October 2019

 

The Sound Routes II presents

Sunday 06.10.2019 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.

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In this edition of HOMAGE SESSION RELOADED, the World-Jazz-ensemble of the WERKSTATT DER KULTUREN, Little Big Band, plays the album "Eastern Sounds" by Yusef Lateef.

 

Line-Up

  • Fuasi Abdul-Khaliq - sax
  • Reggie Moore - piano
  • Eric Vaughn - drums
  • Umar Zakaria - bass
     

"Eastern Sounds" by Yusef Lateef

 


Eastern Sounds is an album by jazz saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef, recorded in 1961.

The album features Lateef's continued exploration of Middle Eastern music, which were incorporated into his version of hard bop with a quartet featuring Barry Harris on piano. The opening track features Lateef on Chinese globular flute, generally called xun. The fusing of musical genres was not a new thing in jazz or for Lateef as his 1957 album Prayer to the East incorporated the shehnai and Middle Eastern influences in playing jazz standards. Aside from Lateef's original compositions, there are covers of themes from the films Spartacus and The Robe, the last one being used as samples by Blockhead and Nujabes.

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

 

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