thurs 23.1

21:00 Koch/Schuetz/Studer Hardcorechambermusic CH

Switzerland -- which was once as orderly as a handshake between bankers (around 1940 or so) -- is undoubtedly heading towards disaster. The army has given up its last battalion of carrier pigeons. They have long since stopped hand-milking their alphorns. And now this: Hans Koch, Martin Schuetz and Fredy Studer are not making jazz anymore, but rather are making whatever jazz is about. (Nick Liebmann, Neue Zuercher Zeitung)

Now, seriously, here's today's question (send your answers to the ORF jazz desk!): What IS jazz all about? Does it have to do with the sociable klinking of beer mugs? With lending a helping hand in matters of sex? Or maybe, does it have to do with the vital, malleable and undogmatic music -- the jazz pompes funebres -- that jazz morticians play as their funeral march? If even Axel Melhardt, Grand Inquisitor of the secret jazz police, has begun expounding on the decline of tradition and propriety because (modern?) jazz has been made to suffer at the hands of some charlatans (Jazz Post, 11/96), it's possible that a little (electro)shock therapy of the kind delivered by Koch/Schuetz/Studer may be welcomed by the somewhat psychohygenically-neglected jazz clientele. Plus some additional medication: A beat as merciless as the Confederation's immigration authorities; chamber-musical interaction as precise and luxuriously executed as Swiss clockwork; samples (by Gyorgy Ligeti, Napal! m Death, Elliott Sharp) as cutting as a Swiss Army knife; compositions as rugged as the Matterhorn; as international as the Red Cross... By the way, in the meantime we have come up with the correct answer to our quiz question, which we can now share with you: This music will change mankind! (Werner Luedi)
KP
Admission: ATS 120.-


24:00 VocalNightLine Anna Lauvergnac & Achim Tang & Ingrid Oberkanins

After the Hardcorechambermusic, a program of Smoothvocaljazzstandards, charmingly interpreted by Anna Lauvergnac and seasoned with her own blend of Italian temperament and Viennese melancholy. With feminine percussion support by Ingrid Oberkanins. Angel Eye!
CH
Admission: ATS 120.-


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