October 2019

 

The Sound Routes II presents

Sunday 27.10.2019 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

  • Johan Leijonhufvud - guitar
  • Roland Satterwhite - violin
  • Matt Adomite - bass
  • Eric Vaughn - drums
     

"Swing From Paris" by Django Reinhardt & Stéphane Grappelli

 

Jean Reinhardt, known by his stage name Django Reinhardt, was a Belgian-born Romani-French jazz guitarist and composer, regarded as one of the greatest musicians of the twentieth century. He was the first jazz talent to emerge from Europe and remains the most significant.

Jazz guitarist Frank Vignola claims that nearly every major popular-music guitarist in the world has been influenced by Reinhardt. Over the last few decades, annual Django festivals have been held throughout Europe and the U.S., and a biography has been written about his life.

In February 2017, the Berlin International Film Festival held the world premiere of the French film, Django.

 

 

 

 

With violinist Stéphane Grappelli, Reinhardt formed the Paris-based Quintette du Hot Club de France in 1934. The group was among the first to play jazz that featured the guitar as a lead instrument. Reinhardt recorded in France with many visiting American musicians, including Coleman Hawkins and Benny Carter, and briefly toured the United States with Duke Ellington's orchestra in 1946.

 
 

 

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.

  

Become a fan of LITTLE BIG BAND!

 

   


  


The WERKSTATT DER KULTUREN is sponsored bye the senate departement of culture and Europe.
 

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