Our Jazz group is dedicated to an elegant, swinging and romantic performance of the songs of an era when Jazz and Swing was the most popular music from the east coast to the west, on the radios and movies, in the ballrooms of the metropolis’ - uniting dance music with poetry, sophisticated melodies with some Latin tinge -
Utopias are another enchantment in the creation of the musical project Jazztopia - from Thomas Morus' island to the cultural effervescence of the Twenties, from Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" to the apotheosis of "2001: A Space Odyssey" by Stanley Kubrick, spaceships floating to sounds of Viennese waltzes, Strauss and Ligeti -
Born from the passion of German architects Lennart and Wolfram for Jazz, it was not by coincidence that the band debuted 2007 at the house "The MAZE" by English filmmaker, journalist and artist Bob Nadkarni, who originally created mock-ups for the spacecraft of this movie…
In this surreal, inspiring and poetic setting of "The MAZE" the Jazz tradition goes hand in hand with futurism. Wolfram plays the tenor sax, whose voice in Jazz evolved from the New Orleans of Sidney Bechet and Coleman Hawkins, whereas Brother Lennart’s Hammond Organ owes its origins to the scientific experiments of the American inventor Laurens Hammond in Chicago in 1935. Already in the 1950ies the organ takes off with the full force of a space rocket, touched by the skillful hands of Jimmy Smith.
Jazztopia invites you to a trip, where the Jazz tradition meets Futurism in an unprecedented adventure -
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