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Das „Forum Improvisierte Musik“ (FIM) macht einen Rundgang durch die Frankfurter Innenstadt. 11 Musiker und 2 Tänzerinnen veranstalten einen riesen Spaß an Frankfurter Unorten.

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"Die Letzte Hoffnung" playin' @ Jazzraum, Hamburg by Alex Kiausch

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"Die Letzte Hoffnung" is a forced union of four North German musicians in what one would actually think of as their best age. The baritone saxophonist and bass clarinetist Hauke Schlüter, the guitarist Jens Rathfleder, the bassist Michael Haupt and the drummer Jannik Stock, however, have found themselves in the abysses of contemporary jazz, in gloomy to headstrongly cheerful sound fields and thus usually in the deepest and darkest cellars of Northern Germany. They develop a music full of contrasts and a wide playful range from melancholic ballads and fragile sounds to free spheres and raging rock passages. The quartet cultivates an open sound, leaving room for interpretation for the listener as well as for the emotional development of the players. Not playing takes up at least as much space in their music as playing a tone. Highly communicative, spontaneous and willing to take risks, yet firmly rooted in the jazz tradition, the playing of the four instrumentalists is without doubt a very special listening experience. The compositions are contributed by the deep woodwind player Hauke Schlüter and the guitarist Jens Rathfelder. In the truest sense of the word "playful" is often the way the four musicians deal with these compositions, which are never performed on two evenings at once.

James Banner, Joe Wright, Ric Yarborough Trio by Garry Corbett

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James Banner, bass - Joe Wright, tenor saxophone - Ric Yarborough, drums

IL JAZZ E' UNA DELLE MIE GRANDI PASSIONI. by FRANCO600D

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JOHN COLTRANE E' RUVIDO COME LA TELA DEL JEANS MA ANCHE FORTE ALTRETTANTO.

La critica scoprì John Coltrane nel 1956 e allora i giudizi su di lui non furono molto positivi. Bollato come artista nihilista o addirittura «anti-jazz», fu frettolosamente accorpato nella schiera dei nuovi hard boppers e soprattutto dei giovani sassofonisti arrabbiati per la foga e la virulenza con cui suonava il sassofono.

Quella di Coltrane fu una ricerca infinita, un continuum che lo portò dal rhythm'n'blues ai suoni improvvisati, dall'hard bop alla musica modale, sempre alla ricerca del senso profondo dell'universo e della spiritualità. Non basterebbe un libro per narrare le sue avventure sonore con Miles Davis, con Thelonius Monk in cui faceva vibrare i suoi assolo nelle inimitabili «sheets of sound» (le cortine di note), del gruppo che legò grandi artisti per poi cristallizzarsi con McCoy Tyner al piano, Jimmy Garrison al basso e il rivoluzionario Elvin Jones alla batteria.

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trio north II by Herr Sharif

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Frankfurter Musikwerkstatt, März 2024

Mette Rasmussen, alto sax

Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, bass

Veslemøy Narvesen, drums

A L'arme Festival in Berlin

bass clarinet by Rudi Mahall by Alex Kiausch

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Katrin Zurborg with DOEK by Herr Sharif

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