As of: February 18, 2024, 2:29 p.m
By: Michael Schleicher
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That ignites: The Jazzrausch Big Band celebrated an absolutely danceable anniversary party with their fans in Munich's Kleiner Olympiahalle.
© Martin Hangen/Münchner Merkur
The Jazzrausch Big Band was founded ten years ago.
The combo celebrated this in the sold-out Small Olympic Hall in Munich.
Our criticism:
Seven hours before he goes on stage at the Small Olympic Hall with his Jazzrausch Big Band on Saturday (February 17, 2024), Roman Sladek publishes a video on the Internet.
The trombonist and founder of the combo stands surprisingly still - at least by his standards - in front of the camera, the window behind him provides a view of Munich's Olympic Park.
“And perhaps there won’t be a tower here tomorrow,” says the musician.
After all, there's something to celebrate.
As a student troupe, the Jazzrausch Big Band played for the first time at Rausch&Töchter ten years ago, after which they went to Harry Klein as the house band, where the musicians gave all the dancing beasts, partygoers and nocturnal figures what they were craving: a rousing, powerfully interpreted mix of jazz, Classical and techno, arranged virtuosically and with a wink by composer Leonhard Kuhn.
The principle is as simple as it is ingenious, captivating and moving: percussion, percussion, tuba and drum machine create a stable foundation in the room;
The solos shimmer, bounce and bounce.
Anyone and everyone is allowed on the ramp, they are all celebrated - by the audience, by their colleagues.
In a row and yet all individually different: a - small - part of the musicians of the Jazzrausch Big Band.
© Martin Hangen/Münchner Merkur
In the first decade of its existence, the Jazzrausch Big Band has developed a precision in the cooperation of the respective instrument groups that is astonishing simply because of the size of the spectacle.
They have been touring worldwide for a long time;
From April onwards, the troupe will also call the new Bergson art power plant in the west of Munich their home.
The Jazzrausch Bigband becomes the house band at the Bergson-Kunstkraftwerk
However, all of this is theory, what counts is on the pitch: And for their birthday, the women and men (mostly around 16 are on stage) were looking for a tough challenge.
The Kleine Olympiahalle is the worst place among Munich's concert halls, an acoustic need for care.
But on this Saturday it sounds captivatingly lively: the sound that Josy Friebel distills on the mixing desk is clear, powerful, sharp-edged - and everywhere.
The more than 3,300 people in the sold-out hall are bathed in music thanks to a surround system that will also provide sound for the Bergson.
In short: That sounds very good.
They rock: Jutta Keeß on the tuba and guitarist Amélie Haidt-Wootton.
© Martin Hangen/Münchner Merkur
A cross-section of their work is played, with the group leaving no doubt that their bandleader's announcement “Before the party really escalates, we have to do a bit of culture” is nonsense: one thing causes the other.
At the beginning, “Dancing Wittgenstein” brings the crowd up to operating temperature, which is relatively high anyway.
There are also singers on stage with Sarah Mettenleiter and Patricia Römer, who sometimes surf powerfully, sometimes casually on the bow wave of the sound.
The dialogue between Mettenleiter and Jutta Keeß's tuba playing is a real highlight, "AI 101" with Römer on the microphone is another.
And if Hugo Ball (1886-1927) had known the jazz rush version of his poem “The Literary Man”, which spills over into the hall here again: Dada would not have been a movement, but a dance tournament.
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Oh yes: the Olympic Tower is still standing on Sunday morning.
However, if you look closely, you will see that he now has a neon yellow Jazz Rush smiley stuck on the facade.
The Jazzrausch Big Band in the Bergson-Kunstkraftwerk:
Things are moving forward at the Bergson-Kunstfabrik in Aubing.
The Jazzrausch Big Band will celebrate its premiere with the production “Bergson's Rise” on April 20, 2024, 8 p.m., in the atrium of the new cultural center in the west of Munich;
further performances on April 25th, 26th and 27th.
Tickets at bergson.com.