The Toughest Tenors

In the organizer's words:

Bernd Suchland - ts / Patrick Braun - ts / Dan-Robin Matthies - p / Lars Gühlcke - b / Ralf Ruh - dr

The Toughest Tenors. This band will blow you away. The Toughest Tenors can only smile wearily at the wannabe hip-hop thugs who engage in angry rhyming duels. The five heavy jazz guys, steeled and trained in the club venues of Berlin and New York, don't hesitate for long. They show what the "hard" in "hard bop" means, how much muscle mass the blues has, and make it clear where the so-called "battles" of rap really come from. They come from the spirit of noble competition that the brilliant tenor saxophonists of the 50s and 60s, legends like Dexter Gordon and Wardell Gray, Johnny Griffin and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, cultivated. The Toughest Tenors have set themselves the task of reviving the long tradition of "saxophone battles". With original arrangements, but without false nostalgia. Up-to-date, but without trend doping. With concentrated energy, unbridled joy of playing, quick-witted humor. And with the heart of a boxer. Live, the quintet led by the two independent tenor character heads Bernd Suchland and Patrick Braun has already triumphantly won countless battles for the audience's favor. Now the Toughest Tenors are launching the big eavesdropping attack with their debut CD "What's Happening?". A fair affair. Full on the twelve. And right into the soul.

Press reviews:
"You should keep an ear on this band" Jazz Podium "You can't tell at first glance, but it only takes a few minutes at one of their concerts and it becomes clear why these five young men from Berlin call themselves The Toughest Tenors. They really are tough guys..." Kurier am Sonntag "The tenor saxophonists Bernd Suchland and Patrick Braun, pianist Dan-Robin Matthies, Lars Gühlcke (double bass) and Ralf Ruh on drums make it unmistakably clear why the adjective hard was once added to the term bop." Westdeutsche allgemeine Zeitung.

Admission: 25 / 20€

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