Joo Kraus

In the organizer's words:

"No Excuse"

Joo Kraus' new album No Excuse - A musically colorful bag, stamp collection album, socio-political discourse & one thing: good vibes! Crossing genre boundaries and dissolving style labels - that is Joo Kraus' great passion. The multi-award-winning trumpeter lives out this passion to the full with his new album No Excuse.

Joo Kraus is Joo Kraus. What sounds so self-evident is by no means the case these days, because in the mercantile everyday life of the music industry, names are often reduced to brands. Not so with Joo Kraus. The fact that the trumpeter from Ulm made music history and earned himself a legendary reputation worldwide with the acid jazz duo Tab Two in the nineties is just as important to him as his proverbial activity in such diverse fields as krautrock, jazz, hip hop, Latin, ambient and singer/songwriter. For his new album
"No Excuse", only one question counts: What do I have to say today? After a journey of almost forty years through almost all vegetation zones of music, Joo Kraus no longer needs any explanations. The music can simply be what it is: one hundred percent Joo Kraus.

No excuses, no explanations, no compromises! "No Excuse" is the life confession and at the same time the foresight of a musician who faces us without a net or double bottom and reveals the human side of his art as openly and honestly as possible. Art is life, life is art. No Excuse

Joo Kraus - trumpet, vocals, electric bass
Jo Ambros - electric guitar
Ulf Kleiner - Fender Rhodes, keyboards
Veit Hübner - double bass
Torsten Krill - Drums