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A Berlin welcome guide for Jazz musician

Posted by AVI ALBERS BEN CHAMO on Tuesday, September 10, 2013,

By Nela Riessova
Jazzy Berlin Community

By this time it might be a cliché to quote Klaus Wowereit, the governing city mayor, who described Berlin as “poor but sexy”.  Since 2004, when this quote was spread out all over the place things have changed somehow, Berlin is no longer quite as poor, it became more expensive and also more attractive. From the grey and regime censured city to the creative and open-minded mecca for artists, musicians, bohemians and dreamers, Berlin still remains sex...


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From the Schlot jazz club into the dark empty streets of Berlin.

Posted by By Nela Riessova on Thursday, August 22, 2013, In : Jazz laboratories in Berlin 

DUNTON TRIO

It’s late on a Saturday evening and I find myself in the basement space of Schlot, a jazz club in Berlin. The Schlot, meaning “chimney” in English, offers the unique‘old factory’ feeling of past Berlin mixed together with a cosmopolitan and creative atmosphere. In the warm light of the candlesthe audience waits in excited anticipation for those first few soothing tones which would announce the arrival of the Kait Dunton Trio to the stage.   

Kait Dunton, L.A. based pianis...


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Artistic Jazz club - Sowieso, Neukölln.

Posted by The Jazzy Berlin reporter on Tuesday, August 20, 2013, In : Jazz laboratories in Berlin 

THE HIDDEN NOTES


When first arriving to a city like Berlin, where infinite array of colors and flavors are displayed, there always seems to be a discord in my mind as to which venue to choose from when it comes to jazz.  It is possible we are initially bombarded by the traditional “must dos” in town. Now do not get me wrong; they are a must thus in my own extended experience from travelling, before all else, I try to find that distinct place called home away from home.  It has to be a pla...


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By Erica Smith and Nela Riessova. Jazzy Berlin is an online guide for jazz, experiments, art and education in Berlin.

NELA RIESSOVA 

ERICA SMITH