ubu's musings

Monday, August 24, 2020

Life Is Live (Lucerne Festival), August 2020

Igor Levit - KKL, Lucerne, 2020-08-22

Lucerne Festival Alumni Ensemble, Baldur Brönnimann (centre) w/composers Barblina Meierhans, Nadir Vassena and Oscar Bianchi (from left to right) - KKL, Lucerne, 2020-08-23

Friday, March 13, 2020

Artacts '20 - St. Johann in Tirol, 6-8 March 2020

REMPIS/HARNIK/ZERANG

KÜHNE/ULLMANN

FREE MUSIC ST. JOHANN

WEBSTER/EDWARDS/KEPL

URUK

MOPCUT

EVANS/GROPPER/KOSACK/SAND/STEIDLE

DIE HUSBAND

4 BLOKES

Saturday, February 1, 2020

Anthony Braxton Standard Quartet - 3-day-residency - Wels - 23-25 January 2020

Anthony Braxton (as, ss, sop), Alexander Hawkins (p), Neil Charles (b), Stephen Davis

support:

day 1: KGB: DD Kern (d), Susanna Gartmayer (bcl), Thomas Berghammer (t)

day 2: SKD: Hermann Stangassinger (b), Marina Dzukljev (p), Christof Kurzmann (elec)

day 3: TRIO NOW: Tanja Feichtmair (as), Uli Winter (vc), Fredi Pröll (d)

Sunday, January 19, 2020

Jorge Rossy Vibes Quintet feat. Mark Turner & Billy Hart - Zürich, Moods - 17.01.2020

Mark Turner, ts; Jorge Rossy, vib; Jaume Llombart; g; Doug Weiss, b; Billy Hart, d

Monday, December 2, 2019

Unerhört Festival 2019

Wadada Leo Smith solo (tp + p) - Winterthur, Theater am Gleis - 28 Nov 2019

Angelika Niescier (as), Alexander Hawkins (p) - Zürich, Moods - 1 Dec 2019

Monday, November 11, 2019

María Grand Trio - Moods, Zurich, 9 November 2019

María Grand ts/voc, Kanoa Mendenhall b/voc, Savannah Harris d/voc

Sunday, November 10, 2019

Helmut Lachenmann - Zurich, November 2019

Helmut Lachenmanns "Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern" am Opernhaus Zürich (Inszenierung/Choreographie: Christian Spuck; Fotos: Gregory Batardon)

Wednesday, November 6, 2019

Alexander von Schlippenbach - Helferei, Zürich - 5 November 2019

Alexander von Schlippenbach

After two days of recording his new solo album - slow pieces for Aki, complying with a wish of his wife Aki Takase, who asked why things always have to be so fast and wild with him -, the 81-year-old Berlin free jazz legend played a gorgeous one-hour solo set at Helferei in the middle of Zurich's old town. The concert was organized by Intakt Records (which will publish the upcomding solo recording as well, of course), and there was a talk for Intakt subscribers afterwards. Where did he take the force to make all that music? Well, obviously there is a kind of "inner urge", something that needs to be expressed ... but also, as some british rock musician once said, fitting with Schlippenbach's own perspective: fresh air and good dope!