About the concert
Berlin double bass player Pepe Berns has been an integral part of the German jazz scene for 30 years and now brings a new trio with the talented newcomers Emmanuel Walter on the piano and Lucas Rauch on the drums on the stage.
Although the musicians belong to different generations, they agree with much love and respect on a repertoire of works by well-known protagonists of jazz who were - or are - revolutionary in their time and yet always kept an eye on the musical tradition of different genres or reshaped a tradition for subsequent generations.
One aspect of the trio is to preserve some great, today little performed compositions for collective memory. Compositions by Keith Jarrett and Steve Swallow, Charlie Haden, Ornette Coleman and Branford Marsalis, but also original compositions in a similar spirit find their place. From all these influences, without getting lost, a sound of its own is formed, which only unfolds its facets in the stylistic bandwidth.
This exquisite band does not just play pieces, it tells stories and takes the audience to other worlds - atmospheric, energetic, virtuosic, dense and at the same time airy.