{"id":2938,"date":"2025-04-21T14:44:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T13:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/66.ljubljanajazz.si\/koncert\/asher-gamedze-quartet\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T09:50:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T08:50:29","slug":"asher-gamedze-quartet","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/66.ljubljanajazz.si\/en\/koncert\/asher-gamedze-quartet\/","title":{"rendered":"Asher Gamedze Quartet"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p><strong>Asher Gamedze Quartet <\/strong>(ZA, VB)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Asher Gamedze<\/strong>,\u00a0 drums; <strong>Byron Wallen<\/strong>, trumpet; <strong>Pat Cleaver<\/strong>, bass; <strong>Piero Bittolo Bon<\/strong>, saxophone<\/p>\n<p>South African drummer and percussionist Asher Gamedze has made his mark with a potent mixture of rich local musical traditions, free improvisation and contemporary jazz idioms laced with radical social and political thought.<\/p>\n<p>A self-taught musician with an impressive roster of collaborators (among others, Angel Bat Dawid and Nduduz Makhathini), Gamedze&#8217;s watershed year on his journey of tapping, pounding and general noisemaking was 2020, when his critically acclaimed debut album, <em>Dialectic Soul<\/em>, came out. It was followed by <em>Two Duets: Outside Work <\/em>two years later. 2023 saw the release of another remarkable work, <em>Turbulence and Pulse<\/em>: the semi-improvised, temperately-flowing album underscored by spiritual echoes came out on International Anthem \u2013 the preeminent authority on progressive jazz practices. <span class=\"ellipsis\" id=\"ellipsis-850222833\" style=\"opacity: 0; position: absolute; z-index: -1;\">...<\/span><span class=\"rmwp-button-wrap\" id=\"rmwp-button-wrap-850222833\" style=\"display: none;\"><button name=\"read more\" type=\"button\" onclick=\"rmwpButtonAction( '850222833', 'More ...', 'Less' )\">More ...<\/button><\/span><span class=\"rmwp-toggle \" id=\"rmwp-toggle-850222833\" style=\"display: none\">Last year, this same label went on to release <em>Constitution<\/em>, an epically sprawling, communal and all but orchestral double album by the ten-piece ensemble Asher Gamedze &amp; The Black Lungs.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nGamedze\u2019s work consistently engages with the themes of resistance and anti-colonialism, aiming to challenge the notion of culture as a static entity.<\/span><span class='rmwp-toggle-end'><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday, 5 July at 20.00<br \/>\nPark Main Stage<br \/>\n<\/strong>Day pass without the concert in the Linhart Hall (aja monet), presale (until 1 July inclusively) EUR 15, regular price EUR 18<br \/>\nDay pass with the concert in Linhart Hall (aja monet), presale (until 1 July inclusively) EUR 35, 28*, regular prices EUR 38, 32*<em><br \/>\n<\/em><em>*visitors aged under 25, over 65 and pensioners<br \/>\n<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/vstopnice.cd-cc.si\/en\/group\/221033\/66-jazz-festival-ljubljana.html\" id=\"sc_button_772279201\" class=\"sc_button sc_button_default gumb sc_button_size_large sc_button_icon_left\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"sc_button_text\"><span class=\"sc_button_title\">BUY TICKET<\/span><\/span><!-- \/.sc_button_text --><\/a><!-- \/.sc_button --><\/p>\n<p>[vc_row_inner hide_bg_image_on_tablet=&#8221;&#8221; hide_bg_image_on_mobile=&#8221;&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1745910177483{padding-bottom: 100px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243; icons_position=&#8221;left&#8221;][vc_video link=&#8221;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LgS7mLmWtJ0&amp;ab_channel=ARTEConcert&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221;][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243; icons_position=&#8221;left&#8221;][vc_video link=&#8221;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=s_RXmXmnkt0&#8243; css=&#8221;&#8221;][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243; icons_position=&#8221;left&#8221;][vc_video link=&#8221;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=00pRrgCHK0c&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221;][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner]<br \/>\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=3972533475\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/intlanthem.bandcamp.com\/album\/turbulence-and-pulse\">Turbulence and Pulse by Asher Gamedze<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Park Main Stage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2374,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[86],"class_list":["post-2938","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-day-5-en","cat_day-5-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/66.ljubljanajazz.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/2938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/66.ljubljanajazz.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/66.ljubljanajazz.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/66.ljubljanajazz.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/66.ljubljanajazz.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/2938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3847,"href":"https:\/\/66.ljubljanajazz.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/2938\/revisions\/3847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/66.ljubljanajazz.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/66.ljubljanajazz.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/66.ljubljanajazz.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2938"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/66.ljubljanajazz.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=2938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}