Date/Time
Date(s) - 06/Nov/2024
Genre - Jazz
Luise Volkmann, saxophone
Paul Jarret, guitar
Max Andrzejewski, drums
The idea behind the Trio Volkmann/ Jarret / Andrzejewski is to depict playful elegance in the music and, above all, to take the audience on an energetic, flowing journey, through a mixture of simple folk songs and improvised sound collages. The Cologne-based Saxophonist Luise Volkmann has worked and lived in France for many years. The band members are instrumentalists as well as outstanding composers, all of whom have already written for large formations. This is a German-French Jazz trio.
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Luise Volkmann is a young saxophonist and composer based in Cologne, Germany. She studied Jazz Saxophone in Leipzig (HMT) and Paris (CNSMdP) and Composition in Cologne (HfMT). She has lived and worked in Germany, France, Danemark and Brazil, and is involved in music and in social and cultural organization. As a musician, she is working with contemporary composed and improvised music. She has been in concerts with Eve Risser, Sylvain Kassap, Satoko Fujii, Natsuki Tamura,Steve Beresford, Mia Zabelka, Jan Klare, Robert Landfermann, Lisa Mezzacappa, Eivind Lønning und Sylvaine Hélary. In 2016, she was invited as a resident at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. In 2017, she released her first debut album with the large ensemble Été Large. The CD was chosen by the German magazine “Die Zeit” as one of the best CDs in 2017. The radio station “BR Klassik” named her mixing of classical music and jazz “Kammer-Jazz”.
During her three years tenure in Paris, she cooperated with the most interesting musicians collectives such as Umlaut, COAX, Tricolectif and Collectif LOO. In 2018, she did several sound performances with the Goethe Institut Paris. Her composition works were first published at Editions Leduc in 2017. In 2019 she did a work for the Bauhaus jubilee.
Max Andrzejewski (*1986) is a composer and drummer improviser who lives in Berlin. His energetic musical work is between contemporary classical music and improvisation, the “maverick esthete” (Süddeutsche Zeitung). Andrzejewski studied drums at the MHS Cologne and the UdK Berlin and, parallel to his work as a drummer, developed into a sought-after composer.
He has received composition commissions from the Acht Brücken Festival Cologne, the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the Beethovenfest Bonn, the Ensemble Resonanz Hamburg, the Podium Festival Esslingen, the Kamermusikfestival Regensburg, the Orchester im Treppenhaus, the Berliner Ensemble, the aDevantgarde Festival Munich, the Thalia Theater Hamburg, the Munich Kammerspiele, the Theater Basel, the Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin and many more.
With his own band Max Andrzejewski’s Hütte, he released five albums, two of which featured a guest vocal ensemble, and won the Neuer Deutscher Jazzpreis in 2013. His own other projects include the expressive duo TRAINING and the chamber music ensemble Stemeseder / Andrzejewski light / tied. Concert tours took Andrzejewski to Azerbaijan, Israel, Russia, Cuba, USA, Serbia, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Mexico, Czech Republic, Portugal, Italy, Netherlands, Egypt, Austria, Serbia, Switzerland, Poland, Qatar. His music has appeared on numerous albums on a wide variety of labels.
As an active composer, improviser and project leader, guitarist Paul Jarret deploys a highly personal sound and universe through his various groups, projects and collaborations, which have earned him recognition on the French and European jazz scene. First and foremost a musician of jazz and improvised music in all their diversity, Paul Jarret is undeniably influenced by contemporary English and Scandinavian alternative rock groups, as well as by certain pop and metal bands. He is also passionate about traditional music from Northern Europe (Scandinavia, the UK), early music and 20th-century French and American composers. He remains deeply attached to the jazz tradition and its standards, even going so far as to practice radical free improvisation.
The projects he develops as leader (Pj5, EMMA, Ghost Songs) or co-leader (Sweet Dog, Jarret/Johansson/Von Martens trio, HARPA) each have their own identity, borrowing from these different musical currents. They are the different facets of the same musical universe, which has won Paul Jarret several prizes and awards (Concours National de Jazz à La Défense, Jazz Migration, Talents Adami Jazz, Génération Spedidam…). His sideman activity is also developing in France (Ophelia by Ellinoa, The Source by Arnault Cuisinier, VIND by Loïs Le Van, le Grand Schwab by Raphaël Schwab) as well as in Europe (in Germany with Été Large by Luise Volkmann, in the Netherlands with Maison Moderne by Steven Kamperman).
In 2018, he joined the Pégazz et l’Hélicon collective, one of the most active on the Paris scene. In 2019 he won the Talents Adami Jazz award, forming the group Ghost Songs with American drummer Jim Black, Belgian keyboardist Jozef Dumoulin and saxophonist Julien Pontvianne. In 2023, he created his own large ensemble, the Acoustic Large Ensemble (A.L.E.), with fourteen musicians for whom he writes the entire repertoire,. He is also currently working on a solo set. In 2024, he creates his new quartet TILIA, with German saxophonist Philipp Gropper, Korean drummer Sun-Mi Hong and French double bassist Étienne Renard. Paul Jarret is strongly committed to ecology and sustainable development, and defends these values in particular within the Grands Formats federation.
In association with Goethe Institut, Max Mueller Bhavan, Pune
