Confrontations
Konfrontationen is a music festival for jazz and new improvisation music that has been organized by the Jazz Gallery in Nickelsdorf in Burgenland since 1980 .
History of the festival
As early as November 1976, the then 22-year-old Hans Falb began to organize concerts in his parents' inn in Nickelsdorf, which he had just taken over. This was initially intended to be the home of all types of jazz, but in the late 1970s it developed into a center of avant-garde jazz and improvised music with an international reputation. The forerunners of the Konfrontationen festival from September 1978 onwards were the Avant Jazz Days . The festival has been held in Nickelsdorf near the Hungarian border since 1980; In addition to film screenings, art exhibitions, plays and readings, there are regular concerts there in July / August. So in the first year u. a. Jimmy Lyons , Oliver Lake , John Lindberg , Glenn Spearman , Alexander von Schlippenbach and Sunny Murray . Since then, musicians such as Maarten Altena , Ab Baars , Conny Bauer , Tim Berne , Martin Blume , Thomas Borgmann , Lester Bowie , Anthony Braxton , Peter Brötzmann , John Carter , Günter Christmann , Clusone 3 , Tony Coe , Lindsay Cooper , Andrew Cyrille have played in Nickelsdorf , Bill Dixon , Axel Dörner , Marty Ehrlich , Georg Gräwe , Phillip Greenlief , Alfred Harth , Julius Hemphill , Tristan Honsinger , Joseph Jarman , Leroy Jenkins , Sven-Åke Johansson , Franz Koglmann , Peter Kowald , Steve Lacy , Daunik Lazro , Joëlle Léandre , Werner Lüdi , Raphe Malik , Walter Malli , Keshavan Maslak , Joe McPhee , Phil Minton , Roscoe Mitchell , Butch Morris , Louis Moholo , Don Moye , David Murray , Evan Parker , Werner Raditschnig , Max Roach , Hank Roberts , Herb Robertson , das Rova Saxophone Quartet , Irène Schweizer , Cecil Taylor , Henry Threadgill , Ken Vandermark , Fred Van Hove , Mal Waldron and Hannes Zerbe .
Discographic notes
- 1983 - John Lindberg - The East Side Suite (Sound Aspects)
- 1984 - Spencer Barefield , Anthony Holland & Tani Tabbal - Live at Nickelsdorf Konfrontationen ( Sound Aspects , 1984)
- 1985 - Griot Galaxy - Opus Krampus (Sound Aspects)
- 1995 - Joel Futterman - Kidd Jordan Quintet: Nickelsdorf Confrontation ( Silkheart , 1995)
- 2006 - Peter Brötzmann - Lost & Found ( FMP , ed. 2009)
- 2007 - Johannes Bauer , Clayton Thomas , Tony Buck - AUS Live in Nickelsdorf (Jazzwerkstatt, ed. 2009)
- 2012 - Mazen Kerbaj , Sharif Sehnaoui , Raed Yassin - "A" Trio - Live In Nickelsdorf (Roratorio, ed. 2014)
Web links
literature
- Philipp Schmickl, Hans Falb, Andrea Mutschlechner, Elvira Faltermeier, Mischa Guttmann: tell no lies, claim no easy victories: 30 years of confrontations Nickelsdorf Impro 2000: Nickelsdorf 2009
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Andreas Felber : Review of Jazzgalerie Nickelsdorf - The 20th Anniversary Album 1997 . In Jazz Podium 6/1997
- ↑ Andreas Felber: The Vienna Free Jazz Avantgarde: Revolution in the Back Room , Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-205-77256-3 , p. 195
- ^ Poster of the 1980 confrontations
