Wolfgang Haffner | Life Rhythm Tour 2024

In the organizer's words:

Life Rhythm. The rhythm of life. Composer and jazz drummer Wolfgang Haffner on tour with a dream line-up: Sebastian Studnitzky, Simon Oslender and Thomas Stieger. From dreamer to magician: Wolfgang Haffner, "best" (Die Welt), "coolest" (ARD ttt), even "most important drummer of his generation" (SZ), is going on tour with a new line-up in 2024 after the success of his "Dream Band" and his "Magic Band". The accompanying album is entitled "Life Rhythm" (release: fall 2024).

The line-up alone speaks for itself, because while he presented Randy Brecker, Nils Landgren and Bill Evans with the "Dream Band", he is now creating musical magic with an all-star line-up from the German jazz scene. In addition to the long-standing members of his trio, Simon Oslender on keyboards and Thomas Stieger on bass, the celebrated Berlin trumpeter Sebastian Studnitzky is also on board. Haffner has a long instrumental friendship with the latter, documented on many of his twenty albums as bandleader, such as "Kind of Spain", "Round Silence" and "Silent World".

Wolfgang Haffner is a musical all-rounder. A leader who likes to accompany. An instrumentalist who loves to compose. A master of nuances on the drums, for whom the audience is important and for whom it is important to play "music for the heart", as he says himself. He has been a professional musician since the age of 18, when he joined the bands of jazz icon Albert Mangelsdorff and singer-songwriter Konstantin Wecker. In the years that followed, he drummed his way into Klaus Doldinger's Passport and Chaka Khan's band. Haffner has also played with Al Jarreau, Pat Metheny, The Brecker Brothers, The Manhattan Transfer, Jan Garbarek, Till Brönner, Nightmares on Wax, Die Fantastischen Vier and the Nils Landgren Funk Unit.

Today, the two-time ECHO Jazz Award winner is internationally regarded as the most successful German drummer and is also one of the few German musicians who are successful worldwide. 4000 concerts in over 100 countries, from Japan to Brazil, South Africa to Australia, USA to Scandinavia. Haffner's distinctive beats can now be heard on over 400 album productions. His reputation is also enhanced by how active and agile he is as a producer, for example for Max Mutzke or Mezzoforte.

Music, especially live and played by such outstanding musicians, always has something magical about it. Together they create and experience the Haffner Sound, this unique and unmistakable combination of driving grooves, beautiful melodies and a deep sense of atmosphere and musical moods.

Line-up: Wolfgang Haffner (drums), Sebastian Studnitzky (trumpet), Simon Oslender (keyboards), Thomas Stieger (bass)