From 20.03. - 29.03. found in the mechanical workshop old melting the 23rd St. Ingbert Jazz Festival (Saarland) instead. The location does have its Charm; industry Pure Romance ... The catering sector, however, was dismal and in St. Wendel in jazz concerts more. Partly due to the renovation, which are currently made at the complex of the old steel and iron plant, part of the old belief that jazz fans do not know anyway to celebrate. Who know's ... Unfortunately, I could see this year, only 4 gigs:
Viktoria Tolstoy band
The great-great-granddaughter of writer Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy played with classic trio line-up. I could not help it, I heard a little Silje Nergaard , Solveig Slettahjell , Fredrika Stahl , Rebekka Bakken , Sara Isaksson , Rigmor Gustafsson , Torun Eriksen etc. Viktoria Tolstoy and sounds like one of the Nordic jazz sirens, but like all the others, with a very own style. Times closer to pop, sometimes closer to the Jazz. Nice to hear. In Victoria Jazz fans were, however, sufficient for their costs, especially when Nils Landgren for two to three titles came on stage and the concert tour started well.
Nils Landgren - Respect
respect! Nils Landgren had specially made for the St. Ingbert Festival is a project going. The idea: Some of the best musicians of Europe to unite in a band. Including Nicole Johänntgen from Saarbrücken, who was with the drummer, Julie Saundry from France, the best in the ensemble. Each of the young women had composed one of the titles. The first issue of a decent swing, the second a "respectable" radio. Good start. After that the band sounded a bit like long "United Jazz and Rock Ensemble" to "Live in the clubhouse." Overall, the tracks were arranged by common super (Nils?).
The great-great-granddaughter of writer Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy played with classic trio line-up. I could not help it, I heard a little Silje Nergaard , Solveig Slettahjell , Fredrika Stahl , Rebekka Bakken , Sara Isaksson , Rigmor Gustafsson , Torun Eriksen etc. Viktoria Tolstoy and sounds like one of the Nordic jazz sirens, but like all the others, with a very own style. Times closer to pop, sometimes closer to the Jazz. Nice to hear. In Victoria Jazz fans were, however, sufficient for their costs, especially when Nils Landgren for two to three titles came on stage and the concert tour started well.
Nils Landgren - Respect
respect! Nils Landgren had specially made for the St. Ingbert Festival is a project going. The idea: Some of the best musicians of Europe to unite in a band. Including Nicole Johänntgen from Saarbrücken, who was with the drummer, Julie Saundry from France, the best in the ensemble. Each of the young women had composed one of the titles. The first issue of a decent swing, the second a "respectable" radio. Good start. After that the band sounded a bit like long "United Jazz and Rock Ensemble" to "Live in the clubhouse." Overall, the tracks were arranged by common super (Nils?).
alone, it was missing something. Well, first appearance in this formation, young people, sophisticated arrangements ... Irgentwie but lacked the final determination, the target orientation. Maybe I am a little spoiled ... Still, good show!
Axel Schlosser quartet
Axel Schlosser said it seriously. Very serious. What struck me first was the absence of a harmony instrument. Drum, bass, two horns. Phew ... is probably a tough thing. Was it too. Technically very good but a little too intellectual. For German, I almost said. I lacked a bit of humor, which is known from U.S. artists, the self-irony. "Do not forget to smile" would be quoted spontaneously. The bottom line but a decent jazz workpiece.
Sun Ra Arkestra
And then I was tense. I had Sun Ra Viewed 1998 in The Hague in North Sea Jazz Festival . I remember a lasting impression. A band with abgespacte felt 18 saxophones, dancers, lots of percussion and a poet on stage ... I was not here entttäuscht. A combo with three 80-year-old cracks and a lot of young people cool, 6 horns, lots of percussion, piano, guitar, drum, all in glittering costumes. The music is a daring tightrope walk between a cruiser and a chapel Bootsy Collins concert. Sometimes it sounded like 50's swing, sometimes to the Space Radio, sometimes just zawinulesk. In the middle of the concert, then it escalated.
And then I was tense. I had Sun Ra Viewed 1998 in The Hague in North Sea Jazz Festival . I remember a lasting impression. A band with abgespacte felt 18 saxophones, dancers, lots of percussion and a poet on stage ... I was not here entttäuscht. A combo with three 80-year-old cracks and a lot of young people cool, 6 horns, lots of percussion, piano, guitar, drum, all in glittering costumes. The music is a daring tightrope walk between a cruiser and a chapel Bootsy Collins concert. Sometimes it sounded like 50's swing, sometimes to the Space Radio, sometimes just zawinulesk. In the middle of the concert, then it escalated.
The first Saxophonist jumped off the stage into the audience, followed by the ecstatic dancing trombonist, who performed a Dervish dance. While the second best saxophonist in Johnny Winter-style on your back cast, and he aroused the multiple notes and micro-stand, and played as his solo. At the same time led to the "80-year-olds" at a break dance on stage. The whole reached its climax when the band leader Marshall Allen unpacked his EVI and a kind of solo played with extremely loud, synthetic extraterrestrial sounds. A horny concert!