Anton Bruckner and the jazz orchestra - a genius of Western music history in connection with the traditional jazz ensemble, the big band?

If you look at current developments in the field of jazz, you will see that a large number of prominent musicians are striving to combine the musical language of jazz with classical music. Enriching one's own vocabulary, adding new sound facets to traditional orchestras and seeing new possibilities for expanding one's own sound language are the motives behind the efforts to approach other traditions.

Already in the first half of the twentieth century, composers of classical music and jazz were intensively engaged in building a bridge between the two areas.

With the project "Deference to Anton Bruckner", the composers of the "Upper Austrian Jazz Orchestra" have set themselves the task of creating compositions inspired by Anton Bruckner's symphonic works. The brief was to take up elements of Bruckner's musical language, spin these ideas further and create structures from which independent compositions can be derived.

With this concert program, the "Upper Austrian Jazz Orchestra" presents itself as a modern and experimental orchestra. This orchestra is able to compose at the highest level. Concertgoers looking for new musical impressions in a jazz context will find what they are looking for on this evening.