Jazz is the freedom to play anything, whether it has been done before or not.- Duke Ellington

Taking this statement to heart, the duo Sunswept Sunday dedicates itself to Duke Ellington's music. Since 2020 Stuttgart-based percussionist Daniel Kartmann and guitarist Torsten Papenheim from Berlin explore the work of the great American composer with a love of detail and a sense of dramaturgy. The two musicians approach the selected pieces in very different ways: Sometimes a melodic motif provides the initial spark; sometimes it's a particular groove; elsewhere it's the mood of the piece or its title. In their playing Papenheim and Kartmann focus on a central aspect of Ellington's music: timbre, tone, sound.

Daniel Kartmann – drums, hackbrett, cornetto; Torsten Papenheim – guitar, melodica, percussion

This concert is supported by Liveurope. The first EU-wide initiative to support concert clubs in their efforts to host concerts by emerging European artists. Liveurope is co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.