- Joris Roelofs, bass clarinet

- Mark Turner, tenor saxophone

- Nils Wogram, trombone

- Doug Weiss bass

- Jochen Rueckert, drums, compositions

Jazz-center-of-the-universe-based, German-born drummer Jochen Rueckert presents his new spcial quintet with long time allies Nils Wogram and legendary saxophonist Mark Turner.
The band’s repertoire contains surprisingly more optimistically swinging original compositions rich with chords than one would expect from a teutonic drummer, sprinkled with the occasional 3/8 bar for good measure.

Jochen's deliberate avoidance of formal music education, albeit initially for budgetary reasons, provides a great lack of erudite nonsense in his writing and delivers modern jazz that a lot of people actually enjoy.

He's celebrating his 6th album as a leader ("With best Intentions”) and over a decade of touring the globe as a band leader. Jochen's bands' performances are proudly devoid of the gimmickry, social media conformity, and festival-pandering often and sadly increasingly observed in many of Jochen’s peers’ bands.
Besides his success with electronic music programmed under the alias "Wolff Parkinson White" as well as his series of ebooks aptly titled "Read the Rueckert- travel observations and pictures of hotel rooms", Jochen is also known for his work as a sideman in 12 years of the Marc Copland trio, the mid-2000 Kurt Rosenwinkel New Quartet, all of Nils Wogram's Root 70, recent work with the Melissa Aldana trio and Fred Hersch’s trio

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