14.30h: doors
15.00h: Electric Quartet
The winners of the 'Antwerp Jazz Cat Rally 2008' will open this jazzy afternoon with an electrifying entry. Witnessing the interaction while playing their compositions will make you understand why they've won the contest. If you appreciate the music of Miles Davis, Freddie Hubbard, Medeski, Martin and Wood, Dave Douglas or Jim Black, your musical appetite is guaranteed to be taken care of.
Electric Quartet website
www.jazzcatrally.com
16.00h Andrzej Jagodzinski Trio (Poland)
Andrzej Jagodzinski, the most renowned Polish jazz performer of Chopin works, born in 1953, one of the best pianist in Poland, composer and arranger, received his degrees from the Frederick Chopin Conservatory where he studied French Horn while already engaged by the Polish Radio and TV Symphony Orchestra. In 1979 Jagodzinski received first prize for "pianist of the year" at the Old Jazz Meeting "Zlota Tarka". He has played with the best Polish jazz formations including The Old Timers, Swing Session, String Connection, The Zbigniew Namyslowski Quartet, The Janusz Muniak Quartet, The Big Warsaw Band, Quintessence, The Szukalski Quartet, The Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski Quartet and Jarek Smietana's Polish All Star....
Jagodzinski has toured in most European countries, Australia, and the United States, in India, Kuwait, Japan, Cuba and the former Soviet Union and has been representing Polish jazz for the past 16 years at: Jazz Yatra (Bombay - India), Ost-West (Nurnberg - Germany), Jazz in Europe (Paris - France), Skane Festivalen in Malmo (Sweden) , Edinburgh Art Festival (England), Leverkusener Jazz Tage (Germany), Istanbul International Festival (Turkey) and in all major Polish Jazz festivals. Since 1981 Jagodzinski has been performing with "Poland's first lady in jazz", Ewa Bem... (source: www.chazzforjazz.com)
Andrzej Jagodzinski website
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Admission :
8€ (presales ‣ 02/734.84.43) - 10€ On the spot
Students, unemployed & 55+ : 6,20€ (Cultuurwaardebons accepted).
First 30 students & unemployed get in for free!
