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Cologne Jazzweek | Evan Parker & Peter Evans
Evan Parker - Saxophon Peter Evans - Trompete AUSVERKAUFT - KEINE ABENDKASSE
(english: see below)
Ausverkauft - keine Abendkasse
Evan Parker - Saxophon Peter Evans - Trompete
Obwohl der Brite Evan Parker, 1944 geboren, und der US-amerikanische Trompeter Peter Evans, 1981 geboren, vom Alter her eine Generation auseinander sind, so sind sie sich in ihrer Haltung zur improvisierten Musik und ihrem Gebrauch von erweiterten Spieltechniken ähnlich. Der Saxofonist Parker war einer der ersten Improvisationskünstler*innen in Europa, der in sein Schaffen Solokonzerte integrierte, für das er ausschließlich Sopransaxofon spielte. Wie sein jüngerer Kollege Evans auf der Trompete setzt Parker auf auditives Streaming, bei dem eine Instrumentalstimme als zwei oder mehre Melodien wahrgenommen wird. Und auch wieder wie Evans erzeugt auch Parker dieses Phänomen durch die Verwendung vor allem von Multiphonics, Zirkularatmung und Spaltklängen. Und wer den Briten und den Amerikaner kennt, weiß, dass sie, wenn sie zur Duoperformance zusammenkommen, keineswegs ihre Improvisationsmusik zu technischen Kabinettstückchen degradieren. Vielmehr werden sie ihren gesamten Fundus spieltechnischer Errungenschaften dafür verwenden, um ihren ganz eigenen Melos dem Publikum offenzulegen.
http://evanparker.com/ https://www.peterevanstrumpet.com/ Zum gesamten Programm der Cologne Jazzweek 2026. – :Sold out
Evan Parker - saxophone Peter Evans - trumpet
Although the British musician Evan Parker, born in 1944, and the American trumpeter Peter Evans, born in 1981, are a generation apart in age, they share a similar approach to improvised music and their use of extended playing techniques. Saxophonist Parker was one of the first improvisational artists in Europe to incorporate solo concerts into his work, for which he played exclusively the soprano saxophone. Like his younger colleague Evans on the trumpet, Parker relies on auditory streaming, in which an instrumental part is perceived as two or more melodies. And, again like Evans, Parker creates this phenomenon primarily through the use of multiphonics, circular breathing, and split tones. And anyone familiar with these two artists knows that when they come together for a duo performance, they by no means reduce their improvisational music to mere technical feats. Rather, they will draw upon their entire repertoire of technical mastery to reveal their very own melodies to the audience.
Venue:
LOFT
The LOFT in Cologne's Ehrenfeld district is exactly what its name suggests: a spacious loft on the top floor of a former perfume factory. Since 1989 it has been home to the city's musical avant-garde as well as a scene hub and a jazz laboratory for students.
Over those decades it has grown into a respected stage for improvised music, contemporary music, and jazz, with a reputation reaching well beyond Germany. Most of the Cologne jazz musicians who have made their mark nationally and internationally in the past thirty years took their first career steps here, among them Nils Wogram, Hayden Chisholm, Angelika Niescier, Frank Gratkowski, Robert Landfermann, Pablo Held, and Sebastian Sternal.
The Cologne Triennale, WDR, and Deutschlandfunk stage concerts and recordings at the LOFT, and the venue has been invited to the Moers Festival five times. Its own label, 2ndFloor, releases selected recordings, and more than 1,000 live and studio productions made in the LOFT studio have appeared on other labels. Supported by the association 2ndFloor e. V. and the collective jungesloft, it presents over 200 events a year.
Top-tier instruments – including a Steinway D grand, one of the finest concert pianos in any German jazz club – a professional recording studio with award-winning engineers, and the room's distinctive atmosphere have drawn many prominent guests, from Lee Konitz, Steve Lacy, and Peter Brötzmann to Kurt Rosenwinkel, Marilyn Crispell, and Jim Black. Still, the programming focus remains on supporting Cologne's own musicians.
Since 2009 the LOFT has received the NRW venue programming award every year, an honor that specifically recognizes work with emerging regional artists. In 2016 the British Guardian named it one of the ten best jazz clubs in Europe, and at the German Jazz Prize it was voted "Club/Venue of the Year" in 2021 and again in 2023 — a category decided not by the expert jury but directly by the more than 1,300 members of the German Jazz Union.
More dates at LOFT:
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Tobias Hoffmann Trio | live recording
Tobias Hoffmann - Gitarre, Frank Schönhofer - Bass, Jan Philipp - Schlagzeug
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Finissage: Hyou Vielz – Der stille Chronist
Beginn: 11.30 Uhr, Ende: spätestens 13 Uhr
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Lariza
Lena-Larissa Senge - Gesang, Synthesizer, Lorenz Schönle - Saxophon, Flöte, EWI, Gesang, Raissa Mehner - Gitarre, Elektronik, Gesang, Duy Luong - Bass, Elektronik, Lukas Schwegmann - Schlagzeug, Elektronik
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Ein gemeinsamer Klang: Yaniel Matos & Radek Stawarz
Yaniel Matos - Violoncello, Piano, Stimme, Radek Stawarz - Violine
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Georg Graewe@70 - fifty years on record / day 01
Georg Graewe - Piano Solo, &, ACUTANCE:, Laura Strobl - Viola, Georg Graewe - Piano, Mark Sanders - Schlagzeug
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Georg Graewe@70 – fifty years on record / day 02
Georg Graewe - Piano Solo, &, ACUTANCE plus:, Frank Gratkowski - Klarinetten, Laura Strobl - Viola, Georg Graewe - Piano, Joe Williamson - Bass, Mark Sanders - Schlagzeug
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Bode · Zitt · Landfermann · Berger
Bruno Bode - Saxophon, Justin Zitt - Piano, Robert Landfermann - Bass, Leif Berger - Schlagzeug
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LAUGHING AT MAN KIND | live recording
Lisa Tracy Michalik - Sprache, Text, Nancy Meier - Altflöte, Bassflöte, Maxine Troglauer - Bassposaune, John Eckhardt - Bass, Liam Byrne - Viola da gamba, Tilo Weber - Schlagzeug, Komposition
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RENNER – Never Ending Story | live recording
Moritz Renner - Posaune, Tabea Kind - Bass, Valentin Renner - Schlagzeug
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Bishop/Müller/Muche/Block – Celebrate the Trombone! | live recording
Jeb Bishop - Posaune, Matthias Müller - Posaune, Matthias Muche - Posaune, Olivia Block - Elektronik, Tasten, Stimme