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11.06.09 Register for the master classes of Fred Frith and Nils Wogram

Imaxina Sons, Vigo’s International Jazz Festival, organizes master classes for every issue of the festival. The classes contribute to enhance the training experience of jazz musicians and fans, while simultaneously providing an excellent forum for encounters between highly-reputed instrumentalists and people who want to know more about the most hidden secrets of jazz and improvisation. The master classes of this fifth issue of the festival will be given by British guitarist and improviser Fred Frith (Tuesday, June 30th), and German trombonist Nils Wogram (Saturday, July 4th) at Vigo’s Conservatory (Conservatorio Superior de Música). Please register free of charge on the following link if you would like to attend these master classes http://www.imaxinasons.com/gl/inscricion

Guitarist Fred Frith from the UK, an excellent world renowned master of improvisation, will give a master class during the fifth issue of Imaxina Sons, Vigo’s International Jazz Festival. This will be an excellent opportunity for all those willing to have a direct open dialogue with one of the key figures of avant-garde music. The documentary Step Across the Border (Nicolas Humbert, Werner Penzel, 1990) −screened in the previous issue of the Festival− was a first chance for us to approach the personality of Fred Frith in his constant search for new sound experiences. The documentary −which was selected by the critics of the magazine Cahiers du Cinema as one of the best one hundred films in history− portraits this exceptional musician, who left Europe at the end of the 1970s after his ten-year experience with Henry Cow, the avant-garde band where he used to play the guitar, banjo, piano and xylophone. After coming to New York, Frith joined other exceptional bizarre artists present in the local downtown stages like John Zorn and Tom Cora. Frith’s discography is never-ending, as he has participated in over four hundred albums, either as a soloist, as a band member or as a side musician. In this issue of Imaxina Sons Fred Frith will be conducting OMEGA (Galicia’s Spontaneous Music Orchestra) and will join Lucía Recio for an artistic innovative experience which combines fun and research, poetry and noise. His master class will wind up his participation in this most special issue of the festival.

This young German Musician, born in 1972, is one of the most reputed figures of the European jazz scene of the time. After his participation in the first issue of Imaxina Sons with his band Root 70, he now comes to Vigo as a member of Lucas Niggli’s band for their July 4th concert at Teatro Salesianos. Wogram has been performing with different bands in the most important European festivals and with Root 70 he toured all around the globe. Equally, he has been participating in numerous albums over the last few years: with Root 70 he recorded in 2008 On 52nd ¼ Street, the bands’ number four album, a live recording with the taste of the sounds of New Orleans. Also in 2008, he published Pretty Good News (Unit Records) with the band Lush. Nils Wogram has brought a brand new sound to the jazz trombone: An identity sign which has led both the public and the critics to follow his career closely over the last decade. Participants in his master class will bear witness to his versatility and his brilliant technique, as well as to the somehow vintage taste which can be perceived in his albums.