Birds Philipp Gerschlauer + Georg Vogel

Saxophonist Philipp Gerschlauer and keyboardist Georg Vogel give their free jazz an extra dimension by coloring improvisations with microtonal intermediate tones. Think of heartbreaking blue notes, but then one step further. Gerschlauer can divide the octave on his alto saxophone into 128 barely distinguishable intervals of tones, and Vogel developed his own 31-tone keyboard that can produce the same detached beats as the Fokker organ.

Birds Philipp Gerschlauer + Georg Vogel

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Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ

Piet Heinkade 1

1019 BR Amsterdam

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Charlie Parker's bebop in a new microtonal elaboration

With Birds, this duo pays tribute to the legendary saxophonist Charlie 'Bird' Parker who experimented 75 years ago with exotic scales that do not fit into the equal temperament system. They play their own work and revive classic standards by Parker and the equally passionately experimenting bebop legend Thelonious Monk in new microtonal elaborations.

Afterwards: Lecture-performance Mi��rojazz (12.30 pm / free admission)

Gerschlauer will follow the concert with a 45-60 minute lecture performance on the use of microtones in bebop, which is also the subject of his PhD thesis. Bebop (or Bop) is a jazz style that was developed in the early 1940s. It is characterized by a high tempo, rapid chord changes and numerous key changes with plenty of room for free melodic improvisation and expressiveness. Gerschlauer will explain how microtones can further enrich the bebop style of improvising in jazz. Together with Georg Vogel, he will provide musical examples that support his research results.

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