Reykjavik Jazzfestival 14. – 29. August 2010
Concerts in the Nordic House
Reykjavik Jazzfestival 14. – 29. August 2010
Concerts in the Nordic House
14.00 An exciting experiment for the whole family Free
Play an instrument under new and peculiar circumstances.
20.00 The New Iceland Liberation Orchestra Kr 1500
This large ensemble is lead by saxophonist Haukur Gröndal and the music is by his colleague Óskar Guðjónsson – inspired by current events. Thus the band is named The New Iceland Liberation Orchestra!
16.8.2010
20.00 Sunna Gunnlaugsdóttir Kr 2000
Pianist Sunna Gunnlaugsdóttir presents her latest cd “The Dream” wich rose immediately to no 20 on the CJM playlist of jazz on American radio.
17.8.2010
20.00 Trio Kyrill Kr 2000
Achim Kaufmann is a Berlin-based pianist and composer who became fascinated by jazz and the possibilities of improvisation as a teenager. He studied music at the Conservatory in Cologne and took classes with creative masters such as Dave Holland, Steve Coleman, Muhal Richard Abrams, George Lewis, and Steve Lacy.
From 1996 to 2009, he lived in Amsterdam where he became part of that city's internationally renowned improvised music scene. In 2007, he recorded kyrill, a set of compositions for piano trio featuring Valdi Kolli and Jim Black. Achim has played and/or recorded with Han Bennink, Chris Speed, Mark Dresser, George Lewis, Steve Swallow, Tobias Delius, Johannes Bauer, Gerry Hemingway, Wolter Wierbos, Lê Quan Ninh, Lori Freedman, Peggy Lee, Paul Rutherford, Peter Brötzmann, Thomas Lehn, Paul Lovens, Dylan van der Schyff, Tomász Stanko, Tristan Honsinger, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Mark Helias, John Hollenbeck, Simon Nabatov, Misha Mengelberg, David Stackenäs, Okkyung Lee, Steve Argüelles, Nils Wogram, and many more. He was awarded the prestigious German SWR Jazz Award in 2001.
19.8.2010
20.00 and 22.00 Django Bates Belovéd Bird Trio Kr 2500
Having heard Charlie Parker's music from my birth onwards, I knew it was good in the way that I knew that food was good. It was nutrition: a life force. At a time when my school friends started worshipping football players, my father seized his moment and lent me “Bird Lives”; a highly romanticized view of the life of Charlie Parker. I found my hero.
Living in a boring suburb of London, I was virtually alone in my special interest. I took to whistling Bebop tunes on train station platforms in the hope of meeting other Bird obsessives, and surprisingly this actually paid off. I met saxophonist Steve Buckley through a whistled song, (which is also the way that feathered birds meet), and we rehearsed every Sunday for a year. We ruined his father's collection of Parker 78s by slowing them down to 16 rpm and lifting the needle up every 2 beats in order to unravel the fascinating horn lines.
In 2005 I was asked to contribute to a celebration of the life of Charlie Parker at Copenhagen Jazz House. I used the opportunity to arrange compositions that I most associated with Parker; tracks like Scrapple From the Apple, Hot House, Billie's Bounce, Laura, My Little Suede Shoes, Now's the Time…
The acoustic piano trio is a constellation beloved of jazz listeners and players throughout the world. Seeing the Bill Evans trio at Ronnie Scott's club weeks before he died, and The Bad Plus in Cambridge, were two of my most memorable musical experiences. I decided to use the classic trio line-up for my exploration of Bird's music.
20.8.2010
20.00 The Reykjavík Big Band and Maria Babtist Kr 2000
The Reykjavik Big Band furthers its relationship with German big band composer and pianist Maria Baptist. Maria´s big band work includes work with the German State Broadcasting Big Bands as well as bands abroad. She also holds a position at the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin. Her work with the Reykjavik Big Band started 2008. Among the pieces at this concert is the new “Iceland suite” especially written for this occasion.
21.8.2010
20.00 IKI is EXPLOSION! Free
Transparent harmonies. Fragile spider-web tales. Boiling, grim stories. Everything composed in the moment!
The main ingredients in IKI's vocal music are spontaneity, improvisation and intuition. The nine young women, who have roots in Norway, Finland, Denmark and Iceland, came together in 2009 with a strong common denominator: curiosity and a desire to explore the human voices and its many sounds and facets. All nine musicians are individual singers with a strong profile.
IKI improvises totally free and out from various musical dogmas. They work with soundscapes, sound colour, language, harmony, melody and rhythm – only by using their voices. IKI experiments with awakening all senses, by using movement, colours, light and by incorporating the surrounding space in the music. A concert with IKI is a unique auditive and visual experience. IKI creates art in the now. Anything can happen!
IKI is: Anna Mose, Johanna Sulkunen, Mari Tveito, Sofie Holm, Mia Marlen Berg, Anna María Björnsdóttir, Guro Tveitnes, Kamilla Kovacs, Mette Skou.
22.8.2010
14.00 An exciting experiment for the whole family Free - In our greenhouse
Play an instrument under new and peculiar circumstances.
24.8.2010
20.00 Daníel Friðrik Böðvarsson and Ari Bragi Kárason Kr 1500
This duet of two of Iceland's most promising artists presents original music. Trumpeter Ari Bragi currently lives in New York where he furthers his studies while guitarist Daniel Fridrik graduated last spring and plans to pursue the music abroad this coming fall. Although quite young they have both already played their way to the top of Icelandic jazz.
29.8.2010
14.00 An exciting experiment for the whole family Free
Play an instrument under new and peculiar circumstances.
More information about the festival www.reykjavikjazz.is
