This year’s edition of “the festival at the festival”, which is typical by a rhythmic formation traditionally closely associated with jazz, namely syncopation, will take place on three stages of the CED – Husa na provázku Theatre. This time, for the first time, with a Czech-American program, divided half and half.
The founders of the band 2in2out are saxophonist Nela Dusová and guitarist Jan Lacina, who are also the authors of the repertoire. They invited bassist Klára Pudláková and drummer Adam Sikora to join them. In recent years, the group has developed from a student project into one of the most interesting Czech jazz ensembles. In June 2024 the band will release an album on the Bivak Records label.
The band Limbo, from Prague, celebrates twenty years since its foundation this year. Under the leadership of saxophonist Pavel Hrubý, the band straddles several genres: from pure improvisation it can rise to an indefinable position where we can talk mainly about melodic and somewhat melancholic music. Limbo has won various genre awards and received an Angel nomination in the Jazz & Blues category.
Twenty-seven-year-old saxophonist from Philadelphia Immanuel Wilkins studied music at the prestigious Juilliard School and is one of the great promises of the American scene. With two solo albums on the Blue Note label and nearly two dozen sideman cuts, he boasts collaborations with such exciting names as Wynton Marsalis, Jason Moran, Gerald Clayton and Gretchen Parlato.
Kassa Overall, not only an acclaimed drummer but also a producer and occasional rapper, was born forty-one years ago in Seattle, where, incidentally, he attended the same high school as Quincy Jones and Jimi Hendrix years before him. At the conservatory, he discovered hip-hop rhythms in addition to jazz, which enchanted him and which he still enjoys using today. After moving to New York, he played with Christian McBride, Geri Allen and Ravi Coltrane, among others, but also collaborated with the incorrigible avant-gardist Yoko Ono.
