Congratulazioni al Cafe Oto a Londra e al KM28 a Berlino per l'importante riconoscimento ottenuto dall'Instant Award in Improvised Music di quest'anno, che di entrambi ha voluto lodare l'esempio e premiare il continuo impegno. Bravissimi!
Underwritten by an anonymous patron and musical devotee, the 2024 Instant Award in Improvised Music is presented for the very first time to two outstanding venues. Both are outstanding beacons of dedicated programming, excelling in excepional Imorovised and other Musics. The venues will reveice an unrestricted award of $50,000 each. Previous Instant Award recipients are Susan Alcorn, Raymond Boni, Peter Brötzmann, John Edwards, Satoko Fujii, Milford Graves, Mats Gustafsson, Okkyung Lee, Arto Lindsay, Paul Lytton, Joe McPhee, Ikue Mori, Sam Newsome, Evan Parker, Alexander von Schlippenbach, LaDonna Smith, Henry Threadgill, Nate Wooley, Tristan Honsinger, Tobias Delius, and Christian Lillinger.
2024 recipients are Cafe OTO, London, and KM28, Berlin. "The jazz club, with its dim lighting and closely packed tables, looms large in our collective imagination." As Giovanni Russonello has stated in the New York Times: "But the real blood-pumping moments - the shows where you can sense that other musicians are in the room listening for new tricks, and it feels like the script is still being written onstage - have been happening most often in venues that don’t look like typical jazz clubs. They’re spaces where jazz bleeds outward, and converses with a less regimented audience." Venues today are often times driven by non-for-profit organisation that operate from tiny desks with big hearts. Total devotion, no work-life-balance, and great great music year in and year out. These venues are the heartbeat of the ever-changing precarious greatness of the contemporary music scene. They make the things happen that push the envelope and the music inch by inch into the present of the future. And they are loved by musicians and audience alike. For all the best reasons. We think Cafe OTO and KM28 are two of the best of these and the Instant Award in Improvised Music wants to acknowledge and support these exemplary structures wholeheartedly.
Cafe OTO
18-22 Ashwin Street, Dalston
London E8 3DL
https://www.cafeoto.co.uk
KM28
Karl-Marx-Str. 28
12043 Berlin
https://www.km28.de