Jazz Station Big Band + Emil Viklicky "mystery Of Man" at Marni Jazz Festival at Théâtre Marni

Marni Jazz Festival #Guitar

An exceptional evening of jazz, presented as a political phenomenon. A performance from the Belgian band Jazz Station Big Band, accompanied by three Czech solo artists, one of whom is Emil Viklický, one of the best contemporary pianists according to the Jazz Times and author of ‘Mystery Man’, a melodrama commissioned by the trumpeter Wynton Marsalis for the Lincoln Center Orchestra in New York, one of the most celebrated big bands on the international scene.

18:30 Conference-debate (in English)
A short discussion with Petr Vidomus (jazz programmer for Czech radio and professor of jazz sociology) and Matthias Heymann (Antwerp Conservatory, jazz historian), moderated by Stéphane Mercier - on the theme of the political history of jazz and the role of politically-engaged jazz musicians. (Free entrance)...

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Marni Jazz Festival #Guitar

An exceptional evening of jazz, presented as a political phenomenon. A performance from the Belgian band Jazz Station Big Band, accompanied by three Czech solo artists, one of whom is Emil Viklický, one of the best contemporary pianists according to the Jazz Times and author of ‘Mystery Man’, a melodrama commissioned by the trumpeter Wynton Marsalis for the Lincoln Center Orchestra in New York, one of the most celebrated big bands on the international scene.

18:30 Conference-debate (in English)
A short discussion with Petr Vidomus (jazz programmer for Czech radio and professor of jazz sociology) and Matthias Heymann (Antwerp Conservatory, jazz historian), moderated by Stéphane Mercier - on the theme of the political history of jazz and the role of politically-engaged jazz musicians. (Free entrance)

Par le Centre tchèque de Bruxelles. Dans le cadre de "Engagement through culture before and after 1989". Co financé par le programme "L'Europe pour les Citoyens" de l'Union européenne.

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