Sir Bradley und Showcase AIM Trio – JAZZ IN DEN GÄNGEN

SirBradley describes their music as FinalStraightJazz. Her highly exciting and subtle sound is a wild mixture of modern jazz, free, avant-garde and indie pop.

SirBradley drives some stereotypes right up against the wall.

- Ageism? There is a 40-year gap between the youngest and oldest band member.

- A man can't play in a feminist band? But so what.

- No more gender madness? Not in this band.

Sound magazine:

Miles Davis leans against a corner somewhere and nods approvingly.

SirBradley's FinalStraightJazz is highly emotional and highly political. Their lyrics warn of climate catastrophe, technocrats and despots, celebrate immigrants and tell of nights out with beer and popcorn. Everything rises to the surface in their highly imaginative compositions: Memories and fantasies, intoxication and melancholy, lost loves and unleashed rage. SirBradley makes all these states and moods vibrate. Pulsating and demanding, with friction and drive. In music:

Swinging improvisations, grooving moments, rocking statements and wonderfully effective ensemble playing.

Maria Rothfuchs - bass, comp.

Samantha Wright - clarinet

Doro Offermann - Sax

Rainer Sell - trombone

Catharina Boutari - Vocals

Danica Hobden - Guitar

Annette Kayser - Drums

The international and cross-generational AIM TRIO consists of guitarist Pouya Abdi, bassist Paul Imm (USA) and drummer Rafa Müller (BRA). The extremely sensitive and responsive dialog between the three musicians finds fertile ground in songs from the Great American Songbook, modern composers such as John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, Joe Henderson and also in their own compositions.

The Hamburg guitarist and composer Pouya Abdi has made his mark on the jazz scene in northern Germany with a variety of ensembles. His projects have taken him as far afield as Australia and Turkey. With a clear tone and simultaneously raw and lyrical improvisational language, he has already worked with Hamburg Jazz Prize winners Dirk Dhonau and Gabriel Coburger as well as influential voices on the German jazz scene such as Sophia Oster and the NDR Bigband.

The American bassist Paul Imm was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and has worked with many artists who have left their mark on jazz history, including Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Rouse, Lee Konitz, Eddie Harris and many others. He has lived in Europe since 1991. After many years in Paris, Düsseldorf and Berlin, he has found his home in Hamburg, where his unmistakable, remarkable sound and outstanding timing have been an inspiration to the North German jazz scene for generations.

Rafa Müller (2000*) is a Brazilian drummer and composer. The young musician was born in Porto Alegre in the south of Brazil and moved to Hamburg in 2021. His spiritual and meditative playing can be heard in many projects in the Northern European scene. He has performed frequently in South America, the UK and Europe and collaborated with artists such as Danilo Caymmi, Ben Street, Toninho Horta, Hayden Chisholm, Florian Weber, the NDR Big Band.