Jazz in all variations

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Jazz in all variations

When the jazzclub bamberg was founded in 1974, jazz was not dead, according to a much quoted saying by frank zappa, but allegedly only smelled a little funny. Zappa contributed a lot to keeping jazz alive in the years before and after 1974, just as countless other musicians have done.

While jazz in a commercial context became increasingly soft-spun in the 1970s, and thus actually no longer made a very good impression, it was able to assert itself successfully in a niche market. And one such niche is undoubtedly the jazzclub bamberg, which will be celebrating its 45th anniversary in the coming season – in impeccable health, of course.

The potential is huge: whether with classical, folk, world music, rock or punk – jazz can be combined with practically any kind of music.

Also special concert planned

The bamberger club therefore offers a diverse autumn program and celebrates the anniversary with a special concert.

But in order: the "lazarev project group" opens the season on 21. September with world-class fusion jazz. The trio from bonn around guitarist igor lazarev borrows from rock, funk and latin and combines the whole thing with virtuoso craftsmanship to a driving mix of styles.

One week later, on 28. September, a strong concert is coming up: "the three ladies elegantly spanning an arc between tango, pop, jazz, bossa nova and world music. They often sing in three voices, play piano and bass. The styles are a colorful mix. They sometimes spoke english, sometimes bavarian.

Scandinavian jazz enjoys continuing popularity and should therefore also be performed on 19. October at the jazzclub, when the "daniel karlsson trio" will perform guest from norway.

Cosmopolitan music

Jazz pianist daniel karlsson will venture a crossover to classical music and electronics. Nordic jazz mixes with sounds from the middle east to create a cosmopolitan music that does not let itself be held back by national and genre boundaries.

A week later, on 26. October, visitors can look forward to the anniversary concert with the "matthias gmelin sextet" look forward. The drummer and bandleader is inspired by classic new york modern jazz. He will be accompanied by the renowned saxophonist jason seizer, who will give the concert that special something with his thoughtful and profound playing. Jazz trumpeter johannes faber and the exceptional musician tim collins (vibraphone) will also be playing.

According to the organizers, jazz club members can expect a little surprise at the box office. So early booking is recommended.

In november you can look forward to further fine concerts. On 2. November is the incredibly versatile drummer gunther baby sommer with his band to experience.

Home game in the cellar

And on 8. And 9. November johanna schneider comes home to the keller for the second concert with saxophonist hubert winter. The singer from bamberg is a "rising star" among the young jazz singers and has a strong following in the city.

Jazz lovers should also make a note of the last two concerts of this month: on 23. November comes the quartet "tiktaalik", which promises sophisticated, but at the same time down-to-earth and humorous compositions against all genre boundaries, and on 30. November the "izabella effenberg trio" performs accompanied by the multi-instrumentalist matthias schriefl on.

Other concerts at the club are given by local heroes like hale bopp and the "schweinsohr selection". Concerts start at 21 o’clock. Advance orders are possible through the website

May 16, 2023 by 0Comments
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Under the motto "habfurt in motion the habfurt aktiv action group (AHA) and the city of habfurt organized this year’s spring market, which was very well received by guests from the habberge district and beyond. Not only because of the first bicycle bourse of the AHA, where 18 children’s, women’s and men’s bicycles were offered for sale, an incredible number of visitors had come to habfurt by bicycle.
This is how mayor peter kraus from gadheim had started his sunday excursion to habfurt on his bicycle with his wife and two children. "We cycled along the main cycle path and now we want to eat an ice cream and look around the shops", said peter kraus.
Councilwoman helene rumer and her husband josef from prappach in turn had cycled to the county seat to look for a bicycle for their granddaughter. Elfriede and hans szczecina from gochsheim were also among the hard-working rompers. "Our bike tour today took us to habfurt, because we always like it here very much", they told. While enjoying ice cream and drinks, they listened to the band "no nonsense", who entertained the guests with swing and jazz in the market place. "A rough praise to the musicians", said hans szczecina, and his wife added: "without culture, life would be boring."
Music was also provided by the children of the habfurt elementary school, sylbach schoolhouse, under the direction of their teachers heike heumann and anja ruff. They sang several songs and after a rough applause by the numerous spectators collected for the action chernobyl children. Each donor received a card with a spring poem painted by the children. Afterwards, the students received a small gift from mdb sabine dittmar in the SPD deputy’s office, before the opening of the exhibition with pictures of children from chernobyl took place there.
"We would like to offer our office also for picture exhibitions to local artists", said sabine dittmar at the vernissage. "We would like to thank erwin koch from unfinden, who founded the chernobyl aid in 1991 and also initiated a painting competition. For he has provided us with the pictures of the children aged ten to fifteen, which can also be purchased from us until mid-july." The proceeds from the sale will be donated to the chernobyl aid.
Everybody had chosen the date of the chernobyl catastrophe, the 26th day of the year. April 1986, imprinted in his own way, and it is important to remember it even today, he said. "Because it reminds us that nuclear power is uncontrollable, sabine dittmar emphasized. She is happy about the phasing out of nuclear energy and about the fact that the last nuclear reactor in germany will be taken off the grid in 2022.
Andreas linder, who visited the exhibition with his daughter eva, reported that he had been in the german army at the time of the chernobyl disaster. "We had to guard the whey train with the contaminated whey powder, which was stationed in our barracks in straubing", he paid.
The program of the spring market also included performances by the "dance crew fit 4 life" under the direction of christina neumer and carolin bittner on the marketplace filled with visitors. The five dance groups, the dance dwarfs, dance minis, dance kids, dance funnies and teens, with their 70 dancers of various ages, received thunderous applause for their impressive performances. As a reward, everyone was treated to an ice cream donated by the AHA.
At the stand of the traffic police and the habfurt police, children could win nice prizes in a quiz, while traffic educators dominique heim and matthias krapf talked about "bicycle safety" informed and distributed flyers.
In addition, the market traders, who offered jewelry, watches, cloth, household appliances, cards, sunglasses, soaps, bags and much more, were just as popular as the ice cream parlors and cafes.
AHA adviser hachem farmand said this evening that he was very pleased with the rough response that the program offered in the marketplace found among the guests and the people of habfurt. He described the first bicycle flea market as a partial success, since in addition to the bicycle accessories, half of the bicycles on offer were sold by their owners. "However, there was more interest in the bicycles in the lower price segment. Therefore, the offer and the sale can certainly be optimized at future events", he said.
Traditionally, open sundays are very busy days for the retail and catering industry. A flash poll conducted by AHA consultant hachem farmand before the end of the event confirmed this trend, and the respondents were very satisfied. Certainly, the interesting offers in the store and the attractive program, but also the nice weather attracted the visitors to the city. "Our conclusion is: all in all it was a successful spring market", summed up hachem farmand.

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Fun, cabaret and dear friends

TSV thundorf celebrated its 50th anniversary for four days with a colorful and varied program (we reported). The festival was marked by the visit of the swiss friends from thundorf in thurgau. A total of 29 people arrived by bus on saturday and stayed until sunday afternoon. The friendship between the two places with the same name really began in 1989, at the 1100th anniversary celebration in switzerland. At that time a 79 strong delegation from lower franconia traveled there. Turnusgemab then took place in the course of the years again and again meetings in both thundorfs.

Bench and nub tree

The swiss group was led by the newly elected president of the municipality daniel kirchmeier and the councillor responsible for culture felix jenni. The swiss met in the town hall, where they were received by mayor egon kloffel. Here everyone signed the golden book of the community and mayor kirchmeier expressed his joy about the friendly reception. As a gift, the guests from thurgau brought a sturdy bench, decorated with both local coats of arms carved into it, and a nub tree. They transported both gifts with them on sunday during the procession and also distributed kase from their local barracks to the spectators at the side of the road.

Mayor kloffel then invited the guests to a guided tour of the fire station with the participation of commander lothar seufert, as well as a visit to the festival hall. At the community brewery there was a drink of brewer's beer for the visitors and an original mug for everyone. Back in the tent the firefighters from thundorf in der oberpfalz were already waiting for them. They had organized a club outing and chosen thundorf in lower franconia as their final destination. There is also a long lasting contact with them.

Both groups were in a great mood and sang and clapped with the group "drum-rum" and then with the rhonian group "bergwerk der steiger kommt" (the miner comes), with. The two swiss musicians fredy schnyder and the eight year old melina grimm also had some performances and thrilled the guests with their alphorn performances.

Stoiber, merkel and the kini

The festival started on friday with the "antenne bayern-band" and "florian weib" started. The responsible persons had expected more people. Those who were there, however, did not regret it, because the band members mastered their instruments and heated up powerfully. This did not change when florian weib was responsible for the music and entertainment from about midnight onwards. The course of events on sunday morning up to and including the procession has already been reported.

On sunday evening the absolute highlight of the festival was the performance of wolfgang krebs. One hoarded many voices, which were of the opinion, krebs is in no way inferior to michl muller. It was a terrific performance and the audience had a lot to laugh about. His parade role is the impersonation of the former prime minister edmund stoiber, but also horst seehofer, markus soder, joachim hermann or even the bavarian kini and the chancellor were built in his program. Krebs also corperated the sly schlawiner schorsch scheberl from "untergamskobenzeibgrubengernhaferlverdimmering. But also the contributions to the jubilee of the TSV thundorf were not missing. The cabaret artist was well informed about the chronicle of the sports club and brought it to the attention of the audience.

More visitors came to the final day on monday than in the days before. Whether it was due to the boiled meat or the backpack musicians could not be determined. In any case, the TSV was pleased with the full hat. 

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