Wed. 22 Nov.

21:00 Session by Hautzinger/Stangl/Deppe

"In jazz, we're dealing with revolutions which already took place long ago in concert music but which determine or have determined the microstructure of this music. Jazz witnessed the relaxation of form somewhat later than classical music but according to similar schemas. Now the question which arises is what can still be done after everything has been destroyed? For me, the answer to this question is not "Wynton Marsalis," who has suddenly become a very peculiar, young keeper of the grail of tradition. There's no need for this nowadays when a whole generation of young musicians is concerning itself with jazz history." (mathias rüegg -- Wespennest, Zehn Bagatelles über den Jazz)

Revolution: "Complete change, turning upside down, great reversal of conditions, fundamental reconstruction." (The Concise Oxford Dictionary)

If revolutions occurred in the course of jazz history, they led not only to tides of destruction but also to waves of reconstruction, to the growth and establishment of new methods and understandings. Acknowledgement of these changes is crucial for the development of a tolerant approach to tradition and is a necessary precondition for any future revolution. Jam sessions held in other legendary locales have always provided the experimental setting for new musical formulations: Here, the "lions" of the established order have had confrontations with the new ways of the jazz "cubs" and vice versa. Perhaps the musical forum of this P&B session will succeed in finding a tentative answer to the question: What remains after the fall? RD

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