Highlights from the 2015 Jazzahead! Festival
Jez Nelson presents highlights from the 2015 Jazzahead! event in Bremen, featuring Germany's Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra and musicians from Switzerland, Russia and Ukraine.
Jez Nelson presents highlights from the 2015 Jazzahead! event in Bremen, Germany - an annual music festival and industry expo that's one of the best places in Europe to spot new jazz talent.
This year marks Jazz on 3's third visit to the festival. Key discoveries include the Berlin-based Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra, an 18-strong band of young musicians who draw on everything from folk and big band jazz to progressive rock and modern chamber music. Combining disparate musical traditions to thrilling effect, they carve out soundscapes that are both intricate and vast.
Also in the programme, saxophonist Thomas de Pourquery, a leading figure on the French free scene, offers his take on the music of Sun Ra, and vocalist Almut Kühne and woodwinds player Gebhard Ullmann take us on an exploratory improvised journey. An exclusive alp horn demo from Russian multi-instrumentalist Arkady Schilkloper is a further highlight, while Swiss bassist Bänz Oester and his South African Rainmakers evoke a pantheon of spiritual jazz greats.
Presenter: Jez Nelson
Producer: Chris Elcombe.
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Bänz Oester and the Rainmakers in concert at Jazzahead! Festival, Bremen in April 2015
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Bänz Oester & The Rainmakers
My Love For You
Composer: Ayanda Sikade
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Arkady Shilkloper demonstrates the Alphorn
Arkady Shilkloper and Vadim Neselovskyi in concert at Jazzahead! Festival, Bremen in April 2015
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Alpine Sketch
Composer: Arkady Shilkloper / Vadim Neselovskyi
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Arkady Shilkloper & Vadim Neselovskyi
Spring Song
Composer: Vadim Neselovskyi
Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra in concert at Jazzahead! Festival, Bremen in April 2015
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Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra
In Light Of Turmoil, I
Composer: Daniel Glatzel
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Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra
In Light Of Turmoil, II
Composer: Daniel Glatzel
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Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra
Papaya Flyers
Composer: Daniel Glatzel
Almut Kühne and Gerhard Ullmann in concert at Jazzahead!, Bremen in April 2015
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Almut Kühne & Gebhard Ullmann
Drop Board
Composer: Almut Kühne / Gebhard Ullmann
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Almut Kühne & Gebhard Ullmann
Clouds
Composer: Gebhard Ullmann
Australian Art Orchestra in concert at Jazzahead!, Bremen in April 2015
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Australian Ska Orchestra
Djawulpurra
Composer: Trad.
Thomas de Pourquery and Supersonic in concert at Jazzahead!, Bremen in April 2015
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Thomas de Pourquery & Supersonic
Rocket No 9
Composer: Sun Ra
Line up:
Bänz Oester and The Rainmakers: Ghanesh Geymeier (tenor sax); Afrika Mkhize (piano); Bänz Oester (bass); Ayanda Sikade (drums)
Arkady Shilkloper and Vadim Neselovskyi: Arkady Shilkloper (horn, alphorn); Vadim Neselovskyi (piano)
Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra: Daniel Glatzel (director, tenor saxophone, bass clarinet); Laure Mourot (flute); Oliver Roth (flute); Richard Koch (trumpet); Magnus Schriefl (trumpet); Sebastian Hägele (bassoon); Jörg Hochapfel (piano, synthesizer, sampler); Anna Viechtl (harp); Kalle Zeier (electric guitar); Matthew Lonson (violin, melodica); Grégoire Simon (violin, melodica); Johannes Pennetzdorfer (viola, recorder); Martin Stupka (viola, recorder); Isabelle Klemt (cello, stamp whistle); Matthias Pichler (double bass); Julius Heise (vibraphone, percussion); Andi Haberl (drums, percussion)
Almut Kühne & Gebhard Ullmann: Almut Kühne (vocals); Gebhard Ullmann (tenor sax, bass clarinet, sampler)
Australian Art Orchestra: David Wilfred (vocals, didgeridoo); Daniel Wilfred, (vocals); Peter Knight (electronics, trumpet); Paul Grabowsky (piano); Tony Hicks (clarinets, saxes, flutes); Niko Schäuble (drums)
Arkady Shilkloper's Alphorn
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- Mon 14 Sep 2015 23:00Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3
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