Dima Bondarev - Trumpet (UKR)
Eldar Tsalikov - Saxophone/Clarinet (RUS)
Declan Forde - Piano (UK)
Igor Spallati - Bass (ITA)
Jordan Dinsdale - Drums (UK)
After nearly four months of no concerts around the world, the Zig Zag Jazz Club is happy to celebrate the return of live music, and to welcome back five musicians who, for the last year, have been Sunday night regulars. Five of Berlin’s top improvisers; attuned and accustomed to instant arrangement and orchestration, and fluent in the repertoires of Jazz greats such as Duke Ellington, Sidney Bechet, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Fats Waller and Count Basie. This momentous return to the stage is not to be missed!
Dima Bondarev
Born in 1984 in Ukraine, Bondarev began playing the trumpet at the age of nine and has been based in Berlin since 2013. He has already made a name for himself as one of the most respected up and coming young musicians in Germany where he undertook both Batchelor and Master studies at the Jazz Institut Berlin (JIB). He has been collaborating with many outstanding musicians in the European and American jazz scene, among them - Greg Cohen, Joey Baron, NDR Big Band, Jim Black, Nels Cline, Steve Turre, Conrad Herwig and many others.
Eldar Tsalikov
Born in 1993 in Rostov-on-Don into a family of musicians Tsalikov began learning the saxophone at the age of eight. He moved to Berlin in 2011 where he studied at the Jazz-Institut Berlin and graduated in 2018 receiving both a Bachelor’s degree as an instrumentalist, and Master's degree as an arranger and composer. Being a skillful and a versatile musician himself, Eldar has been expanding his knowledge of music, collaborating with European and Western performers of various kinds: from the deep traditional styles of Jazz and swing with Jon-Erik Kellso, Evan Christopher, The EarRegulars, Meschiya Lake, The Musicomaniacs, The Echoes of Django, The Jungle and Moscow Ragtime Band. To modern Jazz and experimental music with Greg Cohen, Joey Baron, Laurie Anderson, Elias Stemeseder, Manlio Maresca, The HAF and Anna Webber's Percussive Mechanics. He has traveled to many different countries, performing in venues and concert halls such as Birdland (New York / USA), Elbphilharmonie (Hamburg, Germany), Konzerthaus Berlin (Berlin, Germany), TivoliVredenburg (Utrecht, Netherlands), and taken part in the Copenhagen Jazz Fest (Denmark), Ascona Jazz Fest (Switzerland), French Quarter Fest (New Orleans / USA) and Glasgow Jazz Festival (Scotland).
Declan Forde
Declan Forde is a pianist from Scotland and has been living in Berlin since 2014. Forde has become the pianist of choice in Berlin across a broad spectrum of musical situations. From Early Jazz with Igor Spallati’s Musicomaniacs, to performing the music of Duke Ellington with American bassist Greg Cohen (Ornette Coleman, John Zorn, Woody Allen, etc.); original music with James Banner’s Usine to freely improvised music with the likes of Jeff Williams, John Hollenbeck, Tobias Delius, Max Andrzejewski, Cansu Tanrikulu, Rudi Mahal, Jan Roder and Michael Griener.
Forde also performs solo and was invited by the Berliner Festspiele to perform as part of American artist Rashid Johnson’s installation Antoine’s Organ at Berlin’s Gropius Bau July-December 2019.
Igor Spallati
Born in 1985 in Italy, he started playing the double bass at the age of 19. He studied classical music in Italy with M° Silvio Bruni and Franco Petracchi. He moved to Berlin in 2010 to sudy at the Jazz Institut Berlin under the guidance of Greg Cohen, John Hollenbeck, Kurt Rosenwinkel among others. He has played with: Joe Chambers, Billy Hart, Nasheet Waits, Fred Hersch, Ambrose Akinmusire, Jim Mcneely, Lewis Nash, Jay Anderson, Ronnie Burrage, Pietro Tonolo, Gabriele Mirabassi, Elias Stemeseder, Dado Moroni, Joe Hisaishi, Louis Bacalov, Nicola Piovani, David Russel, Marco Socias.
Jordan Dinsdale
A young British drummer based in Berlin, Jordan has studied and played with some of the greatest names in Jazz including Jimmy Cobb, Chris Cheek, Jimmy Wormworth, Mike Kanan and Yasushi Nakamura. Studying at Leeds college of Music on a scholarship (2010-2017), he graduated with a first class honours and was awarded the CBE Peter Roberts Memorial prize for achieving the highest marked recital performance.
Show: 19:30 Uhr - 20:30 Uhr (Einlass 18:30 Uhr)
Show: 21:30 Uhr - 22:30 Uhr (Einlass 21:00 Uhr)
Eintritt frei - Beitrag erwünscht
IMPORTANT: The time you book your reservation for is the beginning of the concert! Please make sure to arrive at the club in time, but at least 15min before the concert starts, as we allocate seats on a first-come-first-serve basis. Arriving too late (less than 15min before the concert) may cause that your seats will be no longer available, especially when the concert is booked out.
In order to comply with the current distance and hygiene regulations, we will from now on present 2 shows per evening with a changing audience, as it is also common in cities like New York and London. This will create a very special, intimate and familiar atmosphere for you and us through the resulting new room layout with sofas and upholstered chairs distributed throughout the entire room and will ensure an even more intense and electrifying live music experience, which you will be able to enjoy more than ever before!
Reservations are limited due to social distance regulations.
We ask for your understanding that due to the newly regulated room layout, group reservations are more likely to receive a seat with a table than single person reservations. Thank you very much
(Our team has been thoroughly informed about the hygiene regulations. Please take note that we strictly adhere to the hygiene regulations and distance instructions).
Hinweise zur Reservierung - WICHTIG: Die Uhrzeit, zu der Sie reservieren, ist der Konzertbeginn. Bitte beachten Sie, rechtzeitig, mindestens jedoch 15min vor Konzertbeginn, am Club zu erscheinen, da wir Sitzplätze auf First-Come-First-Serve-Basis vergeben. Die Uhrzeit, zu der Sie reservieren, ist der Konzertbeginn. Bei zu spätem Erscheinen (weniger als 15min vor Konzertbeginn) können Ihre Plätze wieder freigegeben werden. Bei zu spätem Erscheinen (weniger als 15min vor Konzertbeginn) können Ihre Plätze wieder freigegeben werden.
Um die aktuellen Abstands- und Hygienevorschriften einzuhalten, werden wir ab sofort 2 Shows pro Abend mit einem wechselnden Publikum präsentieren, wie es auch in Städten wie New York und London üblich ist. Dies verschafft uns und Ihnen durch die daraus entstandene neue Raumaufteilung mit im gesamten Raum verteilten Sofas und gepolsterten Stühlen eine ganz besondere, intime und familiäre Atmosphäre und sorgt für ein noch intensiveres und elektrisierenderes Livemusikerlebnis, welches Sie so mehr denn je genießen können!
Reservierungen sind begrenzt aufgrund der sozialen Distanzierungsvorschriften.
Wir bitten um Ihr Verständnis, dass Gruppenreservierungen aufgrund der neu geregelten Raumaufteilung eine höhere Wahrscheinlichkeit auf einen Sitzplatz mit Tisch erhalten als Einzelpersonen. Vielen Dank!
(Unser Team wurde gründlich über die Hygienevorschriften informiert. Bitte nehmen Sie zur Kenntnis, dass wir uns strikt an die Hygienevorschriften und Distanzierungsmaßnahmen halten.)
ENTRANCE FEES
One of the reasons that makes the zig zag jazz club so unique is that it is the first and only jazz club in the world that manages to finance world class events through a crowd funding concept. How do we do it? Its quite simple… during the break of the concert we make an announcement regarding the collection for the evening. For most concerts (excluding the jam session) we inform our customers that a fee of around 15€ per person will allow us to fairly compensate the musicians. Some people give more and some give less… and that´s ok… we ´ve already successfully promoted hundreds of concerts like this!!!
EINTRITT
Einer der Gründe, die den Zig Zag Jazzclub so einzigartig machen, ist, dass er der erste und einzige Jazzclub der Welt ist, dem es gelingt nur durch freiwilligem Eintritt/Crowdfunding Events von Weltklasse zu finanzieren. Und wie machen wir das? Ganz einfach. Während der Konzertpause geben wir bekannt, dass wir Geld einsammeln werden. Bei den meisten Konzerten (außer Jam Sessions) informieren wir unsere Kunden, dass ein Beitrag von ungefähr 15 Euro es uns erlaubt die Musiker gerecht zu bezahlen. Manche geben dabei mehr und andere weniger... und das ist auch in Ordnung. Wir haben auf diese Weise schon Hunderte Konzerte organisiert.