tickets:
regular: 14,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 7,- €uro
doors: 8.00 pm CEST
concert starts:
approx. 8.30 pm CEST
Sounds like this:
https://youtu.be/OgxKlad3VFg
In the course of six years of intensive collaboration, the Nathan Ott Quartet impressively demonstrated on two recordings and many concert tours how fruitful such a cross-generational, intercontinental jazz encounter can be. The centre of attention was always the fact that Miles Davis veteran Dave Liebman, together with three European jazz musicians from two younger generations, developed such an open format for improvisational dialogue at eye level....
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tickets:
regular: 14,- €uro
students, disabled persons: 7,- €uro
doors: 8.00 pm CEST
concert starts:
approx. 8.30 pm CEST
Sounds like this:
https://youtu.be/OgxKlad3VFg
In the course of six years of intensive collaboration, the Nathan Ott Quartet impressively demonstrated on two recordings and many concert tours how fruitful such a cross-generational, intercontinental jazz encounter can be. The centre of attention was always the fact that Miles Davis veteran Dave Liebman, together with three European jazz musicians from two younger generations, developed such an open format for improvisational dialogue at eye level.
Then, when Liebman had to cancel a concert tour at the end of 2019 for health reasons and has since retired from touring, Christof Lauer, one of the most defining voices in European jazz, joined the ensemble and transformed its sound and inner workings. Together with the haunting tone of the freshly minted SWR Jazz Prize winner Sebastian Gille, Lauer’s playing melts into an unmistakable texture and is completed by the elegant elasticity of Danish bassist Jonas Westergaard, one of the most sought-after bass players in the country.
The new line-up continues the format’s continuity in the encounter of different generations of musicians and, as an improvising ensemble of the highest agility, draws on an orchestral sound spectrum of surrealistic transparency and poetic elegance without ever losing its grounding – a highly intense live experience!
Anyone who has loved jazz long enough that he (or she) has experienced Elvin Jones live will find something of the mystery, drive and pulse of the drum powerhouse in Nathan Ott’s irrepressible physical presence and musicality.
Hamburger Abendblatt
The quartet around the Berlin-based drummer Nathan Ott is one of the most worth hearing younger, explicitly chamber music ensembles in European jazz. His music is fascinatingly unorthodox and contemporary, yet still firmly rooted in tradition. It is remarkable how atmospherically dense the arcs are stretched.
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
The creative potential of this group, led by Berlin drummer Nathan Ott, is enormous. The individual voices are so strong that the constellation of these musicians alone helps their collective dialogue to achieve great substance.
JazzThing
Nathan Ott was able to win Christof Lauer, one of the most prolific European saxophonists, who now presides as elder statesman over the young quartet with SWR prizewinner Sebastian Gille on second saxophone and the sought-after Jonas Westergaard on bass. Together they play a closely communicating, atmospherically dense, contemporary music that is capable of all
dynamic increases.
Badische Zeitung
This brilliantly performing quartet keeps one in suspense. It explores, explores sound, the quality of its colour, its texture and dynamics, its articulation and characteristics. The fact that all this takes place in an almost orchestral setting may well be a link between jazz and classical music. To the uncompromising, iconoclastic nature of Arnold Schönberg’s „Pierrot Lunaire“, for example, to Krzystztof Penderecki’s „Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima“, to Igor Stravinsky’s „Sacrifice of Spring“.
The Gaeubote
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