Jazzclub Ilmenau e.V.
The dates for the 47th Ilmenau Jazz Days are now in the third attempt!
From Wednesday, April 20, 2022 to Sunday, April 24, 2022, numerous concerts will take place at various locations.
Wed, 20.04.22 - 8 p.m
School leisure center in Ilmenau
RUN LOGAN RUN
Run Logan Run is a head-on collision of pounding tribal drums and screaming guttural saxophone. The duo regularly flirts with fragility and raw power.
With a passion for improvisation, spiritual jazz and heavier experimental music, they wrote their own history of crossover jazz and shared the stage with The Bad Plus and Shabaka Hutchings, among others. In 2019 they received the Montreux Jazz Talent Award.
Andrew Neil Hayes – saxophones, electronics
Matt Brown – drums, percussion
Thursday, April 21, 2022 - 8:00 p.m
St. James Church Ilmenau
PAIER-VALCIC-PREINFALK
Fractal Beauty is dynamism and virtuosity, timeless and fragile, the perfect sound from Vienna by three of Europe’s most renowned jazz musicians.
Paier has been exploring the nuances of the accordion and bandoneon for decades, stylistically switching between jazz, world music and classical elements.
All three musicians contribute their own compositions and thus continue to develop their creative paths between jazz, contemporary, classical and world music. Within the notated forms there is plenty of room for subtle trio improvisation and solo highlights.
Klaus Paier – accordion, bandoneon
Asja Valcic – cello
Gerald Preinfalk – soprano sax, clarinet, bass clarinet
Fri, 04/22/2022 - 8:00 p.m
Double concert – Helmholtz lecture hall TU Ilmenau
Achim Kaufmann – piano solo
Resonance and reverberation, space and density play an important role in Kaufmann’s solo work. He combines freely improvised performances with polyrhythmic structures and compositions by Monk and Herbie Nichols.
“Achim Kaufmann has been one of the most inspiring and exciting personalities on the European jazz and improvisation scene for many years. His music shows great harmonic subtlety and structural depth. A brilliant pianist and composer, his reflective engagement with tradition has led him to a nuanced, contemporary sonic language that embraces poetry, energy and abstraction in equal measure.”
Julia Neupert, SWR
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mokete mokete
Gripping, densely layered (jazz?!) music. Cool, vibrant, funky, hypnotic. Like a Jim Jarmusch soundtrack!
Let’s think of a raw and original mix, of Mingus, Jaga Jazzist, Medeski/Martin/Wood & Weather Report, the electronic Davis with a pinch of Madlip and Afro – all committed to the spirit of improvisation: every gig and every note is unique in the moment and beyond.
Five exceptional instrumentalists who reinvent themselves as soon as they enter the stage and in this band do what is the logical concept behind it: follow their musical instincts.
Jérôme Bugnon – trombone
Johannes Schleiermacher – saxophones, synth
Dirk Berger – guitar
Beat Halberschmidt – bass
Daniel Schroetler – drums
Sat, 04/23/2022 - 8:00 p.m
Double concert – Audimax TU Ilmenau
Five times five
Five times five are five young musical personalities who combine their energy in five different ways in this band project.
This creates worlds between jazz, world, odd meter, rock and lots of new ideas.
The merging of the tone colors of saxophone and violin, with the simultaneous use of the voice, creates very unique sound textures.
Constanze Friedel – violin, voice
Anna Keller – saxophone, clarinet, flute
Jakob Stain – piano
Vuk Vasilić – bass
Markus Gruber – drums
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Shake Stew
Hardly any other band has turned the Central European jazz scene upside down in recent years like Shake Stew. Something has started rolling here that has never existed in this form before. And it doesn’t seem to be slowing down! From the very beginning, the formation created by bassist and composer Lukas Kranzelbinder was surrounded by something mystical, which in live concerts unleashed an immensely compelling effect that very few could escape. “Something comes out of this band that is new and special – and extremely attractive,” wrote ZEIT in its analysis and no matter which side of Shake Stew you ultimately follow more violently: your body will continue to vibrate for a long time after the last note!
Lukas Kranzelbinder – double bass, e-bass, guembri, bandleader
Astrid Wiesinger – alto sax
Johannes Schleiermacher – tenor sax, flute
Mario Rome – trumpet
Oliver Potratz – double bass, electric bass
Niki Dolp – drums, percussion
Herbert Pirker – drums, percussion
