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Moritz Renner, Tabea Kind, Valentin Renner, LOFT
Photo: RENNER © Sebastian Reiter

LOFT

RENNER – Never Ending Story | live recording

Moritz Renner - Posaune Tabea Kind - Bass Valentin Renner - Schlagzeug

Moritz Renner - Posaune Tabea Kind - Bass Valentin Renner - Schlagzeug

(english: see below)

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Zwei Brüder und eine Wesensverwandte: mit dem Trio RENNER stellt sich an diesem Abend eine ungewöhnliche Konstellation vor. Die Besetzung Posaune-Bass-Schlagzeug ist nämlich nicht inflationär häufig in der Jazzgeschichte zu finden. Moritz Renner, Tabea Kind und Valentin Renner nutzen die Räume, die sich ohne Harmonie-Instrument auftun, trefflich. Im Zusammenspiel der Drei entsteht die perfekte Symbiose zwischen Freiheit und durchgetakteter Präzision. RENNER steht für packende Soli, stimmungsvolle Kompositionen und eine Unbedingtheit und Leichtigkeit im Zusammenspiel, die oft langjährige Bands nicht gefunden haben. Stets ist zu hören, wie nahe sich die Instrumentalist*innen stehen. An diesem Abend stellen die Gewinner des European Young Artist Jazz Award 2026 und Biberacher Jazzpreis 2024 ihr Debütalbum Never Ending Story vor. Eine musikalische Dokumentation des Lebens zweier Brüder, die derselben Leidenschaft nachgehen: der Musik. Was das Publikum bei der anstehenden Tour erwarten kann, beschreibt der Bayerische Rundfunk so: „In dieser Musik steckt eine unglaubliche Energie, Kreativität und Kommunikation. So unglaublich lebendig, spannend und gleichzeitig auch wahnsinnig schön (...). Da fehlte gar nichts und es war in vollendeter Schönheit zusammengefügt.“

https://www.moritzrenner.com/ https://tabeakind.com/

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https://youtu.be/bvEpASNIKVI   Moritz Renner - trombone Tabea Kind - bass Valentin Renner - drums

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Two brothers and a kindred spirit: the trio RENNER presents an unusual lineup this evening. The trombone-bass-drums lineup is, after all, not all that common in jazz history. Moritz Renner, Tabea Kind, and Valentin Renner make excellent use of the musical spaces opened up by the absence of a harmonic instrument. Their interplay creates the perfect symbiosis between freedom and metered precision. RENNER is known for gripping solos, atmospheric compositions, and a sense of absolute commitment and ease in their ensemble playing that even long-established bands often fail to achieve. You can always hear just how close the instrumentalists are to one another. On this evening, the winners of the European Young Artist Jazz Award 2026 and the Biberach Jazz Prize 2024 will present their debut album, Never Ending Story. It is a musical chronicle of the lives of two brothers who share the same passion: music. Bayerischer Rundfunk describes what the audience can expect from the upcoming tour as follows: “This music is filled with incredible energy, creativity, and communication. So incredibly lively, exciting, and at the same time incredibly beautiful (...). Nothing was missing, and it was brought together in perfect beauty.”

https://www.moritzrenner.com/ https://tabeakind.com/
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Venue:

LOFT

The LOFT in Cologne's Ehrenfeld district is exactly what its name suggests: a spacious loft on the top floor of a former perfume factory. Since 1989 it has been home to the city's musical avant-garde as well as a scene hub and a jazz laboratory for students.

Over those decades it has grown into a respected stage for improvised music, contemporary music, and jazz, with a reputation reaching well beyond Germany. Most of the Cologne jazz musicians who have made their mark nationally and internationally in the past thirty years took their first career steps here, among them Nils Wogram, Hayden Chisholm, Angelika Niescier, Frank Gratkowski, Robert Landfermann, Pablo Held, and Sebastian Sternal.

The Cologne Triennale, WDR, and Deutschlandfunk stage concerts and recordings at the LOFT, and the venue has been invited to the Moers Festival five times. Its own label, 2ndFloor, releases selected recordings, and more than 1,000 live and studio productions made in the LOFT studio have appeared on other labels. Supported by the association 2ndFloor e. V. and the collective jungesloft, it presents over 200 events a year.

Top-tier instruments – including a Steinway D grand, one of the finest concert pianos in any German jazz club – a professional recording studio with award-winning engineers, and the room's distinctive atmosphere have drawn many prominent guests, from Lee Konitz, Steve Lacy, and Peter Brötzmann to Kurt Rosenwinkel, Marilyn Crispell, and Jim Black. Still, the programming focus remains on supporting Cologne's own musicians.

Since 2009 the LOFT has received the NRW venue programming award every year, an honor that specifically recognizes work with emerging regional artists. In 2016 the British Guardian named it one of the ten best jazz clubs in Europe, and at the German Jazz Prize it was voted "Club/Venue of the Year" in 2021 and again in 2023 — a category decided not by the expert jury but directly by the more than 1,300 members of the German Jazz Union.

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