BJÖRN LÜCKER BERLIN ENSEMBLE

In the organizer's words:

BJÖRN LÜCKER BERLIN ENSEMBLE
Album release concert "Tea For Five" (Unit Records)

With the Björn Lücker Berlin Ensemble, Björn Lücker is fulfilling his long-cherished wish to bring together four of his favorite musicians in Berlin to form a band that plays his compositions. The names of these musicians speak for themselves. All of them have already worked together in countless constellations. As a result, the band develops a strong common sound and the raw and agile energy that the bandleader loves so much.

With:
Rudi Mahall (clarinets)
Henrik Walsdorff (tenor saxophone)
John Schröder (piano)
Lars Gühlcke (double bass)
Björn Lücker (drums, compositions)

The Swiss music critic Pirmin Bossart writes about the album: "In Lücker's... own compositions, a jazz unfolds with lively interplay, expressive soloists, deep emotionality and subtle abstraction. Moments from blues, hard bop, free jazz, Charles Mingus, Ornette Coleman... touch each other. It is impossible to draw a clear dividing line between jazz tradition and contemporary adaptation. The five musical personalities of the ensemble become a collective, playing with form and freedom like birds with the sky...jazz as we always think we hear it, but haven't heard it like this for a long time"