The programme of Jazzfest Berlin 2022 is announced and tickets go on sale this morning. The press release begins:
“After the two hybrid festival editions with digital bridges to New York, Johannesburg, Cairo and São Paulo due to the pandemic, Jazzfest Berlin 2022 returns to the resonant physical space of the here and now, and welcomes over 150 musicians from all over the world to the Haus der Berliner Festspiele and surrounding venues from 3 to 6 November.”
LINK: FULL TEXT OF PRESS RELEASE
UK musicians are prominently featured. Before the festival proper there is a “Kick-Off” evening on 30 October, for which Alexander Hawkins has been given a major commission to be performed in the Boulez-Saal. Later, there are concerts involving – for example – Chelsea Carmichael, Sheila Maurice-Grey, and John Surman (in a trio with Lucian Ban and Mat Maneri)
FULL PROGRAMME
30.10.2022
Musho (UK, SE)
Alexander Hawkins sextet (UK, SE, US) World premiere with Alexander Hawkins, Sofia Jernberg, Nicole Mitchell, Tomeka Reid,Gerry Hemingway, Matthew Wright – DETAILS
03.11.2022
The Hemphill Stringtet (US), European premiere
Hamid Drake’s Turiya : “Honoring Alice Coltrane”, feat. Naïssam Jalal (US, UK, FR, NO, IT)
Craig Taborn (Commande) (US, PT), World premiere
The Brother Moves On : “$/He Who Feeds You… Owns You”, feat. Chelsea Carmichael (ZA, UK) European premiere
Lumpeks (FR, PL)
Mette Rasmussen Trio North (DK, NO, US), German premiere
Rodrigo Amado’s The Bridge (PT, DE, US, NO), German premiere
04.11.2022
Sven-Åke Johansson : “MM Schäumend – Overture for 15 hand fire extinguishers” (SE, FR, DE)
Karja / Renard / Wandinger (EE, DE, FR)
Brötzmann / Bekkas / Drake (DE, MA, US)
Playing the Haus
Carl/Grip/Johansson // Die Hochstapler // Umlaut Big Band // Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors // Ullén/Bergman/Lund // Synesthetic4 // Camille Émaille // Tarozzi/Walker // OTTO
05.11.2022
Asher Gamedze : “Dialectic Soul” (ZA), German premiere
KOMПOUSSULĂ (FR, UA, PL, AU, TR, BE, RO), World premiere
Matana Roberts : “Coin Coin Chapter Four : Memphis” (US, CA), World premiere
I AM : “Beyond” (US), German premiere // Isaiah Collier & The Chosen Few : “Cosmic Transitions” (US)
Black Sea Songs (TR, BE, RO)
Sun-Mi Hong Quintet : “Third Page : RESONANCE” (KR, UK, IT)
Ban / Surman / Maneri : “Transylvanian Folk Songs” (UK, US, RO), German premiere
06.11.2022
“Kiezkonzerte” : improvised concerts in sites in the district of the Festspielhaus
Gurdjieff Ensemble : “Zartir” (AM), German premiere
Sven-Åke Johansson : “Stumps” (SE, FR, DE)
Jeff Parker : “Forfolks” (US)
Borderlands Trio : “Wandersphere” (US, CA)
Ben LaMar Gay Ensemble : “Open Arms to Open Us” (US, IT)
Gard Nilssen’s Supersonic Orchestra : “If You Listen Carefully the Music is Yours” (DK, NO, PL, SE)
Quartabê : “Lição #2 : Dorival” (BR)
Melting Pot (PL, BE, AT, NO, GR), German premiere
Emil Storløkken Åse (Victoria, Oslo), Hanne De Backer (Handelsbeurs, Gent), Zbigniew Chojnacki (Jazztopad, Wroclaw), Beate Wiesinger (Jazzfestival Saalfelden), Evi Filippou (Jazzfest Berlin)
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