British Jazz on the Way

China

Time

2014.10.26 14:00 – 16:00

Venue

A3+, North District of OCT-LOFT

Speaker

Zheng Yu（Co-founder of Chinese Jazz Writing Collective）

Introduction of the Lecture

Die-hard jazz fan Zheng Yu presents today’s British jazz music scene based on the experience and research he made when he traveled around UK. This talk is about the history and development of British jazz, stories of jazz labels and record stores, different music styles of alive British jazz musicians, and the current condition of jazz lives such as jazz clubs and jazz festivals in Britain. This talk is related to the photography exhibition “Now, and Now Again” by Zheng Yu.

Introduction of the Speaker

Zheng Yu (郑宇), known as Liamaerd, is a die-hard jazz fan. He is also the organizer of Douban group Jazz Record and co-founder of Chinese Jazz Writing Collective (爵士乐中文写作社). He studied in UK in 2011 and watched hundreds of jazz lives there.

Weibo

http://weibo.com/liamaerd

Douban

http://www.douban.com/people/liamaerd/

Chinese Jazz Writing Collective

http://www.chinese-jazz-writing-collective.info/

David Helbock Duet

Austria

Time

2014.10.26 20:00 – 21:30

Venue

B10 Live, North District of OCT-LOFT

Artists

David Helbock – Piano / Electronics / Percussion

Simon Frick – Violin / E-Violin / Electronics

“This is carefully-crafted, playful music from all over the world, rendered with a Central Europe flavor. Craggy rhythms and melodies with no foreseeable direction make this offering endlessly enjoyable. ” (C.Michael Bailey, All About Jazz)

This Duo stands out because of its tremendous diversity of sounds.

Unconventional playing-techniques like inside piano playing or the playing of the violin as if it would be a bass or a guitar are used and the whole thing is expanded by the use of effects and percussion instruments which make the stage look like a huge playing ground.

Only original compositions of both musicians are played – also some pieces out of David Helbock´s “Personal Realbook”, where he wrote a new tune every day for a whole year in 2009.

In September 2011, their CD was released by the Berlin label Traumton Records.

In 2011 they played tours mainly through the German speaking countries but also in the Iran, NYC or up to Chile, where they played at the biggest Jazz festival of South America, the Providencia Jazz in Santiago.

David Helbock

A two-times prizewinner and the audience prize at the world biggest jazz-piano-solo competition of the jazz festival Montreux, a lot of enthusiastic critics for his HDV Trio and Solo CDs. David Helbock, the pianoplayer coming from a small little village in Austria called Koblach, is with no doubt, on his way up to a great international musical career.

Helbock is not only a great pianist; he is also a very individual thinker, who is investing not only a lot of dexterity but also quite an amount of brain activity to his projects.

Also playing solo not only on piano, where David Helbock has dealt a lot with extended inside piano techniques on the strings of the piano, but also playing solo with keyboards, effects and toys is very interesting for him.

Simon Frick

Simon Frick was born in 1983 in Bludenz (A) and studied classical violin under Josef Sabaini and Werner Neugebauer as well as jazz and improvised music under Andreas Schreiber at the “Anton Bruckner Privatniversität” in Linz. In and beyond his studies he also dealt intensely with other styles like rock, experimental, free and contemporary music.

In addition he got lessons from Christoph Cech, Peter Madsen, Peter Herbert, Harry Sokal, Alan Praskin… Simon Frick currently acts as a violinist in different styles especially in experimental jazz, metal, contemporary music and he performs his various projects at festivals, in concert halls and clubs all over the world.

Website

http://www.davidhelbock.com/

Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/DavidHelbock

Myspace

http://www.myspace.com/davidhelbock