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The Story of Jazz - Fabulous High Flights Chapter 1

Fabulous High Flights is the four-part theme for the year 2025/26 marking the beginning of a new decade of THE STORY OF JAZZ!

Chapter 1: All Blues
The blues not only represents one of the most fundamental and important elements of jazz but has also developed an astonishing diversity within it. From its slow original form with the famous 12 bars and just three chords, the blues have also originated in 8 and 16 bars, with complex chord structures, extravagant melody lines, at every tempo and in time signatures other than the original 4/4 time.
While THE STORY OF JAZZ started 10 years ago with "Basically The Blues," now at the beginning of the second decade, All Blues is to be performed. Now, it really cannot be All Blues, but tracing the high flight of the blues should succeed for Kurt Prohaska & Friends (piano, bass, drums & some more): from the stomping "Saint Louis Blues," which originated in the southern USA in 1914, through the light-footed blues of the swing era, the multidimensional blues structures of bebop, the more linear playing style of blues in hardbop, the transcendental expression of the Coltrane generation, up to the masterpiece All Blues by Miles Davis.

The Story of Jazz - Fabulous High Flights Chapter 2

Fabulous High Flights is the four-part theme for the year 2025/26 marking the beginning of a new decade of THE STORY OF JAZZ!

Chapter 2: The Other Blues
In the 1960s, with the advent of modal jazz and free improvisational music, the development of jazz - and thus also of blues - seemed to have come to an end. But artistic creativity and ingenuity gave blues in jazz a second high flight: musicians could incorporate everything that had been created in the first 60 years of jazz history into their compositions and interpretations, developing completely new recipes and concepts from it. The (film) composer Oliver Nelson, for example, created Blues in Six & Four, while the stylistically defining guitarist Wes Montgomery produced a Twisted Blues. Herbie Hancock fused jazz, blues, rock, and funk, and Antonio Carlos Jobim dressed the blues in Brazilian attire. Last but not least, the ever-seeking pianist, composer, and arranger Hank Jones showed what The Other Blues could encompass.
The Kurt Prohaska Trio (piano, bass, drums) invites carefully selected special guests to explore the aforementioned and beyond rare compositional terrain, such as that of Gary McFarland, Sara Cassey, or Eddie Gomez.

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