Jazznacht im Peter Edel 3: Generationen im Groove

In the organizer's words:

Friday, February 27, 2026, 8 pm, Berliner Allee 125, 13088 Berlin

Admission 15-20 euros, advance booking via Peter Edel, Box Office from 7.30 pm

JAZZNIGHT 3: GENERATIONS IN THE GROOVE

FAT' N' FANCY CHAMBER ENSEMBLE

Bridget Kinneary - viola

Larry DiBello - cello

Roz Macdonald - bass

Dexter Stanley-Tauvao - drums

ALLAN PRASKIN QUARTET

Allan Praskin - sax

Ulli Bartel - violin

Ben Lehmann - bass

Heinrich Köbberling - drums

Jazz night at PETER EDEL 3: Generations in the groove

The third Jazz Night at Peter Edel, organized by Jazz am Helmholtzplatz e.V., brings together two bands that represent different generations and have their roots in the Great American Songbook - but have also absorbed and developed regional and international trends. The common denominator of the evening is the groove: as an energetic basis, as a motor for improvisation and as a unifying element, even if rhythms, concepts and polyphonic approaches differ significantly.

"Groove" is understood here as an open term for the rhythmic field of energy and tension that carries jazz from its early forms to free jazz - beyond the historically narrower category of swing.

A formation led by Dexter Stanley-Tauvao will kick things off. The saxophonist comes from Samoa, grew up in Wellington (New Zealand) and was trained both in New Zealand and in New York City. Until about a year ago, he lived in New York on a Fulbright scholarship, where he co-founded the first Asia-Pacific Jazz Orchestra, among other things. He now lives in Berlin again. Stanley-Tauvao is particularly attracted to the sound of large jazz orchestras, but on this evening presents a smaller formation that leaves room for dense grooves and open improvisation.

The second band of the evening is the Allan Praskin Quartet. Allan Praskin is considered a master of the alto saxophone - a musician who has internalized the Great American Songbook and bundles the entire knowledge of 20th century jazz in his virtuoso, creative and nuanced playing. His career began in the legendary Lighthouse Café in Los Angeles, where he performed with greats of West Coast jazz such as Chet Baker - a place that was later immortalized in the Oscar-winning film La La Land.

At the end of the 1960s, Praskin immersed himself in the avant-garde and loft scene of free jazz in New York. After many years as a professor at the Anton Bruckner University Linz and the University of Passau, he now lives in Berlin. Together with Ulli Bartel (violin), Ben Lehmann (bass) and Heinrich Köbberling (drums, Jazz Institute Berlin), he has formed an extraordinary quartet.