[13/09/2018] zeitkratzer & Mariam Wallentin: The Shape of Jazz to Come

zeitkratzer will be back in Kraków, Poland, with a brand new program, including compositions such as Muhal Richard Abram's Bird Song, Archie Shepp's Blasé.

With Frank Gratkowski and Hayden Chisholm on reeds, Hilary Jefferey (tb), Hild Sofie Tafjord (french horn), Lisa Marie Landgraf (v) adn two bass players: Ulrich Phillip and Martin Heinze! Maurice de Martin (dr) and Reinhold Friedl (p). SPECIAL GUEST: Mariam Walentin (voice).

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Photo: Tore Sætre / Wikimedia

zeitkratzer & Mariam Wallentin will transform some classics (including female composers as Lil Hardin Armstrong) into the present:

Lil Hardin Armstrong – Struttin' with Some Barbecue (1927)
Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart – My Funny Valentine (1937)
Abel Meeropol – Strange Fruit (1939)
Mary Lou Williams – excerpt from Zodiac Suite (1945)
Arthur Hamilton – Cry me a River (1953)
Sweet Emma Barrett  – Jelly Roll Blues (1963)
Muhal Richard Abrams – Bird Song (1968)
Archie Shepp – Blasé (1969) 
Geri Allen – Drummer Song (1994)