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Details: The Luxembourg Jazz Meeting is being held on 28 – 30 September 2012 at the Abbaye de Neumunster in Luxembourg-Grund and features a host of Luxembourg professional musical talent, specifically active in the jazz music scene.
The inaugural edition of this event, promoted by music:LX, Luxembourg’s music export agency, CCRN and JAIL, showcases the high standard of Luxembourgish Jazz musicians who bring the new jazz scene to the public in and around Luxembourg.
The participating musicians include the following:
Marc Demuth - Over the past several years, Luxembourgian bassist Marc Demuth has emerged as a strong new voice in the European jazz scene. He has shared the stage with many famous musicians and over the last decade he has won prizes at international Jazz Competitions in Belgium and in France, as well as touring Europe and Brazil with the European Jazz Orchestra under Portuguese bandleader and composer Pedro Moreira. He headsthe jazz department at the Echternach Music School in Luxembourg. Marc will be performing with Canadian bassist Alain Bedard who, aside from his impressive career as a musician, is also the President and founder of Effendi Records, a label under which he has realised more than 30 CDs.
Michel Reis, pianist and composer, studied classical piano with Serge Bausch, and jazz piano, composition and theory at the Conservatoire de la Ville de Luxembourg and the Berklee College of Music in Boston, USA, and the New England Conservatory of Music. Currently based in New York City, he has released three albums under his name: A Young Mind and Fairytale (Waltzing-Parke Records), and Point of No Return (Armored Records). He has performed at many of the world’s most famous jazz clubs and festivals, including the Montreux Jazz Festival.
At the Luxembourg Jazz Meeting, Michel Reis and Marc Demuth team up with drummer Paul Wiltgen – they have performed as a trio since 1998 while in High School. Now reunited, this impressive collective of individual talents is once again eager to share their experiences as well as their new compositions with their audience.
The Maxime Bender 4tet move away from the typical jazz routine as we’ve come to know it. The safety of the usual harmonies and rhythmical structures that usually shape a jazz 4tet’s identity and behaviour are dissolved and recycled into something fresher, freer, newer and certainly more exciting, opening up new spaces of spontaneous composition, direct and instant musical communication, always aiming for a totally uninhibited flow of creative energy.
The young and upcoming musicians of “4s” (spoken: “four’s” = “force”) have always stayed connected to and in Luxembourg, the country from which the band members originated. From their first time playing together at a spontaneous concert in 2009, the chemistry was right. After some writing, rehearsing and searching for the right sound and energy, the result is a fresh blend of modern improvised music, drawing influences from alternative rock, pop and hip-hop, without forgetting the classical and jazz tradition.
Born in Luxembourg, Claude Pauly settled on guitar at the age of 16, with the electric guitar becoming a main focus, leading him through various blues, rock and experimental bands, and eventually to study and play jazz fusion. At London’s Guitar Institute he studied with fusion guitarist Shaun Baxter and also refined his skills as a composer and arranger. Back in Luxembourg, he wrote and produced radio and TV jingles for various Luxembourg-based stations, as well as music for film and theatre and began teaching. Claude is currently involved in film scoring as well as TV and cinema commercials and his own CDs.
Apfelbaum - The duo was born through the encounter between French singer Celia Tranchand and Luxembourgish vibraphonist Jérôme Klein. Their contemporary universes intertwine and take you through a luminous, rhythmic and pure music. Where these dynamics intersect, Apfelbaum certainly provides a new perspective on the art of the duo.
Pascal Schumacher has been described as a “Goldsmith” in his art, a boundary-pushing musician, a resourceful improviser and an imaginative composer. He is a laureate of no less than three of Europe’s most notable Conservatories from his hometown of Luxembourg as well as those in The Hague, Strasbourg and Brussels. He now teaches at the Luxembourg Conservatory and in the HFM (Hochschule für Musik) in Saarbrücken, Germany.
Established in 2003, SAXITUDE is a creative saxophone quartet from Luxemburg, who set out to develop a unique sound with an original repertoire of jazz compositions, pop songs and improvised music. One of the most successful saxophone quartets in Europe, the quartet develops its sound by drawing upon influences from the wide variety of the different projects in which the musicians are involved.
Roby Glod is working or has recently been working with musicians such as Herb Robertson, Klaus Kugel, Roberta Piket, Mark Tokar, Christian Ramond, Peter Perfido, Jacques Pirotton, Ernst Bier, Kent Carter, Eric Echampard, Bruce Eisenbeil, Michiel Braam, Frank Gratkowski, Burton Greene, Stefan Heidtmann, Catherine Kontz, Mat Maneri, Terry McManus, Stephan Oliva, Michel Pilz, Michael Vatcher, Wolter Wierbos, Ania Zielinska and many others. His singing has been described as a drizzle of crystalline notes, bunched with massive and coloured cadences and dissonant floods, making his sound ‘mineral’ with a majestic hallmark.
.ZIP - Born in Luxembourg in 1982, Maxime Bender studied at Musikhochschule Köln as well as the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles. He has played at many of Europe’s most famous Jazz clubs and festivals and has won a number of important awards. Oliver Lutz was born in 1986 in Germany and studied double bass in Mannheim before studying in Cologne in Cologne. He has played in venues and at festivals all over Europe. Anne Paceo has played in 34 countries around the world, as leader of her own band «triphase» and with the cream of international jazz since she was 17.
Born in Sapporo, Japan in 1989, Shohei Yamaki grew up listening to the great rock and jazz guitar masters of the second half of the 20th century, including the wealth of guitar tones and styles that emerged out of America and Europe. By the time of his 20th birthday in 2010, he could emulate practically any guitar sound and style. He fought off 150 entrants to win the Sapporo International Jazz Festival in 2010 and he was invited to the Toronto International Jazz Festival. At such an early stage in his career, the musical world is in for a number of elegant surprises. Shohei is currently touring Asia and Australia for the promotion of his new album in which he shows his different styles such as Hip Hop and Rock as well as presenting himself as a vocalist for the first time.
Formed in 2004, the Benoit Martiny Band’s roots are in the dusty garage of its leader’s house, in the small Luxemburgish village of Rameldange. Drummer Benoit Martiny and his band mates developed an original musical style that draws its identity from the composite background of the musicians, ranging from jazz and blues to garage rock, trash, experimental noise. The band released “Jazz goes Garage” in 2005, their first album, and only in 2008 they released a second one, which was recorded in Brussels and was simply called “Benoit Martiny Band”. In the same year they also won the 1st prize of the 2008 Amersfoort Jazz Talent Award and have performed in many different venues all over Europe (Italy, Luxembourg, Germany, Hungary, Austria, The Netherlands, France, …).
Ernie Hammes & Cubop - Trumpet player Ernie Hammes’ latest album, Sanfrancha, was motivated by the cultures he experienced while playing in San Francisco, California in 2010. It features his band “CUBOP” as well as many international guest artists. The original compositions are strongly Latin-influenced. He has performed as sideman or soloist in over 25 countries world-wide with performers including Chaka Khan, Maynard Ferguson & Big Bop Nouveau, the Dizzy Gillespie All Star Big Band, the Duke Ellington Orchestra, Slide Hampton, Randy Brecker, Claudio Roditi and Bob Mintzer. From being the principal trumpet player in the Luxembourg Army Band to leading a big band in 1994, he became the musical director of the Luxembourg Jazz Orchestra.
PROGRAMME
Friday 28 September 2012
19.30 Marc Demuth & Alain Bedard
20.00 Michel Reis Solo
20.30 Reis, Demuth & Wiltgen
21.00 Entracte
21.20 Maxime Bender 4tet
21.50 4S
22.30 Claude Pauly’s Mindmatter
Saturday 29 September 2012
19.30 Apfelbaum
20.00 Pascal Schumacher / Sylvain Rifflet
20.30 Saxitude
21.00 Entracte
21.20 Roby Glod Trio
21.50 .ZIP
Sunday 30 September 2012
11.30 Shohei Yamaki
12.00 Benoit Martiny Band
12.30 Ernie Hammes & Cubop
Venue: Abbaye de Neumunster in Luxembourg-Grund
Organiser: LX, Luxembourg’s music export agency, CCRN and JAIL
Price: free
Ticketing:
URL: www.jail.lu & www.musiclx.lu & http://www.ccrn.lu/Culture/Offre-diversifiee/Programmation/Autres/Luxembourg-Jazz-Meeting-2012-Friday-28-September-2012-7-30-00-pm
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