THE TOUGHEST TENORS

In the organizer's words:

THE TOUGHEST TENORS

This band will blow you away.

The Toughest Tenors can only smile wearily at the wannabe hip-hop thugs who engage in angry rhyming duels. The five heavy jazz guys, steeled and trained in the club venues of Berlin and New York, don't hesitate for long. They show what the "hard" in "hard bop" means, how much muscle mass the blues has, and make it clear where the so-called "battles" of rap really come from. They come from the spirit of noble competition that the brilliant tenor saxophonists of the 50s and 60s, legends like Dexter Gordon and Wardell Gray, Johnny Griffin and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, cultivated. The Toughest Tenors have set themselves the task of reviving the long tradition of "saxophone battles". With original arrangements, but without false nostalgia. Up-to-date, but without trend doping. With concentrated energy, unbridled joy of playing, quick-witted humor. And with the heart of a boxer. Live, the quintet led by the two independent tenor character heads Bernd Suchland and Patrick Braun has already triumphantly won countless battles for the audience's favor. Now the Toughest Tenors are launching the big eavesdropping attack with their debut CD "What's Happening?". A fair affair. Full on the twelve. And right into the soul.

The Toughest Tenors are:

Bernd Suchland (ts)
Patrick Braun (ts)
Dan-Robin Matthies (p)
Lars Gühlcke (b)
Ralf Ruh (dr)