The quartet does not follow the traditional distinction between soloists and rhythm section, but seeks a collective gesture in which melody instruments excite in rhythmic passages and percussive instruments such as drums and double bass can take over the melodic parts. The compositional process employs a free handling of the tonal conditions: The original compositions of the Sicilian drummer, which are sometimes based on solid structures, sometimes on bold melodic and harmonic ideas, give the four musicians an opportunity for a dialogue of sound, in which various timbres, Dynamics and rhythm patterns come to light.

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

In 2006, Berlin trombonist Kai Heiden founded the big band BERLIN GROOVE MACHINE.
Since then, 18 professional musicians from the Berlin jazz and big band scene have met to play sophisticated arrangements in a nice atmosphere. Not only the high level of the bands but also the noticeable enthusiasm inspire the audience in the live concerts.
When selecting the repertoire, BERLIN GROOVE MACHINE can not be stylistically limited. It offers a remarkably wide spectrum of big band jazz from 1960 to today - Latin, swing, funk, jazz rock and more - true to the motto: "Allowed is what pleases."

Bandleader Carlos Dalelane is celebrating his 35th anniversary on stage and is celebrating his 10th birthday with his band. In 2017 they were winners of the 6th Creole Band Contest Berlin and Brandenburg and rocked various festivals.
This top-class jazz band, which skilfully incorporates funk, blues and afro elements into their music, shows itself in the highest brilliance and richness of facets. Carlos Dalelane sings Ronga and Portuguese in his native language and his dominant bass lines give another unmistakable touch, like his sung staccato. With his songs, Carlos proves that Funk is also African. In his pieces he uses two styles of music from his homeland in a modern way: "Majika", a traditional dance from the south of Mozambique, performed there accompanied by drums. And "Marrabenta", which was so named by the Portuguese. Wild pieces that raise the pulse alternate with well-dosed, melodic ballads. One thinks of the Indian Ocean and dreams. Then the rhythm becomes fast again and calls for dancing. The passion of the music quickly transfers to each and every nerve of the audience and leaves an intense, addictive aftertaste.

Due to his early death, the tenor saxophonist and flutist George Adams, at least among younger musicians, almost forgotten. In the 1980s, Don Pullen-George Adams quartet with drummer Dannie Richmond was one of the most formative jazz bands of his time, George Adam's role model and inspiration to many saxophonists. The quartet developed from one of the late formations of bassist Charles Mingus, after his death, the band just continued and often played with the base Cameron Brown. As homage and memory, compositions by this powerful exceptional saxophonist, but also by Don Pullen, are played.

The Japanese-born pianist Makoto Ozone, who was born on 25 March 1961 in Kobe, Japan and lives in Tokyo, has for decades been one of the world's absolute creams for jazz and classical pianists. What began in the early 1980s with a degree at the Berklee College of Music, an exclusive recording contract with CBS and the appointment of the quartet of his then mentor Gary Burton, took its course as today's exclusive Universal Recording Artist, coveted partner and sideman of such musicians as ChickCorea, Michael and Randy Brecker, Lee Ritenour, Dave Weckl, James Genus and Jeff "Tain" Watts, to name but a few well-known jazz greats. In Japan and the USA, an absolute superstar with its own TV format "OZ meets Jazz", Makoto Ozone is not only in jazz, but now also due to its outstanding musicality and playing technique, around the globe a sought after and valued classical artist who regularly invited by the most renowned orchestras in the world as a soloist. An artist like him who is otherwise at home on the big concert stages in the world, with his excellent trio, currently the no less well-known New Yorker James Genus on bass (including Herbie Hancock) and Clarence Penn (including StepsAhead) on the drums, to experience live in b-flat, is a small sensation and a rare happiness that you as a listener should not miss.

World Citizen Band - "Coco's Temple" Album Teaser
The World Citizen Band is an international contemporary jazz ensemble that originated in Berlin Germany in 2011. The band gathers musicians from all over the world with the intention of uniting different cultures through music. The name World Citizen Band makes reference to the current situation of a large number of musical communities over the world, in which the constant interaction between musicians of different nationalities becomes growingly evident. The 6 members of this group all have a nomadic lifestyle, for all have migrated from their country of origin in search for a broader view and understanding of the ever changing musical world of jazz. It is fair to say that they are all “citizens of the world”. 

the legendary Jam Session with Robin Draganic'

The band was founded in 2014 by the Hungarian drummer Balázs Balogh in Graz, Austria. From the beginning, the quintet was international, with band members from Italy, Hungary, Croatia, Montenegro and Brazil. The music consists mainly of compositions and arrangements by Balázs. It is based on the Hardbop tradition of jazz, but includes everything that has influenced the composer, including elements from jazz rock, free jazz, folk music from Eastern Europe and the Balkans, odd meters and polyrhythms. The goal was to create a band with a very characteristic sound with a very typical sound. Balázs has found the right partners for this with the current members of the quintet: Tobias Pustelnik (AT) on tenor saxophone, Lajos Tóth (HU) on piano, MártonFenyvesi (HU) on guitar, and Gustavo Boni (BR) on bass. Together they have appeared in numerous countries in Central Europe, played in Italy, Austria, Hungary and Slovenia (for example Opus Jazz Club, Budapest, ZWE, Vienna, Round Midnight, Trieste, etc ...). The band won second prize in 2015 at the Zilina International Jazz Contest in Slovakia and in 2016 the Best Band Prize at the Sibiu Jazz Festival in Romania. Their first album is called "BorderlineInspirations" and contains only own compositions of the bandleader. Two compositions of this CD were also arranged and recorded by the RTV Big Band Slovenija.

Supported by the Hungarian National Cultural Funds.

Ray Blue’s music can be described as a fusion of straight ahead jazz and rhythmic groove. Ray is a New York bred saxophonist, composer, arranger and educator who performs internationally.
Over the years he has shared the stage and studio as a leader, a sideman and a band member with John Gilmore, Dr. Art Davis, Benny Powell, Eddie Henderson, Kirk Lightsey, Charlie Persip Super Band, Clifford Adams, Wycliff Gordon, Bernard Purdie, Steve Turre, Ted Curson, Joe Lee Wilson, Alicia Keys, The Sun Ra Arkestra, Cotton Club All Stars and many others.
​He was also a cast member of the “Ray Charles Show” which toured in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Italy 2008 to 2010.
​His festival performances as leader and featured artist include: Hartford Jazz Festival, Hartford, Connecticut; Zanzibar International Film Festival, Zanzibar, Tanzania; North Sea Jazz Festival-Cape Town, South Africa; Macufe Festival- Bloemfontain, South Africa; European Union Annex Festival-Dublin, Ireland; Audi Jazz Festival, Brussels, Belgium; Macao Jazz Festival, China; Midi Music Festival-Beijing, China; Pori Jazz Festival, Finland and others.
After receiving a graduate degree from the University of Iowa, Ray returned to New York, got re-connected on the scene and studied at the Jazz Mobile with Charles Davis, Stanton Davis and later with Paul Jeffrey, Charlie Lagond, Sonny Sharrock and Barry Harris. Some of his mentors include Arthur Blythe, Houston Person, Ornette Coleman and Benny Powell.
​Ray Blue is also a graduate of Wm. Penn University, which annually presents “The Ray Blue Jazz Award” since 2004 to a graduating senior. In addition, Wm. Penn University hosted its inaugural “Jazz Education Festival” in 2007 for High School and College musicians in Ray Blue’s name. They also presented Ray the “Distinguished Career Award“ in 2010. Ray is a 2013 “New York Blues Hall of Fame” inductee - Master Blues and Jazz Artist. His awards include: 2015 Iowa Juneteenth “Jazz Legacy Award”, 2016 “Arts Education Award”, 2017 “Living Legacy Award”.
​Ray released his first CD as a leader, Always with a Purpose, in 2001. Then came Ray Blue Live at Liars Theater in 2004 and “Ray Blue Live at Liars Theater 2 in 2005. In 2006 Ray released ‘Transvision’ on the NeuKlang label and Berries and Blues in 2010.
Ray Blue consults and presents at schools, colleges, universities and communities institutions around the world. He is the founder of Cross-Cultural Connection, Inc. a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization that promotes jazz culture, performance and education. He endorses GB Saxophones and Vandoren mouthpieces, reeds and accessories.

Ray Blue’s music can be described as a fusion of straight ahead jazz and rhythmic groove. Ray is a New York bred saxophonist, composer, arranger and educator who performs internationally.
Over the years he has shared the stage and studio as a leader, a sideman and a band member with John Gilmore, Dr. Art Davis, Benny Powell, Eddie Henderson, Kirk Lightsey, Charlie Persip Super Band, Clifford Adams, Wycliff Gordon, Bernard Purdie, Steve Turre, Ted Curson, Joe Lee Wilson, Alicia Keys, The Sun Ra Arkestra, Cotton Club All Stars and many others.
​He was also a cast member of the “Ray Charles Show” which toured in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Italy 2008 to 2010.
​His festival performances as leader and featured artist include: Hartford Jazz Festival, Hartford, Connecticut; Zanzibar International Film Festival, Zanzibar, Tanzania; North Sea Jazz Festival-Cape Town, South Africa; Macufe Festival- Bloemfontain, South Africa; European Union Annex Festival-Dublin, Ireland; Audi Jazz Festival, Brussels, Belgium; Macao Jazz Festival, China; Midi Music Festival-Beijing, China; Pori Jazz Festival, Finland and others.
After receiving a graduate degree from the University of Iowa, Ray returned to New York, got re-connected on the scene and studied at the Jazz Mobile with Charles Davis, Stanton Davis and later with Paul Jeffrey, Charlie Lagond, Sonny Sharrock and Barry Harris. Some of his mentors include Arthur Blythe, Houston Person, Ornette Coleman and Benny Powell.
​Ray Blue is also a graduate of Wm. Penn University, which annually presents “The Ray Blue Jazz Award” since 2004 to a graduating senior. In addition, Wm. Penn University hosted its inaugural “Jazz Education Festival” in 2007 for High School and College musicians in Ray Blue’s name. They also presented Ray the “Distinguished Career Award“ in 2010. Ray is a 2013 “New York Blues Hall of Fame” inductee - Master Blues and Jazz Artist. His awards include: 2015 Iowa Juneteenth “Jazz Legacy Award”, 2016 “Arts Education Award”, 2017 “Living Legacy Award”.
​Ray released his first CD as a leader, Always with a Purpose, in 2001. Then came Ray Blue Live at Liars Theater in 2004 and “Ray Blue Live at Liars Theater 2 in 2005. In 2006 Ray released ‘Transvision’ on the NeuKlang label and Berries and Blues in 2010.
Ray Blue consults and presents at schools, colleges, universities and communities institutions around the world. He is the founder of Cross-Cultural Connection, Inc. a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization that promotes jazz culture, performance and education. He endorses GB Saxophones and Vandoren mouthpieces, reeds and accessories.

Filipe's new international quartet presents brand new original music on this B-flat debut. The music is a fresh blend of improvisation and interaction with many through-composed, counterpoint-based parts. It defies what contemporary Jazz sounds like, even within the traditional setting of the quartet. The band is getting ready to record this music in the studio after the summer.
Press
A couple of quotes/reviews:
“terrific melodies… [...] Absolutely wonderful writing, Filipe! Leaves one wanting more!”
Kirk Nurock (Pianist, Composer)
"Filipe clearly has a well-developed point of view, both as a composer, guitarist and band leader. His tunes, playing, choice of musicians and set programming all worked very well together and show a deep commitment to his craft.
The compositions felt like extended tone poems, with non-traditional forms, [...]
This group could play at any major jazz festival, in my opinion.
There’s no doubt that he has a strong point of view, a clear passion for his art and a great band to boot. Bravo!"
Ben Allison (Bassist, Composer) 

The pianist and composer Maria Baptist "combines the aesthetics of the European tradition with the American jazz understanding," wrote the DOWNBEAT. The multi-award winner from New York and Berlin has been at the forefront of Europe's current jazz scene with more than 1,000 concerts in over 20 countries, ten CDs and a private concert for Michael Jackson.
With her Trio plus One, Maria Baptist has created one of the "most exciting contemporary jazz formations in Europe" (artisticdirector 12on14 Jazzclub). On their new album "Poems without Words", the four musicians create "deep soundscapes that are rarely heard from Europe" (jazz journalist Cosmo Scharmer) Touching melodies, contrasting with powerful outbursts, balladic lines transform into fast-paced ones All this is presented with a "technical skill at the highest level and with a musical intelligence that forms the Trio plus One a perfectly harmonious quartet." (AAZ) For all who jazz, funk, and also a little pop Like rock, a concert by Maria Baptist is "a musical revelation." (KN)

Born in Flensburg and now a saxophonist from Mannheim, he has already successfully completed many different instrumentations. As a member of the band "The Windwalkers" he won the 8.Int. Jazz CompetitionBucharest 2014 and was in the pre-program at the Jazzopen Stuttgart for Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock to hear.Since March 2015, he is a scholarship recipient of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes.Nun he presents his own music with his quartet and has some of the most sought after musicians of the Metropol region Rhein-Neckar zusammengetrommelt.Für his debut CD, he could win as a guest star Axel Schlosser for himself. His pieces move in the broad field of modern jazz and change from hymnic, picturesque melodies to energetic phrases and rock grooves grounded in the tradition of jazz.

Paintbox, the international jazz quintet around bandleader Jonas Windscheid, explore the boundaries between traditional jazz, rock and Latin. The result: modern jazz with lyrical quality and own signature. Some songs are interspersed with rhythmically conspicuous motifs, others are more subdued-thoughtful. But the grooving rhythm group always gives the soloists enough freedom to go on excursions into virtuoso melodic tunes. Bandleader and guitarist Jonas Windscheid lives and works in Cologne. The band also includes Hans Feigenwinter, one of Switzerland's best-known jazz pianists, as well as Oliver Rehmann, who already shone with Julian and Roman Wasserfuhr.
Paintbox's much-lauded debut album "Ven" was released in the well-known Jazzthing Next Generation series of Jazzthing magazine. In autumn 2018, a new album with fresh compositions will be released.

An icon of the Stride pianostyle, Fats Waller has enriched the music scene of his time in an inimitable way. In addition to his virtuoso piano skills, he was an excellent singer and composer, with the exception of "Honeysuckle Rose" and "Ain't Misbehavin`", who were among the
He also wrote many others. Martin Klingeberg and Felix Wahnschaffe, who are among the city's most distinctive brass vocals, have now embarked on the work of the Stride giant in order to interpret it entirely without a piano. Congenially complemented by Ray Kaczynski, a highly idiosyncratic drummer who has already shared the stage with Randy Brecker, Joe Lovano, Doc Cheatham, Ernie Watts, Don Byron, David Murray, Elliott Sharpe and many others, and Jonas Westergaard from Copenhagen , Who is one of the most exciting voices in the current improvisation scene and collaborated with Michael Wollny, Christian Lillinger, John Tchicai, Oliver Lake and many others. You can absolutely look forward to a high-energy and original jazz evening! Buckle up!

The "Bob Folk Quintet" presents "straightahead" Modern Jazz, a mix of original compositions by all band members and interestingly arranged jazz standards. Robert "Bob" Folk the trombonist and namesake of the quintet shows a vivid performance of this fascinating music, along with his four bandmates Susanne Folk on alto and soprano saxophone, Jan Behrens on the piano, Roland Fidezius on bass and Rainer Winch on drums.

Damir Bacikin (tp, comp.), Gerhard Geschlößl (tb), Oliver Potratz (b), Mathias Ruppnig (dr)
"When I worked on our first record with octet in 2012, the vision was to achieve the sound of high jazz masters like Maria Schneider and Gil Evans my primary goal. We played sore fingers "to convert Mount Everest" and finally we converted him. But at some point the journey continues. I played a lot of contemporary music and the idea for "Earworm!" Started growing in me. I continued my search for my own sound, combining contemporary trumpet techniques and articulations with modern jazz and improvised music. And as luck would have it, Fate provided me with the right musicians to put my pieces into action: Gerhardt Gschlössl, who sounds almost like a trumpet with his high-pitched playing and translates his creative solos and virtuosity with an insanity of lightness. Oliver Potratz, he also plays his double bass with a smile on his fingers. His musical as well as human contribution is essential for the quartet. Mathias Ruppnig is very careful and yet he really rocks the shop. Press: »It is easy to see that a technically gifted highly gifted musician is at work here. But the way Bačikin translates his ideas of sound makes him more than just a gifted musician. The band's sound is balanced without ever being boring. He is full and warm, but still remains transparent. The same can be said about the tone of the trumpeter. And the man knows how to tell stories, as a soloist as well as a composer. «-Jan Tengeler, Germany Radio» What a coup! A Serbian trumpeter, who lives in Berlin as a classical musician, publishes a jazz album on a Swiss label. And this is of such stupendous originality and quality that you do not trust your ears. «- FRANK VON LIEDERHAUESERN, CULTURE TIP (ZURICH)

Two widely respected Brazilian musicians, originally meeting and performing together on a 2014 tour, saxophonist Sergio Galvao & guitarist Lupa Santiago developed a quick and exciting rapport, vowing to work more together. Soon after a second tour, Galvao relocated to France where he formed a trio with two dynamic French musicians, bassist Clement Landais and drummer Franck Enouf, making plans to record as a trio in the spring of 2017. By coincidence, Lupa was touring Europe during the same period and the idea to join the trio's recording was born. Meeting in the studio in Normandy on the first day of recording, they brought their compositions and after many jokes concerning soccer, the name for the recording and band came very easily: 2x2. The music presented is fully jazz, but infused with rich experiences and deep influence from their own cultures and travels.

Their music reflects groove based jazz, grounded in Brazilian rhythms as well as contemporary European jazz, very spontaneous, with beautiful melodies and inspired solos." Origin Records

Sergio Galvao is a ´´Henri Selmer Paris Artist´´

https://www.selmer.fr/musicfiche.php?id=852

http://sergiogalvaosax.com/

Lupa Santiago has a Master’s Degree from The Boston Conservatory & Berklee College Of Music (Boston, USA)

Uli Jenneßen is regarded by fans and musicians as one of the very inspired drummers and composers on the european jazz scene. Living in Berlin now, he is working with some steady bands as well as a freelance drummer. Born in 1964 in Mönchengladbach, Germany, Jenneßen was early influenced by english rockbands, which came over to play. He was then mainly inspired by the music of Bill Bruford, Allan Holdsworth and Tony Williams. At the age of 18, he took his first lessons from Ralf Baumann, who at that time played in Mönchengladbach with guitar player David Fiuszinsky. His first training as a combo drummer Jenneßen took in Viersen with Ali Haurandt and later in the music school of Düsseldorf with Rolf Drese and Hermann Gehlen, together with drummer fellow Christian Thome'. In his 20's, Jenneßen was forced into circumstances of letting the music drop, and instead he began to study philosophy, anglistics and german literature at the universities of Düsseldorf, Würzburg and Berlin. He finally gave up those studies and started working as a freelance drummer. Lessons with Ralph van Duncan, Keith Copeland and Jerry Granelli brought him quickly into the music again, and soon he started to work with all players in town.
After 1989, the break of the Berlin wall, new great musicians came up to the scene, and Jenneßen became cofounder of the band LAX together with altosax player Henrik Waldorff, bass player Gerold Genßler and later with multiinstrumentalist John Schröder. LAX at that time regularly played in the Acud Club, influencing the whole modern jazz scene by its unique and new sound. In 1999, FREEDOM OF SPEECH, personally a good part of LAX played in a well regarded record for Free Music Production.
In 1995, the first record (double LP) of Jenneßens second continuosly workig band DIE ENTTÄUSCHUNG appeared. He made his first interpretation of the music of Thelonious Monk, together with bassclarinet player Rudi Mahall, trumpet player Axel Dörner and bass player Joachim Dette, who was then replaced by Jan Roder. DIE ENTTÄUSCHUNG started to play in some records with original compositions. In the Berlin jazz scene, they quickly were regarded as kind of a cult band, with many fans.
Since 2000, Jenneßen is teaching drums and music at the music school of Berlin-Mitte. In 2001, Jenneßen was invited to record with guitar player Eugene Chadbourne and bassplayer Joe Williamson a tribute to Albert Ayler. „Ayler Undead“ was released at Grob-Records and performed widely regarded in the Kölner Stadtgarten. From 2003 on, DIE ENTTÄUSCHUNG started to work with pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach, in order to bring up the world wide touring project MONK'S CASINO, which is the only band on the planet, being able to play all 71 compositions of Thelonious Monk in a unique and hip way, even on one night. Since 2006, Jenneßen is the drummer of Ali Beierbachs group TIGERS OF LOVE. Right now, Jenneßen is getting more and more involved into composing. In 2010 he formed his first group as a leader: OLJONEK, with guitar player Olaf Rupp and Rudi Mahall. OLJONEK brought out its first record in 2010 at audiosemantics records.



The composer and pianist Hannes Zerbe, born in 1941, has been gathering some of the busiest Berlin improvisers since 2011 to make his pieces shine in orchestral dimensions. From his sparkling wealth of ideas and his inimitable élan, the musicians are always happily infected.
The music of the HANNES ZERBE JAZZ ORCHESTER can not be squeezed into any genre. Hannes Zerbes' compositions form a complex framework that demands a lot from the musicians and gives the whole a structure. Influences from modern jazz, symphonic music to Frank Zappa are palpable. In addition to the interaction as a total sound body but just as much emphasis is placed on the individual and creative opportunities for development of the individual musicians, which come mainly through extensive improvisations in their entire facets wealth to advantage.
In addition to pure instrumental concerts, the HANNES ZERBE JAZZ ORCHESTER also performs together with actors and singers. The projects "Erlkönig" freely after Goethe with Tobias Hagge as singer and "among other things Ajax" after a text of Heiner Müller with the actress Heide Bartholomäus ended in great concerts, which were felt by both parties as very fruitful and enriching. We hope to see you soon!

Originally from Bermuda, Professional singer/songwriter,and founder of Women of Music, Adi's voice is commanding, strong, melodic and at times haunting. With an impressive repertoire of Jazz, Soul and Blues standards she is easily influenced by the sounds of Billie Holiday, Anita O'Day, Nina Simone, Sarah Vaughan, Eva Cassidy and at times, Whitney Houston, Natalie Cole, and Aretha Franklin. She joins the ranks of that fascinating era of singers who could light up a stage with the first few bars of song. As the lead singer and songwriter of Rifiki, Dust to Dawn, and House of Adi, and lead singer for Freiburg Jazz Combo, she has proven to be a 'Voice to be Heard' . 
Since moving to Germany in July 2012, she has worked with several musicians, including Kuno Kerner, Johnny Gomer, Andreas Schauder,Phillip Herlyn Muneer Fennell, Matthias Daneck, Giorgio Crubo, Robin Draganic, Lionel Haas, Daryl Taylor, Fuasi Abdul Khaliq, Andrea Marcelli, Mike Segall, Bobby Rae Williams and Thomas Walter. She recently finished a year-long stint with the Landestheater in Linz, Austria, playing the role of Queenie, in Showboat. 
Concerts in Germany: Ruefetto Club, Cafe Diva, Freiburg University, Carl Schurz Haus, The Glass Haus in Freiburg: Soul Girl with Jesus Christ Superstar, at Circus Krone, Gartner Platz theatre, Munich, Badenscher Hof, SpeakEasy. Jammed at, Jazz Schuene, Edelweiss, Jazzy Berlin, Naked Jazz and Mokka Bar. 

Roman Ott is an exceptional talent on the saxophone, his unmistakable sound and his own. You have to experience your saxophone playing yourself in order to feel the "goodoldmagic". He will Songs of his new album "If you lived here you`d be home by now" imagine that
has appeared on the internationally renowned label Fresh Sound. The musicians with whom Roman Ott will present his new album to us without exception modern jazz. An intense music experience with honesty and depth.
Press
[...] here an amazing maturity mixes with the thrilling interplay of his [...]
Quartet
A sympathetic debut with great potential. Jazz Thing
Ott plays with a fresh, unused sound. [...] His phrasing is excellent,
moves between a clearly accented tone and a slightly washed-out language.
Jazzpodium 07/08 2007, Jörg Konrad
Independent sound from a single source [...]
Roman Ott has developed into a sensitive soloist who has an independent soloist
warm, sometimes downright intimate sound [...] possesses. [...]
Even with furious up-tempo titles, nothing gets out of hand
Weser Kurier
[...] a young quartet with great potential and enormous energy.
Radio Bremen
First class teamwork with high creative potential.
Nordseezeitung
Early on he had a remarkably mature, powerful and lyrical saxophone sound
cultivated.
Radio Bremen

Le Scat Noir was born in summer 2013. Three girls from North, South and Central Italy met at Ferrara Conservatory where they were for a common aim: to study jazz music. The great harmony and curiosity for it, made them mixing their musical backgrounds to create an uncommon project, so much difficult as satisfying. Not only standard jazz but also original songs revisited for three voices, piano and violin compose the repertory. During the concert they interchange a cappella songs and other with instrumental accompaniment.

The experimental setup is quickly explained. In elemental occupation, the Berlin trio BROM has been playing its own and free music since 2010. The open compositions of the saxophonist Alexander Beierbach serve as material basis for this - for him and his co-lab technicians Jan Roder on bass and Christian Marien on drums starting and ending points for seething improvisatory reaction processes, generous bows and sound explosions. The music of the trio BROM springs from the strong mixture of composed and improvised parts. Over the course of longer bows, the composed source material is repeatedly taken apart and put together again, or layered in various combinations. The music evolves with each concert from a new context and in a different direction. Every time different starting points are created for the improvisations of the three musicians as well as for the interpretation of the composed material. In the spring of 2018, the trio released its second CD on the label Tiger Moon Records.

Julian Hartwell is a sought-after pianist, composer, and bandleader based in Philadelphia, PA. His versatility as a jazz musician and sideman has seen him performing throughout the northeast USA for the past 15 years, with notable career highlights thus far including sharing the stage with the likes of jazz greats Jimmy Heath, Christian McBride and Jon Faddis at Lincoln Center during his time with the Temple University Jazz Band, for instance.
Since 2013 Julian has been leading his own group dubbed 'the Julian Hartwell Project', an ever-evolving platform for a vast repertoire of original compositions that see him carving out his own niche as a strong composer in his own right. The generally quintet to sextet line-up melds elements of funk, hip-hop, RnB and more into an upbeat and memorable sound, while remaining firmly steeped in the jazz tradition. Julian's writing is known to bring each member's distinctive voice to the fore, bursting with moments of group interplay and rich, adventurous horn arrangements. These talents are on full display on the band's self-titled debut album, a selection of all-original tracks that released to much critical acclaim in 2015. Sophisticated yet down-to-earth; intellectually satisfying but always sure to groove; the ensemble known shorthand as “The JHP” is offering a fresh and distinctly soulful take on the jazz idiom, appealing to both the traditional and novice listener alike.

Don’t believe everything you hear. Fake Noise is full of alternative notes …
The band tells a story through their music, screaming and wailing, dragging the audience in, swallowing them whole, and then spitting them out. Was any of it true? Maybe, but does it matter?
Fake Noise is a Berlin based quartet that sounds like a punk metal band lost in a jazz school. Growing up together in a small transatlantic village mostly populated by moose, bears, and feral saxophones, the band members have had almost 100 years cumulatively to develop their reality-bending sounds, providing light in the darkest timeline.
Standing out front and actively melting the audiences faces with fire and fury are Canadian/Belgian alto saxophonist Peter Van Huffel(Gorilla Mask, Scrambling EX, Kronix) and Canadian/German tenor saxophonist Jonathan Lindhorst (Limerence Quartet, Turtleboy, Innocent When you Dream).  Shaking the foundations of time and space itself is the ground-breaking hard-hitting duo of Norwegian electric bassist Dan Peter Sundland (Orter Eparg, RRR, Home Stretch) and German drummer Oliver Steidle (Der Rote Bereich, Killing Popes, Oliwood). By combining their powers, Fake Noise flings the audience into an enormous washing machine of justice and music.