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LOFT Köln Deutscher Jazzpreis 2021: Club des Jahres

"...längst hat das Loft Weltruhm erspielt" (Stadtrevue, The organisation "2nd Floor e.V." Monika Grütters.

In September 2019 the LOFT celebrated its 30th birthday, an almost biblical age for an operation of such quality and with such an aura, all started single-handedly, now co-run by father and son. The actual foundation of the LOFT took place in 1986, the same year as the opening of the Cologne Philharmonic Hall and the concert hall in the Stadtgarten. Directly next to the Musikhochschule on Unter Kr

ahnenbauemen Street, an area steeped in history, Hans Martin Mueller (flutist of the WDR Symphony Orchestra and back then a teacher at the Musikhochschule) rented an unused workshop for his workspace and especially as an open forum for music. The location was ideal however some of the neighbours were disturbed by the sounds. Painter Sigmar Polke was one of them and carries the honour of having ended the LOFTs first rent contract with a private agreement. In 1987, after an intensive search, the top floor in the Wissmann Strasse 30 building was found and rented from the photographer Josef Snobl; two years later it was purchased. After extensive renovation and extension the first rehearsals and concerts began in 1988. The official date for the beginning of the regular program in Loft is however September 1989, in this month the first Steinway piano was put into operation. Since that date, concerts (and in earlier days exhibitions) are a regular occurrence in the former Perfume factory. In the course of time, the factory floor became highly regarded as a performance space for improvised, contemporary, and Jazz music, both nationally and internationally. Most Cologne Jazz musicians who have risen to international recognition took some of their first career steps in Loft, representative of these are Nils Wogram, Hayden Chisholm, Florian Weber, Frank Gratkowski, and Paolo Alvares. New Music also found a home in the Loft and the Cologne Society for New Music also choose to make its base in the same building as the Loft, promoting several workshops and concerts. Figures such as Karlheinz Stockhausen, Mauricio Kagel, Luciano Berio and Dieter Schnebel gave lectures and visted performances of their works. The Cologne Triennale and the DLF have put on their concerts at the Loft and the Moers Festival has invited the LOFT and its associated scene to five of its projects. The Loft´s own publisher "2nd Floor e.V" supports selected musicians with the release of recording and numerous live recordings have been published on other labels. supports the activities of the Loft since 2004 and with their help over 170 events were able to be realised in 2008. Thanks to the special atmosphere of the Loft, numerous internationally renowned musicians have given concerts there, however the focus of the program has always been the Cologne scene which has received great support here. The Steinway D Grand piano, purchased in 1993, greatly increased the attraction of the Loft. In 1989, Pi-hsien Chen had already performed the entire piano music of Arnold Schoenberg. In 1994, Paolo Alvares presented the complete piano music of Mauricio Kagel and was also involved in the 1997 Cologne Triannale performances of the complete piano music of Karlheinz Stockhausen in the presence of the composer, alongside Majella Stockhausen, Herbert Henk, and Pi-hsien Chen. Prominent musicians such as Steve Lacy, Peter Brötzmann, Dave Douglas, Jim Black, Mal Waldron, Misha Mengelberg, Han Benning, Alexander von Schlippenbach, Evan Parker, Bobby Previte, Michel Godard, Michel Ducret, and Simon Nabatov were all heard in the Loft; the guest list is a real who´s-who of the improvised music world - for this reason the space was never only reserved for experiments and the first steps and productions of the Cologne scene, but also offered its guests internationally acclaimed acts in the program. In 2000 the concert room was renovated and extended, the possibilities for concerts and especially the acoustics of the room were greatly improved. The excellent quality of the studio, set up by Ansgar Ballhorn and continued by Wolfgang Stach, Stefan Deistler and Christian Heck, is alongside the superior concert grand piano (in a class of its own in German clubs) a further reason for the success of the Loft. Numerous live recordings and studio productions have since been broadcast and appeared on CDs. In 2008 the Prize ceremony of the Cologne Jazz Prize, (the Horst and Gretl Will Scholarship) took place in the LOFT. Most of the winners had already performed at the LOFT and produced their first recordings here. Since 2010, the ceremony takes places at the Stadtgarten, since the LOFT could temporarily not meet the structural regulations for fire protection. The final semester concerts of the Cologne Hochschule für Musik und Tanz were carried out in the LOFT for many years (now at artheater), and for long years there was a fruitful partnership with the Rheinische Music school, where each year students of the Jazz and Improvistion departments of the school gave concerts at the LOFT. Alongside all of this, the LOFT also opens its doors to other organisations such as the Cologne Society for New Music, the “Klang Koeln e.V.”, the “Arbeitsgemeinschaft fuer freie Musik, “Drang Klang”, the “Jazz am Rhein e.V.” and other institutions who have all used the premises for their own concerts and presentations. In 2016, the Guardian included the LOFT in a list of 10 of the best Jazz Clubs in Europe:
„10 of the best jazz clubs in Europe“
(Adam McCulloch, the guardian, 02/2016)

In June 2021, the LOFT was voted Club of the Year by the more than 1,300 members of the German Jazz Union as part of the newly awarded German Jazz Prize, which was presented by the Minister of Culture, Prof.

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coming Thursday 15th of December'22Niescier · Lucaciu · Portugal | live recording & livestream Angelika Niescier – saxop...
13/12/2022

coming Thursday 15th of December'22

Niescier · Lucaciu · Portugal | live recording & livestream

Angelika Niescier – saxophone
Robert Lucaciu – bass
Maria Portugal – drums & voice

(link in bio)

The concert will also be livestreamed (pay-per-view: 5€).
Information about the pay-per-view offer at the LOFT: check link in bio
100% of the revenue will go to the performing artists.

doors: approx. 8.00pm CET
concert / livestream starts: approx. 8.30pm CET

Three outstanding international musicians* of improvised music will meet for the first time: Albert Mangelsdorff Prize winner Angelica Niescier (2017), Cologne-based Brazilian percussionist Mariá Portugal and German-Romanian double bassist Robert Lucaciu.
The ensemble's credo is to explore virtuosity and fragile beauty, sound research and melody as well as boundless freedom and clinical precision with the highest intensity.

08/12/2022
07/12/2022

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30 years beyond mainstream

In September 2019 the LOFT celebrated its 30th birthday, an almost biblical age for an operation of such quality and with such an aura, all run single-handedly. The actual foundation of the LOFT took place in 1986, the same year as the opening of the Cologne Philharmonic Hall and the concert hall in the Stadtgarten. Directly next to the Musikhochschule on Unter Krahnenbauemen Street, an area steeped in history, Hans Martin Mueller (flutist of the WDR Symphony Orchestra and back then a teacher at the Musikhochschule) rented an unused workshop for his workspace and especially as an open forum for music. The location was ideal however some of the neighbours were disturbed by the sounds. Painter Sigmar Polke was one of them and carries the honour of having ended the LOFTs first rent contract with a private agreement.

In 1987, after an intensive search, the top floor in the Wissmannstrasse 30 building was found and rented from the photographer Josef Snobl; two years later it was purchased. After extensive renovation and extension the first rehearsals and concerts began in 1988. The official date for the beginning of the regular program at the LOFT is however September 1989, in this month the first Steinway piano was put into operation. Since that date, concerts (and in earlier days exhibitions) are a regular occurrence in the former Perfume factory. In the course of time, the factory floor became highly regarded as a performance space for improvised, contemporary, and Jazz music, both nationally and internationally. Most Cologne Jazz musicians who have risen to international recognition took some of their first career steps in LOFT, representative of these are Nils Wogram, Hayden Chisholm, Angelika Niescier, Florian Weber, Frank Gratkowski, Paolo Alvares, Philipp Zoubek, Robert Landfermann, Pablo Held, Jonas Burgwinkel and Sebastian Sternal.

New Music also found a home in the LOFT and the Cologne Society for New Music also choose to make its base in the same building as the LOFT, promoting several workshops and concerts. Figures such as Karlheinz Stockhausen, Mauricio Kagel, Luciano Berio and Dieter Schnebel gave lectures and visted performances of their works. The Cologne Triennale and the DLF have put on their concerts at the LOFT and the Moers Festival has invited the LOFT and its associated scene to five of its projects. The LOFTs own publisher 2ndFloor supports selected musicians with the release of recordings, and numerous live-recordings have been published on other labels. The organisation 2ndFloor e.V. supports the activities of the LOFT since 2004, and with their help, over 220 events were able to be realised in 2019.

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Wow!! I feel honored and thankful for this recognition of my work. THANK YOU to Deutscher Jazzpreis & Initiative Musik !! Much admiration and respect to my fellow nominees/great pianists Joachim Kühn & Michael Wollny ❤️

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank
my wife & our kids, my parents & my sisters and all of our extended family, my trio brothers Robert Landfermann & Jonas Burgwinkel , my booker/brother in-law & right-hand man Gottfried Held, my podcast producer & advisor in all things Till Moses Kammertöns, Kornelia Vossebein & NICA artist development , Hans-Martin & Benedikt Müller from LOFT Köln , Alisa Wessel Musikverlag, Melanie Rossmann, Jason Seizer , Hubert Nuss, my Patreon supporters and all my friends!

📸 by Nadine Heller-Menzel
Meretrio kommt nach Köln uns spielt im Loft am Mittwoch!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs3zBm3u11Y

Das Meretrio ist ein seltenes Beispiel für eine echte Band, die seit achtzehnt Jahren zusammen spielt und das Publikum, durch ihre ständige Suche nach neuen musikalischen Wegen, fasziniert. Das Trio hat bereits acht unterschiedliche Alben veröffentlicht, die für die Entwicklung des Stiles der Band entscheidend waren.

2016 veröffentlichte das Meretrio „Óbvio“ und erhielt eine Vier-Sterne-Rezension und den Titel “Best Album of the Year” vom Downbeat Magazine. 2019 hat das Trio noch zwei Alben veröffentlicht: „Passagem“ mit Heinrich von Kalnein (Saxophon, Flöte) und das Doppelalbum „Music for Small and Large Ensembles“.
Really excited about tonight's concert with Alexandra Ridout Uli Kempendorff Orlando le Fleming & Francesco Ciniglio at LOFT Köln! Hope you can join us in person at the Loft or in the Livestream!
I‘m looking forward to meeting Alexandra Ridout Music & Orlando le Fleming from the UK, Francesco Ciniglio from Italy and Uli Kempendorff from Berlin next week at LOFT Köln ! As always, I put together a new repertoire especially for this occasion, consisting of tunes by Dave Holland Joe Henderson - Blue Note Records Jorge Rossy Herbie Hancock Fats Waller Ornette Coleman Miles Davis Toninho Horta Duke Ellington - Verve Records & Vernon Duke - I’d be thrilled if you could joins us in person or in the livestream!
📸 by Nancy Ebert
🔥 Felix Henkelhausen Quintet live dates! 🔥

🎶 March 1st, 2022 | Jazz Club A-Trane, Berlin
🎶 March 8th, 2022 | Jazz+, Seidlvilla, München
🎶 March 9th, 2022 | LOFT Köln
🎶 March 27th, 2022 | Industriesalon Schöneweide, Berlin (Jazzkeller 69 e.V.)

Musicians: Wanja Slavin, Uli Kempendorff, Leif Berger, Valentin Gerhardus

📸 Dovile Sermokas
Belgian and German Friends !
👻 Ghost Songs is on tour :
🇧🇪 3 march -> Brussels, Sounds Jazz Club
🇩🇪 4 march -> Köln, LOFT Köln
🇩🇪 5 march -> Berlin QUASIMODO Berlin
🎸 Paul Jarret
🥁 Jim Black
🎹 Jozef Dumoulin
🎷 Julien Pontvianne

http://www.pegazz.com/projets/ghost-songs/
with Pegazz Pegazz and a special thanks to AdLib TV - Concerts en circuit court
Einen intensiven Abend trotz pandemiebedingter Restriktionen erlebte das aufmerksame Publikum zum ungewöhnlich gut besuchten Konzert zum Wochenbeginn im Lokal Harmonie auf Einladung des Kreativquartier Ruhrort mit dem Quintett YAMABIKO.

Benannt nach einer Komposition von Bassklarinettist Michel Pilz besteht die Band desweiteren aus Reiner Winterschladen an der Trompete, Saxofonist Frank Paul Schuberth, Bassist Christian Ramond und Klaus Kugel am Schlagzeug und diversen Perkussionsinstrumenten.

Der Yamabiko ist in der japanischen Mythologie verantwortlich für das in den Bergen zu erlebende Phänomen des Echos. Mehr als ein Echo einer über mehrere Jahrzenhte spannenden Jazzkarriere ist das neu gegründete Quintett für die fünf zur Elite des europäischen Jazz zählenden Musiker.

Das Konzert im Hafenquartier an Rhein und Ruhr war eine seltene Möglichkeit in die Werkstatt eines aus fünf Solisten zusammengesetzten Ensembles zu lünkern. War das Konzert und die tagsüber stattgefundene Probe im rustikal-gemütlichen Jazzclub Ruhrort's doch das erste Zusammentreffen in dieser Konstellation. Dass es dabei nicht bleiben soll, beweist der Plan für heute und morgen: im LOFT Köln finden nämlich die Aufnahmen zum geplanten Album der Band statt, die am Mittwochabend um 20:30 Uhr mit dem zweiten öffentlichen Auftreten der Gruppe im Ehrenfelder Jazzclub enden werden.

Karten kann man für das Konzert, das ebenfalls aufgenommen wird, noch hier vorbestellen: https://musik-in-koeln.de/de_DE/konzertkalender/yamabiko-quintet-live-recording.17142307

CDs können bereits jetzt zum Subskriptionsreis von 15€ inklusive weltweiter Lieferung über [email protected] geordert werden. Die Lieferung erfolgt dann gleich nach Erscheinen gegen Vorkasse.

Fotos: Das PLUS am Neumarkt
Danke JazzZeitung für die lieben Worte zu "Meet Me At The LOFT" ••• Hier ein kleiner Auszug:
"Auf Pablo Helds Personalunion von Leader und Partner ist bei allen Stücken Verlass: Sein Klavierspiel gerät nie zum Selbstzweck. Das Hören auf andere scheint immer noch ein paar Gramm mehr Gewicht als das Selberspielen zu haben. Auch das dürfte eine Rolle spielen, warum hier so viele Musikerinnen und Musiker aus diversen künstlerischen Kontexten zur Höchstform auflaufen."
'Bad Lover' is out on Friday on Toy Piano Records!
Here's another video from our recent concert at LOFT Köln in December.
Here is another piece from the Close Up album which will be released on Friday by Yew Records! Same day we come back to LOFT Köln for a release concert! Full video link in comments!

Zuzana Leharová Veit Steinmann Leif Berger
Video is the future, apparently, so I've finally done away with my 2009 Macbook and upgraded to a thing which makes better things. Please enjoy this thing, we which made in LOFT Köln.

Bad Lover out on Feb 18th on Toy Piano Records!
"Lágnætti"
comp. by Þorsteinn Erlingsson
arr. by Lars Duppler

Stefan Karl Schmid - tenor sax
Lars Duppler - piano

Recorded at LOFT Köln by Christian Heck
Video by Karl F. Degenhardt, .karl
Album out 18/02/2022.
Co-produced by Deutschlandfunk.
Supported by Initiative Musik gGmbH with project funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media.
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