Lois Gilbert
May-19th-2003, 10:46 AM
8th Darmstadt Jazzforum on improvisation in jazz
25. - 28. September 2003
Everybody can improvise, everybody has to improvise, improvisation
makes a human society possible. Only in jazz, though, improvisation
became a veritable art form. The 2003 edition of the Darmstadt
Jazzforum will take a look at the role of improvisation in jazz, its
impact on other musics as well as the influence it had on other art
forms and the example it can set for life in general. Invited are
musicologists to analytically look at specific examples of jazz
improvisation, sociologists to discuss the participatory ideas
imbedded in improvisation, psychologists to reflect upon what happens
between members of an improvising group (in music as well as in
general life), economists to have a look at the example which could
be taken from jazz for solutions to be made in higher management, but
also musicians to question all of the above and share their own
experiences with the musical phenomenon of improvisation.
Among the participants of the 8th Darmstadt Jazzforum are:
Christopher Dell, Larry Gushee (USA), Ekkehard Jost, Peter Kleiss,
Joachim Kühn, George Lewis (USA), Thomas Miessgang, Bert Noglik,
Martin Pfleiderer, Michael Rüsenberg, Paul Steinhardt, Peter Niklas
Wilson and others. The papers are read in German or English, no
simultaneous translation is provided.
The symposium from September 25th to 27th, 2003 is public and at free
entry.
Three evening concerts will shed a practical view at the subject.
Programmed for concerts at the Darmstadt venues Centralstation and
Kulturzentrum Bessunger Knabenschule are:
Friday, 26. September, Centralstation:
Eric Boeren Quartet with Michael Moore, Wilbert de Joode, Paul Lovens
Joachim Kühn Trio with Jean-Paul Celea, Wolfgang Reisinger
Saturday, 27. September, Centralstation:
Italian Instabile Orchestra
Sunday, 28. September, Kulturzentrum Bessunger Knabenschule
Matthew Shipp Trio with William Parker, Gerald Cleaver
About the Darmstadt Jazzforum:
The Darmstadt Jazzforum is a unique blend of scholarly conference and
festival organized every other year by the Jazzinstitut Darmstadt,
Europe's largest public jazz archive and highly regarded research
center. The world's only regular jazz conference centers around
specific subjects which are discussed at length during the three day
symposium at Darmstadt's Literaturhaus (fittingly situated in the
former John-F.-Kennedy-Haus) by scholars from different fields:
musicologists, sociologists, psychologists, literary critics,
journalists as well as musicians, who regularly participate
themselves to give their view of the subjects under discussion.
Former conferences centered around subjects such as "Jazz and
Composition", "Jazz and Language", "Jazz in Europe", "Jazz in
Germany", "Duke Ellington and what followed", "Jazz and Society".
25. - 28. September 2003
Everybody can improvise, everybody has to improvise, improvisation
makes a human society possible. Only in jazz, though, improvisation
became a veritable art form. The 2003 edition of the Darmstadt
Jazzforum will take a look at the role of improvisation in jazz, its
impact on other musics as well as the influence it had on other art
forms and the example it can set for life in general. Invited are
musicologists to analytically look at specific examples of jazz
improvisation, sociologists to discuss the participatory ideas
imbedded in improvisation, psychologists to reflect upon what happens
between members of an improvising group (in music as well as in
general life), economists to have a look at the example which could
be taken from jazz for solutions to be made in higher management, but
also musicians to question all of the above and share their own
experiences with the musical phenomenon of improvisation.
Among the participants of the 8th Darmstadt Jazzforum are:
Christopher Dell, Larry Gushee (USA), Ekkehard Jost, Peter Kleiss,
Joachim Kühn, George Lewis (USA), Thomas Miessgang, Bert Noglik,
Martin Pfleiderer, Michael Rüsenberg, Paul Steinhardt, Peter Niklas
Wilson and others. The papers are read in German or English, no
simultaneous translation is provided.
The symposium from September 25th to 27th, 2003 is public and at free
entry.
Three evening concerts will shed a practical view at the subject.
Programmed for concerts at the Darmstadt venues Centralstation and
Kulturzentrum Bessunger Knabenschule are:
Friday, 26. September, Centralstation:
Eric Boeren Quartet with Michael Moore, Wilbert de Joode, Paul Lovens
Joachim Kühn Trio with Jean-Paul Celea, Wolfgang Reisinger
Saturday, 27. September, Centralstation:
Italian Instabile Orchestra
Sunday, 28. September, Kulturzentrum Bessunger Knabenschule
Matthew Shipp Trio with William Parker, Gerald Cleaver
About the Darmstadt Jazzforum:
The Darmstadt Jazzforum is a unique blend of scholarly conference and
festival organized every other year by the Jazzinstitut Darmstadt,
Europe's largest public jazz archive and highly regarded research
center. The world's only regular jazz conference centers around
specific subjects which are discussed at length during the three day
symposium at Darmstadt's Literaturhaus (fittingly situated in the
former John-F.-Kennedy-Haus) by scholars from different fields:
musicologists, sociologists, psychologists, literary critics,
journalists as well as musicians, who regularly participate
themselves to give their view of the subjects under discussion.
Former conferences centered around subjects such as "Jazz and
Composition", "Jazz and Language", "Jazz in Europe", "Jazz in
Germany", "Duke Ellington and what followed", "Jazz and Society".