Stream: Winterjazz in Space

Neue Webisoden Serie vom 7. – 12. Januar 2022

The 11th edition of the "Winterjazz Köln" festival, which was to take place from 7 to 8 January 2022 in cooperation with the artist development programme NICA artist development in the Stadtgarten Cologne, unfortunately had to be cancelled due to the current Corona situation. Since then, we have been working flat out to make the music of the programme audible to the public in all its freshness and exploratory spirit despite the circumstances. This resulted in the new webisode series "Winterjazz in Space", which will feature a total of 6 broadcasts of 3 bands each from 7 to 12 January 2022 on www.stadtgarten.de and the Stadtgarten's Facebook channels.

All details are subject to change. Short-term program changes are possible.

NAU Trio
The three Cologne-based musicians - all excellent instrumentalists - promise a concert with rhythmic jazz and gripping melodies. "Fresh young jazz full of South American and African rhythms. Catchy music that is fun to listen to, yet complex enough that there is much to discover. In addition, the southern rhythms also bring a touch of lightness and summer to our Corona-plagued winter landscape, something we can all use right now." (U. Bräutigam)

Henrique Gomide (pn), André de Cayres (b), Antoine Duijkers (African dr)

Giw & Kilonzo SUM
Spiritual, easy. In booming feedback hides lost communication of non-existing primal cultures. Sweat and finger signs. Mirrors and angles that reveal meaning if you only look. Giw and Kilonzo's constantly shifting performance SUM allows improvisation to act as a source of meaning, it's all about floating roles and states, full of beat and close-ups. Krump and silence, an urban-free-improvisation-ritual.

Pablo Giw (performance, trpt), Kelvin Kilonzo (performance, dance)

LARIZA
The Cologne-based quintet around singer and composer Lena-Larissa Senge combines jazz and pop as well as electronic and experimental sounds into a captivating new entity. With dedication, openness and precision, LARIZA makes use of diverse elements of popular, electronic and global music, draws from the freedom of improvisation and embeds these influences in unconventional compositional structures. The songs pave their own way under the skin, formed from organic grooves, differentiated sounds and multi-faceted vocals.

Lena-Larissa Senge (voc, synth), Lorenz Schönle (sax, EWI, voc), Raissa Mehner (guit, electr, voc), Duy Luong (b, electr) Lukas Schwegmann (dr, electr)