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25 Years Pristine Sound Of Root 70 | Anniversary Concert at Loft

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Loft
Wissmannstrasse 30
Cologne
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25 Years Pristine Sound Of Root 70 | Anniversary Concert at Loft

When

Sat, April 12, 2025
20:00

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tickets:
regular: 14,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 7,- €uro

doors: 7.30 pm CEST
concert starts:
approx. 8.00 pm CEST
It takes a lot of human qualities and musical potential for a working band to stay together for 25 years and continuously create a unique work of the highest quality during this time.
This was probably the case when the four musicians Nils Wogram, Hayden Chisholm, Matt Penman and Jochen Rueckert met spontaneously for a session in the spring of 2000 and had the feeling: its a match!

The first public concert took place in the same year under the name Root 70 in the large tent of the festival in Moers, but not yet with their own compositions, it was more of a trial balloon. But festival director Burkhard Hennen and WDR jazz editor Ullrich Kurth probably already had an inkling of what they were presenting on stage. The first concert of the first tour in the fall of 2000 took place in the sold-out LOFT, the premiere in women’s clothing. Why? Because they wanted to and could: they were young heroes of the Cologne jazz scene at the time and their living room (Michael Rüsenberg) was the LOFT. And since no other label was interested in their first CD Root 70, it was released on LOFT’s own label 2ndFLOOR Edition....

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