‘Great athmosphere, better than on the moon’, says Christopher Dell, star guest of Jazz in the Ruins Festival A.D. 2010.
The Theatre Ruins has come into life with the spirit of jazz once more. The aim of the festival is to create a platform for promoting new groups and sounds of the young jazz. This time the audience had the opportunity to see and hear guests from the USA, Norway, Poland, Germany, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, and Israel.
The concerts are not the only attraction of the festival. You could also take part in the musical workshops led by Marcin and Bartłomiej Oleś – one of the best rhythm sections in Poland and Christopher Dell – star guest from Germany.
– I am very happy to be here. Gliwice is a really woder -, wonder – wonderful place. It is a great place to play. Great athmosphere, better than on the moon. I this workshop we are going to do we are going to explain something about our music. I think, now it is very important to explain to the audience what you are doing because otherwise if you do not do this you do not grasp the whole meaning, the construction. Otherwise you only hear the music and you think ‘Oh, I feel good or I feel bad’, but you do not get the knowledge that is produced in this form of music. So, you can be inspirated by musicians or by the audience because this way of costructing frames to work with this order in a positive way now could be very meaningful knowledge – says Christopher Dell about workshops which took place during ‘Jazz in Ruins Festival’ in Gliwice.
The format of the festival does not change. Young performers and groups from all over the world are invited. All of them ambitious, innovative, creating original music and presenting their own look at the jazz of the XXI century or at the history of jazz development. All have previously performed at the most prestigious festivals in the country and abroad, where they had been awarded many prizes.
The aim of the festival is to create a platform for promoting new groups and sounds of the young jazz. This is the best way to present how jazz is developing in different parts of the world and how young artists understand improvised music today. The festival is accompanied by the photo exhibition entitled ‘Jazz seen from the first and the last rows’ prepared in cooperation with the Art Institute of Silesian University. The photos were shot by Karolina Fojcik – Pustelnik and Jerzy Pustelnik.
Traditionally, the whole event takes place in the Theatre Ruins in Gliwice – ‘the most magical place’ in Upper Silesia – from 6th to 14th August (photo exhibition until August, 27).
