to be continued ...Saturday, April 19th 2008
3.00 p.m. to 4.30 p.m.
German Jazz Meeting (III): Anke Helfrich Trio, Enders Room, Hyperactive Kid
Focke-Wulff Saal, Congress Centrum Bremen (CCB)
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5.30 p.m. to 7.00 p.m.
German Jazz Meeting (IV): Silke Eberhard Quartett, Minsarah, Johnny La Marama
Borgward Saal, Congress Centrum Bremen (CCB)
Anke Helfrich Trio
Attractive and intelligent are words that don’t only apply to the person of Anke Helfrich but also, and in particular, to her music. Helfrich is back after a six-year break due to illnesss: fresh, provocative, and colourful she went straight to the upper reaches of the jazz charts with her second CD Better Times Ahead. In this CD a groovy mixture of Funk, Hardbop and Ballads reveals her versatility – a versatility whose style is not random but specific as it moves through contemporary jazz. Shades of Thelonious Monk and Horace Silver.
Musicians: Anke Helfrich (piano), Martin Gjakonowski (bass), Dejan Terzic (drums)
www.anke-helfrich.de; Anke Helfrich bei myspace
Recent CD: Anke Helfrich Trio feat. Roy Hargrove: BETTER TIMES AHEAD (Double Moon 2007)
Contact: Ina Lieckfeldt, Karsten Jahnke Konzertdirektion GmbH, Oberstraße 14b D-20144 Hamburg, Tel. ++49 (0)40 4147-8835, Fax ++49 (0)40 4147-8811, ina.lieckfeldt@karsten-jahnke.de, www.karsten-jahnke.de
Enders Room
In the tradition of Bugge Wesseltoft Johannes Enders’ live performances with his quartet show what happens when jazz is united with electronic sounds and rhythms. It has to be said that Enders Room is above all Johannes Enders himself. It is Enders who composes, shutting himself away in his studio, tinkering around for ages until he finally finds his way onto the stage with some very distinctive musicians. He is primarily interested in liberty and emancipation, in loops and grooves, but above all in jazz. In the meantime Johannes Enders is not only successful as a musician and composer but has also received the Silver Award, the SWR Jazzpreis, and the Neuer Deutscher Jazzpreis.
Musicians: Johannes Enders (sax, bcl, electronics), Stephan Schreiber (bcl, electronics), Jan Eschke (piano, fender rhodes), Andy Kurz (bass), Bastian Jütte (drums)
www.enders-room.de, Enders Room bei myspace
Recent CD: Enders Room: HOTEL ALBA (Intuition 2007)
Contact: Johannes Enders, Wankstraße 7, 82362 Weilheim, Tel./Fax ++49 (0)881 909-5823, info@johannes-enders.com
Hyperactive Kid
Hyperactive Kid is a trio of a very special kind. Not only that the listener searches in vain for a piano but the bass is missing, too. For Hyperactive Kid is Christian Lillinger, Ronny Graupe and Philipp Gropper or put differently, drum, 7-stringed guitar and saxophone. For more than 4 years the trio has lived, worked and composed together in Berlin and understands itself much more as a band in the classic sense than simply as a project. And for all their commitment to jazz, to the alternation of improvisation and structure, solos and harmonies, Hyperactive Kid does not have a band leader but only three individuals on equal footing.
Musicians: Philipp Gropper (sax), Ronny Graupe (guitar), Christian Lillinger (drums)
www.hyperactivekid.de; Hyperactive Kid bei myspace
Recent CD: Hyperactive Kid: HYPERACTIVE KID (Shoebill Music 2006)
Contact: info@hyperactivekid.de
Silke Eberhard Quartett
In times in which jazz musicians often devote themselves more strongly to pop or world music Silke Eberhard makes a clear statement with her commitment to the traditions of free jazz. What she wants is for her music to grapple with and combine what at first sight may seem to be contradictory: hidden marches with urban grooves, rigid structures with uncompromising improvisations, intellectualism with everydayness, retrospect and departure. Here, free jazz is still considered a distinction.
Musicians: Silke Eberhard (sax, bcl), Niko Meinold (piano), Andreas Henze (bass), Sebastian Merk (drums)
www.silkeeberhard.com; Silke Eberhard bei myspace
Recent CD: Silke Eberhard Quartett: MOHNMARZIPAN (Intuition 2006)
Contact: mail@silkeeberhard.com
Minsarah
Minsarah means prism, and for the pianist Florian Weber this stands for the breaking down of routine sound patterns… always with the aim of cutting new facets and developing new ideas. Florian Weber lives in Cologne and has for some time been one of the most celebrated pianists in Germany but he has also already given concerts and been a talking point in Japan and in the USA, too. And he is at the German Jazz Meeting for the second time – after appearing two years ago in the band of Angelika Niescier. This year he is performing with his international trio and his own compositions.
Musicians: Florian Weber (piano), Jeff Denson (bass), Ziv Ravitz (drums)
www.florian-weber.net
Recent CD: Florian Weber Trio: MINSARAH (Enja 2006)
Contact: Dialogzentrum Rhei-Ruhr GmbH, Christa Kamper, Tel. ++49 (0)2129 3797-0, Fax ++49 (0)2129 3797-606, ck@dzr-r.de
Johnny La Marama
An international trio with its base in Berlin: the versatile and energetic guitarist Kalle Kalima comes from Finland, bass player Chris Dahlgren from New York, and drummer Eric Schaefer originally from Frankfurt. Johnny La Marama is an adventure, a story, a bitter-sweet dream, an unfulfillable yearning, a pleasurable commitment to excessiveness, the ideal intersection of exaggeration and understatement, a stylish tastelessness, a foam bath in fiction, a timeless somewhere in nowhere, and yet still also the soundtrack to the everyday sameness of departure and return.
Musicians: Kalli Kalima (guitar), Chris Dalgren (bass), Eric Schaefer (drums)
www.kallekalima.com/band_johnny.htm; Johnny La Marama bei myspace
Recent CD: Johnny La Marama: FIRE! (Traumton 2006)
Contact: Kalle Kalima, Kreuzstraße 15, D-13187 Berlin, Tel. ++49 (0)30 4849-3936, Mobil ++49 (0)178 847-4632, info@kallekalima.com
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