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Harry Sokal Groove Unlimited
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Harry Sokal Groove Unlimited - The saxophone grandmaster's new power trio
The renowned saxophonist Harry Sokal, who has long been part of the international who's who of jazz, presents his new power trio.
Together with two outstanding musicians, Jojo Lackner on bass and Herbert Pirker on drums, this trio promises musical fireworks on the way to the infinite horizons of new worlds of sound.
Known for his groundbreaking trio projects, with Groove Unlimited he has created a new jazz formation that continues his talent for time-feeling and at the same time celebrates complex structures in his improvisations.
Jojo Lackner skillfully places precise bass lines with his impressive playing technique and gives the trio an incomparably electrifying groove. Herbert Pirker, a sought-after drummer, brings ecstatic, trance-like rhythms to the trio with his dynamic and technically perfect playing, as Harry Sokal emphasizes.
Groove Unlimited stands for pulsating performances that combine elements of funk, rock and fusion with masterful sophistication. With his energetic playing style and virtuosity, which also characterized Coltrane, Rollins or Shorter, Harry Sokal knows how to catapult the trio on a joint, boundless musical journey, often surprising himself in the process.
Program and cast
Harry Sokal: soprano, tenor saxophone, electronics
Jojo Lackner: bass
Herbert Pirker: drums
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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