Jazzclub Leipzig presents: Root 70

With "Nils Wogram's Root 70", released in 2001 on 2nd Floor, trombonist Nils Wogram, Hayden Chrisholm on alto saxophone, double bassist Matt Penman and Jochen Rückert on drums first played together into the ears of inclined listeners. In the meantime, twenty years have passed since the band was founded. On the occasion of this anniversary the band is - with a look back and forward - on tour. Seven albums followed the first one. The latest four have been released on Wogram's own label nWog Records. In founding his own label, the 47-year-old saw the opportunity to pursue "his own stringency" - to be able to focus on the development of his bands in the long term without having to make commercial compromises. This concern seems to be more than successful, especially with Root 70. On "Wise Men Can Be Wrong", for example, the band devoted itself to jazz standards in order to test itself once again with increased skill on material that probably accompanies many musicians at the beginning of their careers, but for "Riomar" the band even expanded the lineup. Root 70 with Strings, in allusion to Charlie Parker with Strings, indulges in influences from Miles Davis' "Birth Of The Cool" Mendelssohn and Alban Berg, among others, and does not create a juxtaposition of jazz quartet and strings, but rather a common, newly explorable togetherness. Root 70 always manages to reinvent itself without losing the essence of their playing together. Over the years, the band has developed an unmistakable band sound and its own language, the sound of which we - live in Leipzig - await with anticipation. Not only locals can be present live on this evening - the team of LeipStream will provide an excellent livestream all over the world.

Nils Wogram (tb), Hayden Chisholm (as), Matt Penman (kb), Jochen Rueckert (dr)

VVK 18/14 € plus fee at Culton Ticket