Good news for jazz fans: A “summer edition” of the Weilheim jazz festival “Ammertöne” will start in July.
And if you are not yet a jazz fan, you could be at these two concerts.
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- No jazz concerts in Weilheim for two years? That is really not possible in this city, whose high school big band has won a lot of prizes and which has already produced quite a few professional jazz musicians. The most famous of these musicians is Johannes Enders, who was born in Weilheim in 1967, gives concerts all over the world, but also regularly prepares a stage for jazz in his hometown. Until 2019 he has organized the Weilheim Jazz Days “Ammertöne” 15 times in a row. In 2020 the pandemic intervened and the small, fine festival as part of the city's cultural program had to be canceled.
But that shouldn't happen a second time.
Because nobody knows whether and how concerts will be possible this autumn on the usual date, there will definitely be a “Summer Edition” of the “Ammertöne” in 2021.
Two evenings in the Stadttheater are set for this, and Enders himself can also be seen live on both: on July 29th as a member of the “Claus Raible Quartet” and on August 19th as a duo with pianist Rainer Böhm.
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The formation around the Munich pianist, composer and orchestra leader Claus Raible celebrates an international jazz legend in its program: the bebop co-founder Thelonious Monk (1917-1982), whose influence extended far beyond jazz music. In addition to Raible on the piano, Enders on the tenor saxophone and Martin Zenker on the double bass, another jazz professional from Weilheim will be on the scene: drummer Severin Rauch.
The “Johannes Enders / Rainer Böhm Duo” will then present their brand new album “Kokoro” in August - which has just been proposed for the German Record Critics' Prize. “Music that doesn't zealous, poses or wants to surprise you, music that knows its roots and breaks out from there, with a sure taste and calm,” is how the music critic Ulrich Steinmetzger describes what can be heard on “Kokoro”. And he raves about the two musicians: "Two who can rely on each other are here completely with themselves in an acquired sovereignty, with which they have not forgotten the amazement and the feeling for subtleties."
So they should be an event again, the “Ammertöne” 2021. And with a little luck with “Corona” there will be an encore after the “Summer Edition” of the festival in November.
Performances by the Weilheim standard project “Jazzlokomotive” and “Enders Room” are planned.
The summer concerts at a glance:
“Claus Raible Quartet” on Thursday, July 29th, and “Johannes Enders / Rainer Böhm Duo” on Thursday, August 19th -
at 8 pm in the Weilheim City Theater.
Tickets are available by e-mail to info@stadttheater-weilheim.de and by phone on 0152/565 70 359. The new CD from Enders & Böhm is available in Weilheim in the "Lesbar" and "Zauberberg" shops.