Two festivals are brought together through jazz by Ian Logan (piano) and Alistair Mcleod (bass): the Wellington Jazz Festival and the Compassion Festival, which is based in Island Bay on the same weekend.
Artist, musician and actor Ian Logan has combined jazz, poetry and art for this show - a tribute to the creativity, genius and love for jazz and popular song in pre-Nazi Weimar Germany. Alongside the standards of Weill will be original music in a jazz vein composed especially for this performance by Ian Logan as well as contemporary German songs. Joining Ian Logan will be the versatile bassist and guitarist Alistair Mcleod, a master of many genres, renewing a productive collaboration they had in the 1990s. An exhibition will be running alongside to view as well as a reflective piece by the Rev. Nathan Parry speaking to Kae's life and work.