Melody Gardot | Malia
Vienna State Opera 19.30
Melody Gardot has established herself as a singer/songwriter with her fragile ballads. On “The Absence” Gardot transitions between tango, fado and desert blues. Her next as-yet-unnamed album is due out in May 2015. Soul and jazz singer Malia has a very subtle vocal style for jazz, soul, pop and electronic music. She embodies both cool and soul.
Fernwärme Open Air: David Sanborn Electric Band | Ed Motta Brasil | Raphael Wressnig & The Soul Gift Band
Wien Energie 16.00
Alto saxophonist David Sanborn is a six-time Grammy winner with solid roots in the blues and R&B. His saxophone tones are both intimate and stunning. Ed Motta, the 43-year old musician from Rio de Janeiro, is a talent who fuses genres such as MPB, soul, reggae, rock and jazz. His voice is reminiscent of his legendary uncle, Tim Maia, the founder of carioca soul. Raphael Wressnig is a skilled organist who was born in 1979 in Graz, over the years he has played with Austrian greats such as Karl Ratzer, Oliver Mally and Harry Sokal.
Month Of Sundays
Porgy & Bess 20.30
Month of Sundays is not just a great song from the British group Metronomy, but also a highly sublime jazz formation of musicians who are from Austria, or who have moved here to live...
Trio Balkan Strings
Reigen 20.30
The Trio Balkan Strings (Zoran Starcevic & his sons Nikola and Zeljko) is a family of guitarists from Belgrade. Their sound is original and unique instrumental music, a fusion of Balkan elements.
Dana Gillespie & Joachim Palden
Jazzland 21.00
Dana Gillespie was born in the UK and experienced the Swingin‘ Sixties up close. She recorded her first record at the age of 15 and later sang for Jimmy Page and David Bowie.
Özlem Bulut & Band
Summerstage - admission free! 20.00
The viennese band of six with the young singer Özlem Bulut, together with great musicians like saxophonist Andrei Prosorov and drummer Jörg Mikula, combines oriental influences with those of pop and jazz into a sensual mélange.