The Toughest Tenors - Jazz from Berlin

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14.7.2024 11.10.2024 12.10.2024 18.10.2024 19.10.2024 15.11.2024 16.11.2024 23.11.2024 30.11.2024 7.12.2024 14.12.2024 11.1.2025 7.2.2025 25.1.2025 20.2.2025 21.2.2025 7.3.2025 3.4.2025 5.4.2025 28.6.2025 29.6.2025 5.9.2025 13.9.2025 18.10.2025 3.12.2025 4.12.2025 29.1.2026 21.2.2026

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“Straight-ahead swing, played with great joy, effervescence, vitality and sophistication.” Augsburger Allgemeine "The genuine, powerful, occasionally rocking, raw sound of the saxophone came through straight and unfiltered, gripping and committed. The arrangements were mainly originals dating back to the era of the great tenor saxophonists of the 1950s and 60s. The Toughest Tenors took unjustly neglected sounds out of mothballs and entertained brilliantly, leading the way right into the heart of jazz with their immense musical talent.” Schwäbische Zeitung “Bernd Suchland and Patrick Braun showed what kind of incredibly soulful sounds they could coax out of their instruments: powerful, sad, warm, almost breathy, quick but always precise and playfully light. They challenged each other, engaged in furious musical duels, always finding each other again for perfectly harmonized duets.” Märkische Allgemeine

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Swing Breeze Ribnitz-Damgarten Stadttheater Luckenwalde Jazzclub Langen Jazz in den Ministergärten Hohen Neuendorf Kultur Querbeet Celle Bassgeige Braunschweig Jazztreff Karlshorst Stadthagen Theater Kleines Haus Delmenhorst Centre Bagatelle Berlin Jazzclub Lübbecke B-Flat Berlin Kunstfabrik Schlot Berlin Oberhaching Rosenthal Theater Selb Yorckschlösschen Berlin Schwerin Hamburg Birdland Winsen (Aller) Wagenfeld Bauhof Hemmingen Jazzfreunde Wildeshausen Tertianum Berlin Nürnberg Wohnstift Korntal Schloss Lübbenau Brunsbüttel Elbeforum

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Bernd Suchland tenor saxophone

Dan-Robin Matthies piano

Patrick Braun tenor saxophone

Lars Gühlcke double bass

Ralf Ruh drums

the best performances of recent years...Here

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The Toughest Tenors, who have been in action for two decades now, operate covertly in the last few remaining Jazz Cellars in this world, where they live out their own personal American Dream. The five undercover agents from Berlin (Bernd Suchland - Tenor Sax; Patrick Braun - Tenor Sax; Dan-Robin Matthies - Piano; Lars Gühlke - Bass; and Ralf Ruh – Drums) divulge some of the arcane musical knowledge they’ve managed to smuggle out of the Land of Opportunity (where Jazz developed as a unique cultural treasure). They’re an insider’s tip; they exist outside the spectrum of social media, cultural sponsorship, and European jazz fashion. They use their sensitive antennae to receive and decode original Jazz data that had long been given up for lost and they revive and represent it in the face of modern Crossover. They’re cool, they’re incorruptible, and they know their business. They plug into a time where Jazz still had an earthy style, swung hard, was packed with blues and soul, and reached a public that turned up the radio, swung along, and couldn’t stay in its seats...More

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...joined into the band in recent years. Info

Many great musicians of Berlin jazz scene...

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