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  • "Very special evening"

    Nov 27 2009, 0h39

    25.11.2009 – Aziza Mustafa Zadeh in Kaiserslautern

    Das war ein very special evening meint Aziza abschließend und verspricht, in zwei Jahren wieder in der Kammgarn Station zu machen.

    Darauf freuen wir uns alle, wir: eine verzauberte Menge von nicht einmal 200 Zuhörern. Begeisterten Zuhörern, versteht sich, nach mehr als 90 Minuten musikalischer Unterhaltung höchster Güte.

    Anfangs entschuldigt sich Aziza beim Lauterer Publikum lächelnd: Wir spielen nicht Fußball. Das hätte gewiss auch seinen Reiz gehabt, aber nein: Aziza macht Musik. Ein Musikprogramm ohne Pause, Aziza mag keine Unterbrechungen. Nicht mal einen Schluck Wasser gönnt sie sich.

    Diese zierliche Person im langen Schwarzen streichelt die Tasten und nimmt uns mit in sanfte Klangwelten. Und flinke Finger sind das! Schon bald folgt die große Überraschung für all jene, die Aziza noch nicht kannten: Große Engergie! Die haut kräftig in die Tasten!

    Jazz vom Feinsten, auch dank der feinabgestimmten Zuarbeit vom 6-string-e-bass Ralf Cetto und von Simon Zimbardo an den drums.

    Und dann Solo-Stücke, wo plötzlich ein kräftiger Mezzosopran über dem Piano tanzt. Im unglaublichen Kontrast zu ihren verschüchterten kurzen Ansagen zwischen den Stücken.

    Bei einem dieser Solo-Auftritte passiert es dann: Aziza tritt in der Mitte der Bühne ans Mikrofon. Was sich nun abspielt, nennt sich Scat-Gesang und bietet mir erneut Gelegenheit, mit offenem Mund zu lauschen. Nur unzureichend nachzuerleben in einem Amateur-Video von einem Auftritt in Hannover: Ein Spiel mit dem eigenen Echo.

    Mensch, ist das schön!

    Nach der Vorstellung ist Aziza so freundlich, meinen neuen Status als zertifizierter glühender Verehrer mit einem handgemalten Autogramm zu bestätigen.
  • rear view

    Ago 26 2009, 0h52

    (this site is partly still under construction...)

    Thank you, last.fm community !

    Last.fm changed my way of listening and extended my musical landscape enormously. Annoying! Day-to-day I have to make up my mind: Shall I listen to some brand-new discoveries or care for some good old all-time favourites?

    Join me on a journey back in time,
    passing milestones between lullaby and requiem.
    Did you ever listen to a rear-view mirror?


    2008 – Digging into Jazz

    Currently I prefer contemporary jazz by small formations. Present present to me: a wonderful jazz bassist called Avishai Cohen. Click my favourites!


    Amazing discovery and a real piano jazz summit: Chick Corea meeting Hiromi Uehara.


    I love and adore saxophone legend Charlie Mariano, who died in June 2009.
    Gratefully I met him backstage at his last concert on the occasion of his
    85th birthday
    in November 2008.


    2008 – Pleasured by Jazz Vocalists

    In 2008, I had to attune to an alarmingly increasing number of jazz singers. On the quiet, as an advance party, some of them suddenly appeared in my playlists: Diana Krall, Jane Monheit, Cassandra Wilson... When listening closer I became aware of the whole extent of this erotic invasion: The singers were female and built up a dreamhouse of llllllllove (keep an ear on 0'25").

    At once I decided to call them jaunty jazz ladies and built up a playlist of llllllllove. Lovely voices: Anna Maria Jopek (saw her live at Colos-Saal in May 2008), Cassandra Wilson, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Dena DeRose, Diana Krall, Eliane Elias, Inger Marie Gundersen, Jane Monheit, Josefine Cronholm, Kari Bremnes, Lisa Ekdahl, Madeleine Peyroux, Patricia Barber, Rebekka Bakken, Sara Gazarek, Sarah Collyer, Silje Nergaard, Sophie Milman, Stacey Kent, Tierney Sutton, Tokunbo Akinro... Let’s have children together!
    Click my favourites!


    I love the great norwegian singer Kari Bremnes, saw her in April 2009 at Tollhaus.


    2000 – Captivated by Celtic Music

    I like irish tea time traditionals better than popular guiness songs: Eddie & Finbar Furey, ...

    1996 – Exploring & enjoying Classical Music

    Favourite composers of classical music: Ludwig van Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky, Johannes Brahms, Bedřich Smetana, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Edvard Grieg, Max Bruch, Antonín Dvořák. I love symphonies, up to now I couldn't make friends with operas.

    1977 – Stunned by Progressive Rock

    Still in the 70s, something happened to me, what I call the rise of smart music. More brainy, complex, clever, creative, astonishing music. No, I didn't discover Jazz, not yet. Yes, I discovered Yes and Genesis. I got instantly infected when, casually listening to my 1st.fm radio station, I happened to meet the Firth of Fifth. Still love it.


    Yes’ keyboarder Rick Wakeman is definitely an insane virtuoso!


    I can’t say that I dislike Genesis’ post-Gabriel music, but there is no true Genesis music without Peter Gabriel. I love his unique voice and the works of his subsequent solo career very much.


    Apparently there’s no definite outline for prog music. I don’t reckon the awesome Canadian rock band Saga among prog, others do.


    I found pleasure in listening to some metal flavoured successors of original prog music, as Dream Theater with fabulous John Petrucci, Jordan Rudess and their brilliant Liquid Tension Experiment.

    1971 – Gone wild into Classic Rock


    In the early 70s, I started walking on the wild side with favourites such as Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, The Who, The Faces, UFO, Uriah Heep, Nazareth, Golden Earring, Jethro Tull, Queen, The Doors, Canned Heat...
    These boys will be good old friends to me, forever.

    1970 – Digging into Singers & Songwriters


    So many great musicians. Don’t know where to start, probably with Cat Stevens, Joni Mitchell ...

    1969 – My first LP
    My parents felt very progressive when they were making me that gift to my 12th birthday. Time to reach puberty, Jo.