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Sanssouci Jazz Night
Mixing up traditions: early music meets jazz
Area around Sanssouci Palace | CHECK-IN: 8:00 pm, Visitors' Centre "At Hist. Mill" / Address: An der Orangerie 1, 14469 Potsdam
The area around Sanssouci Palace is an attraction all by itself. In 2016 - for the first time
ever - it becomes the venue of the Festival's annual jazz night: early music specialists from France meet jazz' greats.
Sanssouci's Historical Mill can't help it and turns into the Moulin Rouge! On several stages - Summer Terrace Restaurant Mövenpick, Historical Mill, Nordic Garden, Picture Gallery Sanssouci - discover exciting ensemble set-ups:
artists
- MICHEL GODARD QUARTETT
Michel Godard, serpent | Airelle Besson, trumpet | Bruno Helstroffer, lute | Anne Paceo, drums
Michel Godard and his top quartet take you through the mirror of time and play 500 years of jazz from Diego Ortiz and Claudio Monteverdi to Charlie Haden. - DOMINIQUE VISSE TRIO
Dominique Visse, vocals & e-guitar | Bruno Helstroffer, e-theorbo | Jean-Louis Matinier, accordion
The charismatic counter tenor is known as specialist for Renaissance and Baroque and as head of the des Ensemble Clément Janequin. When he takes two colleagues on an experimental adventure the result is bound to be electrifying - and not just for the theorbo. - AIRELLE BESSON QUARTETT
Isabel Sorling, vocals | Benjamin Moussay, piano, keyboards, fender rhodes | Fabrice Moreau, drums | Airelle Besson, trumpet
Airelle Besson has become one of France's top jazz stars winning the nation's most important jazz award, the Django d'Or in 2014. Isabel Sorling's magical voice is at the heart of her brand-new quartet project. - PAPANOSH
Raphaël Quenehen, saxophone | Sébastien Palis, B3-organ, piano | Quentin Ghomari, trumpet | Thibault Cellier, contrabass | Jérémie Piazza, drums
Take five of France's best jazz musicians, equip them with encyclopaedic musical knowledge, mix them well - et voilà Papanosh: groovy, jazzy, folksy. Highly recommended to musically expand your consciousness. - CAROLE M
Carole M sings and tells stories, plays vituosically with her versatile voice and refers to her style as between jazz chansons and "frenchy pop" folk ballads. - KATHRIN PECHLOF TRIO
Kathrin Pechlof, harp | Christian Weidner, saxophone | Robert Landfermann, contrabass
The unusual trio around Berlin harpist Kathrin Pechlof jazzes in chamber music worlds with inspiring clarity and unpretentious elegance. - And at the Picture Gallery there are solo performances by Michel Godard, serpent | Jean-Louis Matinier, accordion | François Lazarevitch, flute und musette | Tilmann Dehnhard, flute
