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Goethe Jazz: Heinz Sauer & Michael Wollny (d) at Opus Jazz Club
Courtesy of BMC - Opus Jazz Club | Posted on December 9, 2014
Where
Opus Jazz Club
Mátyás Street 8.
Budapest
Map
+36 1 216 7894
When
Sat, December 13, 2014
21:00
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Musicians
Heinz Sauer
saxophoneMichael Wollny
pianoAbout
Featuring:
Heinz Sauer - saxophone
Michael Wollny - piano
“One of the great saxophone individualists and the biggest piano talent in Germany develop fascinating dialogues full of unsentimental warmth, with often surprising payoffs. You just want to keep hearing them play” (TZ München)
“Jazz comes back to life here” (Die Zeit)
“...among the best that German jazz has to offer” (WELT am Sonntag)
When told he was considered one of the fundamental greats of German Jazz, Heinz Sauer replied that he saw himself “neither as old nor as a master”. though the saxophonist, celebrating his 82nd birthday on 25 December 2014, is rightfully known as “a giant” (FAZ) and “grand master of saxophone” (DIE ZEIT), has been at the centre of European jazz history since his beginnings at the side of Albert Mangelsdorff, in principle he remains to this day an adolescent; the kind of artist who knows that the path to mastery doesn't have a final destination....