offbeat - Jazzfestival Basel 2024
Overview
Intro
This year's thematic focuses are "Great Voices", "Pianists in Jazz", "Cuban Music", "Mali & Southafrica", "Classical Music & Jazz" and "Oriental Music".
The offbeat team also has a lot to see, surprise and discover for the 2024 festival year; presenting a "musical firework" consisting of jazz, funk, soul and global music in and around Basel. Diverse, multi-layered and stylistically open is offbeat in 2024 and we are also proud to have renowned female jazz musicians and female stars of global music in our program.
This year's thematic focus is on "Great Voices", "Pianists in Jazz", "Cuban Music", "Mali & South Africa", "Classical Music & Jazz" and "Oriental Music".
Large orchestral projects in collaboration with the Jazzcampus, the Hout label and basel sinfonietta are set to thrill audiences as Swiss premieres, while new band projects from the current Basel jazz scene will also be presented at the Jazzcampus, Kaserne Basel, Sudhaus Basel and the Jazz-Openair Basel. Big names in jazz are not to be overlooked in the program of Jazz Spring 2024, above all the 2-time Grammy winner Samara Joy, the 7-time Grammy winner Christian McBride, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Avishai Cohen, Michel Camilo, Hamilton de Holanda, the Mali legends Vieux Farka Touré & Fatoumata Diawara, the Cuban Night with Ana Carla Maza & Yilian Canizares, the piano virtuosos Jason Moran and Fred Hersch and the Finnish master pianist Iiro Rantala.
All in all, a varied program with many highlights, premieres and stars. Basel is set to become Switzerland's jazz metropolis once again.
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Event dates
- 21 May 2024
- 20 June 2024
- 23 June 2024
- 26 June 2024
- 27 June 2024
- 26 September 2024
- 22 October 2024
- 29 October 2024
- 13 November 2024
- 26 November 2024
- 08 December 2024
Discover the surroundings
Volkshaus Basel
Rebgasse 12-14
4058
Basel
Switzerland
Phone
+41 (0)61 690 93 00
rdm@volkshaus-basel.ch
volkshaus-basel.ch
Jazz by Off Beat
Münsterplatz 8
4051
Basel
Switzerland
Phone
+41 (0)61 263 23 15
Fax +41 (0)61 263 23 16
offbeat@jsb.ch
jazzfestivalbasel.ch
