The JazzFest 2003 will take place from 5 - 9 November, main venue will again be Haus der Berliner Festspiele. The Festival’s start-off will be dramatic: La Grande Illusion is what 12 musicians from ARFI (Association à la Recherche d'un Folklore Imaginaire), Lyon, and one magician call their quest for an imaginary folklore, possessing all the poetry, sense of humour and magic that can be inherent in jazz music.
A focus on Japanese music has been developed in cooperation with Tokyo composer and trumpeter Jun Miyake, who will perform with his band in Europe for the first time. It includes Masabumi Kikuchi solo, Satoko Fujii/Tasuya Yoshida Duo and singer Miharu Koshi
Peter Schulze, former musical director of Radio Bremen's cultural channel and new aritistic director of JazzFest Berlin, wishes to focus this year’s attention on the dialogue within and between smaller bands - which is really all that is needed to achieve an intense musical exchange, a rich musica povera. Guy Klucevsek/Phillip Johnston, Tin Hat Trio, Hans Reichel/Ruediger Carl, Eric Vloeimans Trio a.o.
According to Schulze, the conception of jazz should generally be a very open-minded one.
The JazzFest will encompass a lot of topical music - expressions of transcultural fusions, presented in highly individualist styles - as it is currently developed particularly in Europe, a continent with a high rate of migration.
New music from Old Europe, so to speak. Includes Louis Sclavis, Jon Balke from Norway a.o.
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