In the organizer's words:

Craig Taborn solo

Born in 1970 in the motor city of Detroit, Craig Taborn became known in his early 20s through his collaboration with saxophonist James Carter, on whose albums "The Real Quietstorm" and "Conversations With The Elders" he set extraordinary improvisational accents. This was followed by recordings with improvisers such as Roscoe Mitchell, Susie Ibarra and Evan Parker as well as sonic experiments with electronics and samples and the use of organ and Moog synthesizers. Between avant-garde and tradition, ambient and the Detroit techno music scene, Taborn has developed melodic soundscapes that he has continued to develop since his first solo recording for ECM in 2001. His solo concerts are improvisational journeys of discovery. He himself says: "I just start and try to connect everything that happens, such as motivic, rhythmic or structural details, and let the music emerge from the material itself, as well as from the sound of the instrument itself.

Craig Taborn - p

Joanna Duda Trio

Poland was the partner country of jazzahead! in Bremen in 2018. Back then, six years ago, it was mainly the young scene that presented itself. One of the concerts was played by pianist Joanna Duda, born in 1983 in the Polish port city of Gdańsk - and with her trio, founded in 2017, she demonstrated characteristics that were already common for young Polish jazz at the time, but were not yet really recognized outside of Poland. In any case, Duda's idea of contemporary, modern jazz music is neither aesthetically nor stylistically limited; with her flights, synthesizer and looper, she cleverly alternates between analogue sounds and synthetic sounds. But also and especially in the anticipatory interplay with bass and drums, she is concerned with working out the various degrees of density of sound, melody and rhythm and making them the basis for a stylistic mix of jazz and techno, ambient and minimal music, improvised and new music.

Joanna Duda - p/efx/comp
Maksymilian Mucha - b/efx
Michał Bryndal - dr/efx

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