The Berlin Jive Company has, as the name suggests, the Jump'n'Jive prescribed. This unforgettable rhythm drives irresistibly into countless dance legs, because the songs of Louis Prima, Louis Jorden u.v.a. stay unforgotten. The band consists of seven musicians - including a groovy brass section (trumpet, sax, trombone) - and a singing couple who interpret this music with body and soul. Treat yourself to an unforgettable evening by listening to this music, dance your shoes and immerse yourself for a few hours in the lifestyle of the 1950s and 1960s.

Guitarist and composer Tal Yadin’s musical style has been developed upon a journey which began in Jerusalem, taking him through the desert of southern Israel and the beaches of Tel Aviv, to the pulsing urban jungle of Berlin, Germany, where he is currently based. The vast variety of natural and cultural landscapes in which he belongs is being well reflected in his musical personality. His first album,In & Out, recorded in Jerusalem in May 2019, presents 6 of Yadin’s original compositions showing his creativity as a composer as well as his broad capabilities as a guitar player.
In this concert Tal will celebrate the release of the album, with a special guest performance of Israeli Saxophonist Omri Abramov

The band KUHN FU, founded in Groningen in the Netherlands, demonstrates in a very refreshing way that arbitrarily drawn boundaries play no role in music. The musicians around the German guitarist and composer Christian Kühn come from England and Turkey. Originally founded as a quartet, KUHN FU now does many tours as a trio under the name KUHN FU trio a.k.a. Kill the strudel! and thus explores the possibilities of her compositions anew. They call the music "paranoid prog-punk - jazz performance", which can sound tough like lava, but it also grows manic and does not rule out a hard impact. The Ausgburger Allgemeine attests to the band leader Kühn that he has a "mental hospital aura" and that the band is celebrating "excessive irresponsibility". An emotional soundtrip awaits between ludicrous melodies and the heavy hum of the early years of rock music.

The Kjetil Mulelid Trio released their debut album “Not Nearly Enough To Buy A House" in late 2017 on Norway's prestigious Rune Grammofon label, with its reputation for hand-picking some of the best experimental electronic, jazz and improvised music from Scandinavia, and they are now releasing their second album "What You Thought Was Home" August 30. They have been heavily featured in magazines such as ‘The Wire’ and ‘Plan B’. Indeed, this piano trio consists of some of Norway's most exciting young jazz musicians, whose members are heavily involved in projects such as Norwegian Grammy winners ‘Hegge’ and Grammy nominees ‘Megalodon Collective,’ among other projects stemming from the creative milieu in the Jazz Department of the Trondheim Conservatory of Music. Here though, the focus is pared back to the classic acoustic piano trio featuring, predominantly, Mulelid’s beguiling compositions expertly balancing energetic, rhythmically complex and harmonically rich music with beautiful evocative melodies. While the trio incorporates that sense of calm, unhurried yet constantly unfolding sound world which is distinctively Scandinavian, Mulelid, in concert with bassist Bjørn Marius Hegge and drummer Andreas Winther, effortlessly conjure additional layers, tones and textures, based upon group improvisations, and informed, in large part, by each others diverse musical experiences.

the legendary jam session with Robin Draganic´

The pianist Aki Rissanen (b. 1980), described by Downbeat as a "European shooting star", has managed to make a name for himself in the top tier of the Northern European jazz pianists in no time. Classically trained, Rissanen has always been fascinated by improvisation. Aki Rissanen has established itself in the international jazz scene. He has received international awards at the Montreux Jazz Festival and the La Defense competition in France. He has performed on stage with numerous renowned musicians and has played in most European countries, the USA, Japan, China and North Africa. His debut album Amorandom was voted "Best Jazz Album of the Year" by the Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat. The album also won the Finnish Grammy, the Emma Award for the best jazz album in 2016. The Guardian praises the "progressive ideas ... the tremendous power, fresh musical intelligence and flawless technique" of the Aki Rissanen trio.

Conexão Berlin is a jazz band based in Berlin with a strong connection to Latin American, especially Brazilian instrumental music. Their very intensive contact with this jazz, which is very rhythm-oriented, makes this band one of the most powerful life acts on the lively Berlin jazz scene. The band members include musicians such as the pianist Tino Derado (Gary Burton, Jamey Haddad, Andy Gonzalez, Richard Bona), the bassist Thomy Jordi (Nick Bärtsch´s RONIN, Helge Schneider, Rosenstolz ...) and the great drummer Matthias Trippner (Christoph Titz, Stefan Raab ...) among the most outstanding representatives of the Berlin jazz scene. On the trumpet and flugelhorn this time none other than Christoph Titz. Band leader Andreas Weiser (Xiame, Die Elefanten, Paulo Moura, Bob Moses, The Taal Tantra Experience ...) has been part of the German jazz and world music scene as a percussionist for more than 30 years. His strong connection to and to Brazil and its music is one of the musical cornerstones of this project. In autumn 2018, the band undertook a tour of almost 3 weeks through Brazil. Full halls and standing ovations accompanied them through this music-loving country. With this spirit, the band went exactly one year later, in autumn 2019 to the Cologne Riverside Studio and recorded their 2nd CD, which will be released in spring 2020. And the band will bring this spirit to the b flat for a whole weekend.

Conexão Berlin is a jazz band based in Berlin with a strong connection to Latin American, especially Brazilian instrumental music. Their very intensive contact with this jazz, which is very rhythm-oriented, makes this band one of the most powerful life acts on the lively Berlin jazz scene. The band members include musicians such as the pianist Tino Derado (Gary Burton, Jamey Haddad, Andy Gonzalez, Richard Bona), the bassist Thomy Jordi (Nick Bärtsch´s RONIN, Helge Schneider, Rosenstolz ...) and the great drummer Matthias Trippner (Christoph Titz, Stefan Raab ...) among the most outstanding representatives of the Berlin jazz scene. On the trumpet and flugelhorn this time none other than Christoph Titz. Band leader Andreas Weiser (Xiame, Die Elefanten, Paulo Moura, Bob Moses, The Taal Tantra Experience ...) has been part of the German jazz and world music scene as a percussionist for more than 30 years. His strong connection to and to Brazil and its music is one of the musical cornerstones of this project. In autumn 2018, the band undertook a tour of almost 3 weeks through Brazil. Full halls and standing ovations accompanied them through this music-loving country. With this spirit, the band went exactly one year later, in autumn 2019 to the Cologne Riverside Studio and recorded their 2nd CD, which will be released in spring 2020. And the band will bring this spirit to the b flat for a whole weekend.

Two-part vocals that range from soft to penetrating and from melodious to scatted, and a rhythm section that groovily experiments with demanding time signatures: that's Ikarus. The Swiss band often travels to festivals in Europe and Japan and whisks their audience away to a constantly changing sound mobile. Under the direction of the composer and drummer Ramón Oliveras, a unique music is created in the game with continuously permuting polyrhythms, driving grooves, organic improvisation and the enchanting mixture of the two voices. The quintet offers an engaging and unheard-of live show - contemporary jazz that comes up with surprising twists and turns.

The Berlin saxophonist Silke Eberhard founded the wind ensemble Potsa Lotsa in 2009 to record all previously known compositions by the African-American multi-instrumentalist Eric Dolphy (1928–1964). The ensemble was named after the composition Dolphys Number Eight (Potsa Lotsa), which can be found on the legendary album Eric Dolphy & Booker Little Quintet - Memorial - Recorded live at the Five Spot from 1961 and "the sound of two saxophones, trumpet and Trombone perfectly describes. ”The quartet finally expanded Eberhard to Potsa Lotsa plus with clarinets, tuba and live electronics. The album Potsa Lotsa plus plays Love Suite by Eric Dolphy, released in 2014, was awarded the Quarterly Prize of the German Record Critics. But not only Eric Dolphy is inspiration: in the meantime the ensemble is also approaching the work of Giaccinto Scelsi or Kurt Schwitters' Ursonate.
The XL version also includes cello, vibraphone, bass and drums for the first time. With this constellation, Silke Eberhard presents works of her own accord. Her pieces are inspired by the Blue Note Sound of the 60s, West Coast, Third Stream, Free Jazz and related genres, the arrangements written especially for this group. No instrument dominates, all protagonists have an equal say.
PHOTO: RUTH HOMMELSHEIM

The musicians of the Michel Schroeder Quintet met at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater. After very different individual careers, they find themselves here in the classical line-up of a jazz quintet and play compositions by trumpeter Michel Schroeder, who grew up in Lübeck. During his studies, he began to compose for various ensembles and ensembles. His interest is to expand the boundaries of the traditional and to experiment with different sound bodies. Five sought-after and renowned young musicians from the north German jazz scene return to jazz in one of its most original forms, but also find their own unique tone: swinging sounds, wonderful solos, and sensitive interaction. The 24-year-old trumpeter and composer gently pushes the boundaries of the traditional. The young musicians met at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater. After very different individual careers, they find themselves here in the classical line-up of a jazz quintet and play compositions by trumpeter Michel Schroeder, who grew up in Lübeck. Out of interest in expanding the boundaries of the traditional and experimenting with different orchestras, he began to compose for different ensembles and ensembles while still studying.

the legendary jam session with Robin Draganic´

Trumpeter, arranger and composer Armando Carrillo Zanuy returns to Bflat with some Latin grooves! Having just recorded his song collection with the Humboldt Big Band, Armando will be playing some septet pieces with vocals alongside some of the best musicians in Berlin. Whether it's "Superstrut" by Deodato, one of Armanod's fresh songs like "Pinhacobana" or even a revised version of "La Leyenda del Tiempo", Armando will sound in style in the winter season as only his music can!

Berlin based singer-songwriter, Reema, creates bitter-sweet, delicate folk songs with lyrics that explore being human. Her themes run through self-esteem and learning to enjoy others greatness to coping with loss to the importance of kindness. Her deeply personal concerts are all about communicating with her audience, sharing stories and often tears.
Reema has a hand-made approach, not only to her music, but also in her artwork and stage clothing printed from her paintings of animals, plants and swirling patterns. She has worked with great producers like Stephen Street And Ethan Johns and has written songs for film ‘Love Rosie’ and the ‘Twilight Eclipse’ soundtrack. 
Her first release was a live, analogue and computer‐free vinyl record, “The LowSwing Sessions” from 2017 which was highly praised and was featured in many “Best of 2017” lists by blogs and magazines like “Vinyl Magazin”. The record sold out quickly and now she is celebrating the release of her second live vinyl record, "Memories Fade To Tape",  on 14th February at B-Flat, Berlin.
Recorded completely computer free over three magical sessions, The album's dark, captivating sound is warm yet direct as Reema's ethereal, emotional vocals and guitar playing are accompanied by small ensembles most noticeably a classical wind quintet arranged by Guy Sternberg. This extremely delicate setting is captured using tape and has stayed analogue all the way to the vinyl itself.
The artwork for the vinyl was hand drawn, painted and collaged by Reema with the same hand-made love that went into the music. The paintings reflect the delicate arrangements and the hand-written text keeps the human element going right down to the credits.

Four top-class musicians from the international jazz scene meet here:
"The listener experiences piano jazz in the Champions League" (Jazzpodium).
The band presents the music of their last two CDs:
- "Hot Impressions":
Funky Brazilian grooves and crisp Afro-Cuban grooves meet the unrestricted ones
I love the improvisation of the musicians.
- "Handel Jazz" '.
spectacular arrangements of opera arias by G.F. Handel.
,, Handel se / bsf would probably not have done it any differently today and would be of his own
Interpreters and their interpretations of his works were certainly enthusiastic. "
(Göttinger Tageblatt)
,, As long as there are musicians like Rolf Zielke and Herbie Hancock who have such foresight in their concepts
you don't have to be afraid of the necessary innovations in jazz. "
(Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung)

With their new program, the big band "Federal Penguin Summit" is hosting a unique musician again. With Bastian Stein, one of the most renowned jazz trumpeters in Germany, they will tour in February 2020. In their luggage a new concert program from Stein's favorite pieces and compositions by the band members, which are specially written for this project.
Bastian Stein. The Bavarian Radio celebrates its CD "Diegesis", attests to it a "flawless game" and its music a "poetic calm". The trade magazine Audio also praised its "multifaceted game". A musician who has something to say - and who does it with extraordinarily fine and well-designed tones. Bastian Stein's career starts early. He grew up in Vienna and started studying trumpet at the age of 15. The further training path leads him to Amsterdam and New York. He released his debut album "Grounden" in 2012 on "Double Moon Records" and the following year with the "Bastian Stein Group" (feat. Pablo Held, Mathias Pichler and Tobias Backhaus) the CD "Diegesis" on the German label Pirouet Records. After a few years of musical work in Austria, he moved to Cologne in 2013, where he founded his new quartet (feat. Johannes Enders, Phil Donkin and James Maddren) and released the CD "Viktor" on Pirouet Records in 2016. His projects as a band leader and the associated press presence in Germany led to increased engagements as a soloist with broadcasting big bands such as NDR, WDR, HR and SWR Big Band.

Chico Saraiva
The award-winning brazilian composer, guitarist and singer presents songs from his six albums, in which the guitar linked to the european written tradition blends with the powerful rhythm of the Brazilian folklore. That night Chico will receive guest artists and will premiere some of the "rewritings" of J.S. Bach's pieces that has been turning into Brazilian popular song, advancing the material of his upcoming work, which he now develops at the "Transcultural musical studies" at Franz Listz Weimar University. 


Phillip Dornbusch's P R O J E K T O R A game between structure and freedom - with his band P R O J E K T O R, the Berlin saxophonist Phillip Dornbusch creates a special musical image, characterized by his compositional calculation and the courage to be free. In his compositions, the tenorist projects a musical image of the present day: within his pieces, he picks up a wide variety of emotions, real feelings, which mark today's zeitgeist. He is particularly concerned with the topic of "strangers". Different atmospheres and colors are created, which are also due to the sometimes extraordinary use of the instrumentation of the "projector". In this way, all five characters take on untypical tasks for their instruments and thus cast an image that shimmers unclearly but can still shine.

"The" Vandojam "known from Paris and New York now also takes place in the B-Flat.
Supported by Vandoren / Paris. "Directed by Robin Draganic and Reiner Witzel.

Silent Fires is a cross-genre intermixture of lyrics and acoustic-electronic fragments, all merged into written and improvised soundscapes. Their debut album #Forests is a collective exploration around the theme of spirituality in its multiple meanings. The band reunites four young emerging talents from the European improvised music scene: singer Karoline Wallace, trumpeter/soundscaper Hilde Marie Holsen, violinist Håkon Aase and pianist Alessandro Sgobbio.
Silent Fires also performs and improvises on stage with contemporary dancer Synne Garvik, offering a multi-art experience of improvised music and realtime choreography.
Release concerts will take place in France, Germany, Italy, Norway and Portugal.

The current incarnation of the Ed Partyka Jazz Orchestra was formed in 2007 and is made up of a mix of diverse musical personalities, from veterans of the European big band establishment to newcomers from the young Berlin, Amsterdam, Vienna, Graz and Prague scenes. The Orchestra is proudly international, with musicians from The USA, Germany, Austria, Holland, Switzerland and the Czech Republic coming together regularly to perform, with each member contributing their own unique artistic voice to create music that is much more than the sum of it’s individual parts. The music is an eclectic mix of original compositions, jazz standards and pop songs, all arranged in the distinctive style of the EPJO by bandleader Ed Partyka.

The current incarnation of the Ed Partyka Jazz Orchestra was formed in 2007 and is made up of a mix of diverse musical personalities, from veterans of the European big band establishment to newcomers from the young Berlin, Amsterdam, Vienna, Graz and Prague scenes. The Orchestra is proudly international, with musicians from The USA, Germany, Austria, Holland, Switzerland and the Czech Republic coming together regularly to perform, with each member contributing their own unique artistic voice to create music that is much more than the sum of it’s individual parts. The music is an eclectic mix of original compositions, jazz standards and pop songs, all arranged in the distinctive style of the EPJO by bandleader Ed Partyka.

Carmelo Leotta is a musician native to all of Europe, who embraces the diversity of musical
Has embraced trends such as jazz, blues, electronic and ethnic music. He has released four solo albums as an arranger, producer and composer. Today he presents his free, melodic, improvising trio with the well-known Dustin Drews on the Alto Sax and the new collaborator Martial Frenzel on drums. The two are already in the jazz and free scene. Together with Drews, Leotta recorded a duo album last spring called "Krawall", which you can listen to and buy at the following link:

FOR FREE HANDS is perceived as part of the international jazz community living in Berlin. The ensemble was the winner of the Jazz Jazz Studio Award organized by the Berlin Cultural Senate. The CD "Kaleidoscope Freedom" was released by LAIKA Records.
Christian Erber - NDR: "... Europe is growing together and a quartet from Berlin is providing the soundtrack. For Free Hands combine modern jazz arrangements with the rhythms of the Balkans. “Kaleidoscope Freedom” is the name of the fourth studio album by the international ensemble. Because "there is no freedom without mutual understanding" the band quotes the French philosopher Albert Camus.

Maria Baptist presents her duo programme together with Jan von Klewitz. Considered by the German television channel ZDF as a "role model of a whole new jazz generation", the pianist Maria Baptist is one of the most popular protagonists on her instrument. All About Jazz ranks Maria Baptist in "a league with the key figure of modern jazz". Alto saxophone virtuoso Jan von Klewitz has become an essential part of the German jazz scene. "This world-class man masters his instrument, from the lowest register to the shining high notes (Neuburger Rundschau). The duo has freed itself of all genre labels and the two musicians are able to create something like an extroverted inwardness.
„Maria Baptist’s music completely towards Coltrane-Power“ (Jazz Thing).

the legendary jam session with Robin Draganic´

Even if the saxophonist Evgeny Ring is the namesake of the formation - the "Evgeny Ring Quartet" combines four headstrong heads, with very different musical visions, individual playing styles and tonal aesthetics. What connects the four boys? - They are all looking for the challenge, the element of surprise in music.
"I quickly felt who I wanted to play with in a band," said Evgeny when the quartet was founded in 2007. And apparently he had the right feeling at the time. The quartet toured throughout Germany and Russia in numerous concerts, quickly made a name for himself in the jazz scene and won, among other things. the "International Jazz Award Burghausen" and the "Jazz Competition Hoeilaart Belgium".
In 2011 the joint debut album "Ya Tashus" (Double Moon / Sunny Moon) was released. Translated it simply says "I think it's cool" - it is the easy saying of a Russian friend of Evgeny, who was declared the album title without further ado. And the way the quartet plays is just as straightforward: "Each of us not only has his own instrument that works as a means of expression, but also shapes the playing of the others," says Evgeny.
In 2015 the second album of the Evgeny Ring Quartet "Mesokosmos" was released by the Swiss jazz label UNIT. Behind it hides the idea of ​​an artificially created world that leaves a lot of space for observations and experiments. The nine pieces on the album move between traditional structure and modern interpretation, combining expectations with improvisational free spirit. The compositions all come from Evgeny himself and tell his stories. “Each piece has its own color, which Evgeny composes. And the three of us mix it up wildly, ”says pianist Sascha. "And so there is a red in dozens of variations, but ultimately it always remains a red."
Tease out the strengths of everyone, create common space for individual ideas, that's what the quartet is about. But all of this only works through the close connection between the four boys. And from this trust, this openness and friendship, there are always uniqueness - in improvisation, on stage and in life itself.

"Now I would like to see Audrey Hepburn come through the forest." - These were the words of filmmaker Gijon Mili to the members of the Dave Brubeck Quartet when one of the first short films about jazz was made in the New York Columbia Studios in the mid-1950s. "Oh yes, I would like that too," said the band's saxophonist, Paul Desmond. Today, 60 years later, the award-winning quartet "pure desmond" around the four musicians Lorenz Hargassner, Johann Weiß, Christian Flohr and Sebastian Deufel presents on their new album "Audrey" the story that might have happened if Hepburn had actually been in at the time would have been close. Desmond's composition “Audrey”, a musical gem of the “Take Five” composer, is also found on it in an intimate, fragile interpretation of the Cool Jazz Ensemble from Germany. The band has refined its own tonality in a 15-year history - there is the sound of the group, already legendary among connoisseurs, "a noble chamber music aesthetic: transparent, manageable, linear, controlled emotional and leaned back to total relaxation", as it did Jury of the German Record Critics' Award expresses. In the musical collaboration of many dense concert evenings and intensive sessions, new compositions have emerged that deal with the history of Paul Desmond and Audrey Hepburn. Here, the musicians are breaking new stylistic ground - and that makes them real heirs of the jazz pioneers around Brubeck. Dave Brubeck knew why the saxophonist, famous for his lyrical playing and "Walter Mitty humor", always got restless at a certain time during the recordings for the album "Brubeck Time" - whenever a rehearsal break of Audrey Hepburn, who worked nearby there was also a break at Columbia Studios to allow Paul to watch his crush smoking the fire escape. She played the nymph Ondine at 46th Street.
"And what did you say to her?" Desmond was asked by his longtime friend and biographer, jazz journalist Doug Ramsey. But he just gave him a surprised look and replied: "Nothing. What do you think?"
"You cannot avoid the charm of the compositions, you have to immerse yourself in them through and through great disc"

The Humboldt Bigband is the jazz ensemble of the Humboldt University in Berlin. It embodies a mixture of different big band styles such as swing classics, Latin arrangements, jazz standards and soul & funk vocal music. The HU Bigband has various artists from the Berlin music scene and it is a great pleasure for us to be able to welcome the two-time German champion, simple European champion and vice world champion in the team Beatboxing Daniel Mandolini on stage.