Newsletter 6 - 2023
Dear jazz friends!
Marilyn Mazur brings phenomenal percussion experience to YSJF 2023

We are pleased to announce that the innovative Danish percussionist Marilyn Mazur will be bringing her eight-piece world-jazz orchestra Shamania, with a line-up of leading female Scandinavian musicians, to YSJF 2023.
The dynamic and hypnotic rhythms, played on an array of percussion instruments from around globe, can be heard on the albums “Shamania” (2019) and “Rerooting” (2022). Marilyn Mazur collaborated with Miles Davis in the 1980s and has had notable projects with Wayne Shorter, Gil Evans and Jan Garbarek.
Read more about Marilyn Mazur´s Shamania: MARILYN MAZUR | drummer-composer-bandleader Ystads Teater 5 August at 12.00 All festival tickets to go on sale 30 March.
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You can enjoy big band jazz in Ystad in the spring:
Christian McBride & Bohuslän Big Band

We will be celebrating UNESCO International Jazz Day a little in advance on 20 April with the American jazz bassist, arranger and composer Christian McBride. He will be performing in Ystad with the Bohuslän Big Band.
Christian McBride, born in 1972, has played with and arranged for Herbie Hancock, Ray Brown, Isaac Hayes, Chaka Khan, James Brown, Sting, Paul McCartney, Celine Dion, The Roots and Billie Eilish, so you can understand that we are overjoyed that he will be playing in Ystad!
We also welcome back the Bohuslän Big Band, one of Sweden’s three professional big bands. Christian McBride and the Bohuslän Big Band is a combination that guarantees a great evening at Ystads Teater!
Ystads Teater 20 April 19.00
Concert: 90 minutes + intermission.
Book a table at the Theatre Café before the concert and/or during the intermission when you book the tickets.
Tickets: Christian McBride och Bohuslän Big Band – Ystad Sweden Jazz Festival (ystadjazz.se)
Become a Yazz Friend in 2023!

Among other things, Yazz Friends have the opportunity to buy tickets for festival concerts before they go on general sale, receive special offers and can collect a free copy of the festival’s jazz art poster at the JazzShop during the festival.
You can become a Yazz Friend by paying SEK 750 here.
Becoming a Yazz Friend makes a significant contribution to the continuation and development of the festival.
Very best regards,
The Jazz Committee
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