November 2019

 

The Sound Routes II presents

Sunday 24.11.2019 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 "Live in der Fabrik" by Jan Garbarek.

Besetzung

  • Charles Sammons: Bass
  • Eric Vaughn: Drums
  • Fuasi Abdul-Khaliq: Sax
  • Reggie Moore: Piano

 

"Live in der Fabrik" by Jan Garbarek

Jan Garbarek is a Norwegian jazz saxophonist who is also active in classical music and world music.

 

Garbarek's sound is one of the hallmarks of the ECM Records label, which has released virtually all of his recordings. His style incorporates a sharp-edged tone, long, keening, sustained notes, and generous use of silence.

As a composer, Garbarek tends to draw heavily from Scandinavian folk melodies, a legacy of his Ayler influence.

Garbarek's first live album Dresden was released in 2009. In 2005, his album In Praise of Dreams was nominated for a Grammy. Officium Novum, another sequel album, was released in September 2010.

In 1994, during  a period of heightened popularity for  Gregorian chants, his album Officium, a collaboration with early music vocal performers the Hilliard Ensemble, became one of ECM's biggest-selling albums of all time, reaching the pop charts in several European countries. It was followed by a sequel, Mnemosyne, in 1999.

He began his recording career in the late 1960s, notably featuring on recordings by the American jazz composer George Russell (such as Electronic Sonata for Souls Loved by Nature).



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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