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🗓 Saturday, January 3, 2026 - 20h -

📍Bread Factory Berlin

Caligariplatz 1, 13086 Berlin

🪙 Admission 18-12 € - Box Office from 19:30 (bar only)

Advance booking via Eventbrite

FEMALE CADENCE. WOMEN IN EUROPEAN JAZZ AROUND 1960.

Homage to KATHY STOBART (ENGLAND)

presented by:

BIRGITTA FLICK QUARTET

Birgitta Flick - saxophone

Andreas Schmidt - Piano

James Banner - Bass

Max Andrzejewski - Drums

Introduction: Regina Câmara

This evening focuses on another extraordinary musician: Florence Kathleen "Kathy" Stobart (1925-2014), one of the most important British jazz saxophonists of the 20th century. Growing up in a musical family, she found her way to the saxophone at an early age. At the age of 17, she toured war-torn Britain with Don Rico's Ladies Swing Band and later played in London clubs, at the BBC Jazz Club and even in makeshift venues during air raids.

In the 1940s and 50s, she worked with musical greats such as Art Thompson, Vic Lewis and Eddie Condon. In 1950, she founded her own group. Her most formative artistic partnership began in 1957 with Humphrey Lyttelton - the joint album "Kath Meets Humph" made her internationally famous. Stobart played with Buck Clayton and Buddy Tate, among others, led her own bands and released a highly acclaimed baritone saxophone duet album with Joe Temperley.

Famous for her "huge, powerful sound", she was one of the few women of her generation to make a name for herself on the tenor saxophone - and one of the most important trailblazers for later female jazz musicians. In 2005 she received the Parliamentary Jazz Award for Services to Jazz.

The Birgitta Flick Quartet dedicates an evening to Stobart, making her music tangible. Birgitta Flick's expressive saxophone playing and her quartet (Andreas Schmidt on piano, James Banner on bass and Max Andrzejewskis on drums) create a contemporary homage to a pioneer. At the same time, Birgitta Flick performs a somersault into the present, "re-reading" Kathy Stobart's pieces and also presenting her own works.

Thanks to: Musikfonds e.V.