Julie Sassoon
Julie Sassoon
pianist/composer
Listen back to the ARD RadioFestival 2022 feature of 'Inside Colours Duo'.
CHECK OUT MY SOLO CONCERT IN NEW YORK!
just returned from my solo gig in New York - at the Roulette Brooklyn.
It was a wonderful experience!
You can watch it here… starting around 1 hour 4 mins (1:04:40).
CLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE IN THE LATEST JAZZPODIUM MAGAZINE
Friday - 15. April 11pm - midnight (European Time)
Listen back on Soundcloud to the full ‘Inside Colours’ Duo concert
@ Jazzfest40 featured on
Bayerischer Rundfunk-Klassik Radio ‘Jazztime’ - presented by Roland Spiegel.
VOYAGES - The new quartet album - on Jazzwerkstatt
‘Voyages’ has just been nominated as one of the most outstanding
contemporary Jazz recordings for the
German Record Critic’s Award!
Guardian's Jazz Album of the month by John Fordham!
"The Sound of a Fascinating Original..."
'...Sassoon is a fascinating original, her piano world inhabited by Keith Jarrett’s lyricism and driving hooks and Steve Reich’s minimalism, but perhaps most significantly, the resources she has been accumulating through collaborations with unorthodox jazz and contemporary classical improvisers since the 1990s...
...This is music that splices lyrical shapeliness with bursts of take-no-prisoners abstraction, but Sassoon’s sensitivity to that balance is as alert here as her listeners have come to expect...'
John Fordham - **** Guardian
Frankfurter Rundschau
Julie Sassoon Voyages: 'Aus dem weiten Raum des Klaviers...'
'...Die Musik... geht oft wie staunend durch unbekannte Räume, die weniger durch krasse Farben als durch rätselvolle Details, eigensinnige Formverläufe und erstaunliche Tiefen charakterisiert sind. Die manchmal an etwas Älteres erinnern, oft aber an gar nichts und statt dessen eigene Wege beschreiten...'
Hans-Jürgen Linke - Frankfurter Rundschau
JazzPodium
“…Ist das eine schöne Platte! …Dieses Ensembles, international gerühmt für sein sensibles Interplay, seine mitreißende Emotionalität, die Entdeckungsreisen in organischer Gemeinsamkeit, hat mit Voyages die eigene Erlebens-Landschaft nochmals erweitert, ihre neue Lichtquellen und Ausblicke verpasst…”
Werner Siebert - JazzPodium
Jazz&Mo'
"...I will be bold about this: I love this kind of contemporary jazz to death!
I'm a big fan of Carla Bley and what Julie Sassoon creates with her quartet puts her in that league!
... It's a work of art."
Geert Ryssen - fullcirclemusic.com
All About Jazz
"... As on a high speed, downhill slalom chase, listeners are suddenly, nakedly and without poles hurled into "Missed Calls"; the opening burst of sublime energy and groupthink cracks Voyages wide open, sets the mad, determined pace and tone for a craftily organic, six-song, free-jazz adventure which never lets up. It is breakneck rhythm churning, keening, into whiplash waves, a wake up call of massive proportions..."
Mike Jurkovic - **** Allaboutjazz.com
Upcoming Gigs - 2022
21. Jan - Julie Sassoon Solo + Sophie Tassignon Solo Quartet @ Forum Gestaltung, MAGDEBURG - 19.30
11. Feb - Sassoon/Kellers Duo @ Black Box - MÜNSTER
12. Feb - Sassoon/Kellers Duo @ Bunker Ulmenwall - BIELEFELD
13. Feb - Sassoon/Kellers Duo @ Ort - WUPPERTAL
06. March - 'Inside Colours Duo' with special guest Mia Ohlmeier @ B-Flat - BERLIN
12. March - Inside Colours Duo recorded for Bayerischer Rundfunk @ Degginger - REGENSBURG
10 April - Julie Sassoon Quartet - CSP @ Theater Nestroyhof - Jüdische Kulturtage - VIENNA
15. April - 'Inside Colours Duo' broadcast on BR-KLASSIK RADIO - 'Jazztime' 11pm - midnight
21 April - Julie Sassoon Solo @ Roulette - NEW YORK
24 April - Sassoon/Kellers Duo @ Freiberg Jazz Festival
5. May - Kellers/Altmann/Sassoon @ Kühlspot - Berlin
3. June - Julie Sassoon Solo @ Enjoy Jazz - Heidelberg
17 June - Julie Sassoon Quartet @Zoglau3
18 June - Julie Sassoon Quartet @ Lana Jazz Festival - ITALY
30 June - Julie Sassoon Quartet @ Das Jüdische Theaterschiff - MS Goldberg - BERLIN
19 August - Inside Colours Duo with special guest Mia Ohlmeier @ Schlot - Berlin
JULIE SASSOON QUARTET ON TOUR - AUTUMN 2021
21. Oct - Forum Gestaltung - MAGDEBURG - 19.30
22. Oct - Bunker Ulmenwall - BIELEFELD - 20.30
23. Oct - Hospitalhof - STUTTGART - 20.00
24. Oct - Alte Synagoge HECHINGEN - 16.00 - Jazz + Klassiktage Tübingen
18. Nov - JSQuartet - ALBUM RELEASE CONCERT @ ZIGZAG - BERLIN - 21.00
26. November - JSQuartet - CSP @ Van Der Heydt Museum - WUPPERTAL - 19.00
28. Nov - JSQuartet - CSP @ Jüdische Kulturtage - VIENNA - 11.00 Matinee postponed
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JAZZ FACTS - DEUTSCHLANDFUNK
'Schattenbilder und Himmelsflüge' Die Pianistin Julie Sassoon - von Bert Noglik
Last year I was very honoured to be asked by Bert Noglik if he could do a one hour radio feature about me
and my music for Deutschlandfunk Radio. The programme was broadcast on 'JazzFacts'- Deutschlandfunk
You can listen back here...
1 At the Water Tower
2 Murmuration
'an album which can be counted as one of 2021's top solo piano outings...'
Dan Mcclenaghan - allaboutjazz.com
'...it's truly a beautiful thing when ... Sassoon surrenders so completely to her instrument and the moment that, like a medium, reveals mysteries to us in ways both intimate and oceanic...'
'..."At the Water Tower" is an emotive, forward tumbling elegy of darkness and light. Sledgehammer and flower. While it swirls around you its center stays calm, and from that vantage both pianist and listener watch the world move...'
Mike Jurkovic - allaboutjazz.com
'a moment of pure magic ...'
Geert Ryssen - fullcirclemusic.com
‘…Sassoon has always possessed an uncanny instinct for sidestepping mimicry or cliché…
...in the gliding, airborne "Murmuration" she was flying free... seamlessly evolving through startling harmonic modulations, alternations of staccato and sonorously rolling passages, dreamy reveries quietly punctuated by gleaming treble notes and deep chords, before a Jarrett-like rocking groove takes it out...'
2021 GIGS
12. June - Julie Sassoon Quartet @ Gruveniushaus - Sassnitz postponed
17. June - Julie Sassoon + Frank Paul Schubert @ Terzo Mondo - Berlin
29. August - JSQuartet - Charlotte Salomon Project @ Glad Haus - COTTBUS -15.00
11. September - SOLO @ PEITZ JAZZ FESTIVAL - 17.00
17. September - Sassoon/Kellers Duo @ Nikodemuskirche - BERLIN - 20.00
13. October - Sassoon/Kellers Duo @ Sowieso - 20.00
14. October - JSQuartet - CSP @ Jewish Museum AMSTERDAM (tbc)
21. Oct - JSQuartet - CSP @ Jüdische Kulturtage - Forum Gestaltung - MAGDEBURG - 19.30
22. Oct - JSQuartet - CSP @ Bunker Ulmenwall - BIELEFELD - 20.30
23. Oct - JSQuartet - CSP @ Hospitalhof - STUTTGART - 20.00
24. Oct - JSQuartet - CSP @ Alte Synagoge HECHINGEN - 16.00
18. Nov - JSQuartet - ALBUM RELEASE CONCERT @ ZIGZAG - BERLIN - 20.00
25. November - JSQuartet - CSP @ Cologne (tba)
26. November - JSQuartet - CSP @ Van Der Heydt Museum - WUPPERTAL - 19.00
28. Nov - JSQuartet - CSP @ Jüdische Kulturtage - VIENNA - 11.00 Matinee
4. Dec - 'Inside Colours' Duo @ 40. Jubilaum Bayerisches Jazzweekend- REGENSBURG
2020
'Inside Colours Duo' + special guest Mia Ohlmeier on drums
5. September @ Kulturfestival - Lüneburg - 3.30 & 7pm
Julie Sassoon/Willi Kellers Duo
22. September - double bill with Rolf Kühn @ InstituteFrancais - Berlin - 20.00
2. October - Kulturspeicher - Leer - 19.30
Solo Piano
15. November - Solo double bill with Sophie Tassignon - Schlot Jazz Club - Berlin - 20.30 - postponed
Julie Sassoon Quartet
6.+7. Nov - Quartet CD Recording @ the Loft - Cologne
8. December - Zigzag Jazz Club - Berlin - postponed
JULIE SASSOON QUARTET - SPRING TOUR 2020
CHARLOTTE SALOMON PROJECT
20 Nov - Kulturbrauerei - Berlin - 20.00
13 Feb - TH Helmholtz-Hörsaal - Ilmenau - 20.00
14 Feb - Gedenkstätte Mittelbau Dora - Nordhausen - 20.00
14 Feb - Villa Rosenthal - Jena - 20.00
16 Feb - Schleswig-Holstein-Haus - Schwerin - 18.00
17 Feb - ELBPHILHARMONIE - Hamburg - 19.30
18 Feb - Charlotte Salomon Grundschule - Berlin - 19.00
21 Feb - Potsdam Museum (Altes Rathaus) - Potsdam - 20.00
16 Apr - Bunker Ulmenwall - Bielefeld Postponed to April 2021
17 Apr - Opernfoyer Jazz Series - Wuppertal (not Charlotte Salomon Project) Postponed to April 2021
25 Apr - Stüler Kirch - Peitz - 19.00 Postponed
CHECK OUT THESE VIDEOS OF THE QUARTET LIVE IN BERLIN!
New Album on Jazzwerkstatt!!
WILLI KELLERS + JULIE SASSOON DUO - 'WAVES'
TOURDATES - Sassoon/Kellers Duo
13. May - Gladhouse Cottbus - 20.00
5. June - Intersonanzenfestival Potsdam - 19.00
14. June - Jazzclub W71- Weikersheim 20.00
15. June - Zoglau3 - 20.00
31. Aug - Zommerjazzfietstour 2019- Groningen
1. Oct - Aufsturz - Berlin - 20.00
3. Oct - Forum Gestaltung - Magdeburg - 20.00
5. Oct - ELBPHILHARMONIE - Hamburg - official Album release concert
13. Dec - Inside Colours Duo @ Potsdam Museum - 20.00
Past gigs 2019
Julie Sassoon Quartet
Thu - 3. Jan @ Porgy and Bess - Vienna
Fri - 4. Jan @ Sägewerk - Bad Gastein
Sat - 5. Jan @ Unterfahrt - Munich
Sun - 17 Feb - Keith Tippett's new suite performed by 'Zinc + Copper' plus:
Willi Kellers/Sassoon Duo + Toby Delius/Hilary Jeffrey/Rozemarie Heggen play...
music for Keith + Julie Tippett - Industriesalon, Schöneweide, Berlin
Julie Sassoon Quartet
Fri - 8 March - Aufsturz - Jazzkeller69 - Berlin
Sat - 9 March - Neustätdisches Palais - Goldener Saal - Schwerin
Fri - 22 March - MAERZMUSIK FESTIVAL 2019 - Opening Concert - Horatiu Radulescu’s 'Clepsydra'
Sat - 6 April - Sassoon/Thiele Duo @Villa Rosenthal - Jena
Julie Sassoon Quartet
Tues 30. April - Zeiss Planetarium - Bochum (Charlotte Salomon Project)
Wed 1. May - Saalehof Gottesgnaden - Calbe (Saale)
Thurs 2. May - Zeiss Grossplanetarium - Berlin (Charlotte Salomon Project)
Sun 12. May - Johannes Bauer Memorial Werkstatt Orchestra Industriesalon, Schöneweide Berlin
Fri 17. May - Jazz Live im Speicher - Leer
28 July - Sile Jazz Festival - ITALY
Here are some impressions of our quartet tour - playing @ Ruhr, Freiberg and Magdeburg Jazz Festivals - and ending with a wonderful concert at the Elbphilharmonie!!!
Read new live reviews here...
Magdeburg Jazz Festival review...
2018
6. Sep Inside Colours Duo - ARD Radiofestival 2018 JAZZ - 23:35
In April - 'Inside Colours' Duo were invited by the Bayerischer Rundfunk to play a concert at Zoglau3.
This concert will be broadcast again on Thursday 6. September - 11:35pm on ARD Radiofestival 2018.
12. Sep Solo piano @ Schlot - Berlin - 21:00
15. Sep Solo piano @ ELBPHILHARMONIE - Hamburg - 21:00
16. Sep Inside colours Duo - Lüneburg - 16:00
6. March Julie Sassoon-Solo /Conny Bauer Trio @ A-Trane - 9pm - Berlin
17. March Julie Sassoon/Willi Kellers Duo @ Ruhr Jazz Festival - Kunstmuseum - 7.30pm - Bochum
22. March Inside Colours Duo with Lothar Ohlmeier @ B Flat - 9pm -Berlin
6. April Bayrischer Rundfunk live CD recording of INSIDE COLOURS DUO @ Zoglau 3 - 8pm
Julie Sassoon Quartet
8. April RUHR JAZZ FESTIVAL - Bochum
13. April FREIBERG JAZZ FESTIVAL - Freiberg
20. April MAGDEBURG JAZZ FESTIVAL - Magdeburg
21. April ELBPHILHARMONIE - Hamburg - SOLD OUT
9. June Julie Sassoon/Willi Kellers Duo PEITZ JAZZ FESTIVAL
Julie Sassoon/ Nora Thiele Duo @ Jazz Units Festival Berlin
Saturday - 6. January 2018 - Musikbrauerei - Berlin - recorded by RBB
'Inside Colours' Duo Concert - Berlin
Saturday 13. January
Opening Concert - Masters of Minimal @ Schönes Wochenende Festival 2018
Thu - 18. January - TONHALLE - Düsseldorf - Music of Julius Eastman
2017
Julie Sassoon Quartet - Fourtune
Official Album Release Concert
19. April @ A-Trane - Berlin - 9pm
16 July @ Jüdisches Museum Berlin - 'Jazz in the Garden' Kultursommer
20 June - @ Peitz Jazz Festival - Rathaus Peitz - 11am
20 October - Kulturforum Lüneburg - 20:30
23 Nov - Zigzag Club - Berlin
24 November - Jazzwerkstatt Festival - Vortex - London
Click here to read the review of the Peitz Festival on LONDON JAZZ NEWS
"...It was certainly a great pleasure to hear again Julie Sassoon's quartet,
recently recorded impeccably on jazzwerkstatt label at the Berlin radio studios.."
Oliver Weindling LONDON JAZZ NEWS
Willi Kellers/Julie Sassoon Duo
20 May @ Einstein Kulturzentrum - Offene Ohren - Munich
22 April @ Magdeburg Jazz Festival - 8pm
10 September @ Novilla - Berlin - 3pm
'FOURTUNE' - JULIE SASSOON QUARTET
ALBUM on Jazzwerkstatt
Official Album Release Concert
19th April @ A-Trane - Berlin - 9pm
click here to read the CD review in the Guardian
"... nuanced, evocative, eloquent... " - John Fordham
‘Fourtune’ was featured on ‘Late Night Jazz’ - RBB Kulturradio. You can listen back to it here on Soundcloud
click on CD cover images to hear samples of the CD on Soundcloud
Voted CD choice on BR-KLASSIK RADIO
"...eine schillernd-schöne Musik mit vielen Facetten. Musik, die zu berühren weiß mit Tönen, die keinem Klischee folgen, sondern sich dem Hörer auf ganz eigene Art nähern..."
"An iridescent, beautiful music with many facets… never one-dimensional…”
“… Music of such high sensitivity… that touches… with sounds that follow no clichées, but absorb the listener in a very unique way.”
“…an ensemble that seems to move as one organism… carried by the same breath…”
Review by Duncan Heining on Allaboutjazz
New video - new album - FOURTUNE - recorded at RBB Studios Berlin
released on jazzwerkstatt label
14th March - Solo Piano Concert @ Altes Theater Steyr - 19.30
Steyr Jazz Festival - Austria
17th March - Julius Eastman - The Unbreathing - for 4 pianos
Haus der Berliner Festspiele - 20.00
MAERZMUSIK FESTIVAL BERLIN - Opening Concert
JULIE SASSOON QUARTET - NEW ALBUM - 'FOURTUNE'
@ LONDON JAZZ FESTIVAL
Sat - 12th November 8pm
Supported by Initiative Musik GmbH with project funds from the
Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
1st Nov @ Mon Ami - Jazzmeile - WEIMAR
10th Nov - Verdict Jazz Club - BRIGHTON
12th Nov - Vortex Jazz Club - LONDON
Click here to read interview in the latest issue of Sussex Jazz Magazine
NEWS
JULIE SASSOON QUARTET
It was an incredible week in July at the Radio Berlin-Brandenburg - RBB Kulturradio Studios
recording the new quartet CD for Jazzwerkstatt label
with the support of five wonderful sound engineers!
We recorded some great music.
I also found time to record 2 new solo pieces…
but thats for later...
Thanks to Ulf Drechsel, Wolfgang Hoff, Peter Schladebach, Reinhard, Tilman, Benni, Rudi Fischerlehner, Meinrad Kneer, Lothar Ohlmeier, Tom Arthurs and Ulli Blobel for making this possible. Also to Joji Koyama for the video.
The mixing takes place next week.
Inside Colours duo in Regensburg July 2016 with Lothar Ohlmeier. photo © 2016 Robert Lepar
Inside Colours duo live @ Bayerisches Jazzweekend - July 2016 with Lothar Ohlmeier. photo © 2016 Robert Lepar
Inside Colours duo in Regensburg July 2016 with Lothar Ohlmeier. photo © 2016 Robert Lepar
JULY 4 - 8th
JULIE SASSOON QUARTET CD RECORDING
AT RBB STUDIOS - BERLIN
FOR JAZZWERKSTATT
JULIE SASSOON QUARTET
Friday 27th May - 19.30
@ Forum Gestaltung
MAGDEBURG
+
Wed 8th June - 21.00
@ Schlot
BERLIN
SOLO PIANO CONCERT
Sunday 3rd April
@ Hugh Lane Gallery
DUBLIN
click on photo to enlarge
The concert will be broadcast on Bayerischer Rundfunk Klassik-Radio
23rd September - 11pm - midnight
presented by Roland Spiegel
SOLO LIVE @ THE BIMHUIS AMSTERDAM
Thursday 28th Jan
JULIE SASSOON QUARTET
@ B-FLAT
BERLIN
Fidicinstrasse 38, Berlin-Kreuzberg
Friday - 30th October - 8pm
SOLO PIANO CONCERT
@ Juedische Kulturtage
Sunday - 11th October - 4pm
INSIDE COLOURS DUO
Julie Sassoon + Lothar Ohlmeier
Click here to see 'Inside Colours' Duo videos
with Lothar Ohlmeier on soprano sax and bass clarinet
Tuesday - 29th September - 9pm
JULIE SASSOON - SOLO
Thursday - 24th September - 8pm
JULIE SASSOON QUARTET
+ MARILYN CRISPELL/GUENTHER HEINZ DUO
@ Kulturbrauerei - Maschinenhaus
BERLIN
!!!! NEW QUARTET !!!!
with Lothar Ohlmeier - tenor,soprano sax/bass clarinet
Meinrad Kneer - bass
Rudi Fischerlehner - drums
Debut concert @ Schlot Jazz club - Berlin
Saturday 1st August - 21.30
FRIDAY 12th JUNE 8.30pm
SOLO @ THE BIMHUIS
Fri 5th June - SASSOON/THIELE @ Seppmaiers 2raumwohnung,
Sat 6th June - SASSOON/THIELE DUO @LÜNEBURG JAZZ FESTIVAL
Tue 9th June - solo @ Finnlandzentrum, Berlin
Fri 12th June - Solo @ the BIMHUIS, Amsterdam
recent live reviews
“…I would urge anyone to seek out her live performances and experience it for themselves.”
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"...an unclassifiable venture... Julie Sassoon consistently makes the piano, her voice and her deepest emotions sound awesomely and naturally inseparable."
John Fordham ****
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"... Jarrett is an artist with whom Sassoon shares a language and a tradition. Indeed, Land of Shadows might be thought of as the Cologne Concert after Jarretts The Koeln Concert.
It deserves (and given a chance, will receive) the same kind of recognition and adulation..."
Mike Butler - Dyverse Music
"Land of Shadows" voted favourite jazz CD of 2013
12th Nov - House of Mirrors @ Kultraum Kleinmachnow 8pm
19th Nov - House of Mirrors @ WABE Berlin 8pm
25th Nov - Solo @ Jazz Cafe Newcastle UK 8pm
27th Nov - Solo @ Terry O Toole Theatre Lincoln UK 7.30pm
19th Dec - Solo @ Institute Francais Berlin 8pm
JULIE SASSOON + LOTHAR OHLMEIER
INSIDE COLOURS DUO
REVIEW OF 'INSIDE COLOURS' DUO
Click here to listen to 'Inside Colours'... and to read full review
JAZZWERKSTATT
30th April - 8pm
@ NOCHTSPEICHER
Bernhard-Nocht-Straße 69a, 20359 Hamburg
Julie Sassoon - solo
Ulrich Gumpert - solo
Leon Gurvitch - solo
Uri Caine/Dave Douglas
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Julie Sassoon solo + Enrico Pieranunzi Trio
@ Bishopsgate Institute
15th Nov
LONDON JAZZ FESTIVAL
Spiegel-online
reviewing the new CD - 'Land of Shadows'
'...Verdrängt das Klavier das Saxophon und die Trompete als Leitinstrumente im Jazz? Neue Alben von so erstklassigen Künstlern wie Julie Sassoon oder dem Thomas Rückert Trio stehen für die Vielfalt des Piano-Jazz..."
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SOLO PIANO CONCERT
@ Blauer Saal, Schloss Herrnsheim, Worms
Wednesday 30th October - 20. Uhr
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Review of the gig @ Petz Jazz Festival -
LONDON JAZZ NEWS - by Oliver Weindling
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Julie Sassoon Quartet
@ Peitz Jazz Festival
with Lothar Ohlmeier - clarinet
Tom Arthurs - trumpet
Samuel Rohrer - drums
Saturday 8th June
15.00
Rathaussaal
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Sassoon/Ohlmeier/Arthurs Trio
Tuesday 14th May
8pm
@ Direktorenhaus
[Am Krögel 2, 10179 Berlin ]
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Julie has recently released a new live solo CD – entitled
‘Land of Shadows’ on the Berlin Jazzwerkstatt Label.
RBB Kulturradio recorded and broadcasted her concert at the Neue Synagoge, Berlin - part of her Spring 2012 German Tour.
Performances at the Bauhaus, Dessau and the Loft in Cologne are included on the CD.
The result is a highly emotive and unique album.
'LAND OF SHADOWS' SOLO PIANO
CD RELEASE CONCERT
Thursday, 25th April
8pm
Kurfürstendamm 211, 10719 Berlin
SOLO PIANO
Friday, 3rd May
@ THE LOFT - COLOGNE
Wissmanstrasse 30, 50823, Koeln
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