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Bach and home: Absolute Bach re-invented

For 16 years the conductor Kristjan Järvi has toured with his band and a mission. The electro-acoustic Absolute Ensemble crosses jazz with Arab music, plays Frank Zappa’s supposedly unplayable synclavier notes with groove and precision, and recorded legendary keyboardist Joe Zawinul’s last work shortly before his death. When this »creative collective«, as Järvi likes his band to be known, plays the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, it’s not about being strictly faithful to the work, it’s about new approaches: Absolute Bach re-invented. For their re-inventions of the great master, the Absolute Ensemble bring more than classical instruments onto the stage. But even when there’s a laptop, a saxophone grooving wildly and the percussion jazzing away – it’s always unmistakably Bach.

Kristjan Järvi's Absolute Ensemble
    Vesselin Gellev vl
    Shalini Vijayan vl
    Edmundo Ramirez va
    Mike Block vc
    Mat Fieldes b
    Daniel Schnyder sax
    Hayley Melitta Reid fl
    Keve Wilson Oboe
    Michiyo Suzuki cl
    Damian Primis bn
    Charlie Porter tp
    Mike Seltzer tb
    Matt Herskowitz piano
    Florian Weber keyb
    Gene Pritsker g
    Damien Bassman drums, percussion
    Kristjan Järvi ld

Charles Coleman
Innovations J. S.

Gene Pritsker
Reinventions
für Soloklavier, Di.J., Bandoneon , Sopransaxophon und Kammerorchester

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Matt Herskowitz
Undertow
nach der Invention f-Moll für Cembalo BWV 780 von Johann Sebastian Bach

Mike Block
Rhapsody on a Theme by Bach

Daniel Schnyder
toopArt Reinventions

Musik von Gene Pritsker, Charles Coleman, Daniel Schnyder, Mike Block und Matt Herskowitz
TV-Mitschnitt
Sendung: So, 08.08.2010, 11:00 Uhr WDR Fernsehen
Im Radio: Fr, 11. Juni 2010, 20:05, WDR 3 Konzert

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