Friday 05.07.19 am
Kongsberg Kino

Jazz film: 1959 - The year when jazz was turned upside down

Multimedia exhibition by Johan Hauknes

Door opens: 13:30 Price single ticket: Free,

Free

Without 1959, jazz would have long been dead! In 2019, it is sixty years since perhaps the most revolutionary year in jazz history.

 

In the lecture, Hauknes will describe and discuss what makes 1959 so important, and of course illustrate with lots of music! Through music that was created and released in this year, he looks at the main features of it and how it laid key premises for the further development of improvised music. These premises have shaped the development right up to the present day.

 

Johan Hauknes is a committed jazz journalist and jazz scholar, located in Oslo. For many years he has been a prominent voice in the discussion of Norwegian and foreign jazz in Scandinavia. He is also a popular lecturer on the history and multifaceted expression of improvised music. Hauknes knows what he is talking about and regularly shows that he can separate the chaff from the wheat in the Nordic web-journal salty peanuts*, as he did for many years as a writer and reviewer in Jazz news.

 

Jazzfilm is supported by the Norwegian Film Institute and Buskerud County Municipality

 

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