Jazz at Bran Castle 2018

Outstanding concerts performed by international artists have taken place on 25-26 August in the inner courtyards of Bran Castle and Râșnov Evangelical Church, during the sixth edition of the Jazz Festival organized at these top touristic sites in Romania.

Among this year’s special guest: Stefano Bollani, acclaimed as the best Italian piano player of the last years and Enrico Rava, a fabulous musician, always eager to perform various musical projects, his trumpet being full of meaning over the time, excellent Cuban piano player Omar Sosa and versatile Kora player, Seckou Keita, from Senegal, seconded by Gustavo Ovalles, percussionist from Venezuela – with their latest recording, “Transparent Water”, an album which perfectly match the sound of various instruments from Africa and South America with the piano’s one. In the subsequent musical act, Swedish bass player Lars Danielsson together with British guitar player John Parricelli, Swedish percussionist Magnus Öström and pianist Grégory Privat, from Martinique, with “Liberetto III” (ACT 9840-2), a very melodic and wide-ranging album.

Trio Medieval, a Septentrional vocal and instrumental Norwegian trio, celebrating their seventh album at ECM label,“ Rimur”, a recording released together with the talented Norwegian trumpeter Arve Henriksen. Rabih Abou-Khalil Trio, in which the art of Rabih Abou-Khalil, a Lebanese oud virtuoso, is combined with a refined percussion technique of the American drummer Jarrod Cagwin and the lyricism of the Italian accordionist Luciano Biondini into an original fusion, called “world-jazz”, with their latest recording “ The Flood and the Fate of Fish”, released in February 2018.

One of best friends of the Festival, Italian bandeonist Daniele Di Bonaventura, returned to the present edition together with Vertere String Quartet, to perform a classic project, maybe his most melodious recording “Sine Nomine”. In line with these coming backs, Norwegian trumpeter Nils Peter Molvaer performed, in a trio, the latest recording of his quartet, “Buoyancy”.

Trio Medieval and Arve Henriksen also performed inside the baroque ambiance of the Evangelical Church of Râșnov.

Source:RRA, Jazzevents.