Nicki Parrott and Martin Breinschmid, Radio Kings featuring Frank Roberscheuten

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Australian singer and bassist Nicki Parrott is one of the leading exponents of classic mainstream jazz. After almost two decades on the New York jazz scene and in the house rhythm section of the Iridium jazz club, where she worked with Les Paul, Paul McCartney and Jose Feliciano, Parrott embarked on a solo career that has taken her around the world. On May 10, she will present her new tour program "Singing and Swinging" at Porgy& Bess together with Frank Roberscheuten, Herbert Swoboda and Martin Breinschmid.

Program and cast

Nicki Parrott: bass, vocals
Martin Breinschmid: drums, vibraphone
Frank Roberscheuten: tenor saxophone
Herbert Swoboda: piano

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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