For four days, Regensburg becomes the stage for jazz | Sunday paper

Regensburg (epd). The 41st Bavarian Jazz Weekend will take place in Regensburg from July 14th to 17th. The city announced on Wednesday that 100 bands and combos will celebrate the various genres of jazz in more than 100 concerts at 14 venues. Many of the performing artists have won prizes and multiple awards, including the tentet “SH41KH9 extended”. Founder Maximilian Shaikh-Yousef was the winner of the Munich Jazz Prize in 2019.

The performing bands come from all parts of the republic – from Hamburg, Berlin, Dresden, Leipzig, Hanover, Cologne, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, from all over Bavaria and also from Regensburg. Also on board is the highly acclaimed Bavarian State Youth Jazz Orchestra, which, in addition to its open-air performance on July 15th on the Bismarckplatz stage, will also be able to hear an unusual program in the Empty Bag on July 16th. International bands and artists from the Netherlands, Italy, Turkey, Ukraine, France, Austria, Poland, Scotland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Switzerland are also part of the 41st Bavarian Jazz Weekend.

The jazz weekend is suitable for creating a moment of cohesion in the current times of crisis and war, said Regensburg’s mayor Gertrud Maltz-Schwarzfischer (SPD) according to the announcement. The fact that so many top-class national and international musicians accepted the invitation to come to Regensburg underscores the need for solidarity.

The three jazz academies from Munich, Nuremberg and Würzburg are also represented with a program, explained cultural advisor Wolfgang Dersch. The young musicians showed “how innovatively jazz is taught and lived today and where the musical journey is going”. Over 300 bands applied for the Bavarian Jazz Weekend. All national and international submissions were evaluated by the members of the Jazzweekend Board of Trustees.

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