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Saxon Cultural Foundation 2009, more money for jazz than the year before


How does the keyboard of Saxon jazz promotion? Despite this increase remains a stepchild's Music: In the year 2008 the share of production was at the Jazz delivery Performing Arts / Music, only about 7 percent. (Photo: Christian Seidel / pixelio)

for the promotion of jazz and improvised music is the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony in 2009, € 78 200. They are more than 9,000 euros a year earlier. Regional organizers are spotted Leipziger the winners - 2009 will channel a 24,000 euros more than in 2008 in Leipzig on projects while Chemnitz and Dresden projects are funded with 15,000 euros less than in 2008 by the Saxon Cultural Foundation.

go in Dresden made savings primarily at the expense of innovative artistic and free projects. This gave the Jazz Festival worlds of jazz clubs New ton less, the festival of free improvised music of the Blue Factory absolutely no promotion. In Dresden spared from any cuts, however, are based more on the conventional and multi-point program, introduced in Dresden Jazz Days of commercial agency Grandmontagne. However
benefit in Leipzig just innovative and artistically free projects of financial increase and redistribution of funds from the Saxon Cultural Foundation.

To support these funding decisions contrary to the intentions of the applicant Dresdner organizer preconceived opinions from the public in the creative and the more conservative Leipzig Dresden.

The innovative, modern telecommunications technology inclusive improvisation project Chemnitz Jazz Academy (BIG Association for the promotion of music education e. V.) received no promotion, while based on music education goals and stylistic breadth Leipzig Improvisation Festival relocated after recently from Berlin Leipzig German Institute for Improvisation e. V. was immediately transported to 8000 €.

In 2008 the Scientific Advisory Board edited the Performing Arts and Music 261 claims, it was the abundant half (139) a positive response with a funding of € 1,031,623.65 together.

As part of the promotion of jazz and improvised music is vanishingly small. The share of jazz promotion in the delivery Performing Arts / Music in 2008 was only about 7 percent. available in 2009, yet the exact figures, "we have a similar number of corridor," as the deputy director, Dr. Manuel Frey Foundation says. The advisory board

Performing Art and music of the Cultural Foundation of Saxony reviews all grant applications and prepares for the annual two funding each recommendation. This recommendation will then by the board "almost always," Frey explained over and decided to promote.

Membership of the Advisory Board will run for three years, also "avoid rigidities to take account of new knowledge and benefit from new perspectives can," said Frey.

The current Advisory Board performing arts and music, also examined the Jazz the next funding requests, has seven members, including four experts for theater and dance, and three for music: the Leipzig church music expert Professor Chris Krummenacher, music historian and contactor expert Professor Matthias Herrmann from Dresden and Leipzig, the young composer Christian FP stuff.

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Johnny Gonzalez, 29 enthusiastic July 2009 in Dresden Blue Note


Like the Bolivians Johnny Gonzalez at yesterday's 29th July 2009 in Dresden Blue Note the song "Autumn Leaves" was played, both artistically impressive and for the piano art of South African jazz veteran revealing.

The song, 1945 by Joseph Kozma as a chanson "Les feuilles mortes" after a poem by Jacques Prévert composed, was first presented in 1946 by Yves Montand in the film "The Gates of the Night". Johnny Mercer wrote, inspired by the fate of a German Jew murdered in a concentration camp, to an English text, and the continuous round the world jazz standard "Autumn Leaves" was born, a well-known for his intense Wistful song. Johnny Gonzalez interpreted the piece while sad, but powerful, energetic phases, avoiding sentimentality in any situation. With the hard stop, tempo changes, insertions and motifs Nesting and a voltage-generating opposition of melodic ornamentation and sparse thematic sketch he created a kind of rebirth of this composition, you merely because of their tragic background should not necessarily "Evergreen" call.

Still other blues and jazz classics like "Summertime" by George Gershwin, "Blue Monk" by Thelonius Monk, "St. Louis Blues "by WC Handy, but above all" are Caravan "by Duke Ellington and Juan Tizol released yesterday at the Blue Note on interpretation of conventions. Johnny Gonzalez took the harmonies of the pieces to first sketch unknown translucent discharges, which then poured in rhythmic and metric variable-throughs, as cascades of melody and Akkordschwällen. Brilliant, as between ragtime, tango and boogie rhythms fluctuated, as he presented the same melody and bass runs in different tempos, as he once regretted short melodic fragments in the harmonic signal sequence - always acting with mercilessly played hard, precise, sometimes bulky or awkward. Gonzalez not clichés, and the processing of Latin American, even Indian melodies had none of El Condor Pasa-sentimentality, but a lot of full life, from waking sophistication of originality.

No doubt this was a Erzmusikant at work that weaves together own over decades with influences of other large, both from the diversity of Latin American musical cultures and from the recent encounters with game partners as Albert Mangelsdorff, Charlie Byrd and Elvin Jones draws. Johnny Gonzalez was an experience.

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