive to powerful fusion rock.

  • Max Löbner (git)
  • Fridolin Krön (git)
  • Julian Drach (as)
  • Eddy Sonnenschein (dr)

Amirtha Kidambi's Elder Ones #1

Amirtha Kidambi's Elder Ones ©Caroline Harrison
New Play Leipzig
Concert

Amirtha Kidambi doesn't like it simple: The US-American's music is a multi-layered conglomerate in which spiritual jazz, drones, R'n'B and free jazz come together. The pieces by her band Amirtha Kidambi's Elder Ones are sometimes powerful and loud, sometimes fragile and intimate. The urgency of their music is reflected in the poetic lyrics, which deal with topics such as racism and violence.

  • Amirtha Kidambi (comp, keys, voc)
  • Matt Nelson (sax)
  • Alfredo Colon (sax)
  • Lester St. Louis (b)
  • Jason Nazary (dr)

Amirtha Kidambi's Elder Ones #2

Amirtha Kidambi's Elder Ones ©Caroline Harrison
New Play Leipzig
Concert

Amirtha Kidambi doesn't like it simple: The US-American's music is a multi-layered conglomerate in which spiritual jazz, drones, R'n'B and free jazz come together. The pieces by her band Amirtha Kidambi's Elder Ones are sometimes powerful and loud, sometimes fragile and intimate. The urgency of their music is reflected in the poetic lyrics, which deal with topics such as racism and violence.

  • Amirtha Kidambi (comp, keys, voc)
  • Matt Nelson (sax)
  • Alfredo Colon (sax)
  • Lester St. Louis (b)
  • Jason Nazary (dr)

Wendy Eisenberg

Wendy Eisenberg ©Ellery Berenger
Schaubühne Lindenfels, Green Salon
Concert

US-American Wendy Eisenberg is a songwriter and free improviser. Her sound draws on various influences such as folk, free jazz, avant pop, noise rock and new music. There will always be a conceptual void in her artistic aura that cannot be fully grasped and that also surrounds her brand new album "Viewfinder".

  • Wendy Eisenberg (voc, git, effects)

Marek Johnson

Marek Johnson
Schaubühne Lindenfels, Ballroom
Concert

Double concert with WRENS.
As Marek Johnson, Cologne jazz musician David Helm explores the vastness of pop together with his congenial partner Wanja Slavin: between singer/songwriter, trip-hop, electronica and indie, they create a highly elegant sound that is both arty and accessible. Sometimes it sounds like the perfect soundtrack to long fall nights, warming you up when you start to get cold.

  • Wanja Slavin (synth, sax)
  • Shannon Barnett (voc, p)
  • Bertram Burkert (git)
  • Hanno Stick (dr)
  • David Helm (voc, git, b)

WRENS

WRENS ©Jason Nazary
Schaubühne Lindenfels, Ballroom
Concert

Double concert with Marek Johnson.
The sound of the New York quartet Wrens is refreshingly different. Influenced in part by many years of experience in the jazz world, the band around singer and trumpeter Ryan Easter creates a complex and fascinating sound structure of acoustic instrumentation, electronic, sometimes noisy soundscapes and poetic rap interludes.

  • Elias Stemeseder (keys)
  • Jason Nazary (dr, synth)
  • Lester St Louis (clo)
  • Ryan Easter (tp, voc)

BMW Young Artist Jazz Award: Susi Lotter feat. AIKEN

SusiLotter feat. Aiken ©Daniel Dueckminor
die naTo
Concert

Double concert with Moritz Renner Group.
Founded in Munich, Aiken's sound is both dreamy and playful. However, he always keeps an unmistakable groove as a trump card up his sleeve. Bassist Susi Lotter, who recently received the BMW Young Artist Jazz Award, is not least responsible for this. The basic mood of the songs oscillates between exuberance and melancholy.

  • Susi Lotter (b)
  • Aiken Kantriai (voc)
  • Pablo Struff (p, keys)
  • Rei Kondakciu (git)
  • Jakob Marsmann (dr)
  • Katharina Pfeifer (ts)

BMW Young Artist Jazz Award: Moritz Renner Group

Moritz Renner
die naTo
Concert

Double concert with Susi Lotter feat. AIKEN.
Just 23 years young, Munich trombonist Moritz Renner has created a sound that dispenses with superfluous ballast and instead focuses on the essence of jazz. In terms of stylistic confidence, virtuosity and joy of playing, his quintet is in no way inferior to the greats of the genre.

  • Moritz Renner (tb)
  • Max Treutner (ts)
  • Luca Zambito (p)
  • Jakob Jäger (db)
  • Alexander Parzhuber (dr)

First Date: Wendy Eisenberg & Emily Wittbrodt #1

Wendy Eisenberg, Emily Wittbrodt ©Ellery Berenger, Ludwig Kuffer
Horns heirs
Concert

US guitarist Wendy Eisenberg combines folk, free jazz, avant pop and new music in her sound. Cologne-based cellist Emily Wittbrodt draws her influences from classical music, jazz and improvisational elements. In October, they will share a stage together for the first time and explore the boundaries of their sound spectrum.

  • Wendy Eisenberg (git)
  • Emily Wittbrodt (clo)

First Date: Wendy Eisenberg & Emily Wittbrodt #2

Wendy Eisenberg, Emily Wittbrodt ©Ellery Berenger, Ludwig Kuffer
Horns heirs
Concert

US guitarist Wendy Eisenberg combines folk, free jazz, avant pop and new music in her sound. Cologne-based cellist Emily Wittbrodt draws her influences from classical music, jazz and improvisational elements. In October, they will share a stage together for the first time and explore the boundaries of their sound spectrum.

  • Wendy Eisenberg (git)
  • Emily Wittbrodt (clo)

Kathrin Pechlof Trio

Kathrin Pechlof Trio ©Ulla C. Binder
Moritzbastei
Concert

Since 2011, the trio has created a musical unity together characterized by deep trust and harmonious cooperation. The chamber music-like transparency of the instrumentation creates the perfect environment for the delicate sound of the harp, which is particularly effective when played with saxophone and bass.

  • Kathrin Pechlof (hrp, comp)
  • Christian Weidner (as, comp)
  • Robert Landfermann (db)

Artist Talk: Harvest Time Experiment

Artist Talk Harvest Time Experiment ©Jason Leung
Musical Comedy, Venus Hall
Concert

An artist talk with Harvest Time Experiment, moderated by Arne Reimer, will take place at 6 pm in the Venussaal at MuKo. Free admission for guests of the subsequent concert.

  • Arne Reimer (Moderation)

Harvest Time Experiment feat. Ill Considered & Dumama

The Harvest Time Experiment ©Juri Hiensch
Musikalische Komödie
Concert

Double concert with Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra.
Based on the piece "Harvest Time" by US tenor saxophonist Pharoah Sanders, who died two years ago in 1977, a fluid project has formed around renowned jazz musicians to pay tribute to his improvisational masterpiece. In Leipzig, the British free jazz trio Ill Considered will now meet the South African future folk artist Dumama for the first time.

  • Tisziji Muñoz (git)
  • Joshua Abrams (db, guimbri, harmonium)
  • feat. Ill Considered aka: Idris Rahman (sax)
  • Liran Donin (eb)
  • Emre Ramazanoglu (dr)
  • special guest: Dumama (voc)

Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra

Andromeda Mega Expres Orchestra ©Arnaud Ele
Musikalische Komödie
Concert

Double concert with Harvest Time Experiment feat. Ill Considered & Dumama.
Since 2006, the Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra, under the direction of its founder and composer Daniel Glatzel, has earned a reputation as a large ensemble that is as characteristic as it is radical. The twelve-piece formation skillfully combines a wide variety of elements to create a coherent sound framework. AMEO was awarded the German Jazz Prize in 2021.

  • Daniel Glatzel ((comp,arr, sax, cl, perc, a-git)
  • Laure Mourot (fl)
  • Sonja Horlacher (fl)
  • Johannes Böhmer (tr)
  • Taiko Saito (vib, perc)
  • Evi Filippou (vib, perc)
  • Valentin Gerhardus (synth, live-elec)
  • Arne Braun (e-git)
  • Kalle Zeier (e-git)
  • Anna Viechtl (harp)
  • Matthias Pichler (b)
  • Marius Wankel (dr)

Beatdenkers SINULARIA

Beatdenkers SINULARIA ©David Campesino
Neues Schauspiel Leipzig, Cellar
Concert

The SINULARIA project by Jo Wespel aka Beatdenker plays »Subwater Beats«: the trio combines Wonky and IDM with jazz and improvisation, complex rhythms with floating melodies and chords from the world of electronica. They do not avoid sonic complexity, but rather push it, creating their very own version of beat music in the third millennium.

  • Jo Wespel (git, fx, comp, prod)
  • Felix Henkelhausen (db, fx)
  • Max Santner (dr, fx)

Poeji

Poeji ©Hanne Kaunicnik
die naTo
Concert

The sound of the Munich duo around singer Enji and percussionist Simon Popp is characterized by an almost hypnotic atmosphere. Stylistically, Poeji moves between spherical ambient soundscapes, post-dub beats and free jazz moments. Enji's expressive vocal interludes and Popp's drumming enter into a musical dialogue that makes you forget time and place.

  • Enji (voc)
  • Simon Popp (dr, perc)

Sofia Jernberg & Mette Rasmussen

Sofia Jernberg, Mette-Rasmussen ©Dimitri Djuric
UT Connewitz
Concert

Double concert with Camila Nebbia's The Hanged One.
Sofia Jernberg and Mette Rasmussen have been performing as a duo since 2017. Swedish singer Jernberg explores the instrumental possibilities of her voice, which she alienates through the use of effects. Rasmussen, who is based in Trondheim, Denmark, draws on a spectrum of influences ranging from fully composed sound work to free jazz through her saxophone playing. Together they blur the boundaries between voice and saxophone.

  • Sofia Jernberg (voc)
  • Mette Rasmussen (sax)

Camila Nebbia's The Hanged One

The Hanged One ©Cristina Marx
UT Connewitz
Concert

Double concert with Sofia Jernberg & Mette Rasmussen.
In her project, Camila Nebbia explores new perspectives: The sound of the saxophonist, who comes from Buenos Aires and lives in Berlin, moves between jazz, post-punk and experimental music. Together with her band, she creates pulsating soundscapes that invite you to think upside down.

  • Camila Nebbia (ts, comp)
  • Julia Biłat (clo)
  • Arne Braun (git)
  • Andres Marino (elec)
  • Vinicius Cajado (db)
  • Lukas Akintaya (dr)

Südtirol Jazz Festival Cooperation: ARSA

ARSA ©Günther Pichler
die naTo
Concert

After a musically extremely promising first encounter in the context of the Südtirol Jazz Festival Alto Adige, a continuation of the musical collaboration now follows. Three outstanding contemporary jazz musicians come together to question the boundaries between electronic and organic sounds. The result is a journey that is as transcendent as it is captivating.

  • Camilla Battaglia (voc, elec)
  • Simone Graziano (p, synth)
  • Julian Sartorius (dr)

Leipzig Newcomer: Myrsini Bekakou Quartet

Myrsini Bekakou © Thomas Simonnet
die naTo
Concert

The music of the Myrsini Bekakou Quartet is based on the feelings, thoughts and experiences of its bandleader and combines traditional Greek music with classical jazz tunes. Her violin playing is audibly influenced by her classical training, but at the same time firmly anchored in the present. Whether Bekakou's sound is traditional or modern is therefore the wrong question: it is both at the same time.

  • Myrsini Bekakou (vln)
  • Hakim Azmi (p)
  • Guillermo Valdivia Monsálvez (db)
  • Anton Mück (dr)

Andi Haberl's SUN

Andi Haberl ©Enid Val
UT Connewitz
Concert

Double concert with Lina Allemano's OHRENSCHMAUS.
The Notwist drummer Andi Haberl is all about the right moods in his new project SUN. The nine songs on his solo debut "I Can See Our House From Here", in which he transforms early childhood memories into universal stories, sound sometimes melancholy, sometimes brash and relaxed. In terms of sound aesthetics, he moves between the soundscapes of Steve Reich, pulsating Krautrock rhythms and elegiac film soundtracks.

  • Mascha Juno (metallophone, glsp)
  • Markus Rom (bjo)
  • Isabelle Klemt (synth, elec)
  • Andi Haberl (dr, elec)

Lina Allemano's OHRENSCHMAUS

Lina Allemano's ear candy ©Jamie Croft
UT Connewitz
Concert

Double concert with Andy Haberl's SUN.
The Berlin-based "power trio" impresses with virtuosity and originality in equal measure. The compositions are penned by band leader Lina Allemano, who, together with her two fellow musicians, elicits new and exciting impulses from jazz. Together they create a sound at the height of its time, which is highly expressive, sometimes humorous and melodic at the same time.

  • Lina Allemano (tp, comp)
  • Dan Peter Sundland (eb)
  • Michael Griener (dr)

MAIKA

MAIKA ©Rebecca Ter Braak
WORK 2, Hall D
Concert

Double concert with CEL.
In her new solo project, Maika Küster creates a highly contemporary sound between synth pop, folk, indie and electronica. Sometimes bright and hopeful, sometimes dark and melancholy, the nine songs on her solo debut "Holy Noon", released in April, are carried by her warm, soulful voice and evoke distant memories of artists such as Zola Jesus or Cat Power.

  • Maika Küster (voc, synth)
  • Anthony Greminger (dr)
  • Jan Krause (git)
  • Yannik Tiemann (b)
  • Simin Below (keys, synth)

CEL (Felix Kubin & Hubert Zemler)

CEL ©Pedro Maia
WORK 2, Hall D
Concert

Double concert with MAIKA.
Behind CEL are the Hamburg Dada enthusiast and jack-of-all-trades Felix Kubin and the Warsaw-based percussionist Hubert Zemler. Together they explore the tense relationship between the strict minimalism of the German Kraut underground of the 1970s and the early NDW sound characterized by musical avant-gardes. The result is as fascinating as it is danceable.

  • Felix Kubin (sounds, synth)
  • Hubert Zemler (dr)

BMW Young Artist Jazz Award: Marina Schlagintweit Large Ensemble

Marina Schlagintweit Large Ensemble ©Leo Zwiebel
die naTo
Concert

The nine-piece Marina Schlagintweit Large Ensemble thinks big and outside the box. Its sound combines new music with classical and jazz elements. There are no limits to the composer and pianist Schlagintweit's love of experimentation: Sometimes loud, sometimes quiet, sometimes acoustic, sometimes electronic, her works are presented.

  • Paula Wünsch (b)
  • Max Stadtfeld (dr)
  • Antonia Hausmann (tb)
  • Teresa Allgaier (vln)
  • Nancy Meier (fl)
  • Jakob Lakner (bcl)
  • Matthias Lindermayr (tp)
  • Gregor Nicolai (elec)
  • Marina Schlagintweit (p, comp)

Sylvie Courvoisier

Sylvie Courvoisier ©Veronique Hoegger
Schauspiel Leipzig
Concert

Triple concert with Sylvie Courvoisier & Evan Parker and Embryo.
Musically strongly influenced by modern classical music and European chamber music, Swiss-born Sylvie Courvoisier has been combining this tradition with the downtown jazz sounds of New York City since moving to Brooklyn at the end of the 1990s. Her barely audible virtuosity culminates in breathtaking sensitivity and musical versatility.

  • Sylvie Courvoisier (p)

Sylvie Courvoisier & Evan Parker

Evan Parker ©Caroline Forbes
Schauspiel Leipzig
Concert

Triple concert with Sylvie Courvoisier and Embryo.
A meeting of two jazz greats: Evan Parker was one of the first protagonists of European free jazz. Pianist Sylvie Courvoisier entered the jazz scene much later - in the mid-1990s. Since 2014, the two have regularly entered into a musical dialog that makes the instruments a minor matter: This is about voices and emotions.

  • Sylvie Courvoisier (p)
  • Evan Parker (sax)

Embryo

Embryo ©Daniel Wanders
Schauspiel Leipzig
Concert

Triple concert with Sylvie Courvoisier, Sylvie Courvoisier & Evan Parker.
Embryo are considered essential kraut pioneers of the 1970s and are so much more at the same time: jazz rock, fusion and transcultural music culminate in a wide-ranging sound framework. Led by band leader Marja Burchard, who took over the project from her father Christian in 2018, fascinating sound research is conducted with the help of acoustic and modulated sounds.

  • Marja Burchard (vib, synth, snt, voc)
  • Maasl Maier (b, sax, perc)
  • Jakob Thun (dr)
  • Johannes Schleiermacher (sax, fl, synth)
  • Mascha Juno (vib, perc)
  • Jan Weissenfeldt (git)

Dust Bunny

Dust Bunny ©Erik Smits
die naTo
Concert

Dust Bunny create an extraordinary world of sound that straddles the boundaries of progressive rock, noise, ambient and free jazz. Their music is wild, dynamic and experimental, often hypnotic and intense at the same time. Their sound meanders between archaic and futuristic elements that are dark but never frightening.

  • Marta Warelis (synth, org)
  • Nasim Lopez-Palcios Navarro (dr, elec)
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