In the organizer's words:
Opening Concert - 31st Jazztage Dortmund
A few years ago, Grammy-nominated trumpeter, producer and composer Theo Croker was our guest at domicil. And is still remembered fondly by many! Now the US trumpeter is back with a new band and a new album: Love Quantum!
After "BLK2LIFE II A Future Past", the work is the second part of a musical reappraisal of the origin, present and future of black music culture in the USA. Theo Croker is thus at the forefront of a young generation of musicians in the African-American jazz scene who are shedding new light on the musical heritage and formative cultural achievements of their predecessors, reappraising their contribution to the development of US music with historical self-confidence and leaving traditional genre boundaries behind. Gospel, blues, jazz, soul, funk: Theo Croker clarifies the historical musical similarities of all these genres and transforms them into a new, contemporary sound.
On a meta-level, these trends are connected for him anyway in the positive creative power of love, which makes it possible to create new worlds of experience and realities against all odds: "Love Quantum is also a tribute to all the different levels of love that can exist - love for a friend, love for a partner, love for a parent, love for oneself and love for life. It's about how powerful that energy is for us as humans."
And the first single from it, entitled Jazz is Dead, is both an ode to Croker's love of the forms and styles of jazz and a stirring commentary on the inadequacy of a word to capture the depth of this musical tradition.
In this sense, it is ideally suited to the opening of the 31st Dortmund Jazz Days! Don't miss it!
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