JUDY NIEMACK: VOCALS

YURIY SEREDIN: PIANO

DOUG WEISS: BASS

JORDAN DINSDALE : DRUMS

DIMA BONDAREV: TRUMPET

Beginn: 21:00 Uhr (Einlass ab 20:00 Uhr)
Artist Support Fee: 15€

Singer Judy Niemack is a pure musician, exploring jazz like a virtuoso horn player. Her delivery of lyrics focuses on feeling, while she breaks new ground with originals and a modern approach to standards. She is widely regarded as one of the leading and most respected Jazz vocalists and educators of our time. For this warm Summer evening, Judy has chosen the repertoire of the coolest jazzman, trumpeter Miles Davis, to explore from a vocalist´s perspective. With original arrangements of classic songs like "Funny Valentine”, "Man I Love" and "Time After Time”, her international band will support her with swinging, modern grooves.

Niemack has recorded 10 CDs as a leader, with such jazz luminaries as Kenny Barron, Fred Hersch, Joe Lovano, Toots Thielemans, Mal Waldron, Cedar Walton and Kenny Werner. “About Time” on Sony Jazz featured Eddie Gomez and Lee Konitz; “In The Sundance” , included pianist Bruce Barth and bassist Rufus Reid, and in 2017,” Listening to You” featured Judy in duo with pianist Dan Tepfer.

She currently divides her time between Berlin and New York City, and as Germany’s first professor of jazz voice, leads the vocal department at the Jazz Institut Berlin while performing in clubs, concerts and festivals around the world.

"Vocalist Judy Niemack never veers from her path as she leads you through an ethereal labyrinth, exploring dark harmonies, classically-tinged jazz melodies and shifting rhythms...Her dynamically delivered three -octave vocals soar above superb accompaniment...

-- Nancy Ann Lee, Jazz Times

YURIY SEREDIN-
Yuriy Seredin is a Ukrainian jazz pianist and film composer. In 2011 Yuriy received a Masters degree in composition from the Lviv National Musical Academy and in 2015 a Master degree in jazz piano from the Jazz Institute Berlin, studying with John Hollenbeck. Yuriy has also privately studied with pianists John Escreet and Joel Holmes, attended workshops of Kenny Wener, Ethan Iverson, Claudia Quintet.

In 2018 Yuriy’s debut record (Asylum Search) was released and won first prize as the best jazz record of the year in Ukraine. From 2018 Yuriy teaches jazz piano and composition at the Lviv National Music Academy. Yuriy Seredin had the priviledge to work and recorded in many international projects with Nasheet Waits, Ben van Gelder, John Hollenbeck, Isao Suzuki, Seamus Blake, Scott Kemp, Alex Maksymiw, Igor Osypov to name a few.

DIMA BONDAREV -

Dima Bondarev has long since made a name for himself as one of the most respected up-and-coming young musicians in Germany. Born in 1984 in Ukraine, Bondarev began playing trumpet at the age of nine and has lived in Berlin since 2013, where he completed both his bachelor's and master's degrees at the Jazz Institute Berlin (JIB). He has collaborated with many outstanding musicians in the European and American jazz scene, including Greg Cohen, Joey Baron, NDR Big Band, Jim Black, Nels Cline, Steve Turre, Conrad Herwig and many others. Career highlights include: 2nd prize of the "50th Jazz and Odra Festival' in Wroclaw (Poland, 2014), 1st prize of the Festival de Jazz à Montauban (France, 2014) and the JIB Jazz Prize of the Karl Hofer Gesellschaft Gestiftet von Toni und Albrecht Kumm (Germany, 2015), 2nd prize of the Umbria Jazz Festival (Italy, 2017).

DOUG WEISS -
For over 30 years Doug Weiss has made a career elevating the performances of artists such as Kevin Hays, Peter Bernstein, Mike Moreno, Lizz Wright, Brian Blade, Eddie Henderson, Clifford Jordan and Al Foster. He is one of the most in demand Jazz Bassists in the world, can be heard on 87 Jazz recordings, and is currently professor for Bass at the renowned Jazz Institute Berlin.

JORDAN DINSDALE -
A young British drummer based in Berlin, Jordan has studied and played with some of the greatest names in Jazz including Jimmy Cobb, Chris Cheek, Jimmy Wormworth, Mike Kanan and Yasushi Nakamura. Studying at Leeds college of Music on a scholarship (2010-2017), he graduated with a first class honours and was awarded the CBE Peter Roberts Memorial prize for achieving the highest marked recital performance.

Beginn: 21:00 Uhr (Einlass ab 20:00 Uhr)
Artist Support Fee: 15€

Location:
Zig Zag Jazz Club
Hauptstr. 89, 12159 Berlin