The soccer excitement of the first week of the open-air festival with its large screens around the square with cocktail beach area, live stage and guests from all over Europe has died down – this is a good moment for jazzy timelessness.
This duo underlines this perfectly with “Wave” by Antonio Carlos Jobim. It’s nice when this hit from the 60s flies by as real as if carried on a time warp. The musical hit “Have you met Miss Jones” continues in the breezy footsteps of Stan Getz. Oliver Voss comments with a smile on the excursions of Jörg Schneider, who is having fun.
Even for “Night in Tunisia” by Dizzie Gillespie, they find their own way, especially for the powerful groove of the middle section with big band power. Jörg Schneider has already switched to the alto saxophone, letting the higher and sharper horn sound. His excursions in the classic five-quarter rondo “Take Five” are also unconventional but coherent. The first part is glitteringly elegant, then he almost seems to take a wrong turn and shakes himself a little with modernist gestures. Paul Desmond, the saxophone icon of “cool”, had already demonstrated this live. In addition, Miles Davies’ credo: If you take a wrong turn, take another wrong turn – there it is again, the main road.
Jo!, the art of Duo. A nice moment in time!
Text: Michael Wüst
