Janning Trumann New York Quartet

In the organizer's words:

20:00 | Concert | 🎤 Concert hall

The winner of the German Jazz Award 2024, Janning Trumann, has maintained an ensemble that connects him to his time in New York right up to the present day. In fall 2024, five years after Be Here, Gone and Nowhere, the quartet's debut album, Divide the Zero will be released. It is the third album with which Trumann is recalibrating his New York Quartet.

In the current edition of his New York Quartet, Trumann has redefined the static alongside the bass of Drew Gress and the impulsive drumming of Jochen Rueckert and brought in the up-and-coming saxophonist Caroline Davis. The absence of a harmony instrument emphasizes the balance between the individual instrumental voices and requires - if melody, harmony and rhythm are not to be abandoned - a simultaneously more open and more delicate form of interplay, in which the four protagonists have to react to each other in a very concentrated manner. Sometimes the saxophone and trombone act in improvised two-part harmony, sometimes they lead their voices as a canon or step out of the group interaction individually and open up the space to play through the conceivable permutations of the individual voices, then again bass and drums act in closely coordinated dynamics or ripple the surface of the common playing time with their impulses.

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Caroline Davis (saxophone), Drew Gress (bass), Jochen Rückert (drums), Janning Trumann (trombone)