The Isar summer in Geretsried is being extended.
With the jazz trio "Organized 3" the concert series experienced another high point.
Geretsried
- He has only one word left as a comment: “Heavenly.” Volker Witte, City Councilor of the Greens and once operator of the legendary cabaret “Korkenzieher”, is an avowed jazz lover and a connoisseur of this music.
Witte remembers well when the young musician Max Grosch, who now lives in Waldram, performed with him.
For Witte it was already clear at the time: "It will become a really big one."
The proof of this was given during the Isarsommer concert series.
Max Grosch, now world-famous as one of Germany's leading jazz violinists, came to the council chambers together with Matthias Bublath on the organ.
Just like Grosch, Bublath, who lives in Munich, has won numerous top-class prizes and plays at the major jazz festivals and stages from Johannisburg, Japan to New York.
The third member of "Organized 3" was Christian Lettner, a gifted drummer who handles his sticks in a multifaceted and rhythmic way.
Lettner is also one of the best in his field and has played alongside Klaus Doldinger.
Three sizes of jazz music and a surprise guest
Now these three calibres of jazz music were guests in Geretsried.
And in his welcome, Grosch announced another surprise: the jazz guitarist and film music composer Titus Vollmer from Geretsried, who had provided the musical tension in many episodes of the TV series “A Fall for Two”.
So it was clear: This could only be a full-length concert of a good two hours with the highest standards and the most varied improvisations from funk and swing.
There were mostly original compositions by Bublath and Grosch.
While Grosch's music is based on a soulful gentleness that gives every musician the space to sprinkle his improvisational freedom in solo, Bublath's pieces are characterized by driving funk elements.
Grosch wrote a ballad for the birth of his daughter Leni, in which he expresses the indescribable feeling that comes with a newborn life in a melody.
Bublath's composition, for example a piece that he dedicated to the Berg community on Lake Starnberg, rather describes the temperament and attitude towards life on the Copacabana.
It is particularly impressive how these jazz musicians harmonize with one another with feeling, technique and without words.
That was particularly evident when guest musician Titus Vollmer entered the stage and took his guitar.
Felt, felt and played along.
The audience - and especially Volker Witte - were enthusiastic.
Andrea Weber
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