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"Tell me...!"

...how! Tell me why! Tell me more!

This fall, the Leipzig Jazz Days will take place for the 48th time. Founded in GDR times and maintained over the decades, the renowned festival - like Leipzig's rapidly growing city population - has remained both traditional and young. Over eight days and 13 venues, Jazzclub Leipzig is hosting 33 concerts with over 100 musicians from a wide range of backgrounds: the festival will once again be taking place in small clubs as well as large concert halls, old industrial halls and venerable church halls, where a wide variety of people come together to listen to international stars and new discoveries from the current scene.

As every year, the festival program revolves around a theme: Under the title "Tell me...!" we call for communication - for active storytelling as well as for differentiated listening. The focus is on the art of 'storytelling' and, in particular, on the human voice, which sometimes with and sometimes without words, but always in dialog with virtuoso instrumental playing, has all kinds of things to tell: Of intertwined life paths and experiences from other worlds, of very personal feelings as well as social grievances. In all of this, 'jazz' remains a political gesture in its origins, which carries an attitude of resistance within it and still occasionally challenges listeners today to endure alienation and dissent.

The Leipzig Jazz Days are traditionally not just one music festival among many, but a cultural cosmos in which people from the most diverse walks of life meet and have something to share under the auspices of a common passion.