Open stage for free improvisation

Opener:

• Igor Grabez - trumpet
• Martin Lejeune - guitar
• Philipp Wildenhues - drums

Sessiongäste

• Lutz Jahnke - drums
• Arno Koch - clarinet, saxophone
• Susanne Rentel - sylphyo
• Dimitri Renkel - drums
• Lukas Ebner - piano
• Nico Lehmann - saxophone, percussion
• Hasan Tuna - drums
• Matthias Fenchel - piano
• André Viegas - guitar
• Baris Harmanci - piano
• Elias Heuria - piano
• Frederik Helbing - guitar

Igor Grabez
moved to Frankfurt in 2022. A multi-instrumentalist and composer who played piano and trumpet in the Mimikoto Project and currently plays in the neo-soul band NI-KA. His formative influences range from Kenny Wheeler, Chick Corea, Miles Davis to Alfa Mist, Bokani Dyer and Erik Truffaz. He has discovered a preference for free jazz in the last few years.
Musicians such as Don Cherry, Peter Brötzman and Cecil Taylor have shown that music can also be celebrated and conveyed in a different way. Piano lessons with Danny Grissett and Harry Gansberger in Vienna. Trumpet lessons with Dusko Goykovich. He can be heard on the trumpet every day in the late afternoon in Rödelheim at a bridge.

Martin Lejeune studied jazz guitar at the University of the Arts in Amsterdam. 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 have been 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 play (Hessischer Rundfunk and Bayerischer Rundfunk). Above all, he composed for the stage: Wuppertaler Bühnen, Theater Freiburg, Kosmos Theater Wien, Theater Basel, Theaterhaus Frankfurt, Ensemble 9. November, Die Fliegende Volksbühne, Stalburg-Theater Frankfurt and Theater Willy Praml.
As a guitarist, he has worked with the HR Bigband, the HR Symphony Orchestra, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the National Ballet Mannheim, the Neue Philharmonie Frankfurt, the Schauspiel Frankfurt, the Staatstheater Mainz, the Luisenburg Festival Wunsiedel, 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 2003 he received the Jazz Scholarship of the City of Frankfurt.

Philipp Wildenhues
Growing up in a musical household, it was less a question of whether he would learn an instrument than which one. Many attempts at different instruments led to the drums. Besides private lessons with Christopher Choe, the first decade was determined by playing in an increasingly progressive punk rock band. Initially regional, the band became international and toured from England to Slovenia. The band produced several studio albums with release on the Berlin label Fond of Life. The passion for improvised music developed during the studies to become a professional musician and instrumental pedagogue at the Frankfurt Music Workshop for Jazz and Popular Music under the direction of Michael Demmerle with individual lessons in the main subject drums with Rainer Rumpel. Barely finished the studies very successfully, many projects followed in cooperation with a lot of music making people in various styles like: Jazz, Drum`n`Bass, Indie, Folk, Hip Hop, Techno, Funk, Rock, Pop ,Soul, Blues, Free, Experimental with concerts in some countries like Belgium, Spain, England, Slovenia, India, Switzerland, Italy, Netherlands, USA, France, Germany, Austria, Czech Republic ... TBC
Current activity / band projects: Improvisation, Furniture Construction / Ramatou Orchestra, Pronto Pronto, Van Deyk, Er&Er, DNS.