University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück (IfM) > Moe Szyslak Trio(open public)
24 April 2009 > 11:30 am - 12:00 pm > Focke Wulf Salon
Founded in spring 2008, the Moe Szyslak Trio is today already the prize winner of the StudyUp Award 2008. The group’s own compositions include elements of classical and pop music that are played with great feeling for lyrical melodies. Balkan rhythms intermixed with funky components make for the special groove and open up acoustic spaces with filigree interaction and picturesque improvisations. The result is a first-class atmosphere with constantly new and surprising moments.

Line-up: Oskar Ogrodnik (p) > Arnold Ogrodnik (b) > Oliver Leggewie (dr)
Fachhochschule Osnabrück (IfM) > Ensemble RROM (Open Public)
24 April 2009 > 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm > Focke Wulf Salon
Contemporary jazz would be inconceivable without its involvement with uneven metres, complex overlay techniques and metrical modulations. These don’t simply develop from a mathematical metrical desire to experiment but often point the way to new subtle fields of expression – and that is where Rrom moves with playful ease. They play their own compositions but also make use of work by Terence Blanchard, Peter Apfelbaum and Thelonious Monk.

Line-up: Matthias Schwengler (tp) > Markus Kröger (as) > Thomas König (g) > Martina Wild (p) > Maik Reishaus (eb) > Piet Wagner (dr)
Folkwang Hochschule Essen > Zodiak Trio(open public)
24 April 2009 > 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm > Focke Wulf Salon
Line-up: John-Dennis Renken (tr, electronics, comp) > Andreas Wahl (e-g, a-g) > Bernd Oezsevim (dr, perc)
University of the Arts Bremen > Big Band and Jazzensemble (open public)
25 April 2009 > 11:00 am - 12:00 pm > Focke Wulf Salon
In 2009, jazzahead! again welcomes the Bremen College of Arts in a 2-part concert programme. First on the home game agenda is the Big Band with a performance of the current term’s programme: compositions and arrangements by Bill Holman, Bob Mintzer, Gordon Goodwin, Woody Herman, Basie/Nestico etc. The second part of the programme presents the College’s jazz ensemble led by Professor Detlev Beier.
Anyone interested in obtaining more information on the course and the college lecturers can do so at the jazzahead! exhibition.

Furthermore the College for Arts (HFK)arranges sessions in the HFK Jazzclub (Dechanatstr. 13-15). Dates: 24/04/09, from 9:30 p.m.; 25/04/09, from 9:30 p.m.. Opened by students of the HFK
Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg > Heiko Fischer Quartet (open public)
25 April 2009 > 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm > Focke Wulf Salon
Hamburg College of Music and Theatre
With the Heiko Fischer Quartett Hamburg is sending an ensemble to jazzahead! that already in its early years received much praise and numerous awards: Heiko Fischer (git), Christoph Spangenberg (p), Daniel Stritzke (b) and Nikolai Petersen (dr) were together awarded the “Jugend jazzt” prize in Hamburg, the special prize of the German state of Sachsen-Anhalt, and also already performed at Jazz Baltica in Salzau. From a musical point of view the four see themselves as the link between various different elements of music. A purely acoustic sound without effects or artificial influences stands in contrast to modern compositions, sophisticated compositional themes in contrast to freely emerging solo parts. And loans from the rock/ pop segment coupled with a very communicative performance leave a lot of room for surprises!