Jazz Big Band Graz

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The Jazz Big Band Graz at the St. Ingbert Jazz Festival

The Jazz Bigband Graz (JBBG) is an Austrian big band .

The jazz orchestra, founded by Sigi Feigl in Graz in 1998 , was initially promoted through festival appearances a. a. known with the US vocal sextet Take 6 , the New York Voices , Kurt Elling , Jon Hendricks and Bob Mintzer . In collaboration with Bob Brookmeyer and Ed Neumeister , two first albums were created, Here & There - JBBG Plays The Music of Ed Neumeister ( Mons Records , 1999) and Question & Answer (Mons, 2001). Neumeister's Fantasy for Violoncello and Big Band was also recorded in 2001 with the cellist Friedrich Kleinhapl , as was Friedrich Gulda's cello concerto .

In 2003 the saxophonist / flutist Heinrich von Kalnein and the trumpeter Horst-Michael Schaffer took over the artistic direction of the ensemble. The album A Life Affair (Universal Music) was recorded in cooperation with long-time JBBG drummer John Hollenbeck , followed by Joys & Desires (Intuition Records, 2005), with singer Theo Bleckmann . On the 2008 album Electric Poetry & Lo-Fi Cookies (Intuition), composed by band leader Horst-Michael Schaffer, the JBBG combined big band sound with minimal music , African and electronic music , spoken word , laptop and drum and bass -Aesthetics. Urban Folktales appeared in 2011 , with Theo Bleckmann, Nguyên Lê and Gianluca Petrella as guest soloists. So far, the members of the big band have included a. Christoph Pepe Auer , Herb Berger , Barbara Buchholz , Johannes Enders , Robert Friedl , Herwig Gradischnig , Marko Lackner , Grzegorz Nagórski , Ed Partyka , Fritz Pauer , Uli Rennert , Christian Salfellner , Christophe Schweizer , Reinhard Summerer , Gregor Hilbe and Henning Sieverts .

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