tickets:
regular: 14,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 7,- €uro
doors: 7.30 pm CEST
concert starts:
approx. 8.00 pm CEST
Bridge The Gap feat. Jelena Potschka:
Inspired by the warm, flexible voice of young jazz singer Jelena Potschka, vibraphonist and drummer Marianne Steffen-Wittek composed melodious pieces for the first set of this evening. Nevertheless, no conventional songs were created; rather, the voice enriches the recorded quartet Bridge The Gap as a fifth instrument. The pleasure of playing and openness to surprises are at the forefront of this formation’s musical interaction....
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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
Bridge The Gap feat. Jelena Potschka:
Inspired by the warm, flexible voice of young jazz singer Jelena Potschka, vibraphonist and drummer Marianne Steffen-Wittek composed melodious pieces for the first set of this evening. Nevertheless, no conventional songs were created; rather, the voice enriches the recorded quartet Bridge The Gap as a fifth instrument. The pleasure of playing and openness to surprises are at the forefront of this formation’s musical interaction.
Jelena Potschka studied jazz singing in Osnabrück with Anne Hartkamp, was a singer with Mels Fluo, among others, and lives in Cologne.
Marianne Steffen-Wittek, Professor Emeritus of Rhythmics (Music & Movement), plays vibraphone, drumset and percussion in the field of new music and jazz improvisation, in various formations from duo to large ensembles and orchestras. Numerous concert tours have led to interesting encounters with musicians in Europe, Palestine and China, among others. Her current quartet Bridge The Gap emerged from the duo Scordatura and the trio Scordatura.
Martin Kübert has travelled as a pianist on numerous tours and concerts in West and East Africa, Madagascar, Australia/New Zealand, India, Myanmar, Dubai, Bahrain and Turkey. He has played with Ballhaus, Bantu, Christina Lux, Dunyabélé, Ebi, Finküberthurm, Mama Afrika, StevenOumaBand, Tabadoul Orchestra, Ulla Oster and Wütrio, among others.
Stefan Potschka was a bassist in the Berlin rock, pop and jazz scene; he later moved his musical activities to the Cologne area; as a jazz bassist he took part in various jazz festivals and tours in Europe. He is a composer of rock and jazz music and can be heard on numerous LP and CD recordings.
Fritz Wittek has played as a drummer on worldwide tours on behalf of the Goethe Institute in Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Central and South America, North, South and East Africa. He was a member of numerous bands such as Wittek-Kaiser-Manderscheid (3 LPs), Jazzhaus-Bigband, TOME XX (several LPs and CDs), Anne Hartkamp (CD), Duo Scordatura, Trio Scordatura (CD), Maturato; he took part in radio and television productions at home and abroad.
Blushda:
In the Blushda project, three young up-and-coming jazz musicians play together with Marianne Steffen-Wittek and Fritz Wittek. Some of the pieces are reminiscent of the legendary female jazz band ‘F’, which released the record ‘Schwarzwaldmädel’ on the Jazzhaus label in cooperation with WDR. Other pieces are relatively new and tailored to Blushda. The band members have a wide range of improvisation experience and are playing together in public for the first time in this line-up. They will be inspired by the risk-taking atmosphere in the LOFT.
Anna Größbrink, studies EMP at the HfMT Cologne, majoring in jazz double bass with Robert Landfermann and is primarily active in the independent jazz scene.
British-born Ben Jones studied musicology in England before moving to Cologne in 2022 to study with Frank Gratkowski and Roger Hanschel at the HfMT Cologne.
Shuyue Zhang studied composition in China, then jazz piano with Erek Siebel, Christian von der Goltz, Achim Kaufmann and Elias Stemeseder. He now lives as a jazz musician in Berlin.
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