Stort mediaintresse för Ystad Sweden Jazz Festival

Koreansk TV:
Youn Sun Nah gjorde en utsåld bejublad konsert vid förra årets jazzfestival i Ystad. Ovationerna ville aldrig ta slut! Festivalens konstnärlige ledare Jan Lundgren har därför bjudit Youn Sun Nah tillbaka till Ystad. Koreansk TV kommer till Ystad för att filma konserten och göra reportage om den stora festivalen i den lilla staden Ystad – värd en lång resa.

Internationella jazzmagasin:
Bland magasin som ackrediterat sig finns bl a DownBeat (USA), Jazz Journal (UK), Jazz Hot (Frankrike), Jazz n´More (Schweiz) och Jazzthetic (Tyskland). Magasinen har utsett sina mest namnkunniga recensenter och fotografer att bevaka jazzfestivalen i Ystad. 

DownBeat är en av världens ledande jazztidningar, grundad 1934. Journalisten, recensenten, författaren och jazzhistorikern Ira Gitler kommer till Ystad för DownBeat! En dröm för vilken festival som helst!

Talk Show with Ira Gitler
Söndagen den 7 augusti kl 12.30 på Ystads Teater, arrangeras en talk show med Ira Gitler.
Hör journalistlegenden Ira själv berätta om möten med jazzens legender, konserter runt om världen, jazzhistoria och mycket mer.
Ira Gitler har belönats med bl a Guggenheim_Fellowship (1974) samt Lifetime Achievement Awards av New Jersey Jazz Societey (2001) och Jazz Journalists Association (2002).

Sveriges Radio:
Sveriges Radio kommer att direktsända de två sista konserterna från Ystads Teater fredagen den 5 augusti och lördagen den 6 augusti. Dessutom bandar SR in alla konserter på Ystads Teater och Ystads Saltsjöbad för 10 timmars sändning under kommande vinter.

Direktsändningar från Ystads Teater:

Fredag 5 aug kl 20.00: Jan Lundgren Trio med LaGaylia & Hal Frazier

Fredag 5 aug kl 23.00: Pat Martino & Eric Alexander Quintet featuring Harold Mabern

Lördag 6 aug kl 20.00: Toots Thielemans European Quartet

Lördag 6 aug kl 23.00: Jan Lundgren med Youn Sun Nah, Arild Andersen m fl

Facts Ira Gitter:
Ira Gitler has been professionally involved with jazz since 1951, when he wrote the notes for a Zoot Sims LP recorded by the Prestige label. From that time, he has annotated countless albums for all the major labels and most of the important independents, internationally, into the CD era. He was theNew Yorkeditor of Down Beat magazine, 1963 and 1967. As a freelance writer he has written for Metronome, Down Beat, JazzTimes (USA), Swing Journal (Japan), Musica Jazz (Italy) and Jazz Magazine (France), as well as the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Village Voice, Vibe, and New York Magazine. He wrote a weekly column for JazzCentral Station (a division of N2K) on the World Internet; contributed to its successor, CD Now; and to the Knit Media’s Web site. He currently pens a monthly column, “Apple Chorus” for Jazz Inside NY. He taught jazz history atCityCollegein the early and mid-70s and theNewSchool(1986-94) and has been a faculty member at Manhattan School of Music since 1992. His books include Jazz Masters of the Forties (Macmillan), reissued in a revised edition as The Masters of Bebop (Da Capo); and the oral history Swing To Bop, written as a Guggenheim Fellow (Oxford University Press). He also coauthored The Encyclopedia of Jazz in the Seventies (Horizon Press) and The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz (Oxford), both with Leonard Feather.

Gitler produced recordings with Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Thelonious Monk, Tadd Dameron, Art Farmer, Billy Taylor, Teddy Charles, Charlie Mariano, King Pleasure, and Jimmy Raney/Stan Getz for the Prestige label in the 1950s. He produced concerts, also acting as master of ceremonies, for what in now known as the JVC-NY Jazz Festival in the 80s and 90s, including tributes to Charlie Parker, Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, Django Reinhardt, Bud Powell, and Art Blakey. For JVC-NY 2003 he produced and emceed A Tribute to the Royal Roost at Birdland.

He is considered to be one of the foremost jazz authorities in the world and has covered jazz events in Italy, Ireland, France, Spain, Switzerland, Portugal, Russia, Ireland, Japan, India, Cuba, Morocco, Senegal, and Guadeloupe (och snart Sverige – min anmärkning!).

As a broadcaster he has been heard on WNCN, WBAI (both inNew York Cityin the 60s); and KADX (Coloradoin the 80s). His Reminiscing in Tempo was heard on Sirius Satellite Radio in the new millennium. In 2001, he served as master of ceremonies for two concerts featuring the music of Benny Golson for Jazz atLincolnCenterand conducted a public interview session with Mr. Golson at the Kaplan Penthouse during the week of the concerts. Gitler received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the New Jersey Jazz Society in 2001, and one from the Jazz Journalists Association in 2002.

Kontakt
Jan Lundgren, konstnärlig ledare, 070 – 865 87 27, jan@ystadjazz.se
Thomas Lantz, styrelseordförande föreningen Yazz, 070 – 947 77 99, thomas@ystadjazz.se
Itta Johnson, ackrediteringar, pressansvarig, 070 – 947 72 96, itta@ystadjazz.se

Fullständigt program, scener, pressbilder mm:   www.ystadjazz.se

Ystad Sweden Jazz Festival är en samproduktion av föreningen Yazz och Musik i Syd. Konstnärlig ledare är Jan Lundgren.