For 15 years now, the Festival Jazzdor has been building the artistic bridge between France and Germany!
For the team around Philippe Ochem, jazz means openness: they don't care about geographical and aesthetic borders and only want one thing: to share with the audience what excites them at the moment, to promote unexpected encounters, to make the heartbeat of jazz of today audible and tangible.
So set off, by bike, streetcar or on foot, leisurely or at a run, however you like, come and let yourself in for the listening pleasures of the Festival Jazzdor Berlin!
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Friday, June 9 <br>
AKI TAKASE / LOUIS SCLAVIS / VINCENT COURTOIS<br>
Aki Takase Piano<br> Louis Sclavis Clarinet<br> Vincent Courtois Cello<br>
<br>This is what 21st century chamber music sounds like. Permanently crossing the boundaries between contemporary composition and improvisation, with supreme virtuosity, flawless lyricism, and unreserved rhythmic daring, they fuse the entire wealth of forms of 20th century music with their respective personal roots, stories, and sonic expeditions off the beaten path to create a new universe.
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<br>NAÏSSAM JALAL - HEALING RITUALS
<br>Naïssam Jalal flute, nay, vocals | Clément Petit cello | Claude Tchamitchian double bass | Zaza Desiderio drums
<br>German premiere<br>
Naïssam Jalil's imaginary healing rituals give the sick body what it needs: silence, trance and beauty. The silence, so that he comes to rest, to contemplation and peace. The trance, so that he forgets pain and fears. The beauty, because it nourishes hope and the will to live that overcomes the ugliness of illness. The instrumentation of the quartet, except for the percussion, is classical chamber music.
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<br>DANIEL ERDMANN 6ET - RELATIONSHIP THERAPY
Daniel Erdmann tenor saxophone | Hélène Duret clarinets | Théo Ceccaldi violin | Vincent Courtois cello | Robert Lucaciu double bass | Eva Klesse percussion
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<br>The relationship that Daniel Erdmann wants to treat is that between France and Germany, driving force of European construction, and yet constantly in crisis. Erdmann works and lives in both countries, speaking with their cultural differences and the misunderstandings that occasionally arise from them.
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More information about the program can be found on the Jazzdor website.