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Comment from the award jury: “SC’ÖÖF creates imaginative soundscapes with a conglomerate of sounds traversing between computer generated pulses and acoustic bursts of expression, all meticulously orchestrated into an original sound. Their musical stories are rooted in the industrial realm, but yet the group produce an overall organic, human-like fluent feel. The outcome is a percussive, rhythmically spastic, melodically compelling experimental jazz-dub-d’n’b-breakbeat-hiphop-noise perforated set that exuded great musicianship, boldly taking on the freedom of expression.
With their fresh, eclectic and captivating approach SC’ÖÖF can build bridges between jazz fans and audiences of different genres and has a potential to bring the needed generational refreshment of jazz festivals. Thus, the jury believes the band’s future on Europe’s festival and club stages is bright and it is proud to present the Zenith Award to SC’ÖÖF.”
The Zenith Award jury for this year was composed by: Christoph Huber (Porgy & Bess, Austria), Martyna Markowska (Katowice JazzArt Festival, Poland), Ragnhild Menes (Kongsberg jazzfestival, Norway), Tina Lešničar (Ljubljana Jazz festival/Cankarjev dom, Slovenia), Max von Pretz (Südtirol Jazzfestival Alto Adige, Italy), Kenneth Killeen (12 Points/Improvised Music Company, Ireland).
With friendly support from EJN Europe Jazz Network
Program and cast
Noah Arnold: alto, tenor saxophone
Elio Amberg: tenor saxophone, bass clarinet
Christian Zemp: guitar
Amadeus Fries: 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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