VVK 15 Euro AK 18 Euro

113th Bocholt Jazz Evening

Tickets are available from October 2023 at the local advance booking offices

Touristinfo, theatre office and BBV Bocholt

and online at

www.tixforgigs.com/de-DE/Event/50950/113-bocholter-jazz-abend-freier-kulturort-alte-molkerei-e-v

Ben Fitzpatrick/Andre Weiß Quartet

Ben Fitzpatrick (saxophone), Andre Weiß (piano), Henning Gailing (bass), Dominik Raab (drums)

Ben Fitzpatrick has made a name for himself as a saxophonist and composer on the international jazz scene and is the new saxophonist of the WDR Big Band. Fitzpatrick was born in Dublin and moved to the United States at the age of 9. At the age of 15, Ben had the opportunity to play baritone saxophone in the Jazz At Lincoln Youth Orchestra. Under the tutelage of the great saxophonists Joe Temperley and Ted Nash, Ben had great success and performed twice as a soloist at Carnegie Hall. The New York Times mentioned Ben by name and praised his performance. Ben performed at the 2016 Grammy's with the Grammy Awards Big Band and occasionally filled in for Ted Nash in the Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. The Stuttgart-based pianist Andre Weiß is one of the biggest talents on the German jazz scene. With his consistently swinging playing, he makes a clear and convincing plea for the beauty, power and elegance of "Straight Ahead Jazz". He has played with Eric Alexander, Scott Hamilton and Ralph Moore, with whom he recorded his debut album. Together with bassist Henning Gailing and drummer Dominik Raab, he forms a brilliant rhythm section.