We’re happy to welcome 26 years old double bass player Felix Henkelhausen to the Blackbird family! On November 26th we will release the quintet recording “Misanthropic Tendencies” which is his debut album as band leader and composer. His quintet includes Wanja Slavin (as, cl) Uli Kempendorff (ts, cl), Elias Stemeseder (p, synths) and Leif Berger…
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At the double concert on September 14th at Elbphilharmonie’s Kleiner Saal, Lorenz Kellhuber will play his Contemporary Chamber Music live for the first time in front of an audience, thus giving a preview of his solo album of the same name, which will be released on October 29th. While Lorenz will play the concert solo…
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Pianist, composer and improviser Lorenz Kellhuber will release his new solo album on October 29, 2021. With this “Contemporary Chamber Music”, Kellhuber has created a space of possibilities in which his entire musical cosmos can evolve and condense into an individual language: free improvisations in an intensity and focus peculiar to chamber music, which take…
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We are very happy that we have reached a new level of cooperation with guitarist and composer Hub Hildenbrand. We have been working with Hub in booking for a longer time, now we have been able to win him over for our label! His new album “Mater” will be released on September 10th, a spiritual…
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Naming their new album “Three!” has two reasons for BERLIN 21. On the one hand, it is the band’s third album, and on the other, it is the first that they recorded not as a quartet but as a trio. Musically it takes an extremely varied trip around the world, on which we encounter Latin…
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As a label, we have big plans for 2021. This of course also includes numerous releases with our artists. In addition to new albums by pianist Lorenz Kellhuber, fusion trio B3 and jazz trio Berlin 21, the debut album by Gene Caberra Band will also be released in the second half of the year. We…
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We look forward to a premiere! Gene Caberra Band will be guest at the Zig Zag Jazz Club in Berlin for the first time this Saturday. You can reserve your seat on the club’s website. In order to comply with the currently applicable hygiene regulations, the number of seats is limited to 40. The band…
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B3 released their new song “So Tired” along with a music video today! Stream or download now: https://backl.ink/142563103 Or watch the music video on YouTube:
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Ron Spielman live at Zig Zag Jazz Club! The record release concert to his current live EP “The Rehearsal Sessions” was originally planned for May and had to be postponed due to the Corona pandemic. Now it can finally take place! Ron will perform with Thomas Stieger on bass and Julian Külpmann on drums, certainly…
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Like many others, the Berlin fusion band B3 is currently stranded in regards to concerts. Reason enough to spend the gained time on the writing and producing of new songs, thought B3-mastermind Andreas Hommelsheim. It was about time anyway: in 2017 their last album was released, a live album called “Get Up! Live at the…
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