Sun. 10.November

21:00 OJE - Otto's Jazz Ensemble

Excess isn't bad. It makes things clear. But the insidiuous ailments that creep up on us gradually throw a fog over everything.
Heimito von Doderer

Lechner's music is "bad" but only in the complementary sense. His excessive creative power forces listeners to take a stand. Lechner's music doesn't creep up on us insidiously. Really not. His excessive stage presence poses an equal challenge to both his fellow musicians and listeners to espouse the unusual instead of apathy and the usual. Lechner's music doesn't gradually throw a fog over everything. Really not. His excessive sound structures give clarity to a dream from the happy days of childhood: That there will be no end to exciting stories...
RD
Admission: ATS 120.-


24:00 PianoNightLine Josef Novotny Trio

I can just imagine how this over-cautious janitor never ventures more than two steps away from the mouth of his den where he enjoys playing "the big cheese". There's nothing worse than when someone like him brings his whole cheese-footedness into the realm of art. The footprints he leaves there stink.
Heimito von Doderer

Josef Novotny, Franz Hautzinger and Max Nagl are not over-cautious in any (musical) respect and their program this evening certainly won't smell of cheese. Rather you can expect them to proceed light & sure-footedly through this Nightline, bringing a breath of fresh air into our venerable jazz den...
RD

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