Friday, 29 August, 2025 - 20:00
Aki Takase + Isabel Rößler
Doors 20.00 Uhr | Concerts 20:30 Uhr | Tickets (only at door) € 10,--
Takase–Rößler
Isabel Rößler - Bass
Aki Takase - Piano
Legendary pianist Aki Takase meets expressive double bassist Isabel Rößler. Together, the duo explores the boundaries between composition and free improvisation – full of energy, depth, and spontaneous twists and turns. Acoustic, direct, surprising.
Aki Takase was born in Osaka in 1948 and studied music in Tokyo, Japan. From 1978 onwards, she gave concerts and recorded in the USA and Japan with Lester Bowie, Joe Henderson, Dave Liebman, John Zorn and others. In 1981, she gave her first European concert at the Berlin Jazz Festival. From 1989 onwards, she played and led the Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra with Alex von Schlippenbach, continued to give concerts worldwide and participated in recordings with Maria Joao, David Murray, N.H.Ø.Pedersen, Rudi Mahall, Louis Sclavis, Nils Wogram, Han Bennink, Daniel Erdmann and others. She was awarded the Berliner Zeitung Critics' Prize in 1999 and the SWR Jazz Prize in 2002. In 2004, "Aki Takase plays Fats Waller" won her the German Record Critics' Prize. In 2018, she was awarded the Berlin Jazz Prize, and in 2021, she was honored with the German Jazz Prize (piano and keyboards). Aki Takase received the Albert Mangelsdorff Prize in 2021. www.akitakase.de
Isabel Rößler is a jazz bassist and improviser. After studying music in Nuremberg and Tallinn, she moved to Berlin, where she is active in the free improvisation scene. In addition to numerous collaborations with local and international artists, she has toured Germany and Eastern Europe with her trio "Flut." Beyond her purely musical work, she has collaborated with artists from the fields of poetry/language, object theater, dance/performance, visual arts, and stage visuals, among others. Other current projects in which she is involved include: OBSiDiAN, Rupp–Rößler–Hall, Trespassing Rooms, Brad Henkel Quartet, Red Color Trio, and The Omniversal Earkestra. https://isabelroessler.com/
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