JazzKLUB / Otomo Yoshihide Special Big Band / Japanese giant of the avant-garde - NOSPR
JazzKLUB / Otomo Yoshihide Special Big Band / Japanese giant of the avant-garde
This is the largest and one of the most amazing ensembles ever formed by the Japanese giant of the avant-garde. Active since 2013, the Special Big Band is a gang of avant-garde ultras in a ludic incarnation. The group breaks all the existing, though unwritten, rules, shamelessly merging the winds’ extreme frolics with danceable rhythms, brazen guitar blocks with sugary tunes, as well as sophisticated jazz arrangements with piercing noise. Add to this mixture such gems of repertoire as pieces by Astor Piazzola and Charlie Haden. Yoshihide’s band proves that the avant-garde can be entertaining and entertainment can retain the propensity for discovery that is so characteristic for the avant-garde. An absolute must-see, particularly since the leader announced this autumn’s concerts to be the band’s last tour.
Tomasz Gregorczyk
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Katowice Culture Nature Festival / Paradise Regained? / Orchestra di Santa Cecilia / Harding / Bell
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Nap-Time Concert for parents with babies (up to 12 months old)
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Premiere of Marcin Dymiter’s installation ‘Sound in Motion’
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Katowice Culture Nature Festival / Lament for What Was Lost / Il pomo d’Oro / Corti / DiDonato
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Katowice Culture Nature Festival / The Romantic Arcadia / NOSPR Chamber Players / Schubert
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Katowice Culture Nature Festival / Expulsion from the Paradise of Love / Bostridge / Giorgini / Schubert
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Katowice Culture Nature Festival / Nature and Love / Piano Recital: Seong-Jin Cho
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Katowice Culture Nature Festival / Dreams of the East and Polish Springs / NOSPR / Kuan
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