Wednesday, 18.4. Liveclub telegraph 20:30 h
Damian Dalla Torre (sax), Vassily Zaraysky (p), Rudolf Stenzinger (b), Bastian Rossmann (dr), guest: Georg Demel (tb)

A smoky jazz club in the 50s. On stage a couple of gentlemen are playing hard bop, they are wearing suits - just like the other gentlemen who are swaying their cool drinks at the bar or small tables. Some wear saxophone straps, others pistol holsters under their jackets. Some think of Art Blakey, others of filling out the Godfather's order. Maybe wearing cement shoes down at the docks?
The band The Real Mob refers to that very (possibly slightly romanticized) time when jazz and the American Mafia dealt with each other. Sinatra is said to have had contacts with the underworld and all. Earthy, funky and boiling, Italian (uh, Mafia and Italy!) Damian Dalla Torre (sax), Vassily Zaraysky (p) from Russia (that too!) and the two Germans (laaangweilig!) Rudolf Stenzinger (b) and Bastian Rossmann (dr) evoke the spirit of Mafia jazz. They are supported in the second set by Georg Demel on trombone.
VVK 12/8 Euro plus fee at Culton
AK 14/10/8 Euro