According to the rules of the market, there wouldn’t be a concert like this: Till Brönner is playing with a band in the Isarphilharmonie on April 23rd – even though there is no tour (only the Jazz & Blues Open in Wendelstein is on April 27th with this line-up calendar on his homepage), no new album (the last one is a Christmas album and already three years old) and also no Munich connection to Brönner’s diverse activities. The solution to the puzzle: It is the catch-up concert for the canceled dates in May 2020, July 2021 and March 2022.
The 52-year-old trumpeter, who has been considered Germany’s most famous and successful jazz musician for many years, has not been seen in Munich for what feels like an eternity. Now he’s finally learning it Isarphilharmonie that he was so excited about in the SZ interview two years ago. The line-up of Brönner’s band already shows what to expect. The bassist and Brönner’s long-time musical director Christian von Kaphengst, the saxophonist Mark Wyand, pianist Olaf Polziehn, guitarist Bruno Müller, keyboardist Jan Miserre and the drummer David Haynes, are all highly qualified jazz players who, of course, never allowed themselves to be pigeonholed into one genre . Like Brönner himself.
The reason why he is so popular is probably because he has always been fascinated not only by the sound of the trumpet, but also by the glamor of the lead trumpeters who performed in tuxedos during the heyday of jazz. That he saw jazz as a playground open to all sides and took all aspects relevant to a broad impact into account. After his years of apprenticeship with Bobby Shew at the Cologne University of Music, he quickly became a fan of the RIAS big band under Horst Jankowski. Not only did he earn an international reputation in the jazz scene with his first award-winning albums and then alongside stars like Dave Brubeck, Tony Bennett, Monty Alexander and Nils Landgren, which became so big that he has been living between the two places since 2013 In 2016, Berlin and Los Angeles commuters were invited by Barack Obama as the only European (and German anyway) to the all-star gala concert of International Jazz Day at the White House.
But Brönner always worked with musicians of all kinds. Toured with soul singer Joy Denalane, played the trumpet parts for the Swiss electro duo Yello together, composed and produced Hildegard Knef’s last studio album and still makes a lot of film music today, from the bizarre cop comedy “Happy Weekend” in 1996 to the great documentary “Jazz Seen” and most recently the film adaptation of the stage hit “Caveman”. Smart, eloquent and good-looking as he is, he has also succeeded as a presenter, whether with his series “Talkin’ Jazz” at the Bonn Kunsthalle, as host of the Echo Jazz or as a juror on the first two seasons of the talent show “X-Factor”. . He is now almost as successful as a photographer as he is as a musician. Much of this dazzling personality will flow into the jazz concert in the Isarphilharmonie.
Till Brönner & Band, Tuesday, April 23rd, 8 p.m., Isarphilharmonie, Hans-Preißinger-Straße 8, www.gasteig.de