European Jazz Conference Showcase: Florian Herzog Almost Natural

Sebastian Gille - Saxophon Chaerin Im - Piano, Synthesizer Florian Herzog - Bass, Komposition Leif Berger - Schlagzeug

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. Hinweis: Konzert im Rahmen der European Jazz Conferenz - Konzertbeginn 20.30 Uhr

Karten: 18,-€ / 12,-€ hier im Vorverkauf Tickets auch an der Abendkasse erhältlich (nach Verfügbarkeit)

Spannung und Entspannung, Akkord und Cluster, Puls und Beat, Bonus und Malus: Es sind oftmals Kontraste und Gegensätze, aus denen ein Kunstwerk seine Spannung zieht, und sich echte Schönheit einem erst dann zeigt, wenn diese durch einen Makel gekennzeichnet ist. Der Kölner Bassist und Bandleader Florian Herzog setzt in seiner Improvisationsmusik auch auf das Prinzip des Gegensätzlichen, ohne sich indes davon vereinnahmen zu lassen. https://florianherzog.info/ Von ähnlicher Bedeutung sind ihm nämlich auch musikimmanente Parameter wie Rhythmik und Dynamik, Harmonik und Melodik, wie er sie zusammen mit Sebastian Gille, Chaerin Im, Leif Berger zu entfalten versteht. Dadurch kommen Eigenschaften zum Tragen, die garantieren, dass der aktuelle Jazz noch an Spannung gewinnt und zudem energetisch aufgeladen wird, wenn Antizipation und Interaktion im Flow der vier Musiker:innen der freien Improvisation Struktur und Form geben. https://chaerinmusic.com/ https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian_Gille https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Berger Klingt so: https://youtu.be/kD6RL5grZvY

Sebastian Gille - saxophone Chaerin Im - piano, synthesizer Florian Herzog - bass, composition Leif Berger - drums

. Note: Concert as part of the European Jazz Conference—concert begins at 8:30 p.m.

Tickets: 18,-€ / 12,-€ here in pre-sale Tickets also available at the box office (depending on availability)

Tension and release, chord and cluster, pulse and beat, bonus and malus: it is often contrast and opposition from which a work of art draws its tension, and true beauty only reveals itself once marked by a flaw. Cologne-based bassist and bandleader Florian Herzog also builds on the principle of contrast in his improvised music, without letting it take him over entirely. Just as important to him are music-immanent parameters such as rhythm and dynamics, harmony and melody, which he explores together with Sebastian Gille (saxophone), Chaerin Im (piano, synthesizer), Leif Berger (drums) and himself on double bass. The result is a quality that guarantees contemporary jazz gains even more tension and becomes energetically charged, as anticipation and interaction within the flow of the four musicians give structure and form to free improvisation.

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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.

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