Brilliant start at the Jazz Festival Saalfelden

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The jazz festival in Saalfelden (Pinzgau) is in full swing. In the meantime, a good half of the approximately 60 planned concerts have been played. On Friday night the main stage was the focus with four concerts.

20.08.2022 21.57

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Because of the lockdown, Fabian Rucker had to wait two years for his composition commission to be fulfilled. Actually, it should have opened in Saalfelden in 2020.

It’s going round

With the premiere of his composition “Observer” on Friday, a childhood dream came true for the Salzburg-born saxophonist: “It’s an accolade for an Austrian musician to perform here in Saalfelden. And this composition commission is really great cinema. Exactly.”

After Rucker, a spontaneous program change followed. Because of travel problems, the concert by the Emile Parisien sextet was brought forward. It generated a lot of excitement from the audience.

The Norwegian Paal Nilssen Love then entered the stage with some delay with his combo “Circus”, which was inspired by world music. The jazz festival is not spared from current problems in travel, as the musician explains: “Yes, that’s how it is. We arrived without luggage and without drums – but that’s the way it is, sometimes it’s stressful.”

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Salzburg saxophonist Rucker

Music until late at night

Shortly before 2 a.m. the Lisbon Underground Music Ensemble brought the first concert evening to a brilliant close on the main stage.

Director Mario Steidl from the Saalfelden Jazz Festival says the audience comes here mainly because they hear projects that they haven’t seen before. On the other hand, they want to give musicians more and more the opportunity to create projects themselves: “We can also be networkers and enable new projects to emerge.”

Steidl repeatedly refers to the wide range of venues: “For several years we have noticed that the audience is getting younger. The younger ones move up to the cheaper places. At some point they will come to the main stage.”