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20:00 | Dock in Absolute (Belgium-Luxembourg) |
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 Dock In Absolute is a stellar trio from Luxembourg and Belgium comprised of Jean-Philippe Koch on piano, David Kintziger on bass and Michel Mootz on drums, young musicians who breathed new life into the music scene and having studied at the Berklee College of Music Boston, Codarts University of Arts Rotterdam, Hochschule für Musik Saarbrücken and the Royal Conservatoire of Liège. With a shared love of jazz, they combine different styles of progressive Jazz, classical and rock, playing the pianist’s own compositions and co-created their unique jazz style in 2012. Its music is sparkling, varying, forceful, pressing, rich in twists and turns in mood: from lyrical to unrestrainable, from wild to graceful, from virtuosic and crystalline to assertive and dramatic, from subdued to airy and demonstrative. It can be charged-up one moment and calm the next, then take off again to reach vibrant sounds. An endless variety of melodic cells, often with a hypnotic pattern, alternating against a flamboyant, bright sonic background with unfaltering dynamics, never a half-way approach from this trio. Dock In Absolute proves that Jazz has myriads of stories to tell: thus, it should be allowed free rein. The trio presented its music to many Festivals and venues including the Tokyo Jazz Festival, the Hong Kong International Jazz Festival, Edinburgh Jazz Festival, Liverpool Jazz Festival, Paris Jazz Festival à la Cité, Jarasum Int’l Jazz festival, Jazz Au Chellah, Ottawa Jazz Festival, Jazz May Penza Festival, Beishan International Jazz Festival, Yokohama Jazz Promenade Festival, Brussels Jazz Marathon, Stuttgart Musikfest, Südtirol Jazz Festival, Aglan Jazz Festival, Sibiu Jazz Festival, Jazzit Fest Torino, Jazz Bez Festival, Ploiesti Hot Jazz Summit, Shenzhen Fringe Festival, Jazz In July Singapore, 9Gates Festival, Blues’n Jazz Rallye, B Flat Berlin, Like A Jazz Machine Festival, Luxembourg Jazz Meeting to quote only a few…
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20:00 | Hammerfall (Sweden) |
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 One of the leading lights of the European metal resurgence in the mid- to late '90s, Sweden's Hammerfall helped bring melodic power metal back to the forefront of a scene that was struggling to find its footing amidst the alt-rock/grunge boom. Emerging in 1997 with the Swedish Grammy-winning Glory to the Brave, subsequent outings like Renegade (2000), Threshold (2006), (r)Evolution (2014), and Dominion (2019) proved to be just as popular throughout Europe and the Americas as they were at home, with multiple releases going gold. 2011's Infected rose to top of the Swedish charts via the zombie infection-inspired single "One More Time," and 2014's (r)Evolution, their ninth full-length LP, would be the group's last outing with drummer Anders Johansson, who had been behind the kit since 2000. In early 2016, the band announced that they had signed with Napalm Records, which issued their tenth studio album Built to Last later that winter. Summer 2019 saw the group issue the single "(We Make) Sweden Rock," which was a tribute to power metal influences like Judas Priest and Yngwie Malmsteen. That song and 11 others appeared on the band's 11th full-length effort Dominion, which arrived later that August.
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 Mixing R&B, funk, Motown, and soul with strong blues and gospel vocals, and tossing in ska and reggae rhythms for occasional seasoning, JJ Thames has a powerful stage presence, and more than enough talent to back it up as a songwriter and as a performer. Thames first took the stage and began performing when she was nine, and by the time she was 17, Thames had developed into a blues shouter and prodigy who could command and set fire to any stage she took in true chanteuse fashion. Settling in Jackson, Thames worked on the regional club circuit with stars like Marvin Sease and others, holding her own and learning how to build and expand an audience. In 2004 she gave birth to her second son, who tragically died from a rare strain of lymphoma just days from his second birthday. This huge emotional blow set the compass pointing back north, and Thames returned to Detroit. Singing was about the only thing that lifted her out of her despair, and she became determined to follow her dream of being a professional performer and musician. In 2012, unable to pay even the weekly rent in an extended-stay hotel, Thames and her two sons ended up in a homeless shelter for a month. While there, Thames wrote what would become her early signature song, "Tell You What I Know." Her life seemed to be at its bottom rung, but along the way she had shared stages with Bobby "Blue" Bland, Peggy Scott Adams, Willie Clayton, Denise LaSalle, and others, and had branched out to sing background vocals for ska, reggae and reggae rock bands Outlaw Nation, Fishbone, Israel Vibrations, Bad Brains and others, developing a fully formed, diverse and powerful stage presence. Meanwhile, though, she was in a homeless shelter. Family and friends stepped in, and Thames and her two boys moved once again to Mississippi, where her luck finally changed. Signing with Dechamp Records in 2013, she recorded a debut album with producers Grady Champion and Carole DeAngelis. The completed Tell You What I Know album was released to early critical acclaim in the spring of 2014.
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