28.01.2012
Brüssel, BE – Winter Jazz Festival des Flagey
Best of jazzplayseurope (jpe-labs 1-3)
5 years of jazzplayseurope – A start has been made – shaping Europe’s future
Who would have thought this possible, when in December 2007 five representatives of different jazz initiatives from five European countries met for the first time at the jazz club “domicil” in Dortmund, Germany, in order to start a journey to Europe together? – A journey, which – because planned and organised together – has not always been easy and still not is. But that is why it is an absolute necessity: Europe, that’s us! – Not the institutions in Brussels, but each one of us – that is not a matter of course, particularly not today! jazzplayseurope tells of this Europe and of perennial cooperation between very different, big as well as small organisations from meanwhile seven countries, which do not only talk, but indeed act. Initiated by Nadin Deventer in 2007 with RUHR.2010, the European Capital of Culture in 2010, in mind, jazzplayseurope has emerged from the understanding that structural networking and exchange between the regional musicians’ scenes in Europe is missing. jazzplayseurope –that are in the meantime more than 20 multinational cooperation projects, which have played on and enriched Europe in seven countries in the last five years, from the NL-Ruhr-Music-Kitchen 2010 to band exchanges to the 24-hours-run in 2011 and, of course, to the core of all projects, the jazzplayseurope-laboratory. Well then? Now the jazzplayseurope-family is entirely invited to Brussels, to Europe’s capital, to celebrate its fifth birthday duly and to take stock of it with our partners, musicians and journalists as well as to look ahead! A start has been made, jazzplayseurope has developed from an initial instinct and small idea combined with much idealism and great commitment into a remarkable impetus. Hats off! Be our guest and celebrate ‚5 years of jazzplayseurope’ with us on the Winterjazz Festival at the Flagey in Brussels! On behalf of jazzplayseurope: Nadin Deventer director of jazzwerkruhr initiator of jazzplayseurope in 2007 & of ‚5 years of jazzplayseurope’
