German Jazz Band enthralled music lovers at Goethe Zentrum
Trivandrum / November 9, 2024
Thiruvananthapuram, Nov. 09: The music lovers of the city, especially jazz enthusiasts were given a musical treat as the German jazz band Volkmann Jarret Andrzejewski Trio produced a memorable jazz night here at Goethe Zentrum.
Luise Volkmann, Max Andrzejewski and Paul Jarret who form the three-piece band performed at Goethe Zentrum Trivandrum as part of their ongoing South Asian Tour. The trio already performed in Karachi, Colombo, Pune, New Delhi and Dhaka before coming to Thiruvananthapuram.
Luis Volkmann, a Cologne-based saxophone player took the centre stage at the concert with her contemporary and transformative solos. Andrzejewski, a Berlin based composer and improvising drummer lit up the audience with his energetic jazz drum rolls that bordered between contemporary classical music and improvisation. Paul Jarret, a guitarist born and raised in Paris, anchored the concert with his jazzy and contemporary notes which blended well with the band’s genre.
As a saxophonist Luis Volkmann has played in all over Europe and her albums were voted among the best albums of 2018 and 2021 by Die Zeit and RND- two leading German publications. Apart from being a drummer, Andrzejewski who studied drums at the MHS Cologne and the UDK Berlin has now developed into a sought-after composer. Paul Jarret, also an independent composer is more interested in jazz and improvised music field who plays free style improvised guitar notes influenced by pop/rock, folk and contemporary music. The trio plays a convincing mixture of simple folk songs and improvised sound collages with the interplay of instruments to produce energetic, yet deeply emotional and moving musical soundscapes.
“The performance of the band is marked by it’s experimental jazz style which was often modulated by changes in tempo,” said Yaseen Akbar, a Trivandrum based guitar tutor who attended the concert. “The music starts from a mellow mood to a very intense level and back to the starting point like a journey in life,” he added.
The concert was free to the public with limited pass for the first 100 attendees.
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