On May 15, 2026, b3 will release their new studio album, “THE NEXT STEP!”—a work that goes far beyond a conventional musical experience and marks the logical next step in the band’s evolution. With this new album, Andreas Hommelsheim and Lutz Halfter present a versatile, emotional, and sonically mature sound that embraces b3’s musical roots…
After the two recordings “Samadhi” (2019) and “About:Blank” (2020), “Low Intervention”, the third release by Lorenz Kellhuber (p), Felix Henkelhausen (b) and Moritz Baumgärtner (dr), will come out on November 24th, 2023. The album was recorded in June 2023 using the direct-to-disc process at the Emil Berliner Studios in Berlin and will be released in…
With the New Orleans Shakers, drummer Torsten Zwingenberger proves once again that he is at home in many varieties of jazz. He founded this band with Thomas l’Etienne in 1976 before turning to other projects after three years. Pieces from the golden age of jazz were on the program, pieces in which emotion and memorable…
Three generations of musicians meet here to swing passionately. Together with saxophonist Patrick Braun, pianist Kenneth Berkel and bassist Carmelo Leotta, drummer Torsten Zwingenberger forms his latest project, the Torsten Zwingenberger 4tet. “Best Boost” is the name of the energetic debut of the band that played their first joint concerts in early 2020. From Hard…
Pianist and improviser Lorenz Kellhuber plays with his own musical history, intuitively seeking out different stages of his musical development, ranging from baroque to modern piano literature. He has long since outgrown the jazz clubs and is drawn to the world’s concert halls. The concert in Hamburg in September 2021 was something very special for…
Athem, the latest full-length solo effort from Hub Hildenbrand is a body of work that brings the artist’s singing voice into the foreground, albeit in an unconventional way. To date, his singing was mostly textural in nature and/or used to add color and new timbres to arrangements. For the purposes of this record, Hildenbrand decided…
Berlin-based fusion trio B3 released their new album “New Songs, Old Socks” today! To stream it, download it or order it on CD follow this link: https://bfan.link/new-songs-old-socks To celebrate the release, the band presents a lyric video for their song “Maria, Maria”. Enjoy!
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…
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…
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…