2023-06-08 05:00:00
Pop history: Radiofabrik uses online voting to find the best album in the country. The SN introduces all nominees. Jazzit Stage Orchestra.
The best pop sound from Salzburg? The best pop album in the country? For its 25th birthday, Radiofabrik is looking for a winner from 25 selected works by means of online voting until September. Until then, the nominated albums will be broadcast every Tuesday and Thursday at 12 noon on the free radio station Radiofabrik. And here, too, they will be taken out of the archive week following week and you will be able to read how these albums sound.
Number three: “Session One” by Jazzit Stage Orchestra
A CD for Christmas? In most cases, this no longer creates the greatest surprise effect under the Christmas tree. The organizers of the “Association of Friends of Jazzit” are different. The surprise was great when suddenly there was talk of a CD of their own, and then even of a whole CD edition.
Almost a year ago, three young Salzburg musicians founded the association to support the Salzburg “Jazzit:Musik:Club” ideally and financially. Since then, festivals of the “Jazzitfreunde” have taken place four times a year, at which young Salzburg jazz musicians are put in the limelight. The core of all events: the performances of the more than 20-strong jazz collective “Jazzit Stage Orchestra”, which also includes the club’s founding members Gernot Haslauer, Peter Steiner and Sven Wolf. With illustrious guests such as Hannes Loeschel or Christoph Cech, they record programs in which there is room for almost everything between John Cage Variations and their own.
The decision was made in the fall and the recording started in November. The “Jazzit Stage Orchestra” recorded ten pieces over two studio days: refreshingly raw versions of Count Basie and Lester Bowie classics, original compositions and pieces by orchestra guests such as Christoph Cech and Stefan Heckel. The electronic duo Uwe Walkner and Frederic Hintenaus spiced up the album with a remix.
“Session One” was not and does not intend to be a smoothly polished studio work: “Session One is an inventory. The pieces and concepts contained on this CD by very different composers result in a cross-section of our first year of lively orchestra activity”, it says in the booklet. How much energy and fun there is in playing can be heard from the oversized big band on “Lucoolmi” or Lester Bowie’s “Free Raggae Hi Bop”.
The idea for a CD soon gave rise to a plan for a whole series: the “Jazzit Edition”. The proceeds from the album “Session One”, which will be released in an edition of 700 (distribution: Lotus Records), will be used to finance the next CD production in spring 2005.
Clemens Panagl/SN am 18.12.2004
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