In the history of jazz, Frankfurt occupies a very central position in Germany. The Main metropolis can look back on a very eventful and, above all, influential jazz history, which can still be felt in many places in the city today. Yet this style, which has shaped many other musical subjects, is often afflicted with prejudices. Many people think of jazz as atonal sequences of notes that hurt their ears a little, of Dixie morning pops at folk festivals, of bebop or of the free jazz of the 60s and 70s that took more than a little getting used to. But jazz is much more. Jazz is versatile, colorful and unpredictable - and maybe that's why it fits so well to Frankfurt.
And there, more precisely in the cozy living room of the Living Hotel Frankfurt. a new jazz series will come to life from 20 October, in which the versatility of jazz, but also its influence on contemporary pop and rock music, will once again be made clear - and by true professionals of their guild. In "Jazz? We Can!" six of the hottest young German acts get going. The artists, selected and presented by Munich music journalist ("Süddeutsche Zeitung") and jazz par excellence expert Oliver Hochkeppel, play once a month in an intimate, relaxed atmosphere. And all that with free admission. Who wouldn't become a jazz fan there.
Let's get started with the wildest brass player of the German musical landscape, the Allgäu jack-of-all-trades Matthias Schriefl, who has lived in Cologne for a long time and is known for his motley outfits, his wry wit, his outstanding technique on trumpet, flugelhorn, forest horn or alphorn and his pieces juggling with jazz and folk music of all kinds and origins. It is always exciting with him, whether he plays with American or European top jazz musicians, with new folk musicians from the Alpine region or, as in the Living Hotel, with Indian Karnak percussionists and Lars Andreas Haug on the tuba.
Strong voices must of course also be present in "Jazz? We Can!" are not missing: Stephanie Boltz sings her way through music history in November in the extraordinary duo Le Bang Bang with bassist Sven Faller in her very own pop way. Johanna Schneider loves it a bit more classical in the first Jazz Night in February 2019 in a duo with the outstanding pianist Laia Genc. Saxophonist Max Merseny has already been hailed as the new David Sanborn. However, he enriches his hip soul-jazz, here accompanied by the exceptional guitarist Ferdinand Kirner, with accelerating current ingredients from electro to hip-hop.
With LBT, the trio of the namesake Leo Betzl on piano, Maximilian Hirning on bass and Sebastian Wolfgruber on drums, the big sellers travel to Frankfurt. From the Kurt Maas Jazz Award to two Hansjürg Hensler Prizes and the New German Jazz Award (as the rhythm section of the Vincent Eberle Quintet), plus various honours as part of the Jazzrausch Bigband - there is hardly a prestigious honour that they do not have to show for themselves barely two years after graduating. With their techno jazz program, which they play at "Jazz? We Can!", they recently won the BMW Welt Jazz Award. The outstanding duo of two already established but still brash virtuosos will finish the round in April 2019: guitarist Andreas Dombert and pianist Chris Gall have often proven their groundbreaking creativity between sensitive minimalism, Latin moods and grooving urban jazz. So - off to the Living Hotel Frankfurt, because: Jazz? Yes, we can!
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Dates:
Matthias Schriefl 20.10.18 | Le Bang Bang 14.11.18 | Max Merseny & Ferdinand Kirner 14.12.18 | Johanna Schneider & Laia Genc 11.2.19 | LBT - Leo Betzl Trio 19.3.19 | Andreas Dombert & Chris Gall 12.4.19
Where:
Living Hotel Frankfurt, Mailänder Str. 8, 60598 Frankfurt
