JAZZ CITY BILK 2025 - JAZZ QUIZ MIT WOLFGANG EICHLER & FILM "JAZZ AN EINEM SOMMERABEND"

At the end of the festival weekend there is a special treat:

Sunday evening we will show you the movie "JAZZ on a summer evening".

Before the movie, the thoroughbred musician Wolfgang Eichler will challenge the audience with questions about jazz history in a 45-minute quiz. Among other things, it will be about

• Genre characteristics (instrumentation, explanations of terms, music theory), performance practice
• Social and political aspects of jazz

This takes the form of multiple-choice questions, sound samples played live by the quizmaster and audio-visual recordings.

The event consists of three rounds:

1. 5 candidates from the entire audience will qualify with a show of hands by giving the correct answers
2. The candidates will go through three rounds of questions on stage with points being awarded
3. The two candidates with the highest number of points will determine the winner in a further round of questions

The attractive prizes for the winners will be announced at the beginning of the event.

Afterwards, the Metropol Kino will present all jazz lovers with a classic on the subject of jazz, the film "Jazz an einem Sommerabend".

JAZZ ON A SUMMER EVENING is the chronology of a summer's day full of music, sensuality, elegance and nonchalance.

The setting of Newport has a historic status as the social summer residence of the USA, and the city became the jazz capital of the world in just four years. Bert Stern captures Newport's magic by letting his camera stroll along the beach and roam the picturesque streets with their white houses and boarding houses. The story Newport 1958, a summer's day. Two events collide: the Newport Jazz Festival and the America Cup sailing regatta. In the middle of it all is photographer Bert Stern, world-famous for his photo session "Last Sitting" with Marilyn Monroe. As in his pictures, Stern succeeds here too - in impressionistic snapshots - in capturing the personalities of those portrayed, be it the musicians on stage or seemingly randomly selected faces from the audience, in which joie de vivre, relaxation and rapture are reflected.

Again and again, he focuses on details and small episodes: The astonished looks of the children, the elegant young woman chewing gum all too clearly or the slightly bored reader of a dime novel... During the day, the sailboats of the regatta glide gracefully through the sea to the overlapping sounds of the music and the water appears with its reflections as a psychedelic to graphic play of colors. After dark, Stern unfolds the range of the great musicians and is completely with them and the audience. The performance by rock 'n' roller Chuck Berry is captivating and encourages dancing, but Stern also illustrates the very quiet tones that can require incredible concentration, strength and effort to conjure up. In between, an almost disembodied-looking light blue suit dances and no one can escape the charm of a Louis Armstrong or a Mahalia Jackson, whose fervent performance brings the summer evening to a close.