Five musicians from Estonia and Germany featured a catchy jazz style on December 6th at Kumu Auditorium, performing something which could easily be the soundtrack of a film called Christmas Jazz Festival.<\/p>\n
Those versatile musicians started with an energetic composition where three of them did their own solo, capturing the audience with a visceral excitement since the beginning.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tracks from their album \u201cEdition 13\u201d were heard, for example \u201cCry from East\u201d by Peter Lehel, which started with a desperate saxophone with tears instead of chords, followed by the band, where every instrument seemed to tell a part of the story about why the sax was crying. Other songs such as \u201cBright Nights\u201d by Axel K\u00fchn, \u201cHelin\u201d by Kristjan Randalu and \u201cSoundscape\u201d by Thomas Siffling were also played.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The most amazing thing about this stunning performance was how their songs told different stories, taking you out of the auditorium to make you a part of an imaginary movie. They threatened to pull Estonians out of their seat by travelling from a crime film set in the forties to a scape in the purest gangster style just through the chords \u00a0<\/p>\n
Trying to close the concert, \u201cPrisnaia\u201d by Bodek Janke sounded like a mix of styles but after the reclaim of the audience they came out again to satisfy the public in a sublime last arrangement.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This awarded group of five individualists didn\u2019t give a simple gig, they played with the spectators\u2019 mood by changing the tempo any time in a harmonized and homogeneous way. They made a unique and highly energetic performance with their extroverted and entertaining jazz-stories music.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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JazzEnsemble Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg on 6th of December at Kumu auditorium<\/p>\n
Kristjan Randalu \u2013 piano<\/p>\n
Peter Lehel \u2013 saxophone<\/p>\n
Thomas Siffling \u2013 trumpet<\/p>\n
Axel K\u00fchn \u2013 doublebass<\/p>\n
Bodek Janke \u2013 drums<\/p>\n
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