Sep 01 2024 to Sep 01 2024 noon

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Price: Rs 708 - 2360 Book/Buy

Where

Courtyard Koota

Ground floor, Good Earth Tarana Good Earth Malhar, near Rajarajeswari medical college Kambipura, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560074

Event Description

Courtyard Koota Jazz Festival Come spend the day at Courtyard Koota immersing in the city's Jazz scene. We have some cool musicians lined up for you and not only will you get to watch them perform, but also to interact with them.

An informal vibe and a small crowd- it promises to be a real jazz day! We are offering a day pass for the festival which will include lunch and tea. You can also buy passes for individual shows.

Schedule 1200–1300

Pockets and Changes 1300–1430 lunch 1430–1600

Conversations on Jazz, led by Dhani Muniz, ft. everyone 1600–1630 tea 1630–1800

Joey Sharma Trio 1830–2000 REFUGE ft. Apoorva Krishna

About the Bands

Pockets and Changes: Embark on this musical adventure with Pockets and Changes, an upcoming contemporary jazz trio from Bangalore that plays a mixture of funk, jazz, pop, Indian folk, odd grooves and a lot of improvisation—as long as the pocket stays strong. Driven by a love for experimentation and exploration, the trio keeps the groove tight while exploring the endless possibilities of dynamic sonic landscapes. At the heart of the band are multifaceted pianist Leeanne Besterwitch, Sricharan Sunder grounding the music with his bass tones, and Kenneth Besterwitch on drums, whose pulse keeps the music alive. Pockets and Changes aims to strike a balance between composition and improvisation with their music navigating freely improvised sections to tightly composed sections. At the core of the band is an intrinsic urge for musical communication between members and infect the audience with the same. A band malleable enough to navigate unlabelled sound, Pockets and Changes promises a versatile exploration and combination of different genres with the aim to one day find their own novel sonic experience.

Conversations on Jazz: Jazz is a contextual art form; there are hundreds of phrases and ideas that can sound beautiful over a chord or a series of chords, depending on how they are resolved. Based on these different methods of resolution, 'styles' are born. Swing, bebop, gypsy, avant-garde, post-bop, fusion—the bedrock of these styles is often impossible to describe to the listener, other than simply the changing concepts of what is 'wrong' and 'right'. What sounds good to the improviser in flight? What sounds good to the audience? Or, as in some cases, are the improviser and audience erasing each other's aural ideas of 'wrong' and 'right'? Join the musicians as they expose the various nuances, facets and overlaps of these various approaches through the process of making 'jazz' as we know it- the deconstruction, exploration, and celebration of a single song. With the narrative aid of Dhani Muniz, each improviser will showcase a style which words have historically never been able to capture, only sound itself.

Joey Sharma Trio Joey Sharma is a leading exponent of the jazz manouche style in India. A versatile guitarist, Joey has won many accolades including the All India Fingerstyle Competition in 2016, a heavily coveted title. Gypsy jazz or 'jazz manouche' is a style of swing music that emerged in the 1930s in France. Its inception is attributed to jazz pioneer and guitar legend Django Reinhardt along with French swing violinist Stéphane Grappelli. This performance features Joey Sharma on guitar, Sammy David on rhythm guitar, providing the iconic dual-guitar richness characteristic of the genre, and Kapil Dalal on upright bass. REFUGE REFUGE is a reflective set of musical themes exploring ideas of home and paying homage to inward journeys. Although created through a personal process, the themes are universal, finding resonance with listeners across the globe. Equal parts structured and improvised, Refuge has been performed in various configurations, featuring instruments as diverse as the saxophone, tabla, duduk, bamboo flute, electric and acoustic bass, voice, bass clarinet, and drum set. For this festival, the music will be performed by Apoorva Krishna (violin), Rohit PS (drumset), Dhani Muniz (electric bass) and the composer Aman Mahajan (piano).