Bosch Big Band swings into Bengaluru with monster line-up

The Bosch Big Band Jazz Orchestra from Stuttgart successful Germany, is each acceptable to wow metropolis audiences with their performance this weekend. The set which was established successful 2003, volition beryllium performing with Arts successful Motion, successful keeping with the taxable of this year’s festival — Indo-German Jazz.

According to the organisers of the event, the past 4 decades person been testament to long-running partnerships “between jazz musicians from Germany and India, particularly Carnatic musicians from Bengaluru”.

The Bosch Big Band Jazz Orchestra comprises solely of Bosch employees who are musicians successful their spare time, with the objection of Mathias Anton, a well-known saxophonist who is their philharmonic director. Established successful 2003, this is the archetypal clip the set is successful India, having performed successful the United States and Hungarybefore.

Sebastian Stocklerwho plays the baritone saxophone for the Bosch Big Band says they are classical large set orchestra, partial to plaything with an full brass conception comprising trumpets, trombones, tubas and the like. “Though we began with playing pieces from the plaything epoch by Sammy Nestico and Count Basie, implicit time, we forayed into different genres specified arsenic funk and modern jazz, too,” says Sebastian, who has been with the set since 2004.

The set plays their ain arrangements of fashionable pieces and person six workplace recordings to their credit. And portion they mightiness beryllium making their debut successful India this year, the set is rather good known elsewhere. Sebastian recalls however the 125th day of the institution saw implicit 2000 distinguished satellite leaders and statesmen being feted by Bosch’s taste ambassadors of which the Big Band is one, isolated from their theatre troupe and symphony orchestra.

The band’s line-up for Bengaluru audiences is successful keeping with the taxable of the festival. “We are presenting ‘Nanati Bathuku’, a classical Carnatic opus that we organised a peculiar large set statement for. In Bengaluru, we are collaborating with a euphony and theatre troupe called Arts successful Motion,” says Sebastian, adding that aft connecting virtually, it was large to conscionable successful idiosyncratic to hole for their upcoming show.

“I judge it is due to the fact that we opened ourselves to the thought of this philharmonic collaboration, we were capable to enactment unneurotic thing that is rather unique. This is the archetypal clip the Bosch Big Band has teamed up with musicians from different state for an event.”

According to Peter Munk, who plays the trombone successful the Bosch Band, the collaboration was specified an enriching acquisition that the troupe invited musician-colleagues successful the metropolis to articulation them for their upcoming performance. “We are looking guardant to an Indo-German collaboration connected stage.”

Mathias Anton says the set saw their invitation to the Bengaluru Jazz Fest arsenic a accidental to curate a peculiar programme from their immense repertoire. “As a large band, we person galore antithetic styles and celebrated tunes arsenic good arsenic immoderate that were written particularly for our past CD production, and we are keen to contiguous a sampling of them here.”

Music by the Bosch Big Band is disposable connected each streaming platforms