Siya Makuzeni // Ahmed

Jazzfest Berlin 2021: Scenes of Now

Named after bassist, oudist and composer Ahmed Abdul-Malik, the pan-European quartet takes fragments of its namesake’s compositions as a point of departure for highly focused improvisations. The concert also displays Siya Makuzeni who is a terrific trombonist with a plush, fat-bottomed tone, a deeply soulful vocalist, as well as a dynamic composer and an inventive arranger.

Jazzfest Berlin 2021: Scenes of Now

After a digital New York-Berlin edition in the first year of the pandemic, Jazzfest Berlin 2021 traces the paths of improvised music to three more cultural hubs: Cairo, São Paulo and Johannesburg. Together with local partners, the festival team has developed a diverse programme of partly pre-produced, partly live concert formats that showcase the musicality, innovative power and affinity with interdisciplinary experimentation of the respective creative music scenes as well as the specific places they occupy in between a global jazz canon and their own region’s rich musical heritage.

Saturday, November 6
Betonhalle
Start: 10 pm
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