Wednesday 31 August 2016

Wonderful jazz from Leonid Chizhik & Jeff Cascaro

We left Basel by direct train to Munich after the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra concert the next morning. The scenery en route to Munich was particularly lovely, especially near the Lake Constance area.


An unplanned jazz concert on our summer trip that we watched in Munich was by Leonid Chizhik (piano) and Jeff Cascaro (voice and trumpet). The concert was held in the Kleines Theatre in a leafy Munich suburb called Haar.


Chizhik and Cascaro put on a show entitled "Broadway for Two". This was 2-hour show with a short intermission. This was an amazing jazz concert, which was entirely improvised and the two musicians did not have any performing score.


Chizhik (at 69 years old) performed with lots of energy at the piano, whilst Cascaro occasionally played the trumpet as he took a break from singing the American standards.

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