James P. Scannell - Klarinette (UK)
Andrew Adair - Klavier (USA)
Martin Buhl Staunstrup - Bass ( Dänemark)
Jordan Dinsdale - Drums ( UK)

The Zig Zag is proud to announce a brand new and fresh Sunday concert series that showcases a community of jazz artists responsible for bringing about an explosion of energy and life into the Berlin jazz scene. The series will feature some of the most in demand, highly skilled and exciting young jazz talents in the scene today. Going against the trend of complexity, abstraction and the “academization” of the arts, these young masters have taken the jazz scene by surprise by packing in the clubs and bringing back to life a love and passion for hard swinging music. Performances are completely acoustic with little to no amplification. Subtle interaction, melodic focus and soulful virtuosity is at play here. If you’re interested in listening to some of the finest swinging sounds of jazz this is not an event to miss out on.

Sunday 11.08.19

Der amerikanische Klarinettist und Dirigent Benny Goodman (Chicago, 1909-1986) wird als der "Jazz König" betrachtet. Dieser außerordentliche Künstler hat wirklich die Welt der Jazzmusik revolutioniert durch die Kombination seiner Fähigkeiten als klassischer Musiker mit seinen großen Qualitäten als Jazzmusiker.

James P.Scannell is one of the leading swing clarinet players. He also is fluent on saxophone and flute. Last year saw two successful tours of the UK including Ronnie Scotts and other leading clubs. He performed a tribute to Benny Goodman in the Berlin Philharmonie Kammermusiksaal in January this year and now is the chance to see him up close at Zig Zag. He is backed by an superb group of talented young international musicians.

MARTIN BUHL STAUNSTRUP
The Odense native developed a deep interest for the bass in his early teens and it did not take him long to emerge in the lively danish musical scene.
He holds a bachelor degree from the prestigious Berlin Jazz Institut where he found mentorship in legendary bassist and producer Greg Cohen.
He lends his talents to a variety of international artists and travels the globe extensively providing his strong pulse on upright and electric bass.

Andrew Adair
Andrew Adair is an American jazz pianist currently based in Berlin. Andrew has performed and recorded with some of jazz’s leading artists, including Donald Harrison, Tim Warfield, and Terrell Stafford. Based in Washington, D.C. for the better part of the last 20 years, Andrew has also appeared with Benny Golson and Curtis Fuller, Marlena Shaw, and many others during their Washington performances. In 2000, Andrew played five concerts in New York and New Orleans with the newly formed Juilliard Jazz Faculty Ensemble. With his own trio, Andrew has performed recent concerts at Blues Alley (Washington, D.C.), and the German Embassy (Washington, D.C.). Andrew recorded his critically acclaimed CD “States” on the Fresh Sound New Talent Label.

Jordan Dinsdale

A young drummer from the UK, Jordan has played with notable musicians such as Chris Cheek and Judy Niemack.

Jordan's professional music career started age 17, playing around England in various groups. He began studying at Leeds college of Music on a scholarship (2010-2017) with Dave Walsh, Sebastiaan De Krom and Mark Sanders, graduating with a first class honours and being awarded the CBE Peter Roberts Memorial prize for achieving the highest marked recital performance. In August of 2015-2017, Jordan was given bursaries to attend the Begues jazz camp in Barcelona, taking classes with notable icons such as Peter Bernstein, Albert Tootie Heath and Jimmy Wormworth; this is how Jordan met founder of the camp, Jorge Rossy.

In January 2017, Jordan returned to New York to both have lessons and study with some of the masters including Jimmy Cobb, Johnathan Blake, Ari Hoenig and Eric Mcpherson. In August 2017, Jordan was awarded a scholarship to attend the Global Music Foundation in London studying and playing with world class musicians Bruce Barth and Perico Sambeat. He was then nominated to take part in the 'Rising Stars' concert alongside some of the UK's most talented musicians. Jordan also played at London Jazz festival with the Gero Schipmann sextet later in the year.

Jordan is currently based in Leeds, playing around the UK and Europe.

Konzert Beginn um 21:00 Uhr (Einlass 20:00 Uhr)
Eintritt frei – Beitrag erwünscht

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ENTRANCE FEES
One of the reasons that makes the zig zag jazz club so unique is that it is the first and only jazz club in the world that manages to finance world class events through a crowd funding concept. How do we do it? Its quite simple… during the break of the concert we make an announcement regarding the collection for the evening. For most concerts (excluding the jam session) we inform our customers that a fee of around 15€ per person will allow us to fairly compensate the musicians. Some people give more and some give less… and that´s ok… we ´ve already successfully promoted hundreds of concerts like this!!!