MARTIN SASSE & BRUNO MÜLLER QUARTETT

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Bruno Müller - guitars | Martin Sasse - piano | John Goldsby - double bass | Hans Dekker - drums

Martin Sasse
In the course of his stage career, Martin Sasse has worked with almost all the greats in international jazz and has long been one of the most outstanding jazz pianists in Europe. He has released over twenty albums under his own name and plays as a guest on countless recordings and concerts worldwide. Jazz legends have shaped his career, including Steve Grossman, Al Foster, Lee Konitz and Jimmy Cobb. He switched from the piano to the Hammond B3 for Billy Cobham and Hiram Bullock and proved to be an outstanding organist.
The Martin Sasse Trio has existed in various formations for thirty years. The first album "Here we come" (2000) received excellent international reviews. Later albums feature Vincent Herring, Miles Davis saxophonist Steve Grossmann, Peter Bernstein and Harry Allen. The trio received the German Record Critics' Award for the album "Good Times" with Charlie Mariano.
Sasse has also played tours and concerts with Dick Oatts, Joe Magnarelli, Ralph Moore, Dusko Gojkovich, Rick Margitza, Joe Magnarelli, Dennis Mackrel, Don Menza, Tom Brechtlein, Benny Bailey, Eric Alexander, Steve Davis, Bob Mintzer, John Fedchock, Gary Smulyan, Tony Lakatos, Hendrik Meurkens and was the pianist in Till Brönner's "Talking Jazz" series at the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn. He has accompanied great voices such as Jane Monheit, Roberta Gambarini, Tierney Sutton, Janis Siegel, Bobby McFerrin and the "New York Voices". His regular partners include Harry Allen, Scott Hamilton, Peter Bernstein and Philip Catherine.
Martin Sasse has also worked with international pop and classical stars, including Johnny Logan, Tommy Emmanuel and Chris de Burgh. He has appeared several times on TV shows with Jose Carreras and played with Sting and the Bochum Symphony Orchestra on the European tour "Symphonicity". With Helge Schneider, Udo Jürgens and Udo Lindenberg, some of the greatest German-speaking entertainers have also been among his playing partners. Public figures such as Anne-Sophie Mutter, Erivan Haub, Berthold Beitz and the German Football Association have personally enjoyed Sasse's artistry.
The highly acclaimed film "Blue", which premiered at Bremen's "Jazzahead", followed Sasse's musical life for over two years, including at the legendary jazz club "Smalls" in New York and the famous Annex Sound Studios in Tokyo. His concert tours have taken him all over Europe, the USA, Asia and Africa.
Martin Sasse has been Professor of Jazz Piano and Jazz Composition at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen since 2024.

Bruno Müller
In the tradition of American live and session musicians such as Tommy Tedesco or Lee Ritenour and inspired by artists such as George Benson, Robben Ford, Eric Gale and Johnny Guitar Watson, Bruno Müller is considered one of the most established guitarists in Europe. The main feature of his musical personality? Clearly his filigree craft paired with stylistic flexibility between pop, soul, funk and jazz. But above all: his breathtaking groove.
Bruno Müller was born in Cologne in 1969. He began playing guitar in 1982 and took lessons from Norbert Scholly, Peter O'Mara, Scott Henderson and Peter Bernstein. He completed his jazz guitar studies in Cologne with Professor Frank Haunschild in 2000 with distinction. During his studies, Bruno Müller was already touring throughout Germany with soul cover bands and accompanying many well-known artists from the pop and pop song world: Gloria Gaynor, Jennifer Rush, Weather Girls, Stefan Raab, Sarah Connor, Max Mutzke, Lena Meyer-Landruth, Udo Jürgens, Marshall & Alexander, to name but a few.As early as the mid-90s, Bruno Müller was already recording advertising jingles in Stefan Raab's small rooftop studio, later taking part in numerous Raab productions and finally becoming a guitarist on TV Total.
Together with his friend, bassist Christian von Kaphengst, he then founded the band Café du Sport in 2000, with which he immediately won the prestigious Hennessy Jazz Prize and released two albums. In the course of his career, Bruno Müller has played as a sideman for big names on the international jazz scene: Till Brönner, Jeff Cascaro, Joe Sample, Nils Landgren, Wolfgang Haffner, Don Grusin, Randy Brecker and many, many more.
Another important stage in his musical career is his collaboration with the Icelandic fusion jazz band Mezzoforte. From 2007 to 2014, he was the band's permanent guitarist, recorded the albums "Volcanic" and "Islands" and toured the world with the band.From 2015, Bruno Müller concentrated more on his own projects and released his first solo album "Inner Back Home" in 2016. However, this debut should really be described as a family reunion of the young and vibrant German and international jazz scene. Because when Bruno Müller calls his friends to jam with them, the likes of Till Brönner, Max Mutzke, Jeff Cascaro, Joo Kraus, Magnus Lindgren and Frank McComb are there to lend a hand.
In addition to his musical work as a live and studio musician, Bruno Müller also works as a music teacher. From 2002 to 2004, he taught jazz guitar at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and has continued his teaching activities since 2009 with a lectureship in jazz/rock/pop guitar at the University of Music and Dance in Cologne.

John Goldsby
From 1994 to 2024, John Goldsby was solo bassist with the WDR Big Band. Goldsby lived in New York City from 1980 to 1994 and was a fixture on the jazz scene there. He is a bassist and bandleader, composer, lecturer and author
Among the albums of recent years is Segment (Bass Lion, 2020) with the John Goldsby Trio (Goldsby, Billy Test on piano and Hans Dekker on drums - musicians Goldsby likes to call the "backbone" of the big band); The Innkeeper's Gun (Bass Lion, 2010), a dynamic saxophone-bass-drums trio with Jacob Duncan and Jason Tiemann, Space for the Bass (Bass Lion, 2009) with duo, trio and quartet formations, Live at the Nachbar (Bass Lion, 2008), also with Duncan and Tiemann, and The Visit (Bass Lion, 2009) with pianist Bill Dobbins. The John Goldsby, Peter Erskine and Bill Dobbins Trio can be heard on the highly acclaimed recording Cologne (Fuzzy Music).
With the WDR Big Band, Goldsby has played on recent releases such as Homecoming (Vince Mendoza), Blue Soul (Dave Stryker / Bob Mintzer), Bombella (Abdullah Ibrahim), Symphonica (Joe Lovano), the Grammy-winning recordings Avant Gershwin and For Ella (Patti Austin), Roots and Grooves (Maceo Parker), Channels of Energy (Antonio Sanchez) and Big Band Time (Paquito D'Rivera).
Goldsby is the author of "The Jazz Bass Book", "Jazz Bowing Techniques for the Improvising Bassist" and "Bass Notes".
John Goldsby is not only an active musician. For years he has been a guest lecturer at the Maastricht Conservatory, he has given courses at the Folkwang University in Essen and the Cologne University of Music as well as in the USA at William Paterson College in New Jersey and Long Island University. He has also given jazz workshops all over the world: Sligo, London, UNT Tampa, North Texas State and in Graz, Austria. Since 1980, the experienced musician has been the course director of the so-called "Summer Jazz Clinic" workshops of jazz saxophonist Jamey Aebersold. He also writes regular articles for "Bass Magazine".

Hans Dekker
Hans Dekker, born in 1969, was born in Boekelo, Netherlands, and took his first musical steps as a drummer at the age of 9. His father, who also played drums, introduced him to jazz by taking him to an Art Blakey concert. After finishing school, Hans Dekker studied at the Amsterdam Conservatory and then began to work with many well-known musicians and orchestras in the Dutch and German jazz scene, e.g. Frits Landesbergen, Ack van Rooyen, Greetje Kauffeld, Rob Pronk, Jasper van't Hoft, Jerry van Rooyen.
He regularly plays with world stars of jazz music such as Scott Hamilton, Lee Konitz, Dave Liebman, Nils Landgren, Hugh Masakela, Bob Brookmeyer, Dee Dee Bridgewater and world-class ensembles such as The Metropole Orchestra, Brussels Jazz Orchestra, Dutch Jazz Orchestra, Jazz Orchestra of the Concertgebouw.
Since 1995 he has been a lecturer at the Conservatory in Enschede, he is a regular guest lecturer with the German National Youth Jazz Orchestra and he was a founding member of the Concertgebouw Jazz Orchestra, which he was a member of for eight years.
He has been a permanent member of the WDR Big Band since January 2005.

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