工厂爵士

去年的OCT – LOFT 爵士音乐节，我们似乎交出了一张令大家比较满意的答卷。一年多以来，许多朋友仍然惦记着那些音乐家的声音，还常常说起一些那时的趣事；而海外反响也比较良好，很多受邀的音乐人不断的给我们写信或是打电话，询问2012年的音乐节什么时候开办——正是他们的肯定与支持，给了我们继续做下去的动力，于是，风风火火，紧赶慢赶，新的一届音乐节又即将开始。

今年的乐队比去年还多，风格也更加多元。总的来说，他们是当今世界爵士乐坛的中坚分子，一如既往的年轻强劲，充满活力和激情：这也跟华侨城创意文化园的气质暗合——经典固然美好，但新鲜的东西 更有未来，在这里，创造力被我们无限放大，成为最重要的一项指标。

除此之外，今年的最大亮点就是增加了讲座和工作坊单元，大家可以跟音乐家近距离分享他们的创作理念和心得；还能听到资深乐评人，作家，音乐家跟我们讲述他们眼中的爵士乐是什么样子的：他们会从自己的角度，为大家梳理爵士乐的脉络，其中更不乏有对当下爵士乐某些现象的尖锐批判——这些讲座 无疑会拉近听众和爵士乐之间的距离，同时提升我们的判断力，从而更加开放多元地解读音乐。

已经蠢蠢欲动想来看演出的朋友们，当你置身于一座旧时的工厂，聆听那些来自世界各地的声响，希望你感到兴奋和开心；倘若还有某一首乐曲不小心触动了你，那更是我们期待的惊喜时刻。

现场见！

策划人 滕斐 涂飞


Factory Jazz

It seemed that we presented a fairly good OCT LOFT jazz festival last year. Since then, a lot of friends are still keeping that music in mind and keeping talking about the funny stories at that time. It also had great reflections from aboard: numerous invited musicians keep e-mail or calling us to ask when to start the 2012 jazz festival. It was their thumbs-up and support that gave us motivation to organize another jazz festival. Therefore, a new jazz festival starts here again.

Bands in this year are more than last year and have more pluralistic styles. In general, they are the hard cores of jazz world with constant youthful power, energy and passion. It also fits the temperament of OCT Loft—traditions are undoubtedly good, but novelty is more prospective. Creativity is magnified infinitely here, which serves as an important benchmark.

Besides, the highlight of this year is the newly-add talks and workshops. Musicians get to share their creation concepts and knowledge with the public face to face; audiences are able to know what is jazz like in senior music critics, composers and writes’ eyes: they will share their understanding of jazz in their own perspectives including harsh critics of some phenomena in jazz nowadays. Without doubt, these talks help to narrow the distance between audiences and jazz, while improving our judgment in order to understand music in a more open and vivid way.

We hope the friends who already start wriggling and want to watch the shows to feel excited and happy when listening to the world music in a factory. A random song accidently touch your mind, might be exactly what we are expecting.

Curators : Teng Fei, Tu Fei