Formationen+

Six invited musicians and guest musicians from the region improvise in changing line-ups:

• Matthias Schubert - sax;
• Gerhard Gschlößl - tb;
• Martin Lejeune - g;
• Sebastian Gramss - b;
• Bülent Ates - dr;
• Lutz Jahnke - dr;

Guest musicians:

• Jürgen Werner - fl, bansuri;
• Wolfgang Reimers - sax;

Matthias Schubert - saxophone

Saxophonist and composer, born 1960 in Kasselis an intensity miracle. He gives every note he plays so much of his own momentum that he moves powerfully and purposefully like a ball on a bowling alley. That is why Matthias Schubert rarely plays the extremely fast sequences of notes that are usual on the saxophone, but what he plays is full of clarity, emphasis and consistency. He rarely ends a phrase the way he started it, but all the notes hit the mark and no one can escape his phrasing.Matthias Schubert played in the Euro Jazz Big Band, German-French jazz ensemble Graham Collier Band, Marty Cook Band, Albert Mangelsdorff Quintett, Basslab, Jazzartrio, Gunter Hampel Duo and the Galaxie Dream Band, Duo Di Sax, the Jungle Pilots, the Klaus König Orchestra, the Korean group "Samul Nori", Carl Ludwig Hübsch Longrun Development of the Universe, Günter "Baby" Sommer Projekt - performances of the sonnets "Novemberland" with Günter Grass, Scott Fields Ensemble, Gerry Hemingway Quintet, the group Lurk Lab , Umfundisi, as well as co-leader of the Multiple Joy[ce] Orchestra and is a winner of the Hessian Jazz Prize 2018.

Gerhard Gschlößl - trombone

studied trombone and composition in Würzburg and has lived in Berlin since 2004. The trombonist belongs to a new scene that has successfully freed itself from the traditional labels of jazz and moved into a broad field of improvised music.

Ulrich Steinmetzger about Gerhard Gschlößl:

The trombonist has developed his personal style very agile, muscular and close to the respective base.

Nothing here is cosmetically polished or overdone. His music is believable because it has rough edges, because it doesn't hide the dirt that is part of life. This is neither strict mainstream nor pure avant-garde. One hears the where from and senses a where to.

Martin Lejeune - electric guitar

Martin Lejeune studied jazz guitar at the Amsterdam University of the Arts. In 1994 he came to Frankfurt, where he works as a freelance guitarist, composer and arranger. He is also a lecturer in the jazz department of the Mainz University of Music and the Peter-Cornelius Conservatory of the city of Mainz. Commissioned compositions in the field of applied music were created for film (Josef Aichholzer Production Vienna, Barbara Trottnow), dance (National Ballet Mannheim, Extraordinary machine, Mousonturm Frankfurt, La_Trottier Dance Collective, Co.Lab.Tanztheater) and radio plays (Hessian and Bavarian Broadcast). Above all, he composed for the stage: Wuppertaler Bühnen, Theater Freiburg, Kosmos Theater Wien, Theater Basel, Theaterhaus Frankfurt, Ensemble 9 November, Die Fliegen Volksbühne, Stalburg-Theater Frankfurt and Theater Willy Praml. As a guitarist he has worked with the HR Big Band, the HR Symphony Orchestra, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the National Ballet Mannheim, the Neue Philharmonie Frankfurt, at the Schauspiel Frankfurt, at the Staatstheater Mainz, at the Luisenburg Festival Wunsiedel, with Alfred Harth, John Tchicai, Phill Niblock, Corinna Danzer, Bob Degen, Emil Mangelsdorff, le jeune matin, the European Groove Orchestra, the Soul Jazz Dynamiters, and No Lega. In addition to other awards, in 2003 he received the Jazz grant from the city of Frankfurt.

Sebastian Gramss - double bass

The double bass player Sebastian Gramss from Cologne (ECHO 2013 +2018 in the category “double bass”)

has been considered one of the leading figures in the German music scene in the field of jazz and contemporary music for years. Tours and concerts take him to Africa, Australia, Asia, Russia, USA, India, Japan and Mexico as well as to important festivals and clubs throughout Europe.

Gramss initiated countless international cooperations and stands for long-term networking

of musical cultures worldwide. He released over 30 CDs under his name. Already in 1992 he founded the well-known group UNDERKARL. Recently he has been touring with the trio FOSSILE 3, SLOWFOX and the group STATES OF PLAY. In addition to his own projects, he wrote music for Pina Bausch and in 2016+2018 for the Ensemble Modern.

For his CD "Thinking of..." (WERGO) he received the "Prize of the German Record Critics".

His innovative bass activities range from the solo program "ATOPIE", the years of

international duo double bass series "Double the Double Bass" (with over 50 concerts) to "Sebastian Gramss'BASSMASSE" with up to 50 double bass players (including Tokyo 2015/Mexico 2017). He teaches double bass and ensemble at the music academies in Cologne and Osnabrück. He is also the initiator of the international musicians' residency

"SAMUR" by the Goethe Institute in India.

John Schröder - drums, electric guitar (unfortunately due to illness not participating)

In Frankfurt, after his first performances in 1978, he was once celebrated by the press as a "guitar child prodigy". Since moving to Berlin in 1997, he has been one of the busiest jazz musicians, who also has his merits on the drums. After first recordings in 1982 and working in a duo with Joe Gallivan, he played with Roberto di Gioia, saxophonist Peter Less and bassist Marc Abrams in the fusion group Zuppa Romana. In 1994 he joined the successful band The Red Area, founded by Rudi Mahall and Frank Möbus in 1992, with whom he made guest appearances in numerous countries. For the recording of a concert at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 2001, the group received the German Record Critics' Quarterly Prize (first quarter of 2005). He also played with Stefan Lottermann, Achim Kaufmann and other musicians from the Cologne scene. Schröder is a member of Das rosa Rauschen (with Felix Wahnschaffe), the Norbert Scholly Group, the Fabian Gisler Quartet, Erdmann 3000, LAX and other band projects. With his guitar student Kalle Kalima he founded the band Momentum Impakto. He played with many well-known jazz musicians, such as B. Chet Baker (My Favorite Songs - The Last Great Concert 1988), James Moody, Joe Lovano, Randy Brecker, Enrico Rava, but also with Christopher Dell in a quartet and duo.

Simon Camatta - drums (unfortunately due to illness not participating)

Simon Camatta was born in Essen in 1976. At the age of 11 he got his first drum set for Christmas. He studied jazz at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen. For 25 years he has been playing in a wide variety of areas halfway around the world. Currently with The Dorf, Handsome Couple feat. DJ Illvibe, The Wisseltangcamatta and in various improvisation projects e.g. B. with Fred Lonberg-Holm. He also works in various theaters and in the independent scene in the areas of dance and acting. On top of that he is also a solo artist and one of the makers of Umland Records.