BEST BASS CLARINET

STREEO (Swiss Jazz School Bern)
Lukas ROOS, clarinets / Andrey TATARINETS, bass / Manuel PASQUINELLI, drums

Experience Jazz brings 25 young musicians to Ascona

For the first time JazzAscona presents a project that will involve 25 young musicians from Swiss jazz schools, offering them the opportunity to participate in concerts and workshops from June 25 to July 2.

Split into five different bands, the young musicians will daily perform in concerts, in different contexts and situations, in order to stimulate their versatility.

Experience Jazz is promoted by Nicolas Gilliet, JazzAscona’s artistic director, in collaboration with George Robert, musician and director Department of Jazz at the Lausanne Conservatory. The project wants to bring young musicians closer to traditional jazz, by filling a gap that can be observed in jazz schools, which tend to forget the tradition’s practical application. Experience Jazz aims at being an occasion of artistic growth, one in which these young musicians can confront themselves both with a style that might not be part of their daily musical repertoire and with a specific audience such as that of JazzAscona.

A jury will confer a distinction to the best band, on the basis of musical quality, concept, flexibility, chemistry among the band members, and feeling for the audience.

Participating bands:

ZELAO (Lausanne HEMU Jazz Department)
Marie-Charlotte JAHN, flute / Joanne GAILLARD, vocals / Simon BLANC, guitar / Jacques BEAUD, electric bass / Axel VUILLE, drums/percussion

SAX THING (Lausanne HEMU Jazz Department)
Wolfgang HANNINGER, sax tenor / Matthieu DURMARQUE, sax tenor / Laura BUCHER, piano / Simon BLANC, guitar / Lefteris PAPADAKIS, el. Bass / Xavier LONGCHAMP, drums

STREEO (Swiss Jazz School Bern)
Lukas ROOS, clarinets / Andrey TATARINETS, bass / Manuel PASQUINELLI, drums

ITALIAN CONNECTION (Lausanne HEMU Jazz Department)
Manuel PRAMOTTON, tenor sax / Francesco GEMINIANI, tenor sax / Joel CATALANOTTO, piano / Charly VILMART, bass / Giacomo REGGIANI, drums

FRENCH-SWISS CONNECTION meets S. LANCMAN (Lausanne HEMU Jazz Department)
Jean-Lou TREBOUX, vibes / Sarah LANCMAN, vocals / Wolfgang HANNINGER, tenor sax / Jerome JEANRENNAUD, piano / Charly VILMART, bass / Valentin LICHTI, drums


The project is supported by the Fondazione Cultura nel Locarnese and the Ernst Gohner Stiftung in Zug.

me and my best friend megan made those tutus :D
we were low brass princesses. because i play bass clarinet and she plays tenor sax.
so yeah :D basically we were ultimate band geeks (:

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