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12 Points Jazz Festival
Note: Details below refer to the previous event. Updated information for this year will be published here as soon as it becomes available.
In its second year, this is now Dublin's only Jazz festival and definitely one with a difference.
The details below refer to 2008. No information yet about when or if this festival will go ahead in 2009.
With performers in 2008 from Italy, Germany, Luxemburg, Lithuania, Estonia, Finland, Switzerland, Denmark, Austria, Norway and the UK, as well as Ireland, the festival is certainly living up to its billing as a truely European festival.
Amont the acts for 2008 are the Giovanni Guidi Quartet, whose eponymous leader has wowed audience with his virtuoso piano skills; Shreefpunk, led by German trumpetting prodigy Mathias Schriefl and Copenhagen’s Ibrahim Electric, an electronic outfit led by organist Jeppe Tuxen.
From Austria come Radio.String.Quartet.Vienna, whose electonica blew audiences away at The Berlin Jazz Festival in 2006, while Kadri Voorand mines her native Estonia's long established song tradition in a clear strong voice and a remarkable understanding of phrasing and intonation for such a young singer.
What's that you say? You never heard of any of them? Well, that is sort of the point - you may not have heard of them now, but these people are part of the future of European Jazz.
The festival aims to showcase exciting young ensembles and individial artists from thoughout Europe, twelve of them in all ranging from hard swinging piano trios and electro improvisers, to creative composers and a jazz chanteuse.
It will certainly be a leap into the unknown for many of those in attendence, but a very rewarding one - all those taking part, while little known now outside their immediate home territories - are critically acclaimed and doing exciting things with music.
Real Jazz lovers should beat a track to the Project Arts Centre in Temple Bar to hear them.
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