This year, the 17th Jazztopad Festival will be held in the shadow of a pandemic. There will be no guests from the homeland of jazz, which we hope will not have an adverse effect on its quality, on the contrary will make it more homogeneous, intimate, thought-provoking, reflective and at the same time sparkling with colourful sounds.
Dominik Wania’s album entitled Lonely Shadows has been recorded for the prestigious ECM label. The Joanna Duda Trio will appear, its leader being an unconventional artist, versatile, active in many musical fields (composition, production, improvisation) and visual (installation, video-art). Resina – composer and cellist, recording for the British label Fat Cat Records, has written a new piece for the festival. There will be guests from abroad*. Petter Eldh together with Koma Saxo will lead us through the world of Swedish folk, hip-hop, classics and unharnessed improvisation. The clarinetist François Houle, known for his ambitious improvisations at the boundary of modern jazz and contemporary music, will return to the festival. We also recommend an evening with François Houle Genera Sextet and once again invite you to the Meditation Day, during which we will relax to Kit Downes’ organ improvisation. There will also be Melting Pot and accompanying events.
Tickets are available from September 30 (Wednesday) on our website: www.bilety.nfm.wroclaw.pl and at the NFM Box Office.
Come and join us!
* The artists’ appearance depends on the covid-19 pandemic situation in Poland and internationally.
PROGRAMME
17.11 Tuesday 6:30 PM
Main Hall, reversed stage
Dominik Wania: Lonely Shadows – premiere of new album
Dominik Wania – piano
Programme:
Music from the album Lonely Shadows
17.11 Tuesday 9:00 PM
Main Hall, reversed stage
Joanna Duda Trio
Joanna Duda Trio:
Joanna Duda – piano
Maksymilian Mucha – double bass
Michał Bryndal – drums
Programme: Improvised music
18.11 Wednesday 6:30 PM
Main Hall, reversed stage
François Houle Genera Sextet
François Houle Genera Sextet*:
François Houle – clarinet
Marco von Orelli – cornett
Samuel Blaser – trombone
Michael Bates – double bass
Harris Eisenstadt – drums
Benoît Delbecq – piano
* The artists' appearance depends on the covid-19 situation in Poland and internationally.
Programme: Improvised music
18.11 Wednesday 9:00 PM
Main Hall, reversed stage
Meditation Day: Kit Downes – organ improvisation
Kit Downes* – organ
* The artist's appearance depends on the covid-19 situation in Poland and internationally.
19.11 Thursday 7:00 PM
Red Hall
Resina: Nieme/Speechless
Resina – cello, live electronics
Mateusz Rychlicki – drums
Soloists TBC
Programme: Nieme/Speechless – premiere (commissioned by Jazztopad Festival)
20.11 Friday 6:30 PM
Main Hall, reversed stage
Koma Saxo
Koma Saxo*:
Petter Eldh – double bass
Christian Lillinger – drums
Otis Sandsjö – tenor saxophone
Jonas Kullhammar – tenor saxophone
Mikko Innanen – alto saxophone, baritone saxophone
* The artists' appearance depends on the covid-19 situation in Poland and internationally.
Programme: Improvised music
20.11 Friday 9:00 PM
Main Hall, reversed stage
Lucia Cadotsch: Speak Low
Lucia Cadotsch* – vocal
Otis Sandsjö* – tenor saxophone
Petter Eldh* – double bass
* The artists' appearance depends on the covid-19 situation in Poland and internationally.
Programme: Music from the album Speak Low
21.11 Saturday 4:00 PM
Red Hall
Melting Pot Made in Wrocław
Paulina Owczarek – saxophone
TBC
Programme: mprovised music
