The Sound Routes II presents

Sunday 20.10.2019 4pm | Café

Admission: pre sale 5 € plus fee / box office 10 €, 5 € (reduced), 3 € (Berlin Pass)

Organizer: Werkstatt der Kulturen

Production

HOMAGE SESSION RELOADED

Jazz musicians worldwide absorb different influences and traditions and in so doing drive different kinds of developments. Particularly Berlin, a city characterised by migration, exile and high mobility, is a place where classical and traditional music genres from various regions of the world are defining and rejuvenating the Jazz scene of Berlin.

After the phenomenal success of HOMAGE SESSION in 2018, we are following up with HOMAGE SESSION RELOADED. At the launch of HOMAGE SESSION, the in-house World Jazz ensemble LITTLE BIG BAND was formed.

Homage Session reloaded follows a format whereby during the first set a World-Jazz album is presented as musical focal point. During subsequent jam sessions, other musicians from various origins continue reworking the album.

In this edition of HOMAGE SESSION RELOADED, the World-Jazz-ensemble of the WERKSTATT DER KULTUREN, Little Big Band, plays WorldJazz by Benny Golson.

Line-Up

• Fuasi Abdul-Khaliq - sax
• Reggie Moore - piano
• Marlon Browden - drums
• Umar Zakaria - bass

Benny Golson

Multitalented and internationally famous jazz legend, - a composer, arranger, lyricist, producer - and tenor saxophonist of world note, Benny Golson was born in Philadelphia, PA on January 25, 1929. Raised with an impeccable musical pedigree, Golson has played in the bands of world famous Benny Goodman, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Earl Bostic and Art Blakey.

Few jazz musicians can claim to be true innovators and even fewer can boast of a performing and recording career that literally redefines the term "jazz". Benny Golson has made major contributions to the world of jazz with such jazz standards as: Killer Joe, I Remember Clifford, Along Came Betty, Stablemates, Whisper Not, Blues March, Five Spot After Dark, Are you Real?

Benny Golson is the only living jazz artist to have written 8 standards for jazz repertoire. These jazz standards have found their way into countless recordings internationally over the years and are still being recorded. He has recorded over 30 albums for many recording companies in the United States and Europe under his own name and innumerable ones with other major artists. A prodigious writer, Golson has written well over 300 compositions.

For more than 60 years, Golson has enjoyed an illustrious, musical career in which he has not only made scores of recordings but has also composed and arranged music for: Count Basie, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Sammy Davis Jr., Mama Cass Elliott, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Shirley Horn, David Jones and the Monkees, Quincy Jones, Peggy Lee, Carmen McRae, Anita O'Day, Itzhak Perlman, Oscar Peterson, Lou Rawls, Mickey Rooney, Diana Ross, The Animals (Eric Burden), Mel Torme, George Shearing, Dusty Springfield.

LITTLE BIG BAND

Whether at a concert hall or opera house, theatre or ballet - a permanent artistic ensemble is standard for most cultural institutions. In the jazz genre however, jazz big bands tend to be found only at public service radio stations. In the past, there were various initiatives to establish a permanent location in Berlin in which to play jazz, but for a long time these were in vain - until the birth of the LITTLE BIG BAND - the in-house World Jazz ensemble of the WERKSTATT DER KULTUREN. A novelty. The in-house World Jazz ensemble of the WERKSTATT DER KULTUREN, 'LITTLE BIG BAND', is a dynamic ensemble of jazz and world musicians whose members change according to whose world jazz compositions are being performed. Within the framework of HOMAGE SESSION RELOADED, the fixed core of musicians are aided by colleagues from the THE SOUND ROUTES project - depending on what type of work of a respective world jazz composer is played and interpreted. Saxophonist Fuasi Abdul-Khaliq is the band leader of the LITTLE BIG BAND and curator of the concert series HOMAGE SESSION RELOADED.

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