Sunday, 3/23/2025
at 8:00 PM


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Release-Tour WAKE

For his debut album KOSMOS SUITE, Lukas DeRungs was nominated for the German Jazz Award and awarded the State Jazz Prize of Baden-Württemberg in 2024.

His new album WAKE now focuses on his current quintet: The young British singer Immy Churchill sings the new songs, some of whose lyrics she has written herself, with ease and strong expression. Alongside her, London guitarist Karim Saber enriches the album with his virtuosity and powerful sound. The native of Dortmund bassist Jan Dittmann and the drummer Jonas Esser, who now lives in New York, complete the band, which merges into a compact sound body on stage. Live, the five show that they are all wide awake – listening closely, perceiving, communicating with each other.

Lukas DeRungs appears here as a bandleader, who has a keen sense for tension arcs, for dynamics, and for the interpersonal connections needed for a band to harmonize and to make a concert a special evening. His piano playing forms the framework for a sound world, in which each band member appears improvisationally. His compositions reflect influences from classical choral music, groove music, and contemporary jazz from Europe, the USA, and the Middle East.

Immy Churchill (UK) // Vocals
Karim Saber (UK) // Guitar
Jonas Esser (USA) // Drums
Jan Dittmann (DE) // Double Bass
Lukas DeRungs (DE) // Piano, Composition

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