In the organizer's words:

Peter Evans Solo

Born in 1981, trumpeter and composer Peter Evans is considered one of the leading voices in the field of solo improvisation in jazz, avant-garde and new music. Evans has played in various contexts, including with Peter Brötzmann, Mary Halvorson, Evan Parker, Matana Roberts, Tyshawn Sorey and John Zorn. In 2011 he founded his own label More Is More Records. His concerts have been described in the New York Times as "an enigmatic ritual of physical exertion and formal control" and as "breathtaking and often unsettling". All About Jazz said of his 2009 solo album "Nature/Culture": "Evans stacks timbres and textures in dizzying profusion until any relationship to the traditional musical universe disappears and the listener is left drifting in a sound world governed by its own internal logic." At Cologne Jazzweek, Evans will present his 2023 solo album "In Medias Res", a tribute to trumpeter Bill Dixon and his exploration of the instrument's sonic possibilities.

Peter Evans - trp

Lilly Joel Plays The Organ

The Belgian duo Lilly Joel of singer and multi-instrumentalist Lynn Cassiers and electric pianist Jozef Dumoulin, otherwise known for his sound experiments with the Fender Rhodes, is coming to Cologne with an unusual organ project that will be performed on the Kuhn organ in the Romanesque basilica of St. Kunibert. They will play music by the 12th century composer, abbess, mystic and poet Hildegard von Bingen, in a combination of voice, electronics and organ, which Dumoulin already played as a child. Both have explored the improvisational possibilities of Hildegard von Bingen's melodies, some of which are monodic. A large part of the work consisted of finding the right approach and the right tone for this arrangement; to see how these melodies sound today and what they demand, and to invent spaces in which they can unfold. The result is "Sibyl Of The Rhine", a tribute to the great composer, a sound condensation of hypnotic beauty.

Lynn Cassiers - voc/efx
Jozef Dumoulin - org

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