CZECH PREMIERE

Ole Morten Vågan – acoustic bass, compositions
Sofia Jernberg – voice
Josefin Runsteen – violin
Eivind Lønning – trumpet
Eirik Hegdal – saxophone, clarinet
Fredrik Ljungkvist – saxophone
Amalie Dahl – saxophone
Espen Reinertsen – saxophone, bassclarinet
Øyvind Brække – trombone
Alex Zethson – piano
Marianne Baudouin Lie – violoncello
Vegard Bjerkan – synth
Håkon Mjåset Johansen – drums
Gard Nilssen – drums

Trondheim Jazz Orchestra is one of Europe's most acclaimed and creative jazz ensembles. Formed in 2000, the orchestra has collaborated on a great number of interesting projects with renowned names on the Norwegian as well as international jazz scene, including Chick Corea, Pat Metheny, Joshua Redman, Erlend Skomsvoll, Eirik Hegdal, Sofia Jernberg, Maria Kannegaard, Kim Myhr, Jenny Hval, Stian Westerhus, Ståle Storløkken, Kristoffer Lo, Marius Neset, and many others. The size and instrumentation of the orchestra vary from project to project; this enables them to work with a wide range of repertoire. At the concert in Hradec Králové, Trondheim Jazz Orchestra will play the music from the Plastic Wave record, composed by renowned bassist Ole-Morten Vågan. He will join a large ensemble comprising the crème de la crème of Scandinavian jazz. As the Czech Republic has never had the opportunity to welcome the elite of that scene in such number, we believe we are going to witness a unique musical experience.

TICKETS

https://www.trondheimjazzorchestra.no/project/ole-morten-vagan

Peter Brötzmann – saxophone, clarinet / Steve Swell – trombone / Paal Nilssen-Love – drums

A living legend of global free jazz and guru of European music improvisation scene, the German saxophonist and clarinetist Peter Brötzmann with his international trio.

The musician, this year celebrating his seventy fifth birthday, will give an exclusive performance at the festival Jazz Goes to Town. This will be his second appearance in the Czech Republic in his life. Brötzmann began his career in late 50s in Dixieland bands, since mid 60s already actively co-creating the European free jazz scene.  In 1968 he recorded his cult album Machine Gun, until now considered one of the most remarkable freejazz albums.  As an instrumentalist mastering nearly all types of saxophones and clarinets Brötzmann has become famous for his quick power jazz play.  Thus he transformed the American freejazz influence towards power, eruptive, vigorous playing appealing to the punk, noise and "super-style" experiment audiences.

PERFORM: 20/10 at 7 pm, BIO CENTRAL 

Tickets at door 300 CZK

www.peterbroetzmann.com
www.steveswell.com
www.paalnilssen-love.com

Anton Goudsmit – el. guitar / Bart Wirtz – flute, altsaxophone / Cyrille Oswald – flute, tenorsaxophone / Tini Thomsen – bass clarinet, barytonsaxophone / Miguel Boelens – tenor and barytonsaxophone / Jan van Duikeren – trumpet / Rob van de Wouw – trumpet / Louk Boudesteijn – trombone / Romain Bly – French horn / Frans Cornelissen – trumpet / Reinier Bass – el. guitar / Johan Plomp – double bass / Mark Schilders – drums

Czech premiere of the thirteen-member big band of the Netherlands headed by the virtuoso jazz guitarist Anton Goudsmit. One of the climaxes of this year's JGTT.

The NRJ Orchestra of the Netherlands is an outstanding example of how contemporary, original, authentic and free can modern jazz big band be.  Its performance of absolutely unbound by conventions, and does not lack detachment as well as the wish to play jazz absolutely without any academism.  The ensemble radiates vital energy, authorial invention, performing sovereignty and pure joy of playing.  The combination of NRJO with the phenomenal jazz guitarist Anton Goudsmit will offer exceptional experience appealing to adherents of all spectra of modern jazz.

PERFORM: 21/10 at 7 pm, BIO CENTRAL

Tickets at door 350 CZK

www.rotterdamjazzorchestra.nl
www.antongoudsmit.nl

Shabaka Hutchings – tenor saxophone / Theon Cross – tube / Seb Rochford – drums / Tom Skinner – drums

A nowadays British jazz superstar, returning jazz to its African roots. A band joining members of the famous Polar Bear or Acoustic Ladyland for the first time in the Czech Republic! The final concert of the festival in a unique industrial space of a former car repair shop in Novák Garages building, accessible to the public on this single occasion only.

Sons Of Kemet draw inspiration from traditional Caribbean and West African music, Ethiopian jazz, dub and funk.  The doubled percussion with bass lines of the tuba create thick grooves entered by unusual saxophone melodies adding hypnotic evil-eyed atmosphere to the band's play.  Their concerts offer distinctive euphoric trance atmosphere. Their music is embodiment of fire.

PERFORM: 22/10 at 10.30 pm, NOVAK'S GARAGE

Tickets at door 250 CZK

www.sonsofkemet.com
www.spitalfieldsresounded.com/shabaka-hutchings

Ken Vandermark (USA) – saxophone, clarinet / Christof Kurzmann (A) – elektronics / Tim Daisy (USA) – drums / Jasper Stadhouders (NL) – bass guitar

An exclusive concert of an international quartet building bridges between jazz improvisation, electronic music, funk and reggae grooves and contemporary classical music.  

The compositions of the quartet spring from Ethiopian traditional and jazz music, combined with influences from composers John Cage and Morton Feldman and inspiration by funk grooves. Although the music is composed, its material can be spontaneously combined and varied by the individual players, thus keeping the overwhelming tension and the spell of the unpredictable.  The quartet is headed by the American saxophonist Ken Vandermark – globally one of the most creative musicians in the field of progressive jazz and free improvisation of the past 20 years.

PERFORM: 22/10 at 7 pm, FILHARMONIE HRADEC KRÁLOVÉ

Tickets at door 350 CZK

www.kenvandermark.com
www.timdaisy.wordpress.com
www.ckurzmann.blogspot.com
www.jasperstadhouders.wordpress.com

Andreas Schaerer – sing, beatbox / Andreas Tschopp – trombone, tube / Matthias Wenger – alt and soprano saxophone / Benedikt Reising – baryton saxophone, bass clarinet / Christoph Steiner – drums, marimba / Marco Müller – double bass

An exclusive concert of a Swiss sextet headed by the phenomenal vocalist A. Schaerer bringing a musical sensation opening brand new musical horizons to the listeners.

The performance of this band looks like a common jam session of Charles Mingus, Frank Zappa, Kurt Weill and Sun Ra together with Zurich dadaists trying to combine jazz chanson with cabaret, freejazz with a strange polka, Dixieland with dadaist opera.  The perfectly harmonised play of the sextet works as a single body with the head represented by the original vocalist A. Schaerer. His expression ranges from song form via jazz scat and operatic bell canto to absolutely overwhelming vocal performance including beat box and rap. The band members are not left behind their bandmaster and thus the performance often transforms into a spontaneous stage creation.

PERFORM: 22/10 at 7 pm, FILHARMONIE HRADEC KRÁLOVÉ

Tickets at door 350 CZK

Live Foyn Friis (NOR) – sing / Stian Swensson (NOR) – guitar / Luboš Soukup (CZ) – saxophone / Rastislav Uhrík (SK) – double bass / Martin Novák (CZ) – drums

A star of Scandinavian jazz vocal of the 21st century loved by music critics – the young Norwegian singer Live F. Friis with an international quartet.  

Live Foyn Friis is often called the Scandinavian jazz superstar of 21st century.  Her sophisticated composed music is an original combination of jazz elements with electronics, rock and Indian pop.  Her outstandingly authentic vocal performance disposes with an extraordinary scale of pitches and timbres.  She can be dreamy and fragile, evil-eyed and urging, crystal clear and earthy raw, larky playful and sharp as laser.

Iva Bittová (CZ) – violin, singing / Didrik Ingvaldsen (NO) - trumpet / Radim Hanousek (CZ) – saxophone / Marian Friedl (CZ) – double bass / Dag Magnus Narvesen (NO) – drums

A Norwegian and Czech quartet with the globally recognised violinist, singer and composer Iva Bittová balancing on the brink of modern jazz and free improvisation.

Iva Bittová's rich career including remarkable solo projects also includes multiple cooperations with a number of world famous musicians from the folk, classical music, jazz, rock and dance music genres (among others Bang On A Can, F. Frith, B. McFerrin, B. Frisell, M. Ribot). Their compositions by NOCZ combine contemporary experimental jazz and classical jazz and freejazz structures.  Their typical features include vigorous play with rapid dynamic breaks, combining composed passages and collective improvisations, strong melodies and accurate work with rhythm.

PERFORM: 18/10 at 7 pm, KLICPERA'S THEATRE –  STUDIO BESEDA

Tickets at door 350 CZK

Frank Parker (USA) – drums / Mike Parker (USA) – double bass / Slawek Pezda (PL) – tenor saxophone

A trio with excellent rhythmical section, whose expression is based on pure rock energy, classical sensitivity, colourfulness of the avant-garde and rhythms and harmonies of modern jazz.  

The composer and bassist from New York Mike Parker, together with the double nominee for the Grammy prize, the drummer Frank Parker, and the Polish tenor saxophonist Slawko Pezda sophisticatedly and originally combine jazz and punk. Classical and avant-garde outbursts, drum'n'bass with jazz improvisations. The result is fresh and unpredictable, with detachment as well as spontaneity, with a big portion of electrifying energy.

PERFORM: 19/10 at 7 pm, DRAK THEATRE STUDIO

Tickets at door 250 CZK

www.mptheory.com

Jaromír Honzák – double bass / Marcel Bárta – saxophone / David Dorůžka – guitar / Vítek Kříšťan – piano / Martin Novák – drums

A quintet of the major Czech jazz bassist who still keeps looking for new musical challenges and paths.  

The bassist J. Honzák steps beyond the genre by his membership in the Eben Brothers Band, in the experimenting Sato San-To or by his cooperation with I. Bittová. Compositions of the latest album of Honzák called Uncertainty form the backbone of his quintet repertory where he surrounded himself with outstanding personalities of Czech jazz. The music of the quintet is distinguished with a shared sense of specific super-genre musical language, being atmospheric and at the same time charged with strong inner dynamism and energy.

PERFORM: 21/10 at 7 pm, BIO CENTRAL

Vstupné na místě 350 Kč

www.jaromirhonzak.com

Michal Wróblewski – saxophone / Jan Pisklák – guitar, electronics / Vladimír Micenko – double bass / Jan Chalupa – drums/ Vladan Malinjak – violin / Milan Jakeš – violin / Ilia Chernoklinov – viola / Šimon Marek – violoncello

Unique composed improvisational suite by Michal Wróblewski Workohology for Kvintesence string quartet and jazz E Converso.

Workohology is partly composed and partly controlled improvisation based on special instructions, gesture and programmes.  It is not the traditional performance of E Converso band supported by string quartet as usual in jazz.  It is absolutely unusual cooperation of eight musicians whose interactions penetrate both ensembles.

PERFORM: 20/10 at 7 pm, BIO CENTRAL

Tickets at door 300 CZK

Vladislav Šarišský – piano, zpěv / Filip Hittrich – bass guitar / Marián Slávka – drums

A super-genre trio of Bratislava offering original and intense jazz fusion full of various moods, unexpected detours, different timbres and deep emotions.   

The music produced by the trio steps beyond genre boundaries between jazz, art rock, pop, funk and contemporary classical music.  Their music makes an impression of absolute devotion to joint musicianship, maximum individual engagement and unrivalled performing synergy. The individual compositions are strongly melodic.  They are made of alternating more cultivated lyrical sections and vigorous punk virtuosity.  Despite all the dynamic and melodic upturns the music is sealed by kind of under-stream generated by and carrying away the trio.

PERFORM: 19/10 at 7 pm, STUDIO DIVADLA DRAK

Tickets at door 250 CZK

Pavel Hrubý – saxophone, bass clarinet / Michal Nejtek – piano / Daniel Šoltis – drums

A unique chamber jazz project of a trio of leading figures of local contemporary jazz with overlaps into classical music, improvisation and world music.  The saxophonist Pavel Hrubý is known in the Czech jazz environment mainly thanks to the Limbo band and also for his open approach to musical creation welcoming any experiment and musical influence.  The basic approach of his new chamber trio springs from improvisation, spiced with composed themes, harmonic basis or rhythmical-melodic grooves. Their concerts are marked by maximum mutual interaction, enthusiasm and creative freedom.

Dutch masterclass with an excellent guitarist and composer Anton Goudsmit. A unique opportunity for students of guitar playing all genres to meet the star of the Dutch jazz guitar and get an inspiration to their own musical development.

Anton Goudsmit is one of Holland’s leading jazzguitarists. He’s co-founder of and guitarist for the progressive Dutch jazz-actsThe Ploctones and New Cool Collective. In 2010, he received the Boy Edgar Prize. 

22/10 at 2 pm in DRAK THEATRE STUDIO

Participation fee 300 CZK

www.antongoudsmit.nl

Cécile Boiffin – marimba

A solo recital for marimba and voice of French composer, percussionist and marimba player in the acoustically unique space of Priest Ambrosius Chapel by Architect Josef Gočár.

Cécile Boiffin will present a programme consisting of her own compositions for marimba and percussion and the piece Time for marimba by the Japanese composer Minoru Miki. The compositions by C. Boiffin are based on contemporary classical music, jazz and ethnic music.  C. Boiffin has for nearly two decades been member of the Chamber Philharmonic of Pardubice. In addition to classical music performance she also appears and soloist or band members in ensembles performing various different genres (jazz, world music, traditional African music).

Admission voluntary / free

Ondřej Zámečník - akordeon
Vít Beneš - guitar
Tomáš Vrtek - keyboards
Adam Sikora - drums

Admission voluntary / free

Tomáš Zápotocký - guitar, efects
Zdeněk Tománek - saxofon
Jan Kusovský -  bass giutar, efects
Petr Nohavica - drums

Admission voluntary / free

Final afterparty - mix of jazz, trip hop, dub and ethno music with spicy jungle beats.

Admission voluntary / free