2023-07-15 10:31:00
Vito Lesczak is an incredibly versatile drummer. A few years ago in a duo with pianist Dieter Glawischnig in a totally free concept, this time in a quartet in an almost classic setting.
E-mails flew back and forth with his old acquaintances, trombonist Ed Neumeister and pianist Rob Bargad, with suggestions for the program, Lesczak describes the procedure to us after the concert. The drummer himself and Neumeister, who taught in Graz for a long time, live in New York. Although Bargad is a New Yorker, he teaches at the GMPU (Gustav Mahler Private University) in Klagenfurt. Bargad then recommended bass player Philipp Zarfl, the youngest of the bunch, who also teaches at the GMPU and plays in a wide variety of bands in Carinthia: including “Echoes from the South”, one founded by saxophonist Michi Erian and trumpeter Daniel Nösig, always very different occupied “Who’s-Who” of Carinthian jazz.
Solo excursions
While at first the bassline runs quite loosely and some solo excursions are interspersed, the whole thing quickly picks up speed and you try out more complex rhythms and harmonies.
Most of the compositions come from the protagonists themselves, the rest from influential personalities of jazz such as the pianist and singer Andy Bey, who incidentally was a guest at the Kulturforum in Villach decades ago. In any case, the promising first appearance at the Musikforum Viktring on Friday evening should be continued, if Vito Lesczak has his way, who has also been giving well-booked workshops for drums and ensemble playing at the Viktring Abbey for many years, where he once went to school himself.
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