Diego Pinera @FATJAZZ Hamburg

In the organizer's words:

Diego Piñera, one of the most celebrated drummers and musicians in Europe, presents his new record "Underground Rollercoaster", together with his Berlin band

Diego Pinera, award-winning jazz virtuoso, is a unique personality who is truly breaking new ground in music by juxtaposing the poetic-rhythmic freedom of jazz with other metric systems. His strong personal style is characterized by an advanced rhythmic playing concept, a jazz sound with a Latin touch and the freedom of improvisation. Pinera's musical complexity and virtuosity always remain subtle, however, and a special freshness and lightness permeates his artistic work. Since 2002, Diego Piñera has received several international and national awards both as a drummer "instrumentalist" and as a songwriter, including the ECHO JAZZ 2017 and the German Jazz Award 2023 . The album Odd Wisdom, released on ACT Records with Donny McCaslin and others, received a Grammy nomination. He is considered an exceptional artist in his field.

With his approach to rhythm rooted in the jazz tradition, Peter Ehwald uses unusual instrumentation and modern harmony concepts to project the "here and now" in his energetic yet elegiac improvisations. Peter has worked with musicians such as Tom Rainey, Clarence Penn, Eivin Aares, Rhani Krija, Dan Weiss, Rudi Mahall, Claudio Puntin, Gunter Hampel, Nils Wogram, John Schröder, Jon Scott, Matthias Schubert, Stefan Schultze, Samuel Rohrer,
Jonas Burgwinkel and Robert Landfermann. Peter is an active part of the Berlin jazz scene and a busy sideman.

Guitarist and composer Igor Osypov has become one of the most distinctive voices in jazz, indie rock and fusion with his crisp, slightly distorted sound. One of the albums he worked on as part of Logan Richardson's "Blues People" project was named one of the top 3 jazz albums of 2018 by the New York Times.

Marcel Krömker has been touring as a double bass player for over 15 years - from Iceland to Morocco, from Venezuela to South Korea. After studying in Amsterdam and Berlin, he worked with renowned producers such as Yensin Jahn and Andy Jung. As a jazz double bass player, Marcel's musical highlights have included concerts with Nils Landgreen, Alex Sipiagin, Tony Lakatos and Nils Wogram. His debut album under his own name was released in 2020.