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szdaily -> Leisure Highlights -> 
OCT-LOFT Jazz Festival gets jazzed up
    2018-10-12  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

Cao Zhen

caozhen0806@126.com

Once again the 12-day OCT-LOFT Jazz Festival is delivering a diversity of swing, blues, funk, experimental and free jazz when it returned to B10 Live early this week.

Baritone saxophonist Giuseppe Doronzo and percussionist Pino Basile of the AVA Trio did a masterful job of blending regional influences as well as balancing ethnic inspirations with free improvisation at the opening night Oct. 9. The duo also played unusual instrumentation, such as the mizmar, to form some unique musical ideas.

Then, young German pianist Luca Sestak brought an hour of blues and boogie-woogie piano tunes. His program contained mainly his own compositions and interpretations in which he expressed his energetic performing style. Music critics celebrate the musician whose videos have received about 10 million hits on YouTube as “the future of blues and boogie-woogie piano.”

The annual OCT-LOFT Jazz Festival features a lineup of some of the finest jazz musicians in the world, each bringing their own individual style and approach to the genre. This Friday, Zu and Jooklo Duo from Italy will play aggressive, hard-driving music and free jazz, respectively.

Saturday night will be a night of veteran stars: Yoriyuki Harada Quartet from Japan, Vladimir Chekasin and Vladimir Tarasov from Lithuania and William Parker from the United States will grace the stage. And Sunday, Ruike Shinpei 5 Piece Band from Japan, Alexey Kruglov from Russia and Jaak Sooaar Quartet from Estonia will bring the most exciting sound.

Meanwhile, U.S. documentary “Inside Out in the Open: An Expressionist Journey Into the Music Known as Free” will be shown and U.S. composer and manager of ESP-Disk’Steve Holtje will give a lecture titled “55 Years of Nurturing Avant-Garde and Outsider Music: ESP-Disk’s Perpetual Revolution” at A3+ on Saturday afternoon.

Next week, more beautiful tunes will be serenaded by world musicians, such as Swiss pianist Colin Vallon (Oct. 16), U.S. singer Janet Klein (Oct. 20) and Bulgarian singer Ruth Koleva (Oct. 21). Sugar Blue, called “one of the foremost harmonica players of our times” by Rolling Stone, will grace the stage Oct. 19.

Schedule: www.octloftjazz.com

Venue: OCT-LOFT, Nanshan District (南山区华侨城创意文化园)

Metro: Line 2 to Qiaocheng North Station (侨城北站), Exit B

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