Kick Jazz 2024
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Raise the curtain on Austrian jazz and world music: on December 3 and 4, the KICK JAZZ Festival will bring together the most promising Austrian jazz formations and showcase what the local music scene has to offer.
On these two evenings, the stage of the renowned jazz club Porgy & Bess belongs to none other than the current protagonists of a lively, diverse and innovative jazz and world music scene in Austria at the highest level. With their diverse influences, they ensure that local jazz remains exciting and lively. Something is happening in the Austrian jazz scene. The number of musicians making a name for themselves outside Austria is constantly on the rise. Austrian acts are in demand, playing at renowned festivals and making guest appearances in the continent's hottest jazz clubs. Kick Jazz aims to take this positive development into account and, as the name suggests, to provide the impetus to prove themselves to a larger audience - also from an international perspective. Kick Jazz is also intended to open the doors to European jazz stages for musicians. As in the previous year, international promoters, bookers and festival organizers will be invited to get an idea of the high quality of the local scene. Come and see for yourself! (Press release)
Program and cast
PORGY & 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 . "