The world's best harmonica player and unusual rhythms of Naxos - the
13th Targi Kielce Jazz Festival ”Memorial To Miles” with greatest stars
- Gregoire Maret and Milo Kurtis.
This is already the thirteenth time Targi Kielce and the Kielce
Culture Centre embark on a musical journey along the routes marked
with the most marvelous jazz sounds. From 25 to 27 September Kielce
welcomes all jazz lovers; join the festival ranked among Poland's
A-list of most important music events.
This year's Targi Kielce Jazz Festival”Memorial To Miles” will be
the stage for Gregoire Maret Quartet - the world's best harmonica player according
to Down Beat magazine! A true virtuoso who has changed the perception
of the harmonica. Not only has he played greatest sounds; first and
foremost he has been able to find the instrument's musical spectrum .
He would says that: "I think it’s an instrument that everyone has at
home, but very few people know how to play" . He has been playing the
harmonica ever since then. And what a master he has become! Join us to
see it yourself.
Electro - Acoustic Beat Sessions - most unusual initiative of most
extraordinary people - in the background there is the music the world
has never ... heard. By incorporating soul, funk, hip-hop, electronic
music influences and an original approach to composition, EABS
endeavours to breathe fire into jazz and thus restore its former
glory. The project was pronounced Wroclaw Artistic Discovery 2013 and
awarded the prestigious WORTH accolade of the Gazeta Wyborcza daily.
Jazz aficionados and Maanam band lovers will find Milo Kurtis and
Orchestra Naxos performance on KCK stage a real treat. Milo Kurtis' -
a multi-instrumentalist of Greek descent, the co-founder of the famous
Maanam group whose name has made a permanent imprint in the world's
and Polish music history. Kurtis is the world-without-borders
supporter who refers to his concerts as "a trip around the brain". The
2015's Miles Memorial will feature surprises galore catered for
Scandinavian music enthusiasts. Following the previous years' example,
Memorial festival will be the stage for Scandinavian jazz
representatives. This time the festival features Jakob Bro Trio and
their ECM Records début album. "Gefion" is much more than an
intriguing composition form. It gives the space for the whole trio to
boast their potentials - the legendary drummer Jon Christensen and the
inventive bassist Thomas Morgan and, above all ... a great musical
eloquence. Precision and impeccable technique determine and define the
music's energy, its impressionistic yet well-considered improvisation
with a pinch of Scandinavian romance.
All fans of jazz are also in for a jazz-film night which precedes the
festival. Like every other year, beautiful music misalliances will
make KCK guests savour the fabulous harmonica sounds, electro-acoustic
jazz misalliances and romantic guitar tones. The artists will again
take us on an extraordinary, intercontinental journey into the world
of jazz music.
- This is already the thirteenth time I have the pleasure to invite
you to join the journey in the footsteps of the most beautiful jazz
sounds. Bound by the previous years' tradition, Memorial to Miles will
transfer us to the amazing world of sounds' harmony which only seems
to miss music synergy. This wonderful mismatched-integrity defines
jazz music's greatest unifying force. – said Andrzej Mochoń PhD,
Targi Kielce President of Board. Targi Kielce is the Festival
co-organiser.
And you cannot agree more!
Jazz fans from all corners of the world - unite and come to Kielce!
The Targi Kielce Jazz Festival “Memorial to Miles” is staged from
25 to 27 September. The Festival programme is available at:
www.jazzfestiwal.kck.com.pl
* according to Down Beat magazine
