Benjamin Koppel - The Ultimate Soul & Jazz Revue (2020)

The Ultimate Soul & Jazz Revue celebrates American music that lies on the borderland between jazz and soul. Along with classics such as Stevie Wonder's "Dont you worry bout a thing" over songs from Sly & the family Stone and King Curtis, this year's Soul & Jazz revue also focuses on Herbie Hancock, who turned 80 in April this year.

Through his 60-year work, the keyboard magician has helped to invent and prove the relationship between jazz, funk and soul and his significance can hardly be overestimated. both in his work as a pianist in bla. Miles Davis Quintet but also with his own legendary band Headhunters, which over time has had numerous hits on worldwide charts with tracks such as Cantaloupe Island, Chameleon and Watermelon Man. And when virtuosity is mixed with soul becomes the result jazz in its most inviting, well-swinging and honest version that speaks to both heart and mind, emotions and feet. So expect nothing but top form when some of the country's top musicians take to the stage at the Betty Nansen Theater for a sweaty, well-swinging, captivating and wonderful evening of soul and jazz at the highest level.