Eldar Tsalikov - alt.sax. (RUS)
Will Howard - t.sax. (UK)
Declan Forde - p. (UK)
Igor Spallati - b. (IT)
Ugo Alunni - dr. (IT)

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.

The year 2020 will be the centenary year of Charlie Parker’s birth. One of the greatest geniuses of the 20th Century, Charlie “Yardbird” Parker was born on August 29, 1920 and died on March 12, 1955, in New York City at the age of 34. Parker’s influence on Jazz is inescapable. A musical virtuoso and visionary, prolific composer and improviser. Charlie Parker changed the sound of American music in his lifetime and continues to shape the sound of Jazz around the world today. This concert will be a celebration of the music of Charlie Parker, performed by a group of musicians enamoured with his music and legacy.

ELDAR TSALIKOV
Born in 1993 in Rostov-on-Don into a musicians family. At the age of eight Eldar began learning saxophone at the Kim Nazaretov Children’s Jazz School. After graduating in 2011 he moved to Berlin, where he continued his studies at the Jazz-Institut Berlin, where he eventually picked up clarinet as his second instrument. In 2018 Eldar successfully graduated from the institute receiving the Bachelor’s degree as an instrumentalist, as well as the Master's degree as an arranger and composer.
Being himself a skilful and a versatile musician, Eldar has been expanding his knowledge of jazz music (and not only), collaborating with numerous European and Western performers of various kinds of this genre: from the deep traditional styles, such as 'hot jazz' (or 'trad jazz') and swing (Jon-Erik Kellso, Evan Christopher, The EarRegulars, Meschiya Lake, The Musicomaniacs, The Echoes of Django, The Jungle, Moscow Ragtime Band) to the modern kinds of jazz and experimental music (Greg Cohen, Joey Baron, Laurie Anderson, Elias Stemeseder, Manlio Maresca, The HAF, Anna Webber's Percussive Mechanics). With those and many other artists, Eldar got to travel around different countries, performing in worldwide recognised venues and concert halls such as Birdland»(New York / USA), Elbphilharmonie (Hamburg, Germany), Konzerthaus Berlin (Berlin, Germany), TivoliVredenburg (Utrecht, Netherlands), as well as taking part in festivals such as Copenhagen Jazz Fest (Denmark), Ascona Jazz Fest (Switzerland), French Quarter Fest (New Orleans / USA), Glasgow Jazz Festival (Scotland).

WILL HOWARD
Will Howard plays the Tenor Saxophone. He was born in County Durham in the North of England and is based in Leeds. In the last ten years he has made a name for himself in the UK as one of the most versatile young improvisers around. He graduated from Leeds College of Music in 2010 and was awarded the Dave Cooper Memorial Prize for saxophone, The Sam Hood Rosebowl for Jazz performance and The LCM Principle's Scholarship. He is now a part time lecturer at Leeds College of Music.

"Howard’s timing, sound, everything about him marks him out as a generous talent. Abundant technique, yet subservient to the sound he was pursuing. Howard must be heard" – Bebop Spoken Here.


DECLAN FORDE
Declan Forde is a pianist from Scotland and has been living in Berlin since 2014. In these past five years Forde has become the pianist of choice in Berlin across a broad spectrum of musical situations. From from Early Jazz with Igor Spallati’s Musicomaniacs, to performing the music of Duke Ellington with American bassist Greg Cohen (Ornette Coleman, John Zorn, Woody Allen, etc.); original music with James Banner’s Usine to freely improvised music with the likes of John Hollenbeck, Tobias Delius, Max Andrzejewski, Cansu Tanrikulu, Rudi Mahal, Jan Roder and Michael Griener.
Forde also performs solo and was invited by the Berliner Festspiele to perform as part of American artist Rashid Johnson’s installation Antoine’s Organ at Berlin’s Gropius Bau July-December 2019 (part of the exhibition Garden of Earthly Delights).
Beyond the world of Jazz and improvised music, Forde has performed, toured and recorded for over ten years with the Scottish singer and artist Rachel Sermanni.

IGOR SPALLATI
Born in 1985 in Italy, he started playing the double bass at the age of 19. He studied classical music in Italy with M° Silvio Bruni and Franco Petracchi. He moved to Berlin in 2010 to sudy at the " Jazz Institut Berlin " under the guidance of Greg Cohen, John Hollenbeck, Kurt Rosenwinkel among others. He has played with: Joe Chambers, Billy Hart, Nasheet Waits, Fred Hersch, Ambrose Akinmusire, Jim Mcneely, Lewis Nash, Jay Anderson, Ronnie Burrage, Pietro Tonolo, Gabriele Mirabassi, Elias Stemeseder, Dado Moroni, Joe Hisaishi, Louis Bacalov, Nicola Piovani, David Russel, Marco Socias.

UGO ALUNNI
Ugo Alunni is a drummer from Perugia, Italy. He attended the Conservatorio di Musica "Francesco Morlacchi” di Perugia (2000-2004) after which he moved to New York for further studies at the Collective School of Music (2005-2006). He has been living in Berlin since 2010 where he studied at the Jazz Institut Berlin under the guidance of John Hollenbeck, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Greg Cohen and David Friedman, graduating in 2016. He has played with Rossano Emili, Perugia Jazz Orchestra, Pietro Tonolo, Joe Chambers, Dan Kinzelman, Alessandro Lanzoni, Elias Stemeseder, Phil Donkin, Uli Kempendorff, Julia Hülsmann and many others.

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

Sitzplatzreservierung

EINTRITT
Einer der Gründe, die den Zig Zag Jazzclub so einzigartig machen, ist, dass er der erste und einzige Jazzclub der Welt ist, dem es gelingt nur durch freiwilligem Eintritt/Crowdfunding Events von Weltklasse zu finanzieren. Und wie machen wir das? Ganz einfach. Während der Konzertpause geben wir bekannt, dass wir Geld einsammeln werden. Bei den meisten Konzerten (außer Jam Sessions) informieren wir unsere Kunden, dass ein Beitrag von ungefähr 15 Euro es uns erlaubt die Musiker gerecht zu bezahlen. Manche geben dabei mehr und andere weniger... und das ist auch in Ordnung. Wir haben auf diese Weise schon Hunderte Konzerte organisiert.