Roscoe jumps in! Sensational! Mitchell announced as featured soloist of Exploding Star Orchestra, for concert in Frankfurt on Main!
Hold your horses, whooaaah! This year's grand finale of the German Jazz Festival in Frankfurt on Main, organised and hosted once again by the Hessian Broadcasting Service, will be a concert with the Exploding Star Orchestra from Chicago, together with Roscoe Mitchell at the centre of its musical storm, on November 1, 2008, the Festival's third and final day.
The trumpet legend Bill Dixon was supposed to be the featured star guest, but is now unavailable, due to sickness. Let's hope for the best. Hang on in there, Bill, please, your time ain't up yet, there's still much more music waiting to be made... Although his absence is a big disappointment, especially as this would probably have been the last opportunity for European devotees to experience a living legend live in Frankfurt – Dixon is 83 years old – an exiting substitute has, nonetheless, been found.
Roscoe Mitchell's jumping in to fill the gap will undoubtedly be as big a treat for fans of improvised music, sound landscapes, free jazz adventures, or Great Black Music in general, as Dixon's appearance would have been. Mitchell, of Art Ensemble of Chicago fame, is more than just an ersatz, of course, the performance in Frankfurt will probably be a sensation, all the more so for being so unexpected and at such short notice. The concert has already been advertised by Hessian Radio, on their hr2-kultur website, as due to be "an incredible sound cosmos: communicative, catastrophic, kaleidoscopic, with affinities to the intergalactic cacophany of the Sun Ra Arkestra as well as Miles Davis' masterwork Bitches Brew with its mysterious streams of sound."
All concerts of the 39th German Jazz Festival will be broadcast live and can also be heard on the internet. Keep your fingers hovering over the recording buttons on November 1st, radio listeners everywhere!
Concert & broadcast date: Saturday, Nov. 1, 2008, 19:05 to circa 24:00 hours
Venue: 39th German Jazz Festival, in the concert hall of the Hessian Broadcasting Servide, in Frankurt on Main, Germany.
Radio frequencies: FM 96.7 MHz
Web radio: HYPERLINK webradio hr2
Also in Dolby Digital 5.1
The Exploding Star Orchestra, is the third and last band on this evening's billing. Their concert will probably begin around 22:30 hrs.
The opening concert of this evening will be Gilad Atzmon & The Orient House Ensemble, followed by the Bigband of the Hessian Broadcasting Service feat. Uri Caine, conducted by Örjan Fahlström, with the Exploding Star Orchestra bringing the festival to a close.
Links:
Roscoe Mitchell - Wikipedia Biography (engl.)
hr2 announcement re replacement for Dixon
Roscoe Mitchell - Wikipediea Biography (Dt.)
Art Ensemble of Chicago website
Bill Dixon website
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