Anouar Brahem Quartet / JazzNights 2025

In the organizer's words:

Karsten Jahnke's JazzNights celebrated their 25th anniversary in September 2024. In April / May 2025, the Anouar Brahem Quartet will now fill some of Germany's most beautiful concert halls with melodious sounds as part of the JazzNights.

No one plays the oud like him: Tunisian musician Anouar Brahem is regarded as a modern grand master of his instrument. His beautiful-sounding short-necked lute, which Brahem was perhaps the first to bring out of the shadows of the accompaniment and turn into a radiant instrumental soloist, is regarded as the ancestor of many stringed instruments we know, not least the guitar. And even if this legendary oud came to us in the West via Persia well over a thousand years ago, ears socialized in the West often still hear a fairytale touch of the Arabian Nights in its broad echo. With a top-class quartet featuring his long-standing jazz colleagues Dave Holland on bass and Django Bates on piano as well as the improvisational classical cellist Anja Lechner, Anouar Brahem now takes us on three exclusive Jazz Nights in Germany into his very own musical dream world - calm and powerful, subtle and elegant, almost mystically melodious and beyond all clichés, the Anouar Brahem Quartet builds bridges from the Orient to the Occident.

Anouar Brahem (oud)

Dave Holland (db)

Django Bates (p)

Anja Lechner (vc)