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Benjamin Koppel and Friends
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Benjamin Koppel, born in 1974, is an internationally renowned Danish jazz musician. He comes from a family of musicians in which storytelling over dinner has always played a major role. Anna was his grandfather's long-lost sister. He found her story so fascinating that he was determined to tell it. With “Annas Sang”, which was published in Denmark in 2022, Benjamin Koppel achieved a surprise bestseller. (Press release)
As a musician, Benjamin Koppel has been a frequent guest, mostly with top-class “sidemen” such as Peter Erskine, Kenny Werner, James Genus and Antonio Sanchez. On the occasion of “Buch Wien”, Koppel is in the Austrian capital at the invitation of the Danish Embassy in his profession as a writer. Of course, he is also taking his instrument with him and we are putting together a fine local band to round off his stay musically... Welcome to the club! CH
Program and cast
Benjamin Koppel: alto saxophone, recitals
piano, bass & drums tba
PORGY and BESS Jazzclub
Porgy & Bess (actually, Jazz and Music Club Porgy & Bess ) is a jazz club in the Riemergasse 11 in the 1st district of Vienna. The club , founded in 1993 is considered " the most important jazz organizer and trendy meeting point " of the Austrian capital .
The program of Porgy & Bess speaks to a very large audience , about 70,000 guests a year ; is accordingly Jazz " understood very pluralistic ," and the program " even in fringe areas , such as electronic music , contemporary music and world music penetrated . " Many international artists , particularly from the U.S. space , see also Austrian musician here an opportunity to perform . The club also offers the stage for events, such as the award of the Austrian World Music Award.
Musicologist Christian Scheib According to the Porgy & Bess " at the same time essential for the development of the musical ( jazz ) reality of a City" and needs and uses ' plain commonplace as urban space music. " It creates itself " through artistic preferences, acoustic quality , capacity and real capacity, the necessary exclusion of other clubs. " Here, the different areas of the jazz clubs allow - the area in front of the stage with tables, upstairs gallery , a lateral area with a bar at counter - different intense concentration on the concert scene . For Jazzthetik Porgy & Bess is even a " traditional club . "
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