»Village Vanguard« - in white capital letters on a red background, these two words are written in front of the entrance to Seventh Avenue, No. 178, Manhattan. For two evenings we transfer the Village Vanguard to the hr-Sendesaal in Frankfurt, celebrating the music of one of the pioneering ensembles of jazz: the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra. For decades, every Monday evening, the band meets there and plays the arrangements of its major orchestra conductors Thad Jones, Mel Lewis, Bob Brookmayer and Jim McNeely. Dick Oatts and Gary Smulyan, two of the outstanding and style-making soloists of the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, will be on stage with the Frankfurt Radio Big Band for this tribute. The band is proud to present their very own »Night at the Village Vanguard« with chief conductor and New Yorker Jim McNeely.

Dick Oatts, alto saxophone
Gary Smulyan, baritone saxophone
Jim McNeely, conductor

Original Dates: Thursday, June 4th & Friday, June 5th 2020

New Dates: April, 2nd & 23rd, 2021

20.00 h

Frankfurt

hr-Sendesaal

German version

Hintergrund der Absage