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Fiona Fergusson and Alexander Ehrenreich Big Band
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The charismatic Scottish-born jazz singer Fiona Fergusson, who is now on the rise in Europe with her warm and soulful voice, has been working with various formations and projects in Germany and Austria for over 25 years. Since the release of her debut album "The Gift" in 2021, which was highly praised by the press, the Scottish jazz lady has celebrated great success on international stages in recent years, where she has performed with the most renowned musicians on the European and New York jazz scene such as Jim Rotondi, John Di Martino, Rob Bargad, Tim Armacost, Oliver Kent, Tizian Jost, Claus Raible, Alan Bartus, Marko Crncec, Lorenzo Petrocca, Lukas Gabric and Klemens Marktl.
As the daughter of a gifted jazz pianist and arranger, she experienced great internationality at a young age. She received classical and modern vocal training in Lisbon, Bavaria and at the Hamburg Singer Academy, but has always remained true to her love of jazz music.
The expressive singer, who now lives in Austria, impresses with her charisma and interpretation, which she brings to traditional jazz with a very personal touch of modern sophistication. The big band arrangements of her father Ken Fergusson have inspired the singer since her childhood and she was already fascinated by Count Basie and Duke Ellington at a young age. Fiona Fergusson now presents her highlight with the Alexander Ehrenreich Big Band, whose bandleader is known to have a musically similar background from his childhood and whose band stylistically guarantees the perfect realization of her program.
Tonight's program spans an interesting musical arc from traditional big band classics in a modern guise (Thilo Wolf, Thorsten Maaß, Adrian Mears and others) to arrangements from the debut album "The Git". Don ́t miss it! (press release)
Program and cast
Fiona Fergusson: vocals
Alexander Ehrenreich, Martin Fuss, Thomas Kugi, Martin Harms, Oliver Marec: reeds
Dominic Pessl, Axel Mayer, Walter Fend, Jan Kolaja: trumpets
Andreas Mittermayer, Johannes Herrlich, Karel Eriksson: trombones
Markus Eckl: basst rombone
Robert Schönherr: piano
Clenens Gigacher: bass
Tobias Faulhammer: guitar
Klemens Marktl: drums
Sigi Feigl: conductor
Reinhard Brunner: soundengineer
PORGY and BESS Jazzclub
Porgy & Bess (actually, Jazz and Music Club Porgy & Bess ) is a jazz club in the Riemergasse 11 in the 1st district of Vienna. The club , founded in 1993 is considered " the most important jazz organizer and trendy meeting point " of the Austrian capital .
The program of Porgy & Bess speaks to a very large audience , about 70,000 guests a year ; is accordingly Jazz " understood very pluralistic ," and the program " even in fringe areas , such as electronic music , contemporary music and world music penetrated . " Many international artists , particularly from the U.S. space , see also Austrian musician here an opportunity to perform . The club also offers the stage for events, such as the award of the Austrian World Music Award.
Musicologist Christian Scheib According to the Porgy & Bess " at the same time essential for the development of the musical ( jazz ) reality of a City" and needs and uses ' plain commonplace as urban space music. " It creates itself " through artistic preferences, acoustic quality , capacity and real capacity, the necessary exclusion of other clubs. " Here, the different areas of the jazz clubs allow - the area in front of the stage with tables, upstairs gallery , a lateral area with a bar at counter - different intense concentration on the concert scene . For Jazzthetik Porgy & Bess is even a " traditional club . "
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