Swiss at the BMW Welt Jazz Award Final
The jury has selected the Swiss sextet Hildegard Lernt Fliegen and the Dutch trio Tin Men and the Telephone as finalists for the sixth BMW Welt Jazz Award. They will compete against each other on May 3.
In addition to the award, the winning ensemble receives prize money of 10,000 euros; second place is endowed with 5,000 euros. The Audience Award is also presented. A total of six international jazz ensembles have performed at the free Sunday matinees since January 2014.
The Swiss ensemble Hildegard Lernt Fliegen - vocalist Andreas Schaerer, wind players Andreas Tschopp, Benedikt Reising and Matthias Wenger, bassist Marco Müller and drummer Christoph Steiner - not only impressed with their special Swiss humor. The musicians combined complex improvisations and musical fragments to create harmonious compositions, according to the explanatory statement.
The Dutch trio. Pianist Tony Roe, bassist Lucas Dols and drummer Bobby Petrov, play everything from classical and jazz to hip-hop and Balkan beats to everyday sounds and animal voices - the musicians' compositions transcend the boundaries of jazz.
The jury for the award is made up of Oliver Hochkeppel (music and culture journalist at Süddeutsche Zeitung), Roland Spiegel (music editor specializing in jazz at Bayerischer Rundfunk, BR-KLASSIK), Andreas Kolb (editor-in-chief of JazzZeitung and neue musikzeitung), Heike Lies (musicologist, music and music theater department, at the City of Munich's Department of Culture) and Christiane Böhnke-Geisse (artistic director of Jazzclub Unterfahrt, Munich).
