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City Signals #7: Kaluza/ Roder/ Kaufmann/ Majewski (POL)
Event by: Isabel Omara Espichicoque Anders
Location: Kühlspot Social Club, Lehderstraße 74, Berlin - Bezirk Pankow
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City Signals #7 (Kaluza/ Roder/ Kaufmann/ Majewski)
Anna Kaluza: saxophone
Achim Kaufmann: drums/ piano
Jan Roder: double bass
Artur Majewski (POL): trumpet/ electronics
This is the second edition of the concert series „city signals“ which is funded by the Berliner Senat für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt. 9 concerts curated by the members of Kühlspot Social Club e.V.
Achim Kaufmann has been active as a pianist and composer since the early 1980s. The improvising trio Kaufmann/Gratkowski/de Joode, a duo with the Amsterdam-based reed player Michael Moore, and the piano trio grünen (with Christian Lillinger and Robert Landfermann) are among his most enduring projects. Together with the poet and visual artist Gabriele Guenther, he conceived the multi-disciplinary Trokaan Project which combines aspects of improvised chamber music, poetry and text fragments with electro-acoustic textures. He regularly performs in duo settings with Ignaz Schick, Yorgos Dimitriadis and Kalle Kalima, Sestetto Internazionale and M0VE (both with Harri Sjöström), and in a newly founded trio with Nick Dunston and Mariá Portugal.Further collaborations include Han Bennink, George Lewis, Jim Black, Paul Lovens, Mark Dresser,
Tony Buck, Ingrid Laubrock, Tom Rainey, John Butcher, Shelley Hirsch, Robyn Schulkowsky, Okkyung Lee, Axel Dörner, Thomas Lehn, Steve Swallow, Al Foster and many others. In 2001, Achim received the SWR jazz award and the renowned Albert Mangelsdorff award in 2015. Since 2018, he has held a professorship for piano and ensemble at the Weimar Conservatory of
Music.
Jan Roder, born 1968 in Lübeck, Germany, studied jazz bass with Detlef Beier at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Hannover. He moved to Berlin in 1995 where he encountered musicians the likes of Dörner, Mahall, and v. Schlippenbach with whom he has played until today (f.e. this very 'Enttäuschung'). Roder considers his musical 'home' to be post-free jazz and improvised music deeply rooted in the jazz tradition. He collaborates with musicians such as Aki Takase, Gunter Hampel, Irene Schweizer, Ulrich Gumpert, Ernst Ludwig Petrowski, Thomas Borgmann, Peter Brötzmann, WolfgangPuschnig, Axel Dörner, Wlli Kellers, Michael Griener, Oliver Steidle, Silke Eberhard,Christof Thewes, Matthias Schubert, Olaf Rupp..... and in projects such as Monks Casino, Die Enttäuschung, Soko Steidle, Squakk, Die Dicken Finger (on electric bass), Silke Eberhard Trio, Ulrich Gumpert Quartett and Workshop Band, JR3, as a soloist and studio musician. He has played festivals and clubs throughout Europe, North America, and Asia, and records several albums each year, for example: Die Enttäuschung / Vier Halbe, Monks Casino, JR3 / Skyhook, Kaluza Roder / Am Frankfurter Tor, Jan Roder/ Doublebass, Derek plays Eric / Suite of Soaps.
Anna Kaluza studierte Jazzsaxophon an der Hochschule für Musik Köln bei Frank Gratkowski und (mittels eines DAAD-Stipendiums) in London bei Jean Toussaint. Sie trat dem London Improvisers Orchestra bei und gründete nach ihrem Umzug nach Berlin im Jahr 2010 das Berlin Improvisers Orchestra, das regelmäßig mit Musikern aus Berlin und Gästen aus dem Ausland auftritt. 2012 veröffentlichte sie mit den polnischen Musikern Artur Majewski, Kuba Suchar und Rafal Mazur das Album „Tone Hunting“ (Cleanfeed Records); die Band spielte Konzerte in Breslau, Posen, Berlin und Sibiu. Ein Projekt des „Hanam Quintet“ mit Tristan Honsinger führte zu Konzerten in London, Berlin, St. Johann und Heiligenkreutz (Österreich). Zu den neueren Veröffentlichungen gehören ein Duo-Album mit dem Bassisten Jan Roder (relative Pitch Records 2022) und ein Trio-Album mit der Pianistin Céline Voccia und dem Bassisten Matthias Bauer (aut Records 2022). Sie ist Mitglied in Günter Baby Sommers „Baby Sommer's Brother & Sisterhood“, einem größeren Ensemble, das u.a. bei Jazz Baltica, in Moers, beim FreeJazzSaar und den Jazztagen Magdeburg auftrat. Außerdem spielt sie in einer Duo-Formation mit der Bassistin Isi Rößler und in den Quartetten „Rumble Phone Fish“ und „Kaluza Quartett“.
Artur Majewski, born in 1978, Polish trumpeter and improviser. Best known for his work with groups MIKROKOLEKTYW and ROBOTOBIBOK.
Years into his career, thanks to his unprecedented artistic abilities and his own original musical voice, Artur Majewski has become one of the most interesting improvisers in Europe and has started to draw more attention from American improvisers.
He performed with groups EXPLODING STAR ORCHESTRA, JOSHUA ABRAMS NATURAL INFORMATION SOCIETY, MAZUR / MAJEWSKI DUO, TONE HUNTING, FOTON QUARTET, ALZHEIMER TRIO and KRISTEN, and musicians: Fred Anderson, Rob Mazurek, Nicole Mitchell, Josh Abrams, Mike Reed, Chad Taylor, Noel Kupersmith, Matt Lux, Jason Adasiewicz, Mat Bauder, Jason Ajemian, Noritaka Tanaka, Nate McBride, John Herndon, Tim Mulvenna, Harrison Bankhead, Steve Hunt, Edward Wilkerson Jr., Barry Guy, Ramon Lopez, Jim Baker, Mauricio Takara, Richard Ribeiro, Noël Akchoté, Zlatko Kaucic, Agustí Fernández, Lotte Anker, Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Reiko Yamada, Izumi Kimura, Tomaz Grom, Kuba Suchar, Rafal Mazur, Anna Kaluza, Gerard Lebik, Patryk Zakrocki and Michał Biela among others.
Toured and performed in Europe, USA, Japan and Israel. Have released more than 30 albums for labels such as Delmark Records, Clean Feed, NotTwo, Fundacja Słuchaj, Bołt and Vytvornia OM.
Next Dates: 27.11.25 & 18.12.25
Anna Kaluza: saxophone
Achim Kaufmann: drums/ piano
Jan Roder: double bass
Artur Majewski (POL): trumpet/ electronics
This is the second edition of the concert series „city signals“ which is funded by the Berliner Senat für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt. 9 concerts curated by the members of Kühlspot Social Club e.V.
Achim Kaufmann has been active as a pianist and composer since the early 1980s. The improvising trio Kaufmann/Gratkowski/de Joode, a duo with the Amsterdam-based reed player Michael Moore, and the piano trio grünen (with Christian Lillinger and Robert Landfermann) are among his most enduring projects. Together with the poet and visual artist Gabriele Guenther, he conceived the multi-disciplinary Trokaan Project which combines aspects of improvised chamber music, poetry and text fragments with electro-acoustic textures. He regularly performs in duo settings with Ignaz Schick, Yorgos Dimitriadis and Kalle Kalima, Sestetto Internazionale and M0VE (both with Harri Sjöström), and in a newly founded trio with Nick Dunston and Mariá Portugal.Further collaborations include Han Bennink, George Lewis, Jim Black, Paul Lovens, Mark Dresser,
Tony Buck, Ingrid Laubrock, Tom Rainey, John Butcher, Shelley Hirsch, Robyn Schulkowsky, Okkyung Lee, Axel Dörner, Thomas Lehn, Steve Swallow, Al Foster and many others. In 2001, Achim received the SWR jazz award and the renowned Albert Mangelsdorff award in 2015. Since 2018, he has held a professorship for piano and ensemble at the Weimar Conservatory of
Music.
Jan Roder, born 1968 in Lübeck, Germany, studied jazz bass with Detlef Beier at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Hannover. He moved to Berlin in 1995 where he encountered musicians the likes of Dörner, Mahall, and v. Schlippenbach with whom he has played until today (f.e. this very 'Enttäuschung'). Roder considers his musical 'home' to be post-free jazz and improvised music deeply rooted in the jazz tradition. He collaborates with musicians such as Aki Takase, Gunter Hampel, Irene Schweizer, Ulrich Gumpert, Ernst Ludwig Petrowski, Thomas Borgmann, Peter Brötzmann, WolfgangPuschnig, Axel Dörner, Wlli Kellers, Michael Griener, Oliver Steidle, Silke Eberhard,Christof Thewes, Matthias Schubert, Olaf Rupp..... and in projects such as Monks Casino, Die Enttäuschung, Soko Steidle, Squakk, Die Dicken Finger (on electric bass), Silke Eberhard Trio, Ulrich Gumpert Quartett and Workshop Band, JR3, as a soloist and studio musician. He has played festivals and clubs throughout Europe, North America, and Asia, and records several albums each year, for example: Die Enttäuschung / Vier Halbe, Monks Casino, JR3 / Skyhook, Kaluza Roder / Am Frankfurter Tor, Jan Roder/ Doublebass, Derek plays Eric / Suite of Soaps.
Anna Kaluza studierte Jazzsaxophon an der Hochschule für Musik Köln bei Frank Gratkowski und (mittels eines DAAD-Stipendiums) in London bei Jean Toussaint. Sie trat dem London Improvisers Orchestra bei und gründete nach ihrem Umzug nach Berlin im Jahr 2010 das Berlin Improvisers Orchestra, das regelmäßig mit Musikern aus Berlin und Gästen aus dem Ausland auftritt. 2012 veröffentlichte sie mit den polnischen Musikern Artur Majewski, Kuba Suchar und Rafal Mazur das Album „Tone Hunting“ (Cleanfeed Records); die Band spielte Konzerte in Breslau, Posen, Berlin und Sibiu. Ein Projekt des „Hanam Quintet“ mit Tristan Honsinger führte zu Konzerten in London, Berlin, St. Johann und Heiligenkreutz (Österreich). Zu den neueren Veröffentlichungen gehören ein Duo-Album mit dem Bassisten Jan Roder (relative Pitch Records 2022) und ein Trio-Album mit der Pianistin Céline Voccia und dem Bassisten Matthias Bauer (aut Records 2022). Sie ist Mitglied in Günter Baby Sommers „Baby Sommer's Brother & Sisterhood“, einem größeren Ensemble, das u.a. bei Jazz Baltica, in Moers, beim FreeJazzSaar und den Jazztagen Magdeburg auftrat. Außerdem spielt sie in einer Duo-Formation mit der Bassistin Isi Rößler und in den Quartetten „Rumble Phone Fish“ und „Kaluza Quartett“.
Artur Majewski, born in 1978, Polish trumpeter and improviser. Best known for his work with groups MIKROKOLEKTYW and ROBOTOBIBOK.
Years into his career, thanks to his unprecedented artistic abilities and his own original musical voice, Artur Majewski has become one of the most interesting improvisers in Europe and has started to draw more attention from American improvisers.
He performed with groups EXPLODING STAR ORCHESTRA, JOSHUA ABRAMS NATURAL INFORMATION SOCIETY, MAZUR / MAJEWSKI DUO, TONE HUNTING, FOTON QUARTET, ALZHEIMER TRIO and KRISTEN, and musicians: Fred Anderson, Rob Mazurek, Nicole Mitchell, Josh Abrams, Mike Reed, Chad Taylor, Noel Kupersmith, Matt Lux, Jason Adasiewicz, Mat Bauder, Jason Ajemian, Noritaka Tanaka, Nate McBride, John Herndon, Tim Mulvenna, Harrison Bankhead, Steve Hunt, Edward Wilkerson Jr., Barry Guy, Ramon Lopez, Jim Baker, Mauricio Takara, Richard Ribeiro, Noël Akchoté, Zlatko Kaucic, Agustí Fernández, Lotte Anker, Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Reiko Yamada, Izumi Kimura, Tomaz Grom, Kuba Suchar, Rafal Mazur, Anna Kaluza, Gerard Lebik, Patryk Zakrocki and Michał Biela among others.
Toured and performed in Europe, USA, Japan and Israel. Have released more than 30 albums for labels such as Delmark Records, Clean Feed, NotTwo, Fundacja Słuchaj, Bołt and Vytvornia OM.
Next Dates: 27.11.25 & 18.12.25