DDK TRIO - AXEL DÖRNER, JACQUES DEMIERRE & JONAS KOCHER

Tickets can be purchased at the venue from 20h45 onwards for 5€ (general audience) or 2.5€ (under 25 years old).

Threading the line between jazz and reductionist-oriented free improvisation, this DDK Trio, using an unusual choice of instruments (trumpet, piano and accordion), brings together some of the best established names in the ever so specific and hard to define field of ‘free music’ with European roots. At the helm is German trumpeter Axel Dörner, a brilliant musician and one of the main figures in European jazz, who has worked with people like Alexander von Schlippenbach, Mats Gustaffson, Barry Guy ou Otomo Yoshihide, as comfortable with playing on the edge of silence as with bebop or music by Thelonious Monk; at the piano, Swiss improviser and composer Jacques Demierre, with an equally impressive list of collaborations with major artists throughout the world (including our own Carlos ‘Zíngaro’) and, finally, in wild-card fashion, Swiss accordion player Jonas Kocher, the youngest of the three, wielding an instrument which, while remaining relatively uncommon, slowly conquers its space in these aesthetic realms and lays down its particular sonic roots.