20 Years of Jazz at the MIM

Ramiro Zayas – COLLECTOR

• Sebastián Greschuk – trumpet, flugelhorn
• Yossi Itskovich – trombone
• Jonathan Acevedo – Tenor Saxophone
• Baptiste Stanek – bass clarinet, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone
• Gianni Narduzzi – Double bass
• Ramiro Zayas – piano, composition

Argentine pianist Ramiro Zayas presents COLLECTOR, his third album as bandleader. A journey through contemporary jazz, free improvisation, and multi-layered sound textures. The unique international chamber ensemble explores melodies, harmonies, and rhythms in a transparent, orchestral-inspired manner that leaves room for intense listening experiences.

Georg Ruby – Piano solo

With “Soliloquies,” Georg Ruby has recorded an album that, on the one hand, falls under the banner of free improvisation, while on the other hand values the sound structures of New Music just as much as the echoes and traces of traditional jazz standards and the atmosphere of German pop music from the 1920s and 1930s.

On the other hand, in freely improvised pieces, he adds to the “loneliness of the solo improviser” what the title of the production refers to: himself as a musical partner and source of inspiration in a “soliloquy.” He has pre-recorded several freely improvised tracks (including with a prepared piano, pebbles, rhythm on the piano strings, vocal improvisations, loops, and bass lines) and asked sound designer Reinhard Kobialka to, without prior consultation, insert and remove one, two, three, or all of these tracks into the ongoing improvisational process, thereby bringing the musician into a mode of improvisational communication with himself.

Ensemble LUX:NM Berlin / nets-loops-cells

• Ruth Velten – Saxophones
• Florian Juncker – trombone
• Zoé Cartier – Cello
• Rike Huy – Trumpet
• Silke Lange – Accordion

In the nets-loops-cells series, LUX:NM—one of the most versatile ensembles for contemporary music—presents itself as a purely improvisational collective. Free from pre-written scores, music emerges in the moment: dense sonic networks (nets), circular movements (loops), and delicate sound cells (cells) take shape in the musicians’ free interplay.

Known for sonic precision, curiosity, and experimental openness, LUX:NM reveals a different side here—spontaneous, direct, and unpredictable. The boundary between individual and ensemble blurs. What remains is a living sonic organism that constantly reinvents itself.