Wolfgang Muthspiel, Lionel Loueke And Linda May Han Oh

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In his latest project Confluence, Austrian guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel invites two outstanding musical personalities to collaborate: Linda May Han Oh, a bassist from Australia, and Lionel Loueke from Benin, Africa. Three different musical colors, three continents, and three influential players on their instruments come together in a concert program that impresses with both virtuosity and rhythmic power, while also opening up a broad space for the protagonists to engage in improvised dialogue.

These three musicians are known from jazz contexts; for instance, Linda May Han Oh has played bass in Pat Metheny’s quartet for a long time and has earned an excellent reputation as a leader in her own projects. Lionel Loueke, on the other hand, is a crucial member of Herbie Hancock’s band and has added a new and distinctive expression to the guitar in his own trio and solo projects.

Wolfgang Muthspiel, whose last four releases were on the ECM label, explores another facet of his work in this new project. What connects these three musicians, as different as they may be, is, among other things, the quality of tonal expression: the touch. When musicians are recognizable by a single note, solely based on its sound, they have found their own voice.

Venue

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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