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Vojta Drnek

Born: June 6, 1996

Unique Czech jazz accordionist Vojta Drnek belongs to the group of musicians who are constantly stretching the boundaries of what is expected of their instrument. Jiří V. Matýsek from Musicserver.cz described him as someone who “is able to move smoothly from role to role: from a soloist through a partner in a dialogue to a humble side-man. In all cases, he colors the music in specific shades and harmonic intersections.” He communicates with other musicians and audiences what he terms “simple, but powerful truths about life”. Leader of the critically acclaimed chamber jazz trio Treetop, he is an artist who inspires performers of all ages to change the perception of the accordion and to bring its unexplored sounds to the world of modern music. 

Christoph Dallach: Krautrock Origins from Schlager to Synthesizers

by Lawrence Peryer
December 21, 2024

Today, the Spotlight shines On author Christoph Dallach, who joins us to discuss his book Neu Klang: The Definitive History of Krautrock (Faber & Faber, 2024). Christoph has spent years tracking down the pioneers who spent the late 1960s in West Germany's basements and practice rooms, creating sounds unlike anything else in rock and roll.

Emi Vernizzi's Human Touch in Electronic Jazz

by Lawrence Peryer
December 15, 2024

Emiliano Vernizzi plays saxophone in Berlin jazz clubs one week and fills stadiums with rock star Ligabue the next. His work with Pericopes+1 has helped establish the group as one of Europe's notable contemporary jazz voices, with masters Dave Liebman and Enrico Rava championing their music. Their album Good Morning World! (Losen Records, 2014) ...

Han-earl Park

Shifting and switching from No Wave skronk to interstellar guitarist-as-drummer virtuosity, from stampedes of miniature Pomeranian Buffalos to All-You-Zombies heterophonies, Han-earl Park (박한얼) has been performing beautifully messy, joyously difficult, ambiguous and discordant improvised musics for over twenty years.

Park is drawn to the noisy poetry of interactive play; its pleasurable complexities, and joyous discords. He has become increasingly fascinated by the possibilities of refracting the improvisative through narrative tropes and forms, sometimes transposing techniques from fiction and cinema. He seeks musics that are ‘inconvenient,’ that resist easy resolution, and seeks practices that take seriously consent, affinity, agency, trust and compassion.

JazzFest Berlin 2024

by John Sharpe
November 11, 2024

JazzFest Berlin 2024 Haus Der Berliner Festspiele Berlin, Germany October 31-November 3, 2024 Intro For its sixtieth edition, the renowned JazzFest Berlin not only presented a full program of 24 shows by over 120 performers from around the globe, but also ran a research lab looking back at the event's history, ...

Jazzfest Berlin 2024

by Giuseppe Segala
November 11, 2024

Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Quasimodo Jazz Club, A-Train Jazz Club, Chiesa Monumentale Kaiser Wilhelm Jazzfest Berlin 2024 Berlino 31 ottobre--3 novembre 2024 Nel programma che celebrava il sessantesimo compleanno del Jazzfest Berlin, e che ne scandiva la sessantunesima edizione, non c'era solo musica. Ovvero, attorno al ricco e appetitoso ...

Pablo Tarantino

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In his debut album ‘Charnia’ Pablo Tarantino transforms the influences of his many-sided cultural and musical background into Charnia. The album takes name after the extinct living organism which grew on the sea floor, 570 to 550 million years ago, and that encompasses the beauty of our life on Earth.

Ever since Pablo started his journey as a musician in his teenage years, first as a student of modern music in Valencia and Barcelona, later in his life as a performer in England, Scotland and Germany, he has been interested in translating the stories of the world that surrounds him into music. His interest revolves not only around the rhythm, but also in the stories, the melodies, the harmonies, and the textures of the sounds.

Volker Meitz

Berlin based pianist / keyboarder Volker Meitz is involved in several projects from Jazz to experimental or popular music. Due to his eclectic approach, Volker has always been hard to pigeon-hole to any one specific genre - but he actually likes it that way. Having started out composing chiptunes in the 8-bit computer scene, he went on to produce electronic club music incorporating jazz musicians in the 1990's, played in one of the first drum'n'bass live bands in Europe, was musical director of Sonar Kollektiv Orchester and recorded freely improvised, yet heavily processed music with Projekt Schwedt.
Today, his projects include SpaceKrautDubJazz band THE SHREDZ (w/ Eric Schaefer, John Dennis Renken, John Eckhardt), Free Imrov quartet KEMD (w/ Silke Eberhard, Almut Kühne, Yorgos Dimitriadis), SouljazzFusionStep combo GRAND COULOIR as well as duo and solo programs

Conor Cantrell

Born: July 26, 1990

Born in Galway, Ireland, Conor embarked on his professional musical career at the age of fourteen, establishing himself as a versatile multi-instrumentalist, composer, and songwriter. His development as an artist has been profoundly shaped by his beginnings as a trumpet player and the opportunity to study under and receive masterclasses from some of the world’s most distinguished musicians and educators, including Steve Waterman, Gene Calderazo, Phil Robson, Dave Liebman, Mark Turner, Rufus Reid, Jonathan Kreisberg, Ari Hoenig, and Jerry Bergonzi, among many others.

Throughout his career, Conor has had the honour of performing and recording alongside various internationally acclaimed artists and ensembles such as The Commitments, Imelda May, The Republic of Loose, the Brexit Big Band, Brian Priestly, the Matt Roberts Bigband and Louis Stewart.

60 Years Of Jazzfest Berlin: Still Digging

September 26, 2024

From October 31 to November 3, Jazzfest Berlin is celebrating its 60th anniversary with 24 concerts at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Quasimodo, A-Trane and the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church. This year, the concert programme is bolstered by two anniversary specials: the Jazzfest Research Lab and the Jazzfest Community Lab Moabit. The full programme. Jazzfest Berlin, ...