“What’s right and what’s wrong in jazz? No one can tell you. Take, for example, the JayJayBeCe orchestra led by Leon Griese. Is it still right for this big band not to let itself be shaped by a handful of writers, but instead to bring as many Berlin jazz composers as possible on board for improvisation? This big band is indispensable as a source of inspiration for Berlin’s jazz community of writers and performers.
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Accordingly, the orchestra boldly dives beneath the norms of big-band bureaucracy—incorporating the jazz-rock of Miles Davis from the 1980s just as much as modal soundscapes and powerful, rock-infused ostinato compositions. The big band as a multiple personality. A real asset.”
~ Tagesspiegel
DIRECTION Leon Griese
REEDS
Felix Bromann – alto + soprano / Carolin Fröhlich – alto / Thies van Ballegooy & Jasper Spötter – tenor / Nils Marahrens – baritone
BRASS
Donat Kubrinski – trumpet / Elina Dalewski – trumpet / Bruno Eilers – trumpet / Jenny Habich – trumpet /
Kateb Marszolf – trombone / Jonathan Woodruff – trombone / Jan Ole Zabel – trombone
RHYTHM
Matteo Bettle – guitar / Benedikt Jung – piano / Roland Jurisch – bass / Rafael Röhl – drums
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Dates
June 2026
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