Viktoria Tolstoy & Jacob Karlzon "Who We Are"
Beautiful voices abound in jazz today more than ever. However, Viktoria Tolstoy is unique: she is the great melodramatist of jazz, and Pat Metheny once said to her after a performance: "When you sing, the sun rises." A bipolar musician who can make fragility and threat sound like happiness, and can render the bitter enchanting and beautiful. She has also framed and perfected this art conceptually since becoming an ACT artist in 2003: whether she focuses on material from Esbjörn Svensson, whose e.s.t. started as her accompanying trio, or recently on Herbie Hancock, classical templates, Swedish standards, or repertoire from Russia, the homeland of her ancestors.
Her new album "A Moment Of Now" is now as open as none before, for a simple reason: "The concept this time is Jacob and me," says Viktoria. An intimate album in duo form, therefore, focusing entirely on the long-standing musical partnership of Viktoria Tolstoy with pianist Jacob Karlzon. Karlzon's playing also thrives on nuance, transitions, and ambiguity – whether the 43-year-old is at the piano, the Fender Rhodes, the synthesizer, or the celesta glockenspiel, drawing inspiration from classics like Ravel or hard rockers like KoRn. He has been Tolstoy's companion for almost 15 years, and it seems he will remain so, even though he, like once Esbjörn Svensson, is now also on a successful path under his own name – see Jacob Karlzon 3 "More." "One usually knows in advance what the other thinks and will do, without either needing to say anything. It’s almost a bit eerie," Tolstoy explains, laughing about their blind understanding of each other.
19:00 Admission
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