fri 09.02.

21:00 Marilyn Crispell Solo USA


"Hearing Marilyn Crispell play solo piano is like monitoring an active volcano. She is one of a very few pianists who rise to the challenge of free jazz." The New York Times
Marilyn Crispell's interest in jazz was lit primarily by the music of John Coltrane and Cecil Taylor but the strongest influence on her development came from Anthony Braxton, with whom she worked in a duo (as of 1978), in his quartet and in the Creative Music Orchestra. Furthermore, Crispell is a staple member of the Reggie Workman Ensemble and puts in occasional solo performances with Barry Guy's London Jazz Composers Orchestra. In recent times, she has been enriching her solo numbers which now, due to their intensity and virtuosity, are certain to make themselves felt by every one of her listeners! CH

Admission: ATS 120.-

24:00 Blaumarot Donau-Slang & Mississippi-Grooves


The young saxophonist deserts from the military band. The bassist defies the vicious circle of beer haze and bar music. The drummer is sloshed out of the gourmet restaurant of a ghost ship and down onto hard pavement. The '68 generation desperado falls for a sunflower smile. The singer kneads the fog, forms it into blue-red faces and paints texts on the walls of his cave. Searching for the right keyboard man, they stumble across a CD by the avant-garde "Novo" and realize they have found their man. They drive into the capital and shoot at the piano player; they abduct him and take him to a farm in an excellent wine-growing area for rehearsals. They choose the American bluesman Tom Waits to act as godfather and with him bring in the whole rhythmic cosmos of the Mississippi Delta. Then they work and rework the music until it molds around Friedl's peculiar, poetic texts like a custom-made glove. 0,7 truths about Blaumarot.

Admission: ATS 150.-
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