The Artists

Pharoah Sanders

Friday may 24th 1996
Milford Graves
"Pieces of Time" is this all star percussion discussion called, who unites, beneath Andrew Cyrille and the "Art Ensemble of Chicago" drummer Don Moyé, with Milford Graves a giant of afro-american drumming in a trio.

Mari Boine
"Lapplands warmest voice" - as she usually is called by the international specialised critics. Mari Boine's music is a crafty mixture of Folk, Jazz and Pop. Now all over the world known as a vocal acrobat, she brings Norways contribution to the world music.
Pharoah Sanders
He is back again! The tenor sax giant from Little Rock, former bandmember of the legendary John Coltrain Group, seems to be forgotten after his burlesque excursions into the disco scene till he got rediscovered by the Hip Hop scene. Here Pharoah Sanders is one of the most sampled Jazzartists and he fills the scene with enthusiasm with his fantastic quartet.

Saterday may 25th 1996
Frank Köllges - Adam Noidt Franzendentale
Frank Köllges, drummer, conductor, componist, actor and, most important, master of bigorchestral installations, plans the biggest adventure, that the Festival has ever seen. The enlarged stage for Köllges may be too small by now.
Slide Ride
these are George Lewis, Ray Anderson, Gary Valente and Craig Harris, short, the best, what the American Jazz has to present on the trombone. International critic reports from "breath-taking" to "fascinating" about these musicians. Attention: only concert in Europe!!!
Tyrone Brown
Big Jazz musicians like Max Roach or Grover Whashington take use of the arts of this innovative and exotic bass-player. For many of his collegues Tyrone is the "Paganini of Contrabass". Im Moers Brown can be heard twice, in Jamaaladeen Tacuma's "Basso Nouveau" and in a solo concert.
Cohan
This japanese leading Taiko-group plays exclusive in Moers. Like no one else, they master these traditional religious instruments - the size of these extreme big drums , gave the organizer of the Moers Jazz Festival big problems , the transport costs alone exeeded that of a japanese middle class car. But for the 25th anniversary all was done to make the project possible.
Maceo Parker
When Maceo Parker plays the Funk, his sax starts burning. A lot of years he was only known as the "shadowman" of the "Godfather of Soul" himself, James Brown. He has released himself from this a long time ago. Black feeling and real Soul with a touch of Gospel could be heard out of Maceo's genious saxophone playing.

Sunday may 26th 1996
Craig Harris
For more than three years Craig Harris worked with the "Arkestra" of the legendary Sun Ra and together they even travelled into the orbit. After Sun Ra returned back to his home planet Saturn on 31st of May 1993, Craig Harris relauches his music with his composition "The Jhetto plays the music of Sun Ra". Craig Harris and his octet will play modern interpretations of the music of the excentric Sun Ra.
Ned Rothenberg
The highlight of the Brooklyn scene! For those who would like to see this brilliant sextet (a double trio formed of two saxophones, two electric-basses and two drum sets) - come to the Festival.
Jamaaladeen Tacuma
He himself does not believe that he already is in the "Hall of Fames" of modern bass players - but his fans do. They would go hundreds of miles just to see and hear him playing the bass. For his new band "Basso Nouveau" he could get the three most popular bassists of modern music in our time: Gerald Veasley, Tyrone Browne and Warren Oree. This fantastic quartet is been completed perfectly with the outstanding drummer Webb Thomas.

Monday may 27th 1996
Friedrich Hollaender played by Dirk Raulf "Illusions
"Johnny, wenn Du Geburtstag hast," sang by Marlene Dietrich is one of the most famous songs written by the composer Friedrich Hollaender (1896-1976), to whom the cologne saxophone player Dirk Raulf memorised his anniversary revue. Interpretations of the Hollaender songs will be sung by no less than Dagmar Krause, who is known best by Moers specialists from her former performances with Fred Frith, Arto Lindsay, Chris Cutler, John Zorn and many others.
Louis Sclavis
Totally imaginative folklore, that's what the quartet of the french klarinetist Louis Sclavis is known for. The quartet takes the american trombone-player Ray Anderson as special guest with them on stage.
Jalal
The international critics celebrate Jalal Nurridin as the "uncrowned Godfather of Rap". Already in the sixties Rap music, which become a cult wordwilde in the nineties, was a pure everyday business for the leader of the legendary "Last Poets". With his new formed band "Jalal", the inventor of Rap, celebrates his premiere in Germany.
David Murray
David Murray says "Everybody in Moers will be astonished about my new big band", "since one year we play every monday live at the "Knitting Factory" in New York." With star musicians like Fred Hopkins or trombone heroes like Craig Harris or Gary Valente at his side, David Murray presents a lot of highly talented young musicians who never been heard in Europe before. With this orchestra David Murray would like to thank the Moers audience that has been loyal to him during the last twenty years.

Saterday may 25th & Sunday may 26th & Monday may 27th 1996
Projekte
Musicians out of the four continents Asia, Europe, America und Africa have been invited to the traditional projects of the Moers Festival. we are bring here by plane Japan's most famous Taiko-drummers; Nordrhein Westfalen's famous sound mixer and collageist Frank Schulte from Cologne has been invited. "Chicago scene " the highlight from the USA will be on stage supporting the tenor Ken Vandermark, and the african musicians will bring a lot of rhythm and Rap to Moers. Under the title "Tokio-NRW-Chicago-Dakar" the whole project will be presented on four stages, sponsored by Stiftung Kunst und Kultur des Landes NRW as a birthday present for the 25th anniversary of the Moers Festival.

INTERNET LINKS
* Moers Music
* WDR JAZZ RADIO

SUPPLEMENT
* Supplement home-page

* May 27th general information
* Supplement & WDR on air
* Internationales New Jazz Festival Moers 1996: what's on?
* Soundsamples

* Response & discussion

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