Jazz Open Festival Hamburg 2024: Picnic in the countryside | NDR.de - Culture - Music

Status: 29.08.2024 11:45 a.m.

For 25 years, the Hamburg Jazz Office has been organizing the Jazz Open Festival – free & outdoors! On August 31 and September 1, the bandstand in Planten un Blomen Park will be the backdrop for ten jazz bands.

von Mauretta Heinzelmann

“Free From Form For Feeling” is the motto of drummer Björn Lücker and his New Aquarian Jazz Ensemble with young shooting stars of the scene who will be playing at the Jazz Open festival in Hamburg’s Planten un Blomen park on Saturday. It was originally created for the Federal Garden Show, the Kurmuschel near the rose garden, almost in the shadow of the television tower. Now it is the venue for the Jazz Show, exquisitely selected and free to visit.

Special festival: Free and outdoors

“I think what we’re the only ones doing is the free and outdoor format,” says Réka Csorba from the Hamburg Jazz Office. “We’re the only festival of this size and type that takes place in Hamburg free of charge. Lots of fans come. But there are also lots of park visitors who come by with their picnic blankets. That’s something special about us.”

Saturday31.8.2024
15.00 Bennet Agah Quartet
16.00 Cansu Arat Group
17.30 Björn Lücker New Aquarian Jazz Ensemble
19:00 Pouya Abdi Quartet
20.30 NDR Bigband feat. Sound Word

Sunday1.9.2024
15.00 Ella Burkhardt & JAZUL Duo
16:30 Samantha Wright IVYMIND
18.00 Nordsnø Ensemble
19:30 Moses P. Sanchez Quartett

Ort:
Plants and Flowers, Pavilion
Jungiusstraße 1
20355 Hamburg

Further information on the festival programme can be found at Festival website.

Highlight: NDR Bigband & Kalle Kalima

Réka Csorba and her team planned the program. This year the festival is particularly multicultural, with singer Cansu Arat, guitarist Pouya Abdi and the Nordsnö Ensemble. A special highlight every year is the concert of the NDR Bigband, this year with Finnish guitarist Kalle Kalima, on Saturday from 8.30 p.m.

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Festival for inspiring discoveries

If you want to experience a summer festival feeling and make inspiring discoveries, you’ve come to the right place. At Jazz Open, you can discover great young musicians. The duo JAZUL with NDR Big Band trumpeter Ingolf Burkhardt and guitarist Roland Cabezas will start on Sunday at 3 p.m. They have expanded to a trio with the promising singer Ella Burkhardt, who received the JazzBaltica award last year and is only 22 years old.

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Jazz Open: Flair of family reunions

British clarinetist Samantha Wright recently wowed audiences at the JazzHall Summer Festival with her band “Ivymind” and will be doing it again. You just can’t get enough of her passionate music and her creamy tone on the clarinet.

“Sometimes you see little children dancing around the front, reacting to the music and being very curious about it, and fans of the music who have been coming for many years. It’s nice to see them every year,” says Réka Csorba. “What I also really like is that many musicians and organizers from the jazz scene visit our festival and that’s why it always has a family reunion feel to us.”

Summer in the city with jazz, meeting people and celebrating together, everything is open at the Jazz Open Festival. You should bring a picnic blanket and rain gear and of course a good atmosphere.

The Jazz Open Hamburg is a cultural partner of NDR Kultur.

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