Sanna Ruohoniemi is one of the young generation’s most interesting vocal music creators in the Nordics, both as a vocalist and composer. The debut album „Tales of a Stranger“ (Eclipse Music 2016) was acclaimed and honored by critics around Scandinavia. „Sanna Ruohoniemis vocal flexibility is completely unique. The talent dares to cast herself into the music, which gives rise to striking fine improvisations. When combining virtuosity with vision, the result is this. „- Juha Seitz, Pohjalainen & Ilkka 10/2016
Next album, „Start from Nothing“ continues the bold and self-determined journey into the world of modern vocal jazz, offering a rich and vibrant combination of what jazz music can be all about. Album release is followed by international tour starting from Helsinki, Finland. In Germany album will be released by Galileo Music on 21st October.

"David Rose is generally considered the best traditional-style crooner in all of modern Europe" - Will Friedwald (The New York City View)
David Rose is Europe's foremost swinging crooner sensation. Rose presents seldom heard songs from his new album that he recorded in New York City together with Lee Musiker (Tony Bennett's musical director) and jazz legend Bucky Pizzarelli.

There’s a lot more to jazz than meets the eye with Anna Margolina and her band, who arrange, interpret and improvise. They take songs from all sorts of different genres and cultures, turn them around and give them a surprisingly fresh, new feel. The musicians, who came from all walks of life, joined forces in the creative city of Berlin and brought the project to life. Their repertoire embody jazz in its broadest sense: entertaining and moving – a real slice of life!

For more than 13 years the Ensemble Spelunkenorchester has been on its way to enchant shady pubs and Saxon opera houses with their own chamber music. In the encounter between a classical string quartet and a jazz piano trio suddenly everything seems to be possible. String quartet movements are followed by orchestral passages, silent nocturnes, soft sounding areas, interwoven with the fleeting moment of improvisation. If an ensemble can convey a message, then it is "the boundlessness of music, the eternal search for new means of expression, and ultimately the art of deep fusion of different music styles. All this, of course, without any compulsion to eventually have to give up my own way of making music sometime. "(Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten)

The last CD of the Tanja Siebert Quartet "Odd Times" refers on the one hand to the songs with unheard clocks and on the other hand to the strange times that life writes: drastic events that trigger an overwhelming mix of emotions and that override every human being to think about the "big questions of life".
Tanja Siebert takes the energy out of what she has experienced and manages to transfer her into the music in a strong and creative way, giving her an emotional depth that one can not escape. Carried by masterful arrangements (including by Christian von der Goltz) and the wonderful, audibly communicating musicians, her voice brings us subtle facets of emotional awareness and makes her second album to a sensual sound experience. From this album, but also from the first CD "Small day tomorrow" there will be songs to hear this evening.

Latvian-born Agita Rando studied church music at the Latvian Music Academy in Riga. A scholarship brought her to Bremen, Germany, in 2000, where she completed graduate studies in organ playing under the tuition of Hans-Ola Ericsson and Harald Vogel. Working as a musician in the areas of church music, classical music and jazz, Agita Rando next studied jazz-piano under Joe Dinkelbach, Ed Kröger, Detlev Beier and Georg Rox. Since 2008, Agita Rando has been working in Berlin as a pianist, composer and organist.

the legendary Jam Session with Robin Draganic'

Tritángulo combines the crème de la crème of the European tango scene.
Lothar Hensel, the bandoneónist, arranger and founder of the ensemble, tries to come closer to his dream of a balanced conversation between musicians with this intimate cast. He brought friends and proven specialists to his side. His long shared experience in the tango ensembles Septísimo and tango fusión connects him with Oliver Potratz. Oliver Potratz won the 2007 German Jazz Prize. French pianist Marie Elsa Drelon turned to Argentine tango after moving to Berlin. In addition, she participated in many productions as a theater musician, sound designer and actress.
The repertoire of Tritángulo is not only for connoisseurs a true treasure chest: The repertoire is as complex as the tango.

ZMEI3 (pronounced zmay-tray) is a band of Romanian artists supplemented by the vibraphonist Oli Bott. At the heart of the band's msuik is Paula Turcas, with a powerhouse voice. A soprano who has abandoned classical music to find a new artistic challenge style in the style of a Rough Romanian soul. The head of the band is the guitarist Mihai Victor Iliescu, who designed the band's artistic concept. The sound of the band is unmistakable due to the participation of the vibraphone virtuoso Oli Bott. The name of the band is inspired by an ancient Romanian antihero, a rebellious misshapen dragon. A highlight of this year's Cultoursommers.
"ZMEI3 are psychedelic and melancholic, spiritual and soulful, jazzy and experimental, sometimes even rocky, always very Romanian and above all courageous." WDR

Look forward to a touching, virtuoso, musically diverse concert by singer and pianist Marie Chain, together with band, and guitarist Vladimir Spiridonov.
Singer, songwriter and pianist Marie Chain catapults soulful vintage soul, blues and funk into the 21st century.
"My greatest inspiration is the soul and blues musicians of the 50s and 60s," says Marie. She started playing the piano at the age of five. With a unique, sometimes bright, sometimes rough soul voice, she muses in her current studio album "Chainge" for change.
For several years she lived in Barcelona, ​​Berlin, traveled to New York, London and is currently producing a new album in Hamburg.
She performs at festivals and clubs worldwide, such as APAP NYC, SXSW Texas, Amals Bluesfest and Live At Heart Festival / SWE, Blues & Jazz Festival Bamberg / GER, Montreux Trail Festival / CHE, Altacustic Festival / ESP, Feel Festival / GER, Maschinenhaus Concert Hall Berlin and Harlem Jazzclub Barcelona.
The talented Russian guitarist Vladimir Spiridonov convinces with soulful sounds, self-interpretations of well-known songs and American fingerstyle guitar.

This band pays tribute to the great Sonny Rollins ‚chordless‘ trio with Wilbur Ware and Elvin Jones. 
Wahnschaffe, Howhannesijan and Thimm are playing with high energy and control. Long experienced and well known in the scene, will they bring their experience and personality to the bandstand. Smoking, hard swinging modern jazz- celebrating one of the great Tenors of all time: Mr. Sonny Rollins!


Dive into the unknown. Dreaming and fulfilling wishes. Experience the confusion and confusion. There in the hidden darkness lift the lid and wonder: Here are 4 jazz musicians playing for their soul. They get involved in the swing of America, the popular music of Europe, look into the here and now as well as into the future. It creates a new aesthetic of passion, depth and nostalgia, brilliance and radiance. And all that took its origin at "Hermannplatz" ...

Rory Ingham (British Jazz Awards Rising Star) brings his trombone-led group to the B Flat Club in Berlin, presenting a high-energy set of brand new music written by Rory. This show is part of his Summer Euro Tour. 

Rory Ingham, 22 year old jazz trombonist/composer based in London, is the winner of Rising Star in the 2017 British Jazz Awards, and was voted as a runner-up in the Trombonist of The Year 2016. He was chosen as ‘One To Watch’ in the Shape of Jazz To Come section of Jazzwise. Most recently, he was announced winner of the 2018 British Trombone Society award Student of The Year. 
Rory has played with internationally-acclaimed musicians such as Chris Potter, Dave Holland, Elliot Mason, Dennis Rollins, Newton Faulkner, Claire Martin, Alan Barnes, Liane Carroll, Dave Douglas, Evan Parker and Dave Liebman. He has also played with many ensembles including BBC Big Band, Mike Gibbs Big Band, Syd Lawrence Orchestra, and Jonny Mansfield’s Elftet. He has performed at prestigious venues/festivals across Europe, including Ronnie Scott’s, EFG London Jazz Festival, Barbican, Bimhuis, and the Royal Albert Hall, where he was a featured soloist. Rory was a finalist in the Carl Fontana Jazz Trombone Competition at the International Trombone Festival in California.
In 2014, Rory set up the award-winning band Bonsai (formerly Jam Experiment) that have played at many high-profile British jazz festivals (inc. Cheltenham, Love Supreme and London), and have been featured several times on BBC Radio 3 and Jazz FM. They released the album 'Bonsai Club’ in May 2019 on Ubuntu Music. 
He has just graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in London. Rory is proud to be endorsed by Michael Rath Trombones, and is the youngest artist on the roster. 

the legendary Jam Session with Robin Draganic

Created in 2016 from a drum duo, 'Searching For Home' has evolved into a musician collective of nine of the most talented jazz fusion newcomers from all over Saxony. Represented in the Youth Jazz Orchestra Saxony, the Dresden Bigband, the band around Paul Peuker and Clemens Christian Pötzsch: 'Three Atmospheres' or the Schooljam winner 2018, 'Funk Fragment', all members of the band have been involved in numerous professional projects and in competitions like " Jugend Musiziert "or the" Carl Bechstein Competition "1. Achieve national awards with highest marks. The most important tour stops in all projects were the Concert Church Neubrandenburg, the Press Festival Chemnitz (opening act of Radio Doria), the jazz clubs Reduta Prague or The Crypt London and the Hurricane Festival. 'Searching For Home' combines all these influences of jazz, pop, funk, fusion and soul and combines catchy melodies and fat grooves with improvised solo parts in a unique sound with a lot of enthusiasm. We show that even outside the mainstream an audience with "groovy big city sound" (Freie
Press, 2017).

Mike Russell was born in 1952 in Washington D.C. and began studying classical and Flamenco guitar at an early age. His professional career started in the 60s with soul and blues bands. Song writing and composing was an early interest and this creative side resulted in some studio work with Columbia Records as guitarist and composer.  The year 1970 was his first record release as composer and the title "Black Woman" was recorded by Grammy nominated Gloria Taylor and culminated in a US tour. The year 1972 saw his own Jazz-Rock group "Water Forest" perform Andy Warhol at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. Since moving to Berlin in 1989 he has performed with Eddy Harris, Billy Bang and many others. He formed the Black Heritage Orchestra with singer MFA KERA and released the CD in 1995 which reached the Top 10 European world music charts. He also has created his own Jazz-Soul-Funk sound. He performed on German TV, Guinness Festival South Africa, Greece, Poland and America and returned to Washington D.C. to perform with Mfa Kera & Black Heritage at the world famous Blues Alley Jazz Club and Smithsonian Center. He was also invited to host special workshops at the George Washington University Jazz Department.
He recently toured in Poland and Ukraine where he counts thousands of fans.

MFA KERA & Black heritage feat. Mike RUSSELL is known for Afro Soul, funk and jazz music. Black Heritage invites you to an unforgettable and unique musical journey with the mesmerizing charismatic vocalist and composer Mfa Kera of Madagascar, also known as "the VOICE" (the voice) and the extraordinary guitarist and singer Mike Russell from Washington DC. The variety and richness of its rich repertoire and the high quality of the soloists and the compositions make the group the right place in jazz as well as in world music events and festivals. The Creole singer and composer is originally from Madagascar and grew up in Senegal. "Imagine Sarah Vaughan, Grace Jones, Shirley Bassey, and Ima Sumac in an African singer, then get an idea of ​​their great talent, to experience their live stage performance, to truly appreciate their energy and charisma to be able to enjoy. " Her musical career began in Paris with blues and gospel. Soon she worked together with well-known musicians such as Memphis Slim, John Lee Hooker, Mikey Baker and Milton Buckner. As a singer she contributed to the movie "The Adventure of Jazz", which brought her into contact with jazz greats such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton. Her first record was consequently a "Homage to Mahalia Jackson".

"Pop vocal groove jazz from Berlin with chanson character, in German and English - the Berlin jazz singer Martina Gebhardt composes and lyrics PopChansons, the grooving." What a great opportunity to present my original compositions this night! And even more, 'cause the next CD is on the run ... I'd love to see you at the b-flat!

The orchestra mixes the melodies and rhythm of tango with the harmony and improvisation of jazz. The result is a new, fascinating interpretation of this music. This new concept has received very good criticism both in Argentina and internationally.
The great French accordionist Richard Galliano said it was the first time that the fusion of tango and jazz had been successfully completed. He emphasized the way the drums were included in the tango and enjoyed the original tunes. In some of his concerts Gustavo Firmenich, director of the Tango Jazz Quartet orchestra, has revived some of the events that used to take place in Buenos Aires decades ago. Tango as well as jazz were played on these dance evenings. These events were held under the term "Tipica y Jazz".

"Blues meets Afrobeat"
Peter Schmidt and Marko Jovanovic present a unique blues cast together with their colleagues from the band "Afrikadelle". American Blues meets West African afrobeat and highlife music. The result is a fiery and varied program, full of cool riffs, varied grooves and bluesy improvisations. Well-known songs and classics are reinterpreted and mixed with a lot of verve, wit and ingenious musicality. The guitarist and singer Peter Schmidt from Berlin has been performing for over 4 decades. With his band "East Blues Experience" he toured throughout Europe, Asia and North America, as well as a backing band or support for many world stars of the blues and rock scene. The Bluesharp virtuoso Marko Jovanovic touches and seduces with his game alike. Everything seems unobtrusive, deeply influenced by a great understanding of the music, which sometimes calls for pearling melodies and sometimes after vigorous pressure. Marko combines all this playfully and some rub one in amazement and delight eyes and ears. So that sounds like a harmonica?

the legendary jam session with Robin Draganic

The Real Latinos: Martin High de Primes game is significantly influenced by Walter Norris, where he studied and the New York saxophonist Charles Gayle, whom he met in 1985. In his first volume, Afro-American influences combine with the aesthetic and formal elements of New Music. During a one-year stay in Mexico in 1988, he developed this concept further and is inspired by Latin American music. From this melange he founds with creative musicians of the Berlin scene The Real Latinos. Bass figures in mesmerizing repetition encounter explosive improvisations by the musicians. The compositions leave room for surprises - rhythmic changes and arrangements are spontaneously created. Every appearance of the Real Latinos is a development of moods that condense: from bright Mexican to European blue.

As a constant part of the Berlin swing scene, the Savoy Satellites know how to captivate music lovers as well as dancers and turn every concert into a thrilling experience. They play unadulterated and unaffected the swing of the 30s and 40s, the time when jazz was still pop. Consisting of a vocalist, three brass players and a four-piece rhythm section, the Savoy satellites resurrect the sound of Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Count Basie and other role models. All titles were arranged with great attention to detail and are presented equally. With their sound, the Savoy Satellites transform any location into a Harlem Renaissance dance hall. The b-flat will be the next.

Luiza Meiodavila was born and raised in the city of São Paulo, where she got in contact with music very early. At school, she began playing the flute and then playing the guitar, until she finally discovered her passion for singing. At the age of 19, she began performance studies at Souza Lima & Berklee University, where she immersed herself in the world of jazz and Brazilian music. From this experience, her first album "Florescer" was created in 2015. The great media interest in Brazil enabled the singer not only numerous concerts in the country, but also a European tour with concerts in Amsterdam, London, Paris, Munich and Berlin. After the end of the European tour Luiza moved to Berlin and started the production of her second album, "(des) conexão", which combines pop and rock elements of Brazilian music. The album is an attempt at expression of their own personality and at the same time, a revival of their previous musical influences such as Led Zeppelin, Ella Fitzgerald, Kings of Leon, Marisa Monte and Jordan Rakei. Accompanied by a power trio, the diversity of the band not only shows in their sound, but also by the origin of their members.

The duo of Beto Caletti and Mishka Adams has its musical roots firmly planted in South America’s Afro-Latin rhythmic traditions. Their sound stretches from the African influenced Baião of northeastern Brazil, south through the jazzy harmonies of samba and bossa nova from Rio, down into the earthy beats of Uruguayan candombe, and arriving finally at the dancing rhythms of the chacarera and milonga of Argentina.
Their compositions emerge from this melting pot of rhythms, and take the listener on a journey in four diverse languages – Spanish, Portuguese, English, and Tagalog (Filipino) – Mishka’s mother tongue. The combination of guitar, handheld percussion and intricate vocal harmonies bring an intimate experience of story and song, tradition and innovation, and love across continents.
Following a successful launch of their album “Puentes Invisibles” at Pizza Express Jazz Club in London and a European tour in the summer they are now on tour in Argentina. As well as performing, they are also giving workshops on different musical styles from South America.
“Bringing together Argentinian and Brazilian music with a singer-songwriter’s personal touch and superb musicianship.” Alison Bentley, London Jazz News
“…the duo journey through South America - different countries, different languages, different rhythms all blending beautifully…” Lance Liddle, Bebop Spoken Here

Hunting Island has always been more than a Berlin singer-songwriter or Americana psychedelic folk band: this is shown by their clear and simple, sometimes complex harmonies and rhythms, their concentrated polyphonic vocals supporting a lead vocalist voice, sometimes casual is expressive, as well as her grip on jazz on the one hand and rock on the other. Hunting Island was already known for their CD "Lost One" (2013) and many great live concerts. Now meet Hunting Island ORCA: The trio (guitar, bass, drums) has lured a brass ensemble (French horn, saxophones) and another guitar to the island and fundamentally expanded the band's format for the new project "Heaven". ORCA, the whale that lands on the island, stands for aural and stylistic transformation, for the experimental. He dances in love, yearning and fogged with his heavy body around the clear, precise notes of the band. Where the island and ORCA meet, individual solo voices wind themselves out of the harmonic depths to fall back into them; but also from the sound tapestries of the strings fast singular solo figures out ... Who leads, who follows, that is not always distinguishable in this dynamic interplay. Which instruments make which connections with each other often leads to surprises, so that the six finally form a whole.
Hunting Island ORCA rewarded themselves and their fans with the release of their new
Albums "Heaven" in early 2019.

The Berlin Jive Company has, as the name suggests, the Jump'n'Jive prescribed. The unforgettable rhythm continues to swing numerous dance legs, because the songs of Louis Prima, Louis Jorden u.v.a. stay unforgotten. The band consists of six musicians and a singing couple who interpret this music with body and soul. It will be an unforgettable evening listening to this music and dancing to it, because it will awaken a sense of the 40s and 50s.

the legendary jam session with Robin Draganic

Compose your favorite music, find your favorite musicians, give it a name and your favorite band is completed! This is exactly what drummer, Jo Beyer, did.
Do what you enjoy - That's the motto of this band and that's exactly what the sound of this band tells you. Uncompromised fun with the potential of top hit musical compositions, performed by some of the great improvisational musicians of contemporary jazz. 

The brilliant Hungarian jazz saxophonist Kristóf Bacsó presents his newest album in Berlin's B-Flat. Launched in 2016 by the Budapest Music Center, Pannon Blue, which Bacsó has recorded together with Árpád Oláh Tzumo and Márton Juhász, mixes the most appealing ingredients of Central Europe's musical tradition and contemporary jazz into an unforgettable sound experience. Born in Budapest, Kristóf Bacsó began playing the saxophone when he was 12 years old. After graduating from the Jazz Department of the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, he continued his studies at the Paris Conservatory and at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. In the more than five years of his stay in France and the USA, he has appeared at numerous prestigious international events, including at jazz festivals in London, Pescara and Barcelona. In addition to his own bands in quartet and trio formation, he regularly collaborates with the sextet of Kálmán Oláh, with the quartet of Gábor Gadó and the Modern Art Orchestra - with the latter also as a soloist and composer. Circular, the new record of the Modern Art Orchestra released by the BMC in 2014, features throughout compositions by Kristóf Bacsó.

The band "Les colorés" established the drummer true to his roots, which lie in Biguine Jazz. The multicultural mix of musicians gives the group its meaning. Groovy like Zouk, Biguine and Mazurka, Soul and Funk; newly arranged standards and own compositions, melodic and rhythmic at the same time, inspire to listen and to move. This music is an invitation to dance and to travel in colorful soundscapes.